Multilateral lenders have long understood the importance of debt relief to poverty reduction.

The Committee welcomes the adoption of the China Rural Communities Poverty Relief Programme (2001 2010).

The HIPC Initiatives therefore emerged to ensure that debt relief would contribute to poverty reduction.

The Federation is involved in extensive work for poverty eradication, health and social services, and funds anti poverty as well as disaster relief projects.

Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish relief groups are active the world over in combating poverty and disease.

Global support for making poverty history shows how the issue of Third World poverty has finally struck a responsive chord. Debt relief is a good beginning.

Accordingly, he called for increases in aid, debt relief, and deepening of preferential market arrangements to decrease poverty.

Outdoor relief, as the alternative was known, was expanded as the most cost effective way to address the poverty problem.

Criteria for debt relief should be focused on the effective utilization of the resources released for poverty reduction and growth.

Since 1999, the poverty reduction strategy papers have become the overall framework for lending, debt relief and development cooperation in low income countries.

The relief development continuum has dissolved in the face of recurrent shocks, rampant poverty and the omnipresent impact of the HIV AIDS pandemic.

21. Stresses that debt relief should contribute to development objectives, including poverty reduction, and in this regard urges countries to direct those resources freed through debt relief, in particular through debt cancellation and reduction, towards these objectives

The Chernobyl Forum findings should have brought relief, for they show that the specter haunting the region is not invincible radiation, but conquerable poverty.

The UNRWA Relief and Social Services Programme focused on the most vulnerable refugees, recognizing also the increasing burden of poverty that falls on women.

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Early welfare programs in Europe included the English Poor Law of 1601, which gave parishes the responsibility for providing poverty relief assistance to the poor.

USAID and its predecessor agencies have continuously provided poverty relief in many forms, including assistance to public health and education services targeted at the poorest.

(k) Concept of poverty (definition of extreme poverty, widespread poverty, absolute poverty and relative poverty)

Despite national efforts, international technical assistance, ODA and debt relief were still needed to liberate resources that could be directed towards activities designed to eradicate poverty.

However, poor countries could not tackle poverty alone, but required increased aid, debt relief, capacity building support and an equitable multilateral trading system to spur growth.

Scenarios for future development show that the desertified area is likely to increase, and the relief of pressures on drylands is strongly correlated with poverty reduction.

The goal of HIPC, as revised and enhanced in 1999, is to ensure deep, broad and fast debt relief with a strong link to poverty reduction.

Emergency relief

Debt relief

Islamic Relief

Disaster Relief

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B. United Nations Relief and B. United Nations Relief and

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(a) Relief Services

(ii) Community relief

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Relief and rehabilitation

II. DEBT RELIEF

IV. DEBT RELIEF

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5. Relief operations

Direct Relief International

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