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Museveni urges church to join poverty fight

President Yoweri Museveni has urged Church leaders to engage in projects geared towards food security and poverty alleviation. “The Church should not only engage in evangelism, teaching and discipleship. To fulfil the work of God, t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2008 | Comments : 0

Ministry proposes increasing poverty line

According to the proposed regulation, households in rural areas with an average per person monthly income of VND300,000 (US$18.10) or less will be classified as poor. Urban areas where the average monthly per capita income is VND390,000 ($ [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2008 | Comments : 0

PM stands in shadow cast by world poverty

As Stephen Harper gets ready to fight an election campaign at home, the world's problems are also about to become front and centre. As Don Butler reports, the UN is hosting a meeting at the end of the month to discuss its millennium goals o [...]

Posted On : Sep, 02 2008 | Comments : 0

MP issues fuel poverty warning

A group of backbench MPs is willing to take the Government "right to the line" to help those struggling to pay their fuel bills, former welfare minister Frank Field has warned. The outspoken backbencher called on ministers to int [...]

Posted On : Aug, 30 2008 | Comments : 0

Children suffer most as US poverty rises

More than 37 million Americans live in poverty and nearly 46 million have no health insurance, with children bearing a disproportionate share of the burden, an official report showed Tuesday. Highlighting key issues in the race for the pre [...]

Posted On : Aug, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

World poverty 'more widespread'

The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought. It has revised its previous estimate and now says that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, based on a new poverty line of $1.25 per day. This is substanti [...]

Posted On : Aug, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

Target of eradicating poverty 'now more difficult'

THE DOWNTURN in the economy will make it much more difficult for the Government to meet its target to eradicate poverty, the State's advisory body on tackling deprivation has warned.The Government has pledged to reduce consistent poverty to [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2008 | Comments : 0

'Stability = no poverty'

SADC member state can assure political and social stability and security if the region continues to suffer poverty, underdevelopment and instability, President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday. Mbeki was speaking at the Southern African Develop [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2008 | Comments : 0

Bill Gates on Fighting Poverty

In Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks described a society in which the boundaries that once separated establishment from counter culture have disappeared. “The members of the new information age elite are bourgeois bohemians,” Broo [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2008 | Comments : 1

Poverty still grips millions in India

Every now and then, India gets a stark reminder that the feel good factor created by high growth rates in recent years eludes millions of its people. One came earlier this month when Unicef said that India had some of the worst rates of chi [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2008 | Comments : 0

Why so many are struggling in poverty

THE new Mayor of London has agreed to continue support for the ‘London Living Wage’, an independently calculated minimum income that determines an “adequate level of warmth and shelter, a healthy palatable diet, social int [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

The burden of Africa's poverty

In Africa, research and knowledge are far from being ivory-tower pursuits. They are critical to making poverty history and preparing countries to cope with disasters. However, to achieve this, research should be understood not just as a sou [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

No progress on poverty

In 1970, a special Senate committee, chaired by Senator David Croll, examined poverty in Canada. The Croll Report, as it came to be known, brought poverty out of the shadows and focused public attention on a problem many would prefer to hav [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2008 | Comments : 0

A city of kids living in poverty

They grew up around violence, watched as mates were jailed and witnessed loved ones sleeping rough.Others have turned to robbing people and homes to get money for food, alcohol and drugs.Porirua teenagers Merika Harper Brown, 16, and Mark V [...]