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| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
poverty alleviation | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 lucha contra la pobreza (fight against poverty). (various references) | ||||||||||
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. | |
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