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Scraping through: 45% population living below the poverty li...

ISLAMABAD: As many as 45.7% of the entire population is living under the poverty line, according to a door-to-door survey carried out by Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). The results sharply negate the outcome of another official s [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

As foreign troops leave, Afghan refugees and poverty increas...

Applications by Afghans seeking asylum also reached their highest number in a decade, UN figures showed in January. Most were from those seeking work abroad Gulam recalls the evening she fled her home in northern Afghanistan on foot, r [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

As foreign troops leave, Afghan refugees and poverty increas...

Gulam recalls the evening she fled her home in northern Afghanistan on foot, running with her teen daughters under the cloak of darkness to avoid cooking a dinner for 20 Taliban insurgents. “This Talib burst through my door and d [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty’s Poster Child

This sprawling Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a Connecticut-sized zone of prairie and poverty, where the have-nots are defined less by the money they lack than by suffocating hopelessness. In the national number line of inequality, p [...]

Posted On : May, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

The Problem of Poverty

The problem of poverty has persisted from the earliest days of humanity. Thousands of solutions have been proposed from socialism, welfare, charities, and aid - but the problem still rages on unabated. Many point to the environmental prob [...]

Posted On : May, 07 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

Pentagon trumps poverty programs

American soldiers learned the hard way not to walk down enemy trails in Vietnam — and certainly not twice. But here come the House Republicans, marching into the sunlight by shifting billions from poverty programs to the Pentagon, a [...]

Posted On : May, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty Alleviation Convergence Program Launched

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), along with with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) launched their convergence program on poverty alleviation during the Labor Day celebration last May 1, Tuesday [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Tour of North Carolina's poverty areas heads West

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WTW) — An effort by the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP and other groups to spotlight poverty across North Carolina is hitting the road again. The third part of the tour of North Carolina's poverty-striken [...]

Posted On : May, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty: causes and cure

Poverty is a curse which breeds the germs of socio-economic evils of high magnitude and multi-dimensional implications. The recent wave of rising crimes can largely be attributed to the growing incidence of poverty in the society. In f [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

King of poverty-stricken Swaziland attacked over private jet

King Mswati of Swaziland has obtained a multi-million-pound private jet despite the majority of his countrymen continuing to live in abject poverty. The twin-engined McDonnell Douglas DC-9 was reportedly given to the Sherbourne-educated k [...]

Posted On : Apr, 26 2012 | 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

Poverty reduction: UN to support women’s initiatives in Paki...

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations has decided to support all the initiatives aimed at empowering women which will help reduce poverty in Pakistan, a senior official said Sunday. Speaking to women entrepreneurs, Inez Wijngaarde, Senior Industr [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Believe that extreme poverty can be eradicated (Watch Video)

'58: is an unprecedented, action-based, global alliance of Christians, churches and international poverty-fighting organizations working together to end extreme poverty in our lifetime by living the True Fast of Isaiah. To achieve thi [...]