Poverty

Poverty reduction in Ghana: progress and challenges

Ghana’s strong economic growth in the past two decades helped cut the country’s poverty rate in half, from 52.6% to 21.4% between 1991 and 2012. This is based on Ghana’s national poverty line.

Publication Date: 
15/10/2015
Vasco Molini, Pierella Paci
The World Bank
Tags:
Poverty, Economic Development, GDP, Unemployment, Ghana, Health, Education, Consumption Patterns, Agriculture
Environment

17,000 UP brick kilns to stop ops to protest NGT order

BULANDSHAHR: Piqued by an NGT order that necessitated brick kiln units to procure Environment Clearance Certificate (ECC) from Pollution Control Board (PCB) before commencing operations, 17,000 uni

Publication Date: 
14/10/2015
Times of India (Lucknow)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Bricks, Industrial Pollution, Environment Clearance (EC), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Unemployment, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Environment
Environment

How's Life? 2015: Measuring Well-being

How’s Life? describes the essential ingredients that shape people’s well-being in OECD and partner countries.

Publication Date: 
13/10/2015
OECD
Tags:
Environment, Economy, Health, Education, Children, Air Pollution, Unemployment, Housing, GDP, India, Global
Agriculture

Africa agriculture status report 2015

A new report, the “2015 African Agriculture Status Report,” released at the African Green Revolution Forum, states that modernizing Africa’s agriculture sector to attract young people would help tackle youth unemployment and food insecurity.

Publication Date: 
30/09/2015
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Tags:
Agriculture, Development, Agricultural Systems, Food Security, Africa, Poverty, Unemployment, Economic Development
Economy

The Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016

The Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016 assesses the competitiveness of 140 world economies.

Publication Date: 
30/09/2015
Klaus Schwab
World Economic Forum
Tags:
Economy, Economic Development, Environment, Health, Education, Infrastructure Development, Finance, Unemployment, India, Global
Poverty

HCM City says long-term goals key to erase poverty

HCM City authorities have altered their poverty-reduction strategy by focusing on long-term, sustainable results, following 23 years of success in reducing the poverty rate.

Publication Date: 
29/09/2015
Vietnam News
Tags:
Vietnam, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Poverty, Health, Education, Unemployment
Mining

NGT's ban on coal mining

The Jaintia Coal Miners & Dealers Association (JCMDA) has written to the Chairman of Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council (JHADC) to convene a Special Session to discuss the situation aris

Publication Date: 
27/08/2015
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Meghalaya, Mining, Coal, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Jaintia Hills, Unemployment
Poverty

Poverty In Sarawak Is Below One Per Cent - Statistics Department

The rate of poverty in Sarawak dropped to below one per cent (0.9%) last year, said Malaysia's chief statistician Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Hasan.

Publication Date: 
26/08/2015
Bernama (Malaysia)
Tags:
Poverty, Malaysia, Unemployment
Economy

South Africa economic update 2015

Taking advantage of its growing working-age population could help accelerate South Africa’s growth to 5.4 percent a year and double per capita incomes by 2030, according to the South Africa Economic Update released by the World Bank.

Publication Date: 
17/08/2015
The World Bank
Tags:
Economy, Economic Development, South Africa, GDP, Unemployment, Population Trends
Poverty

Egypt: 28% of Egyptian youth live in poverty – Report

A report issued by Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on International Youth Day said on Wednesday that 27.8% of young people in Egypt are poor and 24.1% live on

Publication Date: 
14/08/2015
Star Africa
Tags:
Poverty, Egypt, Africa, Economy, Unemployment

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