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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

Vatican Attacks US Nuns For Fighting Poverty Instead Of Gay ...

The Vatican this week attacked America’s nuns for spending too much time working to help the poor and fight poverty, and not spending enough time attacking same-sex marriage. The criticism, considered formal disciplinary action agai [...]

Posted On : Apr, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Fight poverty and crime with faith, Pope tells Mexican worsh...

Benedict delivered the message to hundreds of thousands of worshippers during an open-air mass in the shadow of the Christ the King monument, one of the most important symbols of Mexican Christianity, which recalls the 1920s Catholic upri [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty fight must go on despite deficit, activists say

Ontario’s 2008 pledge to fight child poverty can’t be sacrificed in the name of provincial austerity, says a new report being released Monday. On the eve of economist Don Drummond’s expected call for dramatic public spen [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Fighting Poverty and Unemployment in Sindh

Poverty and unemployment in resource-rich Sindh are, among others, key causes of rising crimes and bad law and order situation. Energy crisis like in other parts of the country has battered severely economic development in the province an [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

Fighting poverty with the art of beauty

A young girl named Heman, daughter of the late Ratan Kumar, has been training to become a beautician for the last one month, and now feels that she has learnt enough to start practicing. All the members of the family — her six siste [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Yuguda To Fight Poverty Through Agric

Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda, has expressed his administration’s commitment to alleviating poverty in the state through agricultural production. The governor, who gave this indication through the project manager of B [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Keep poverty fight pledge, Redford told

A coalition of anti-poverty activists is urging Premier Alison Redford to keep her promise to implement a province-wide poverty reduction strategy. The groups say Alberta is one of three Canadian provinces that has not implemented a compr [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Fighting poverty

Since it was officially recognized by the United Nations in 1993, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been observed every year on Oct 17. It is intended to promote awareness of the need to eradicate the poverty caused by [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Local advocates fight child poverty

A group of children's advocates in central Wisconsin is working behind-the-scenes to help children in poverty and prevent kids from ending up poor. The advocates gathered Tuesday at a forum in Wausau to discuss a report that show [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Tourism – a Fight Against Poverty

Creating Jobs and Wealth: Poverty alleviation has become an essential condition for peace, environmental conservation and sustainable development, besides being an ethical obligation in an affluent world, where the divide be [...]

Posted On : Jul, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Debt Cancellation - The Wrong Signal For Fighting Poverty

Defining poverty varies and depends from one place to another, from one time to another and from one year to another, from household to another... A poor person in my village, Kpala, owns land, has shelter, eats fresh food but do [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

A ten-year fight against poverty

A ten-year program for poverty reduction was adopted during the closing ceremony of the UN conference in Istanbul, which would require affluent countries to increase their spending on official development assistance from 0.15 percent of t [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Nobel winner fights to keep his ‘poverty eradication’ bank

A long-running vendetta between the government of Bangladesh and the country’s Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus came to the boil last week when the champion of fighting poverty with small business startup loans wa [...]