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Child-poverty work is essential

Louisiana has stepped up its drive to reduce child poverty. At a Baton Rouge meeting last week, more than a dozen state agencies and nonprofits joined in a comprehensive program aimed at a 50 percent reduction during the next 10 years. The [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Poverty and poor health in gene link

Poverty can cause poor health by altering a person's genes, a new study suggests.The finding, a first in children with asthma, could help explain why social disadvantage is linked to greater vulnerability to sickness and death in many disea [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

World Bank says extreme poverty has increased

Phenomenal rise in food prices between 2005 and 2007 has increased “extreme poverty” in South Asia, East Asia and the Middle East by one percentage point, a setback equivalent to the progress made by countries in regions over th [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

Fighting poverty ensures peace

SUBIC BAY FREE PORT—President Arroyo on Thursday underscored the importance of the government’s poverty-alleviation program, saying that strengthening the economy and bringing about human dignity to every Filipino brings about p [...]

Posted On : Nov, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Focus group on poverty formed

The Federal Government has set up Focus Group Committee (FGC) at the State and Federal levels to further strengthen efforts to achieve zero-hardcore poor by 2010 and reduce poverty by half by the end of the Ninth Malaysia Plan. Chief Mini [...]

Posted On : Nov, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

Plan leads to poverty in old age

Lifecycle investing, in which an individual’s pension plan is invested in more volatile asset classes such as equities during their younger years, but shifted into safer assets like bonds nearer to retirement, is today widely favoured [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

Seeing the face of real poverty

Mark Russell never thought he would be able to walk past someone lying on a city street without stopping. That was before he went to India. “It’s just overwhelming,” he said. “I had read about it and heard about it, [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2008 | Comments : 0

Unemployment, poverty continue to hinder SAs growth, says HS...

Unemployment, poverty, and economic growth that benefits a few are among the top challenges facing South Africa, and this has led to massive inequalities, says Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) president and CEO Dr Olive Shisana. Speak [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2008 | Comments : 0

Poverty is not only governments duty

The responsibility for eradicating poverty is not only government’s duty but that of all South Africans, Deputy President Baleka Mbete said today.Baleka Mbete: The friendly first lady with claws of an alley cat-It’s business unu [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2008 | Comments : 0

To tackle corruption, reduce poverty

There is no doubt that there is acute poverty in Nigeria and it is both grinding and excruciating. Worse still, the poverty has no expiry date tagged to it. Poverty, which, over the years, has refused to be appeased by Structural Adjustment [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

Vital to reduce poverty this year

The rich just seem to get richer, as the latest round of multi-million-dollar exit packages for financial executives has dramatically illustrated. Meanwhile, the gap between the wealthy and the middle to low-income earners has been growing [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2008 | Comments : 0

Canadians want to beat poverty

The vast majority of Canadians want the federal and provincial governments to lead a war on poverty, including raising minimum wages and creating more low-cost child care, according a survey released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

Poverty forces girls into sex slavery

GIRLS as young as 14 are lured from villages with promises of jobs, only to end up as sex slaves in Kampala, writes Stephen Ssenkaba SHE was shy and could not look me straight in the eye. But as I talked to her, I noticed an air of apprehen [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Call for end to pension 'poverty'

More than 1,000 protesters will converge on Parliament later to call for the state pension to be increased above what they say is poverty level. Pensioners and trade unions will join forces to demand a rise in the basic single pension from [...]