poverty reduction
Lessening economic hardship
Poverty reduction refers to strategies, policies, and programs aimed at decreasing the number of people living in poverty or improving their economic conditions.
The term appears frequently in development discourse and international aid: The World Bank's poverty reduction initiatives focus on education and infrastructure.
Related phrases include poverty alleviation and poverty eradication, with eradication implying complete elimination rather than incremental improvement.
- development aidSupport for emerging nations
- debt reliefReduction of obligations owed
- community developmentOrganized local betterment efforts
- economic policyGovernment's financial management approach
- basic needsRequirements for survival
income inequality · microfinance · empowerment · food security · clean water · gender equality · social justice · livelihood · small loans · cooperative · public health · housing assistance · fair wages · partnerships · rural development · income · sustainability · uplift
- humanitarian aidaid, aid organizations, aid workers, disaster relief, aid agencies
- global cooperationUnited Nations, multilateralism, coalitions, peace treaty, peace treaties
- Government Policyeconomic policy, tax policy, healthcare policy, education policy, immigration policy
- Global Aidaid, humanitarian aid, foreign aid, disaster relief, relief work
- Modern ChinaDeng Xiaoping, Xi Jinping, economic reforms, economic zones, opening up
- Social Policysocial welfare, welfare reform, public assistance, social security, social insurance
poverty reductionimpoverishment
State of extreme deprivation
pauperization · downward mobility · economic decline · dispossession · economic exploitation
poverty reductionwealth concentration
Assets amassing among few
austerity · wealth hoarding · plutocracy · welfare cuts · kleptocracy
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