Blogs Posts in World category; 116 blog posts

Poverty fueling unrest in Nigeria's Kano, says report

KANO, Nigeria — Poor governance, poverty and unregulated migration have sparked a security crisis in Nigeria's city of Kano, where Islamists killed at least 185 last month, said a report released Wednesday. The governor of the [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 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

Rwanda says slashed poverty rate in five years

The proportion of Rwanda's population living in poverty dropped from 57 percent in 2006 to 45 percent in 2011, according to data released Tuesday. "We are happy with the valuable progress we have seen in these numbers," Pres [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 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 in Europe

Almost one in four people in the EU was threatened with poverty or social deprivation in 2010. This is the conclusion of an official report by the European Commission presented in December. According to the report, 115 million people, or [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

'India's poverty level impractical for Punjab'

The Central government's affidavit in the Supreme Court declaring those spending Rs 32 per person per day and Rs 26 in rural areas as above poverty line has provoked politicians of all hues in poll-bound Punjab to demand a higher rate [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

London rioters point to poverty and prejudice

Just yards from the east London street where riots erupted on Monday stands a house for sale that sums up the depth of division in the area. With five bedrooms, three bathrooms and its own coach house, the elegant property has been put [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty tour stops in Chicago

Tavis Smiley, the syndicated talk show host who has been a vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s policies on behalf of African-Americans, will bring his national “poverty tour” to Chicago this weekend, putting the spo [...]

Posted On : Aug, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty And The New World Order

13% of the world population could be making adequate incomes, while 37% live in extreme poverty with incomes below 1,000 US dollars per year. Poverty has been defined as the shortage of essential items such as food, water, clothing [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Abandoning The Poverty Mentality Syndrome

I’ve heard a lot of these comments during my twenty plus years in the business. Interestingly, most of them have been second-hand reports from other distributors, not in-person comments from the speaker. There seems to be a poverty- [...]

Posted On : Jul, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

The Roots of Poverty

There are many popular misconceptions about underdeveloped countries that prevent both politicians and private citizens from seriously considering solutions. Some people think less developed countries (LDCs) are poor as the result of lazi [...]

Posted On : Jul, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Call for child poverty 'indicators'

The race to succeed in life is over for many children in the UK by the day they first arrive in primary school, a report has warned. By the age of just five, "huge class differences" already exist between the abilities of pupil [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Many of our farmers are left 'trapped in poverty'

A quarter of farmers are officially living in poverty – with those on upland farms in the South West among the poorest. A report out today says the poorest are receiving relatively little support either from agricultural policies o [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Technology - The Key to Alleviate World Poverty

Modern age brought out solution to a lot of human problems. Science and technology have become part and parcel of everyday life. Technology is being used to help resolve the dangling and perplexed issues of the humanity. Modern invention [...]