poverty

Converse of object

• eradicate: Affordable warmth strategies in general can provide a focus for local action to eradicate fuel poverty.
• alleviate: International development policy has often seemed more a form of welfare for UK companies than a way of alleviating poverty.
• tackle: You believe you can tackle poverty in Ethiopia in 15 years?
• halve: The Bretton Woods Institutions should also aim at providing an extra 50 billion pounds a year to halve poverty.
• relieve: Early history These risks existed from the earliest times, when the usual method of relieving poverty was by charity.
• eliminate: These include: " A slight change of priorities could virtually eliminate poverty.

Adjective modifier

• abject: History shows that open markets can play an important role in lifting millions of people out of abject poverty.
• extreme: With only the money that Engels could raise, the Marx family lived in extreme poverty.
• absolute: His line is that relative poverty doesn't matter, only absolute poverty does.
• global: We go to the heart of the causes of global poverty.
• relative: His line is that relative poverty doesn't matter, only absolute poverty does.

Modifies a noun

• alleviation: This name change symbolizes the IMF's newly stated commitment to poverty alleviation in the poorest countries.
• reduction: What can be done at all policy levels to support poverty reduction?
• eradication: Instead, world leaders have just paid lip service to the role of the environment in poverty eradication.
• trap: Reforming the benefits system to end the poverty trap.
• history: In return Nelson Mandela is going to offer his personal Make Poverty History white band to the young people.

Noun used with modifier

• fuel: Only then can we deliver a focused strategy to tackle fuel poverty.
• pensioner: A fundamental reform of the system is needed if pensioner poverty is to be tackled - not one-off handouts.
• in-work: In-work poverty must be challenged and that means addressing the problems of low pay and poor working conditions.
• child: Child poverty is a denial of the basic right of a child to an.. .