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Pollution, Poverty, People of Color: No beba el agua. Don't ...

A few feet away, her mother, Bertha Dias, scrubs potatoes with water she bought from a vending machine. She won’t use the tap water because it’s contaminated with nitrates. Every day, Dias, 43, heads to the fields to pick lemo [...]

Posted On : Jun, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

How paying people’s way out of poverty can help us all

Behind corridors lined with contemporary Canadian art, sitting at a dark wooden table in his downtown Toronto office, Ed Clark offers some economic advice that might not typically come from Bay Street. Give the poor a tax break.: &ldqu [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

One billion people forgotten in fight against poverty

This year Unicef's annual flagship State of the World's Children report, released on Friday, focuses exclusively on adolescents. A recognition, says Unicef, of the increasingly urgent need to invest in the world's 1.2 billion [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

2.5 million people raised over poverty

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Today in Baku the World Bank has conducted public presentation of the report on assessment of living conditions in Azerbaijan. At the presentation Bank’s senior economist Lire Ersado claimed that when making th [...]

Posted On : Apr, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

1 billion people lack clean water

A woman, living in a squatter camp, collects water for her family from a nearby source in Lahore March 21, 2010. The Earth is literally covered in water, but more than a billion people lack access to clean water for drinking or sanitatio [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

62 million people fall below poverty line

The 62 million population of country has fallen below poverty line in FY09. The State Bank of Pakistan in its annual report of economy of the county for last fiscal unveiled that World Bank’s task force on food security has estimated [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Several above poverty line people in BPL list

State rural development and panchayati raj minister, Bharat Singh, on Tuesday, admitted in the Vidhan Sabha that several APL (above poverty line) people had been included in the list of BPL (below poverty line) families. Bharat S [...]

Posted On : Jul, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

Poverty is everybodys problem ... we want people to accept t...

It has its roots in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of post-apartheid South Africa, when victims of the bloody and cruel regime were encouraged to tell their stories.Now the model, partly conceived by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, is to [...]