Higher and broader economic growth is certainly needed to reduce poverty and Mexico's yawning north-south divide.
Several studies of the 1990s find that higher minimum wages helped reduce poverty, albeit modestly.
Another part of the answer is that it is hard to improve distribution and reduce poverty.
However, whether or not such intervention does in fact reduce poverty is the most important question.
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The most effective way to reduce poverty: Give educational opportunities, teach employable skills, and create more jobs.
The IMF said earlier this year that growth needed to reach 8% in order to reduce poverty.
HelpAge said more countries needed to introduce pension schemes to ensure economic independence and reduce poverty in old age.
They focus on only one element in the road to reduce poverty, e.g.
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But it needs to grow by at least 7% to reduce poverty appreciably.
His goal in Honduras is less to implement libertarian ideals than to reduce poverty and to speed up economic development.
But it is very important also to have the support of shareholders and other stakeholders in our effort to reduce poverty.
This is why efforts to improve the lives of women and children reinforce efforts to strengthen our economy and reduce poverty.
It emphasizes the need to promote sustainable and innovative approaches to protect water quality to reduce poverty and secure sustainable livelihoods.
Other countries do it slightly differently, looking rather at the result after all the benefits and redistribution is done to reduce poverty.
In turn, greater economic equality between men and women has been shown to reduce poverty rates, boost GDP, and lead to better governance.
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But he has made a commitment to liberalizing a highly protectionist Colombian economy to reduce poverty and create more opportunity for the working poor.
And fourth, some reformers, as well as critics, argued that in a region of deep income inequality, growth alone would not swiftly reduce poverty.
India's coalition government is spending massively on programmes to reduce poverty.
Well, if this free market stuff has been producing the desired reduction in poverty then why not do some more of it to reduce poverty further?
Board members and senior staff of Catholic Charities agencies from across the country joined us to discuss innovative partnerships to best serve communities and reduce poverty.
This level of funding will be a disappointment to those countries that are in various stages of negotiation with MCC about potential projects to reduce poverty.
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The sadness being that while such policies would most certainly reduce poverty they would not move the poverty rate by one single fraction of a percentage point.
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Supporters say the law, which took 14 years to pass, will reduce poverty and maternal mortality in a country with the highest birth rate in the region.
The EITC does more to reduce poverty than any other cash assistance program, reducing the number of people in poverty by over 6 million (and 3 million kids).
"The report highlights the scale of the challenge the government faces if it is to reduce poverty significantly in the UK, " said Julia Unwin, chief executive of the Foundation.
"We have to do more to increase our growth, not just to reduce poverty, but to create employment, rebuild infrastructure and to increase the purchasing power of the people, " he says.
"This Tory-led government are committed to promoting a discredited growth model of trickle-down economics which will do nothing to reduce poverty in the developing world, " said shadow international development secretary Ivan Lewis.
Thinking that we can just mandate higher wages or better working conditions as if we were waving a magic wand and thereby reduce poverty is indulging a belief in magic, not science.
Daniel Lurie, CEO and founder of Tipping Point, a San Francisco-based foundation working to reduce poverty in the Bay Area, says the nonprofit's user base has broadened significantly over its seven-year history.
Many corporations in America do good work and good causes, but if we hope to substantially reduce poverty and suffering in our country, corporate America needs to give more and to give better.
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