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Poverty

 Running away

The number of people emigrating is rising steadily every year. All these movements derive from the failure of societies to meet the fundamental needs and aspirations of their citizens, for safe

Publication Date: 
Monday, December 30, 1996
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Habitat, Migration, Poverty, Statistics
Poverty

 Private and public poverty

the post-war consensus on poverty alleviation was shattered by a truculent critique of the welfare state from the combative conservative right in us in the early '80s. Apart from the rising costs

Publication Date: 
29/11/1996
Kishore Jethanandani
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Poverty, Research
Poverty

 Bread, values and politics

The forthcoming World Food Summit must ensure that the umbrella of food security also extends to encompass the Southern nations poor

Publication Date: 
14/11/1996
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Food Crops, Malnutrition, Poverty
Poverty

 What s ailing?

A WHO report on Southeast Asia blames poverty for the rot

Publication Date: 
14/10/1996
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Poverty, WHO, Asia
India

 Mother and nature...both?

STUDIES on the interrelationships between gender, poverty and environmental change in rural India remain a grey area, tackled by very few economists, a notable exception being Bina Agarwal.

Publication Date: 
30/05/1996
Shubhroto Sen
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Environment, Poverty, India, Women
Poverty

 Poverty perspective

Reduction of poverty remains one of the foremost global challenges. An estimated 1.3 billion persons in the developing world will live in. absolute poverty by the turn of the century. While the

Publication Date: 
Thursday, March 14, 1996
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Poverty, Sustainable Development, Statistics
Poverty

 Manna from the sky

You can now 'telecommute' for sustainable use of resources and take an 'edutainment' break! overseeing more than what an overseas aid by a developing country does, satellite info is the emerging poverty alleviation mantra for developing nations

Publication Date: 
14/02/1996
Vinay Dharmadhikari
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Poverty, Information, Developing Countries
Poverty

 The Bank and the pauper

Everyday, some 40,000 people die from hunger-related causes. In the 47 'least developed' countries, 10 per cent of the world's population subsists on less than 0.5 per cent of world's income.

Publication Date: 
Thursday, December 14, 1995
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Economic Development, Poverty, World Bank, Developing Countries, Statistics
Poverty

 Tall claims

FELIX murillo, chief of the Peruvian National Statistical Institute, has claimed a reduction of 8 per cent in poverty, as revealed by official surveys of standards of living between 1991 and 1994.

Publication Date: 
14/07/1995
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Poverty, Peru
Poverty

 THE ADB

Activists are pressing the 28-year old Asian Development Bank (ADB) for greater reform of its policies, saying it should do more to reduce poverty instead of just focusing on growth and luring the

Publication Date: 
14/06/1995
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Poverty, Asian Development Bank (ADB), NGO

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