POVERTY ALLEVIATION

  

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POVERTY ALLEVIATION

Specialty Definition: POVERTY ALLEVIATION

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Politics & International Affaires

Poverty reduction measures which are designed to foster the productive capabilities and creative forces of the poor, and enable them through their own economic activities to create the preconditions for their advancement. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: POVERTY ALLEVIATION

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Books

  • Squaring the Urban Circle: Ngos and Urban Poverty Alleviation in Addis Ababa (reference)

  • China: From Afforestation to Poverty Alleviation and Natural Forest Management (Evaluation Country Case Study Series) (reference)

  • Dynamics of Poverty Alleviation Programmes (reference)

  • Managing to Empower: The Grameen Bank Experience of Poverty Alleviation (reference)

  • Poverty Alleviation and Rural Harijans (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: POVERTY ALLEVIATION

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Civil Liberties

China

Official poverty alleviation programs, and major state projects such as building the Three Gorges Dam and environmental or reforestation projects, include forced evacuation of persons to new residences. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

The GOP plans to spend 90 percent of privatization proceeds for debt retirement and 10 percent for poverty alleviation. (references)

Botswana

Diamonds remain the story behind Botswana's impressive financial sheet, although the Government has introduced fiscal policies aimed at fostering economic diversification, decreasing diamonds as a percentage of GDP from 53% in 1984 to 33% in 2000. By targeted international marketing of Botswana's exports, tourism, and investment opportunities, the Government of Botswana expects to lessen dependence on mineral revenues, generate more jobs, and contribute to poverty alleviation. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

The appointment of an ethnic Hausa to the chairmanship of a local Poverty Alleviation Program increased tensions, which accompanied the earlier violence between Christian Sayewa and Muslim Hausa in Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi, only 37 miles away. (references)

Political Economy

HAITI

A period of sustained political stability is also necessary to implement a comprehensive, donor-supported program to remove the serious structural impediments to sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation. (references)

BANGLADESH

Poverty alleviation programs were the largest recipients of the fiscal year 2002 budget allocations, receiving $1.9 billion, or roughly 25 percent of total projected spending. (references)

Trade

South Africa

The focus of the Bank's current work in South Africa is on poverty alleviation and reduction of inequality, as well as on economic growth. (references)

Albania

The bank's three priorities are governance and institution building, promoting sustainable private sector growth, and promoting human development and poverty alleviation. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

A number of NGO's offer poverty alleviation and education programs designed to counter trafficking. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: POVERTY ALLEVIATION

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

poverty alleviation

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: POVERTY ALLEVIATION

Language Translations for "POVERTY ALLEVIATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

armoedebestrijding (combating poverty, fight against poverty, poverty reduction). (various references)

   

French

  

lutte contre la pauvreté (fight against poverty). (various references)

   

German

  

Armutsbekämpfung. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

overtypay alleviationay

   

Spanish

  

lucha contra la pobreza (fight against poverty). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: POVERTY ALLEVIATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-i-l-l-n-o-o-p-r-t-t-v-v-y"

-5 letters: alternatively, interpolative, operationally.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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