Poverty

Blog Action Day 2008

This year, Blog Action Day is taking on poverty. I’d like to ask you to join in and do something today to help out someone who is hungry, homeless, or unable to seek medical care. If you can’t think of a way to help, check out...

Hunger Rampant in India, According to New Report

India has the largest number of hungry people in the world, despite the strong economic growth witnessed in recent years. A report by the International Food Policy Research Institute says hunger, across India's 17 major states,...

Economic Growth is More Than Cash Flow

I read with interest Dr. Augustus Nuwagaba's opinion titled "Why Economic Growth Is Not Felt In People's Pockets" which was published in the New Vision of September 15. Nuwagaba gave an inaccurate analysis.

Food, energy price hikes will push 100m people into hunger, poverty - Ban

Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon in his message on World Food Day, October 16, 2008 said that with energy costs the price of food having more than doubled in the past year alone, an additional 100 million...

Economic boom left out working poor, but bust won't

Washington's working poor families missed the economic growth of recent years -- their ranks remained largely unchanged -- and now they face an even grimmer future as the region teeters on the edge of a recession.

Central Africa: UN Appeals for Aid to Help Break 'Circle of Poverty And Conflict'

The United Nations humanitarian wing today appealed for donors to provide another $26 million to support its aid activities in the impoverished Central African Republic (CAR), where more than 200,000 people remain displaced...

Writing to End Poverty

I'm just one, lone person. So many people worldwide need help out of impoverished conditions. What can I, just one person, do? I -- and you -- can join together with all the other lone, single people with abilities to take...

Big Box Stores and the working poor

For the past few weeks close friends have been encouraging me to write more. With that in mind and in conjunction with the international Blog Action Day emphasis on poverty, here's a topic I'm very passionate about: Big Box...

Nigeria: Govt and Fiscal Allocations (2)

THE same mechanism also undermines the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, where there is presently a looming financial scam, dishing out billions of naira to appease separate individuals rather than communities, and...

Poverty: How You Can Help

Today is Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty. Here is my contribution to the effort. Obviously, "poverty" is a huge topic and could be covered from many different angles. I decided to take the angle of how we...

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