Tag: global poverty
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World Bank: Extreme poverty ‘to fall below 10%’
BBC: World Bank: Extreme poverty 'to fall below 10%' The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty,…
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A Nice Video Showing Change in Global Poverty
The Economist Go to the link and watch the 2.5 minute presentation. A very helpful graphic presentation.
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Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report
New Geography: Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report There has been a substantial reduction in both the extreme poverty rate and the number of people living in extreme poverty since the early 1980s, according to information from the World Bank poverty database. The World Bank maintains data on developing world nations, which include both low…
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Global poverty to halve by 2015, Africa seen lagging
Reuters: Global poverty to halve by 2015, Africa seen lagging WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The world is on course to halve extreme poverty by 2015, but Africa will fall far short of the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. … …The 2008 Global Monitoring Report, released ahead of…
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The Business of Global Poverty
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: The Business of Global Poverty According to the World Bank, nearly half the world's population—some 2.8 billion people—subsists on $2 a day or less. The number of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid's peak, represents what is potentially…
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Politically Driven Injustice: Fixing global poverty requires more than Rick Warren’s PEACE plan
Politically Driven Injustice: Fixing global poverty requires more than Rick Warren's PEACE plan is a great article in Christianity Today! While this [exporting fruit] would no doubt provide needed income for a poor country, I wonder if Warren has been able to sit with the leaders of the European Union and the United States to…