"The future voices of Afghanistan"

With passion and vision…

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150 million people in the United States are perennially poor, newly poor, or near poor. That’s right, the latest Census figures show that half of America is officially poor. In this so-called economic powerhouse of a…

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http://worldpulse.com/magazine/articles/rwanda-defying-history?page=0,0

RWANDA: Defying History

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                                Mechanism Against Poverty and Passivity

 

By Shaheen Sultan Dhanji

www.bloodinkdiary.wordpress.com

 

Civilisations are like mechanical engines. When everything is working…

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http://www.granma.cu/ingles/reflections-i/26sept-40Reflex1a.html

 

 

Reflections of Fidel

(Taken from…

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26029

 

This article is a revised version of a presentation at the Delhi University symposium on “Globalization, Justice and Democracy,” November 11, 2010.



A common response of the left to the financial crisis that broke out in…

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• The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative has recently launched its Multidimensional
  
  Poverty Index (MPI), a new way to measure poverty in the world. The MPI expands on the previous Human Development Index (HDI) and includes 10 indicators of health (child mortality and nutrition), education (years of schooling and child enrollment) and standard of…

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The world community must find ways and resources through creating employment and income generating opportunities for the poor segment of society to eradicate poverty.

Poverty,…

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In rich countries a handful of dollars does not go very far, indeed most people in the UK wouldn’t think twice about spending this on a cup of coffee. But one in five people in the world today has no choice but to survive on less than US$2 a day, and 1.5 billion people struggle to live on less than US$1. The vast majority of those affected are children, each an individual story of unfulfilled hope and potential.

Few would dispute that ‘a world free from poverty’ is the…

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William Savedoff's recent review of The World Bank and the Gods of Lending has sparked an interesting discussion about how the World Bank might prevent funds from being wasted and stolen.

In his review, Savedoff says:



I found the book to be disturbing in large part because Berkman holds up a troubling mirror to the community of specialists… Continue

Fazle Hasan Abed returned to Bangladesh in 1972 following a devastating cyclone and liberation war to launch a small disaster relief effort. His organization, BRAC, still headquartered in Bangladesh, now touches the lives of over 100 million poor people. Today it is showing women, girls and their communities, from Afghanistan to Uganda, a path to hope and prosperity.



Freedom from Want tells the story of how… Continue

In honor of International Women's Day (March 8) and Women's History Month (March), Ritu Sharma Fox, Women Thrive's President and Co-founder, left her home in Annapolis and traveled to Nicaragua where approximately 831,000 people live on less 20 Cordovas a day, the equivalent of one U.S. dollar. Her goal? To try to experience, if only a little, what is like for those 831,000.



To watch videos, read Ritu's diary, and learn about the inspiring women in Ritu's photo… Continue

By. Dr. Yav Katshung Joseph





Introduction



In light of the enormous challenge facing the global community to eradicate poverty the international development community in 2000 adopted specific targets for poverty reduction, now known as the MDGs. The eight MDGs seek to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, to promote gender equality, to reduce child mortality, to improve maternal health, to fight HIV/Aids, malaria and other… Continue