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Female education aids poverty reduction in eastern Nigeria

The South-eastern part of Nigeria has recorded significant reduction in poverty levels, thanks to wide spread education of females across various communities. This observation made by the Nigeria Country Director of Ipas, Dr. Ejike Oji, i [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

How paying people’s way out of poverty can help us all

Behind corridors lined with contemporary Canadian art, sitting at a dark wooden table in his downtown Toronto office, Ed Clark offers some economic advice that might not typically come from Bay Street. Give the poor a tax break.: &ldqu [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Millions in Asia face poverty if prices surge: UN

Soaring food and oil prices could keep an additional 42 million people in poverty in the Asia Pacific region and threaten economic growth, the United Nations said Thursday. As regional economies continue to pick up pace in the wake of [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Child poverty here highest in OECD ?

"Most recent trends show widening gap between poor and rich in high-inequality countries, such as Israel and US," says organization. Israel has the highest rate of child poverty among the 35 member countries of the Orga [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Soaring food prices threaten to push mlns of Asians into pov...

Resurgent global food prices, which posted record increases in the first two months of 2011, are again threatening to push millions of people in developing Asia into extreme poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report Tues [...]

Posted On : Apr, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

JCPS schools search for success against poverty's stacked de...

It was just before 7:30 a.m., and youth-resource coordinator Lekiesha Davis was standing by Shawnee High School's front entrance, exchanging hellos and handing out hugs to the students streaming into the hallway. But her task ex [...]

Posted On : Apr, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Amaechi to tackle poverty

As the governorship election draws near, wife of Rivers State Governor Dame Judith Amaechi says the Governor Amaechi administration is determined to explore several opportunities to tackle poverty in the families and enhance the wellbein [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty-ridden Pakistani politicians!

Unbelievably absurd yet funny details have come to light from the assets returns filed by the public’s elected representatives of the Parliament’s Lower House in Election Commission of Pakistan. Majority of the MNAs has not s [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

China and India Become Major Contributors to Global Poverty ...

Developing countries are on track to meet or get close to key targets for tackling extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, thanks to the rapid economic growth in China and India, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said on April 1 [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty among U.K. pupils increasing

Four in 10 staff at schools and colleges across England say poverty among their students has got worse since the recession began and that some parents can no longer afford to give their children breakfast, according to a survey by a teac [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty hitting pupils' learning, survey suggests

More than three-quarters of 627 primary, secondary and college teachers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who responded to the survey believed they taught pupils living in poverty. And about 40% said the problem had increased since [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty on the Rise in Johnson County

Poverty is something rarely talked about in one of the nations wealthiest counties. But now it's on the rise in Johnson County. A panel discussion about childhood poverty last week outlined how young people face developmental a [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Health care, poverty, key issues for NDP candidate

Poverty and health care are Lyn Edwards's top priorities going into the May 2 federal election. The NDP candidate lists recruiting doctors, job creation and affordable housing as some of the ways she'd go about bettering the live [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Disease of poverty hits kids up North

There have been four cases of acute rheumatic fever confirmed in Northland in the past two weeks and the DHB is reminding people to get sore throats treated. According to Northland DHB's medical officer of health Clair Mills, the rec [...]