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Sustainable Economics to End Global Poverty |
by Alexia Eastwood -- April 16, 2010 -- Recent empirical studies suggest that people, far from being self-interested ‘rational maximizers’, have an innate tendency to share and cooperate. Could renewed scientific interest in the essence of human nature provide the building blocks for an alternative economic order? (Full Article)
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Africa's Banking Laws Shut Out the Poor: Yunus |
by Frank Nyakairu -- April 6, 2010 -- Lack of microcredit laws in many African countries is denying millions of the continent's poor access to loans, a Nobel Prize winner Mohammad Yunus, said on Tuesday. Yunus is now pioneering an idea he calls "social business" as a way to fight poverty around the world -- business not for profit but to solve social problems. (Full Article)
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Unclean Water Claims More Lives Than War |
Environment News Service -- March 22, 2010 -- Every day two million tons of sewage, industrial and agricultural wastes enter the Earth's waters, while every 20 seconds a child under the age of five dies from water-related diseases. The World Health Organization reports that unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene claim the lives of an estimated 1.5 million children under the age of five each year. (Full Article)
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Localization is Way to Redefine Globalization |
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by Michael Shuman -- Nov. 5, 2009 -- If we really want to help the poor, it's far smarter to help poor countries, poor communities and the poorest residents living in them to achieve the same level of local self-reliance we seek for ourselves. Given how little of each import dollar actually winds up in the hands of the workers most in need - probably less than a penny - globalization is an extremely inefficient antipoverty strategy. It perpetuates domination of the poor by global corporations. (Full Article) |
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Four-year Drought Pushes 23 million Africans to Brink of Starvation |
The Times -- Oct. 22, 2009 -- A four-year drought has pushed as many as 23 million people to the brink of starvation across East Africa, making it the worst in a decade or more. Close to four million of those at risk are in Kenya, where one person in ten survives on emergency rations. (Full Article)
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Millions will Starve as Rich Nations Cut Food Aid Funding, Warns UN |
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by John Vidal -- Oct. 11, 2009 -- Tens of millions of the world's poor will have their food rations cut or cancelled in the next few weeks because rich countries have slashed aid funding. New data seen by the Observer show that food aid is now at its lowest in 20 years. Countries have offered only $2.7bn in the first 10 months of 2009. (Full Article) |
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Income Poverty Still Falling, but More Slowly |
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by Hilary French -- Oct. 1, 2009 -- The World Bank projects that the number of people living in extreme poverty (on less than $1.25 a day) will fall slightly in 2009, declining from 1,203 million in 2008 to 1,184 million. The share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty is also expected to decline by a small amount, from 21.3 percent in 2008 to 20.7 percent in 2009. (Full Article) |
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Number of Chronically Hungry Tops 1 Billion |
by Javier Blas -- Mar. 27, 2009 -- The number of chronically hungry people has surpassed the 1bn mark for the first time as the economic crisis compounds the impact of high food prices, the United Nations' top agriculture official has warned. The percentage fell from 20 per cent in 1990-92 to a low of just below 16 per cent in the 2003-05 period. But with 1bn people chronically hungry now, the percentage has risen to almost 18 per cent. (Full Article)
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