Livelihoods
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Failure to equip these children with the opportunities that come with education will trap them in a cycle of poverty, undermining growth, weakening livelihoods, and creating fertile ground for recruitment by militant organizations.
An effective humanitarian response requires predictable and assured funding to underpin the necessary investments in nutrition,
livelihoods
and food security.
The first step toward sustainable economic growth is to recognize, as China’s leaders have, that pollution – produced largely through coal-fired power plants – is profoundly damaging citizens’ lives and livelihoods, particularly in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
Not only were the housing projects kept a safe distance from areas that had good jobs, but, with few residents experiencing stable families and livelihoods, there were not enough local examples of success to guide young people.
The confusing tax rates, excessive documentation, and anxiety over the implementation of compliance requirements has prompted fears that the GST will damage people’s
livelihoods.
Meanwhile, forest people have demonstrated that they are often the best guardians of the trees on which their
livelihoods
depend.
Forest communities must be provided with assistance in managing their resources and maintaining their
livelihoods.
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is assisting to repair and restore a range of rural infrastructure, critical for the
livelihoods
of the poor, including water-storage networks in some of the poorest parts of the country, such as Andhra Pradesh.
In particular, how will it respond to the irreversible shift in the global economy’s center of gravity toward Asia, and to the technological innovations that are revolutionizing industries and occupations – and thus increasing voters’ anxieties about their employment prospects and future
livelihoods?
While it is impossible to safeguard the system fully, sound regulation and effective oversight could have prevented the crisis, or at least reduced its impact on millions of people’s
livelihoods.
Instead of serving as a source of stability, as it did in the past, this mutual dependence is driving Russia toward political and economic isolation – with serious consequences for ordinary Russians’
livelihoods.
Indeed, while European citizens are being asked to sacrifice their standard of living – and even their
livelihoods
– for the sake of the “national economy,” transnational corporations are thriving.
On one side, there are warnings that robots will displace humans in the economy, destroying livelihoods, especially for low-skill workers.
A lot of public attention and worry nowadays surrounds the new risks that globalization and information technology create for our wages and
livelihoods.
Their populations – among the world’s poorest people – are paying for climate change with their lives and
livelihoods.
Governments must consider these trade-offs carefully, and develop ways to support those who are harmed by global flows, giving them paths to new roles and
livelihoods.
Bt cotton technology has failed to control pests or secure farmers lives and
livelihoods.
And while there have been encouraging signs of reform in some countries’ industrial-scale fisheries, the problem remains widespread, discouraging others from following suit and impeding the reform of small-scale fisheries that supply food and
livelihoods
for millions of families.
If not, unscrupulous operators will continue to take advantage of the lack of regulation and monitoring, with huge implications for those who depend on coastal fisheries for their sustenance and
livelihoods.
Eliminating rogue fishing will help replenish marine life and secure food and
livelihoods
for billions of people.
Governments lose their legitimacy when they cannot guarantee their populations’ most basic needs: safe drinking water, staple food crops, and fodder and water for the animal herds on which communities depend for their meager
livelihoods.
But these responses overlook the underlying challenge of helping communities meet their urgent needs for water, food, and
livelihoods.
Some bring relief supplies; others simply harangue those who have lost loved ones and livelihoods, lecturing that their misdeeds brought about this catastrophe.
All too often, notions such as “reserve agricultural land,” or “idle land,” are manipulated out of existence, sometimes being used to designate land on which many
livelihoods
depend, and that is subject to long-standing customary rights.
The social consequences can also be severe: eviction, the loss of livelihoods, and violent conflict.
It’s high time for a strategy of peace through sustainable development – including investments in health, education, livelihoods, water and sanitation, and irrigation – in today’s hotspots, starting with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Forests ensure water supplies, counter soil erosion, and safeguard an abundance of genetic resources that will become increasingly important in developing the new products, pharmaceuticals, and crop strains needed to support the lives and
livelihoods
of more than nine billion people by 2050.
And there is a final imperative: 1.4 billion people currently depend for their
livelihoods
on forests.
When coastal areas were not heavily inhabited, such storms, while violent, did not cause significant, lasting damage to people’s
livelihoods
and lifestyles.
Fourth, restore a sense of fairness and opportunity for the disaffected working class and those whose
livelihoods
have been undermined by financial crises and the outsourcing of jobs.
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