For if resources are which determine the richest of a people then African countries like Nigeria, Angola, Sudan, Tanzania, and DRC Congo would be some of the richest in the world and countries like Israel, Singapore or Hong Kong would be some of the poorest.

Empirical evidence  however demonstrates that it is the country that have embraced technology( the adequate exploitation of their mind resource), who have done  better than those even more endowed with oil, gold, diamonds and even platinum.

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A Small boy was wandering bare footed on the road, His Sparkling but innocent eyes were looking for something. As he has lost his some very precious thing. Suddenly his eyes stoped at the place full of garbage. he shouted with joy "Hey I GOT IT !!!!!!!!"Very next moment he has a rotten peace of bread in his hand which was covered with fungus.

On very next moment his emotions changed, A piece of bottle entered in his foot and now he was crying his innocent sparkling eyes turned into tears. This is the common sean often seen of our roads and satreests.

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Living In Poverty: Imagine, if you can, living in a one-room hut with a dirt floor, little or no shelter from the elements, no running water or electricity, in a community that has only dirt roads, no doctors or medical facilities, no police protection, no schools, no employment, where the average annual income is often as little as a dollar  a day, starvation and death are constant companions and grinding deprivation is so severe that parents are often forced to sell their children into servitude or prostitution, and infant mortality is extremely high. It’s truly a bleak picture.

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She was purchased for Rs 5,000 by a brothel-keeper's agent before being brought to city's notorious red-light area Ganga Jamuna just a year ago. The teenager was apparently sold off by her father who urged her to accompany the women who had made the payment to city where she was promised a job. Ironically she feels happy being at the brothel than face hardships at home.

Renu (name changed) had sneaked out of the brothel, along with two others, during a police raid in the locality last week. The three girls were spotted at Nagpur railway station under suspicious circumstances. Due to reasons unknown, only Renu was handed over to non-government organization by the police though all three were taken into custody.

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Rising poverty is forcing people to abandon their children, as an infant girl was found in a cradle outside the Edhi Centre in Korangi on Tuesday, officials told The News. The infant girl, ostensibly a year-old, according to the officials, was dropped in a ‘Jhoola’ placed outside the centre by her guardians who disappeared from the site without informing the authorities. Crying bitterly and dressed in tattered clothes, the unknown girl was then brought to the Edhi head office in Mithadar, where she is currently being sheltered.

Renowned social worker and head of the Edhi Foundation Abdul Sattar Edhi told The News: “Due to the skyrocketing inflation and increasing poverty, parents are unable to support their families and provide a square meal. With the rise in prices of essential commodities, a large number of people are now coming to the centre, seeking shelter and free food.”

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The General Office of China's State Council, the Cabinet, and the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee issued a circular recently, calling for more progress in the nation's poverty alleviation work.

Poverty alleviation work that targets old revolutionary base areas, ethnic regions, border areas and poverty-stricken areas has made great progress since it was started 24 years ago, the circular said. Future tasks are to focus on ensuring adequate food and clothing for people in need and helping them out of poverty via improving their capabilities for development on their own.

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An alliance of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) based in the Middle East Tuesday said that the worsening unemployment situation and poverty in the country pushes workers to work in war-torn countries like Afghanistan. Migrante-Middle East said that there are still a considerable number of migrant workers in Afghanistan and in Iraq despite the deployment ban imposed by the Philippine government.

“Millions of desperate Filipinos are willing to gamble just to land a job in war-stricken places than to see their families die of hunger and poverty in the Philippines,” Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said. “Why? The present wage earned by our local workers is not enough to compensate the high cost of living in the country,” he said.

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Work carried out by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health and other experts showed that “other additional factors” may be responsible for the city’s high levels of mortality and poor health. The research, published in the Royal Society for Public Health’s journal Public Health, looked at Glasgow and two other major UK cities – Liverpool and Manchester.

Which together share characteristics such as higher levels of poverty and poor health. Despite the similarities, and that the socio-economic profiles of the populations in all three cities were almost identical, premature deaths in Glasgow are more than 30% higher than in the other cities.

The study findings suggest that while income deprivation is an important determinant of health, its impact is affected by context. Deprivation as currently measured did not explain the higher levels of mortality seen in Glasgow.

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COMMUNITIES First partnerships have been told to sharpen up their governance procedures in the wake of serious financial concerns at one project. In March Social Justice Minister Carl Sargeant ordered a review of “high risk” projects in the Assembly Government’s flagship anti-poverty programme after the Wales Audit Office reported on irregularities at the Plas Madoc Communities First partnership in Wrexham. Relatives of the coordinator had been paid tens of thousands of pounds from public funds with no effective checks.

More than £241m has been spent on the programme, which is intended to increase prosperity levels in Wales’ poorest communities. Now the review has been completed and a number of recommendations made aimed at minimising the risk of similar occurrences in the future.

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In yet another shocking news, a poverty-stricken mother committed suicide by jumping into Chanab river along with her two children here Wednesday. According to police, a resident of Mahala Mustafa, Uzma took her two years old son Ahmed and four-year-old daughter Emaan. They dived in Chanab River and all the three died.

The bodies of Uzma and Emaan were recovered by the local people after hours of search, while the body of her son Ahmed is still missing. It is pertinent to mention that the current trend of rising food prices in Pakistan is driving women to commit suicide who face increased tensions within their homes. Between January and May this year, more than 300 women have ended their lives primarily due to financial reasons.