Search Results for 'Poverty Reduction'

Bucking the Trend: Poverty Reduction and Inequality in Latin...

Recent data show that poverty is falling around the world. Today, 43 percent of people are considered to be living in "poverty" (on less than $2 per day), compared to 30 years ago when almost three-fourths of the developing worl [...]

Posted On : Jun, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Sustainable uplift & poverty reduction strategy stressed

Sartaj Aziz, former finance minister, has said that Pakistan should have a comprehensive National Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (NSDPR) and the capacity of the provinces has to be built in addition to strengthenin [...]

Posted On : May, 22 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

Alberta needs poverty reduction plan, group says

Alberta could save billions of dollars per year if it took steps to reduce poverty, according to a report released Monday by a Calgary not-for-profit group. With as many as 400,000 people in Alberta living below the poverty line &mda [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty reduction plan makes sense

Now that snow and cold weather have finally arrived, we will again have public conversations about shelters, food banks, and general poverty. It seems that those conversations have been heard as a matter of course in B.C. during the past [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty reduction strategy discussed

A WORKSHOP on ‘Poverty Reduction Strategy’ was held here in a local hotel by the United Nations Development Programme’s project Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring Punjab which was attended by planning officials, devel [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

N.B. poverty reduction goals are attainable: advocate

As debate rages over the province's poverty reduction plan, one of the leaders who supports the strategy insists the goals are attainable if people don't give up.Tom Gribbons is the chairman of the Business Community Anti-Poverty [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty reduction does make a difference

The evidence is in. A lot of people in Canada took a real hit during the recent recession. Figures from Statistics Canada show that poverty became a reality for more Canadians between 2007 and 2009. No surprise there, really. It’s h [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Ghana makes strides in poverty reduction - Duffuor

GNA - Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, on Monday said Ghana had made significant strides towards reducing poverty over the last two decade from 51.7 per cent in 1992 to 28.5 per cent in 2006. He said the t [...]

Posted On : Jun, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Programmes for poverty reduction

Until the late 1990s Pakistan did not have an indigenously developed poverty alleviation programme. The country’s planning managers did not feel the need to consult all the stakeholders and develop a strategy. Poverty began to rear [...]

Posted On : May, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Female education aids poverty reduction in eastern Nigeria

The South-eastern part of Nigeria has recorded significant reduction in poverty levels, thanks to wide spread education of females across various communities. This observation made by the Nigeria Country Director of Ipas, Dr. Ejike Oji, i [...]

Posted On : May, 09 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

Poverty reduction in Northern Ghana needs concerted efforts ...

Poverty reduction and the transformation of livelihoods in Northern Ghana can only be achieved through the concerted efforts of all stakeholders in the agriculture sector. This will help reverse the resultant low agriculture productivity [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

‘Economic growth, poverty reduction go hand in hand’

The UK chief economist and world leading specialist Professor Alan Winters on Thursday stressed the inextricable link between economic growth and poverty reduction. He expressed these views in a seminar on “Growth Policy Seminar&rd [...]