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Poverty stricken Zambia projected to have highest growth rat...

Three-week-old Mukuka Chanda is cradled in his grandmother’s arms in George compound, Lusaka. He is one of 10 who live in a house of three small rooms. His grandmother, a widow, is HIV-positive and struggles to provide for the famil [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty And The New World Order

13% of the world population could be making adequate incomes, while 37% live in extreme poverty with incomes below 1,000 US dollars per year. Poverty has been defined as the shortage of essential items such as food, water, clothing [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

India aid programme 'beset by corruption' - World Bank

The governing coalition spends billions of dollars - more than 2% of its gross domestic product - on helping the poor. But a new World Bank report says aid programmes are beset by corruption, bad administration and under-payments. As an e [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Technology - The Key to Alleviate World Poverty

Modern age brought out solution to a lot of human problems. Science and technology have become part and parcel of everyday life. Technology is being used to help resolve the dangling and perplexed issues of the humanity. Modern invention [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Will the G20 deliver for the world's poor?

To be in South Korea as part of its hosting of the G20 summit which will be held on 11 and 12 November is to witness a piece of history. In the lifetime of South Korea's leaders, and in a triumph of development, the country [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Kevin Rudd says Australia's international aid for education...

The new Foreign Minister said today that providing primary schooling denied to 67 million children around the world would “transform” global poverty levels. Mr Rudd also linked improved literacy rates with enhanced internatio [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

World poverty seen falling sharply but patchily

It's lunchtime, but the cooking pots are empty outside Nurain Dimalao's shack. Her 7-year-old son plays amid the flies in garbage-strewn sand. She worries where his next meal will come from. Baseco Compound, a shantytown of 50,00 [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

World Anti-poverty Gains Under Threat From Multiple Crises: ...

The world's anti-poverty gains achieved over the past years are being eroded by the presence of multiple crises, including an unprecedented economic and financial crisis, increased food security, oil prices volatility and climate cha [...]

Posted On : Jun, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

India, China growth helping developing nations: World Bank

But for the rapid progress made by India and China, the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries would have been still slower after the global economic crisis, according to World Bank’s lead economist. The crisis struc [...]

Posted On : Apr, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Sudan can rid world of a horrible disease

Oppressed by war and poverty for generations, the Sudanese have struggled with terrible hardships. But the people of this vast country have a narrow window of hope to achieve progress by ridding both their nation and the world of a horri [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

World hunger on the rise

EVEN before the economic crisis pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion, declining aid and investment in agriculture had been steadily increasing. The number of undernourished people for more than a decade, a UN food a [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Over 25,000 children died around the world

Over 25,000 children die every day around the world.That is equivalent to: 1 child dying every 3.5 seconds 17-18 children dying every minute A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every 1.5 weeks An Iraq-scale death toll every 16&ndas [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2009 | Comments : 2

World lags on poverty goals: G8

Lack of progress in tackling poverty and problems in balancing supply and demand mean fears over how to feed the developing world will persist, a draft G8 farm ministers' paper said on Sunday. "The Millennium Declaration aimed to halv [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2009 | 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 [...]