World Poverty

Most Of The World's Poor Do Not Have A Bank Account

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.19.2012

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More than 2.5 billion people -- or half of all adults around the world -- are "unbanked," meaning they don't have a bank account, according to data re...

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Caring About the Poor

Mark Moore | Posted 04.04.2012

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Mark Moore

"I'm not concerned about the very poor," is sure to dog Romney throughout the campaign. But as he continues to explain what he meant, I hope he takes the opportunity to think about the "very poor." And I hope he is concerned. We all should be.

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Mother Nature's Havoc Accentuates Poverty in Developing Nations

Anne Goddard | Posted 04.02.2012

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Anne Goddard

What the natural disasters of 2011 serve to remind us is that it is not simply during times of disaster when children bear burdens beyond their years.

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UN Says World Lacks Enough Food, Fuel As Population Soars

Reuters | Posted 03.31.2012

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* World not seen coping with demands of rising population * "New political economy" needed By Nina Chestney ...

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Water and Sanitation Are Key to Fighting Urban Poverty

Jan Eliasson | Posted 12.03.2011

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Jan Eliasson

We know that the slums will keep on growing. But we also know that we have the opportunity to avoid condemning millions to chronic poverty. We need to act now.

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New Report: World Hunger Issues To Grow As Food Prices Double

The Huffington Post | Jessica Prois | Posted 11.16.2011

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A young Guatemalan father works six days a week, 10-12 hours a day as a harvester on a plantation -- but some days he and his family go hungry. The...

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A New Voice for Women in U.S. Aid

Ritu Sharma | Posted 07.05.2011

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Ritu Sharma

Women are the majority of the more than one billion people living on just a dollar a day, and account for 6 out of 10 of the world's hungry. Despite this, they very often get left out of assistance programs.

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A Different Palm Sunday Shout

David A. Davis | Posted 06.16.2011

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David A. Davis

Instead of looking down the Palm Sunday road and shouting "Hosanna!" you can look around and shout, "No, this isn't it!" This isn't God's way. This can't be it! No, this isn't it.

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Memos From the Developing World: The State and Me

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marcelo Giugale

Over the past two decades, most developing countries (35 of them in Africa alone) began to make direct cash transfers to their poor. Initially, this w...

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Memos From the Developing World: The End of Poverty

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marcelo Giugale

If governments could put two dollars in poor people's pockets every day, poverty would be finished. Of course, things are more complicated than that.

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Food Prices Push 44 Million Into Poverty: World Bank

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Rising global food prices has pushed an estimated 44 million more people into extreme poverty in developing countries over the past eig...

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Hearing Ourselves Think Again

Ray Waddle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ray Waddle

Be skeptical of glittering information sources that major in fear, anger and sentimentality. Talk to people who don't share your politics or religion. Take a breath, and reset imagination.

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World Poverty Falling Sharply But Patchily

AP | TERESA CEROJANO | Posted 05.25.2011

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MANILA, Philippines — It's lunchtime, but the cooking pots are empty outside Nurain Dimalao's shack. Her 7-year-old son plays amid the flies in ...

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20 Nations Dealing With Crippling Poverty : 24/7 Wall Street

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 05.25.2011

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A thousand dollars or less per person per year in GDP - the consequence of poverty, genocide, years of war, lack of natural resources, poor farm manag...

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Five Global-Health-Boosting Gadgets That Save Lives

Take Part | Adam Trunell | Posted 05.25.2011

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In laboratories, workshops, garages and basements, mad and perfectly sane scientists alike are coming up with ways to change the world....

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Honoring the Dead: A Military Son's Christian Proposal for Peace

Rev. Donald Heckman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rev. Donald Heckman

From the perspective of my faith and my experience, poverty and oppression are the real core of conflicts in our world today. They are the Petri dish of terrorism and insurgencies.

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227 Million People Escaped World's Slums In The Last Decade, UN Report Finds

Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

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China and India, the world's most populous countries, have together lifted 125 million people out of slums in the last decade, while a further 112 mil...

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Protecting Your Own, Stealing From Others

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

Poverty has increased stealing in the Cuban countryside and forced the villagers to safeguard their own resources. Many farmers use illegal weapons that have been purchased or produced in an alternative way.

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Lifting a Third World Curse

Susan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Susan Kim

One out of every ten school-age girls in sub-Sarahan Africa routinely skips school about 50 days a year. The reason why is so unbelievable it boggles the mind. It's because they're menstruating.

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The Two Presidents Are In Sync Using the Media to Deliver the Message: CGI Opens in NYC.

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michelle Kraus

The Clinton Global Initiative is a magnificent prelude to the meetings to be held later in the week with the Chinese government and other world leaders at the United Nations. This is a true gesture of unity.

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Addressing the Convergence of Crises

Tri Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tri Robinson

When you look at the scope of the world's problems today, the environmental crisis is not one that can be addressed singularly. It is the linchpin of so many different crises.

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Where Poverty and Culture Intersect: Embracing Local Traditions to Better Fight Poverty

Ivonne A-Baki | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ivonne A-Baki

If the world's poor are to pull themselves out of extreme poverty and onto the path of development, culture is both a means and ends for doing so.

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Trinidad: Walled Off Community Sparks Poverty Debate Ahead Of Americas Summit

Miami Herald | JACQUELINE CHARLES | Posted 05.25.2011

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- The residents of Beetham Gardens, a drab area of rundown government housing and relentless gang warfare, have been cut off...

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It's Time to Set Them Free

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kumi Naidoo

Today, on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we call on all citizens of the world to take action against the structures and rules that perpetuate the deepening poverty and inequality in our world.

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Hunger Causing Rising Anger Across The Globe

New York Times | MARC LACEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. H...

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