Tag: Millennium Development Goal

The Best Ways to Fight Poverty—Really

Feb 11, 2012

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Economic Development, Human Progress, Poverty

Christianity Today: The Best Ways to Fight Poverty—Really Excellent article! The government is by far the best institution to raise the poor's standard of living. The church does something more important for them. When it comes to alleviating poverty, it is the best of times. Never in history have so many people so quickly been…
Global Poverty Falls Below One Billion

Jan 26, 2011

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mwkruse

in Africa, Central America, China, Demography, Education, Gender and Sex, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, India, International Affairs, Poverty, South America, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

The Brookings Institution: Poverty in Numbers: The Changing State of Global Poverty from 2005 to 2015 … How many poor people are there in the world and how many Are there likely to be in 2015? To calculate the number of people in the world living in extreme poverty, we update the World Bank’s official…