Area of Focus: Poverty Alleviation

Created: Jan 06, 2007
Updated: Mar 17, 2008

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Poverty Alleviation

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Poverty alleviation (or reduction) describes strategies to eradicate poverty. It is any process which seeks to reduce the level of poverty in a community, or amongst a group of people or countries. Poverty alleviaton programs may be aimed at economic or non-economic poverty. Some of the popular methods used are education, economic development, and income redistribution. Poverty alleviation efforts may also be aimed at removing social and legal barriers to income growth among the poor. Economists such as Hernando de Soto see improvement in property rights as being instrumental in poverty reduction. Other economists also highlight government corruption as a chief problem in reducing poverty in the developing world.

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Unemployment, poverty eradication, hunger, food, homelessness, income, education, job, training, health, credit, relief, housing, disenfranchised, marginalized, advocacy, rights, low-income, quality of life, disease, standard of living, public health, social justice, human rights, equality, material deprivation, poverty line, barriers to education, barriers to health, property rights, North-South inequity, social exclusion, environmental health, poverty reduction

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Imaging Famine is a research project that details how famine has been represented in the media, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Its aim is to provoke a debate about the political effect of such photographs on our understanding of the majority world.

Ayuda en Acción tiene como misión mejorar las condiciones de vida de los niños y niñas, las familias y comunidades en países y regiones pobres.

Experiments in Rural Advancement strives to develop latent synergy of the poor and marginalised people so that they are able to manage their depleting resources in a meaningful and sustainable manner

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Poverty Environment Net capture and share knowledge on poverty-environment linkages and good practices for addressing the environmental dimensions of poverty.

The End of Poverty "Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time.", a book by Jeffrey D. Sachs

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mita about 1 month ago

Hello Everyone

I am new here...dreaming poverty eradication and sustainable capitalism by changing our assumption, perception and key concepts.

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