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Overview & General - Reference
by Niall Ferguson -- July 1, 2007 -- A review of Paul Collier’s book, The Bottom Billion , which refers to the 980 million people living in what he calls “trapped countries,” those that are “clearly heading toward what might be described as a black hole.” 70 percent of the bottom billion live in Africa, and there is good reason to expect that proportion to rise. (Full Article)
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by Anup Shah -- updated Sept. 23, 2007 -- Global decisions, policies, and practices are typically influenced, driven, or formulated by the rich and powerful. These can be leaders of rich countries or other global actors such as multinational corporations, institutions, and influential people. In the face of such enormous external influence, the governments of poor nations and their people are often powerless. As a result, in the global context, a few get wealthy while the majority struggle. (Full Article)
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by Anup Shah -- Last updated Nov. 24, 2006 -- Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day; The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined. (Full Article) |
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Millenium Villages Project |
The Millennium Villages project offers a bold, innovative model for helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty. The Millennium Villages are proving that by fighting poverty at the village level through community-led development, rural Africa can achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and escape the extreme poverty that traps hundreds of millions of people throughout the continent. (Website)
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Official Development Assistance by Country |
OECD -- 2005 -- Organized by country in descending order by percentage of GNI that went to ODA according to 2005 data. Source: Statistical Annex of the Development Co-Operation Report 2005. (Full Article)
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UN Report: The Role of Microcredit |
United Nations -- Dec. 1997 -- In the broader context of the international fight against poverty, the paper highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the microlending approach, from which some conclusions about the future course of action are drawn. (Full Report )
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“We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity. ” His Highness the Aga Khan
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