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The future of global poverty: What if there were multiple ho...

“A Brookings paper out this week (here) does something a set of papers have sought to do recently – that is make projections about the future of global poverty. These kind of papers have significant policy implications because [...]

Posted On : May, 03 2013 | Comments : 0

Economic growth masks poverty

Halfway into his term, the president has achieved much, including the stellar economic growth that has earned the country an investment-grade credit status from Fitch Ratings. This is why the disclosure last week by the National Statistic [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2013 | Comments : 0

Durban Port's Poverty, Consumerism, Enoughness

If an oil carrying ship hits the rocks off the Durban coast where I live it will cause a spill that will create many jobs, to pick up all the dead birds from the beaches up and down the coast. Economists who love capitalism do not see a p [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2013 | Comments : 0

Poverty report shows Sonoma County's Latino families struggl...

More than 60 percent of Latino households in Sonoma County are barely getting by on incomes of $25,000 or less. Compare that to only 18.5 percent for the county as a whole. Nearly 14 percent of children in Sonoma County and 16 percent in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 29 2013 | Comments : 0

Poverty drops globally…there ‘re still challenges – World Ba...

The World Bank, yesterday, disclosed that 1.2 billion persons are living under $1.2 a day of which sub-sahara Africa accounts for one-third of the world’s poor. According to the multilateral institution, the number of people livi [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2013 | Comments : 0

Tom Hiddleston`s action against poverty

Actor Tom Hiddleston has vowed to live on less than a pound a day for an entire week to support a Unicef campaign against poverty. The 32-year-old later took to Twitter and urged fans to join him in the cause, reports dailystar. "(Th [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2013 | Comments : 0

Help shrinks as poverty spikes in the US

He's a success story for Catholic Charities of Baltimore, one of a multitude of organizations trying to haul people out of poverty in this Maryland port city where one of four residents is considered poor by U.S. government standards. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2013 | Comments : 0

Tunisia needs new economic model to end poverty

TUNIS - Tunisia must find a new economic model to raise the roughly 20 percent of its people living in poverty from their quagmire, President Moncef Marzouki said on Saturday. "The objective is liberate from poverty two million Tunis [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2013 | Comments : 0

Brazil shows how to fight poverty

More than 20 percent people on Earth live in extreme poverty and are enduring inhuman sufferings, according to the World Bank. Combating extreme poverty is the aim of the entire development community, and the same goal has been embraced b [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2013 | Comments : 0

Poverty decreases sharply in developing world

Up to 80 per cent of the world’s middle classes will live in developing countries by 2030 thanks to surprising recent gains in poverty reduction, according to a United Nations report published on Thursday. “Never in history ha [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2013 | Comments : 0

On the road to tackling poverty

About 1500 kilometres into a record-setting walk across the country, Canberra man Matt Napier is gritting his teeth against a fresh outbreak of blisters – but with the spectacular Great Australian Bight stretched out before him, his [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2013 | Comments : 0

Reducing Poverty: an online consultation to inform the OECD ...

An online consultation called Reducing poverty is achievable: finding those who are hidden by inequalities, has been set up by Development Progress, WikiProgress and the OECD . It opened on the 6th of March 2013 – and will run until [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2013 | Comments : 0

Wabenzi: In the land of poverty and opulence

At the back of Nairobi's City Hall is an old black Vanden Plas Princess limousine - a symbol of status during the 1960s and 70s. The Mayor of Nairobi purchased it shortly after Kenya's independence from Britain in 1963. In fa [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2013 | Comments : 0

What an Online Poverty Game Can Teach You

During an ice storm last month that kept U.S. Rep. David Price grounded at his home in his Durham, N.C., the 72-year-old Democratic legislator took 10 minutes out of his day to playSpent, an online game created by an unusual partnership i [...]