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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

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

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

Youth Join Forces to Educate About Global Poverty

FLORIDA, November 15, 2009 –It was a day of joining forces to raise awareness through education about global poverty for Youth for Human Rights Florida, as they took part in the Aga Khan Foundation "Partnership in Action Walk&q [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

Impact of global crisis on poverty?

The Global Monitoring Report 2010 attempts to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on poverty. Are the numbers useful? According to the World Bank's analysis, the global economic crisis has had an negative impact on pove [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Impact of global crisis on poverty?

According to the World Bank's analysis, the global economic crisis has had an negative impact on poverty, but could have been much worse. The report argues that timely and effective policies, including IFI assistance, helped save the [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Food Prices Deepening Global Poverty

Since the first meeting of this every 10-year event in 1971, the number of least-developed countries has increased, and U.N. officials say the population of the world's 48 poorest nations is expected to double to 1.7 billion by 2050. [...]

Posted On : May, 11 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

Global Poverty Deserves Local Outreach

The hardship and poverty suffered by those far removed by distance and culture typically only enters the collective consciousness during war or mass famine, while news headlines seem to eschew the day-to-day struggle of people living in [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Global Poverty Project comes to Pepperdine

A presentation by the Global Poverty Project proved to be more than just another convocation, Monday night in Elkins Auditorium. Led by Jessica Mason, one of the organization's "road scholars," the presentation aimed to enc [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Global trade critical to reduce poverty

International trade will only help fight global poverty if rich countries turn their rhetoric into action, the Global Poverty Summit heard in Johannesburg on Wednesday. “It is time to bring the talks to a close. Successfully doing [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Global Hunger Declines For First Time In 15 Years: UN

The number of undernourished people around the world has declined by nearly 10 percent in the past year, the first time a drop in famine has been recorded since 1995, the UN food agency said Tuesday. A total of 925 million people are und [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Global warming could lift farmers out of poverty

The assumption that climate change will hit the poorest people hardest has been shaken by new research from Stanford University suggesting that the worst-case global warming scenario predicted by the United Nations over the next 20 years [...]

Posted On : Feb, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Bank bailouts could end global poverty for 50 years

The $8.42 trillion (£5.86 trillion) pledged by the developed nations to bailout their banks would be enough to end global poverty for 50 years, a new report has claimed on the eve of the G20 Summit in London.The study by Oxfam suggest [...]