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Poverty a stark spectre for 79m Pakistanis: Report

According to a study titled “Institutional Imperatives of Poverty Reduction”, by 2011-2012 as much as 43.1 per cent, or 79.1 million persons in the country will be destitute. The research was undertaken by Akmal Hussain; a pro [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

India's education malaise has all the hallmarks of a develop...

If you want a glimpse of the challenges facing India's education system, there is no better vantage point than Rajpur primary school. Located in the tribal belt of the Shahabad hills of Rajasthan, the school serves some of India's [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Oil reliance fuels Nigeria's poverty

LAGOS, - A feckless political system and excessive reliance on an oil industry that generates few jobs have conspired to reverse Nigeria's battle against poverty despite economic growth, analysts say. Many see Nigeria as a clas [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty simulation for 40 days of peace ongoing

Serve Yavapai, a collaboration of Prescott College and Community Counts, will join Catholic Charities, Coalition for Compassion and Justice, Prescott Area Women's Shelter, Prescott United Methodist Church, and Sacred Heart Catholic Pa [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Nigerian poverty increases despite economic growth

Absolute poverty is measured by the number of people who can afford only the bare essentials of shelter, food and clothing. Almost 100 million people in Nigeria were living on less than $1 a day in 2010, 61.2 percent of the population, co [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Kurds endure poverty, grapple with assimilation

BEIRUT: As a teenager in a rural area of predominantly Kurdish southeast Turkey, Bahaeddin Hassan heard of a far-off, beautiful place called Lebanon. He was starstruck. At 15, he traveled overland through Syria to Beirut. Lebanon was not [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Alberta needs poverty reduction plan, group says

Alberta could save billions of dollars per year if it took steps to reduce poverty, according to a report released Monday by a Calgary not-for-profit group. With as many as 400,000 people in Alberta living below the poverty line &mda [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty fight must go on despite deficit, activists say

Ontario’s 2008 pledge to fight child poverty can’t be sacrificed in the name of provincial austerity, says a new report being released Monday. On the eve of economist Don Drummond’s expected call for dramatic public spen [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Analysis: The Politics of Poverty

Mitt Romney says he’s not concerned about the very poor in America because they have a safety net, and that he is focusing his energies on the plight of the middle class. It would be understandable if some New Yorkers took offense a [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Fighting Poverty and Unemployment in Sindh

Poverty and unemployment in resource-rich Sindh are, among others, key causes of rising crimes and bad law and order situation. Energy crisis like in other parts of the country has battered severely economic development in the province an [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty, unemployment on rise due to corruption: Shahbaz

Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that due to polio of corruption, poverty and unemployment has increased. He said that wrong policies of corrupt rulers have caused serious crises of electricity and gas which have ba [...]

Posted On : Jan, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty levels still high – JCTR

THE Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) says the cost of living in Zambia is still high, despite the inflation rate being stable in 2011. JCTR information officer Twaambo Kanene-Mwale says the Basic Needs Basket (BNB) analysis [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Fighting poverty with the art of beauty

A young girl named Heman, daughter of the late Ratan Kumar, has been training to become a beautician for the last one month, and now feels that she has learnt enough to start practicing. All the members of the family — her six siste [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty reduction plan makes sense

Now that snow and cold weather have finally arrived, we will again have public conversations about shelters, food banks, and general poverty. It seems that those conversations have been heard as a matter of course in B.C. during the past [...]