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Poor Nations

A Call for Some Much Needed Sisterhood on This Planet

Linda Adams | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Women-and-Hurricane-Katrina, Developing World, Single Mothers, Waxman-Markey, Greenland, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Poor Nations, Extreme Weather, Climate Crisis, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Global Warming, Green News
Linda Adams

Global warming affects our entire planet but it has a disproportionate impact on people in poor communities, especially women.

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The Yen, the Yuan and the Yunus

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Yen, Yuan, Global Currency, Africa, Imf, Poor Nations, Martin Wolf, Macroeconomic Policy, Muhammad Yunus, Helping the Poor, Business News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

A global currency would allow emerging economies to borrow in their own currency, avoid currency mismatches and the extreme poor can trade with each other without being exposed to currency risk.

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G-20 Commits To Funneling Billions To Poor, Struggling States

allAfrica | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: G20 Summit, G-20 Summit, International Monetary Fund, G-20 Aid, Africa, Poor Nations, g20, G-20, World News

The leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies, recognizing that the global financial crisis has "a disproportionate impact" on vulnerable people in ...

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President Obama Recommits to the World's Poor in First Address

Virginia Simmons | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

Read More: Recommits, Foreign Aid, Hunger, Poverty, Millennium Development Goals, Inauguration, Clean Water, Millennium Development Goal, Extreme Poverty, Obama, Global Poverty, Poor Nations, Development, Mdgs, One, World News
Virginia Simmons

President Obama clear in his speech the importance of fighting poverty and preventable disease worldwide.

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Climate-Change Program To Aid Poor Nations Is Shut

New York Times | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 09.07.2008 | Green

Read More: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Center for Capacity Building, Michael Glantz, Environmental Racism, Climate Change, Dr. Michael Glantz, NCAR, Poor Nations, Climate Research, Green News

The National Center for Atmospheric Research, an important hub for work on the causes and consequences of climate change, has shut down a program focu...

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