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At last, policy makers are awakened into the reality that currently bites the Philippines. Economic planners are trimming growth targets. It isn’t these targets, however, that ordinary Filipinos find mind-boggling. The planners and policy movers have...
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In criticism aimed primarily at the United States, Japan and the European Union, a U.N. report said Thursday that rich nations haven’t delivered on promises to...
made popular Sep 4 2008
Poverty in India is reducing but it is still a major issue. Rural Indians depend on unpredictable agriculture incomes, while urban Indians rely on jobs that are, at...
made popular Aug 28 2008
NEW DELHI: India is home to roughly one-third of all poor people in the world. It also has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $2 per day than...
made popular Aug 27 2008
AP, Washington
The Census Bureau reports that the number of people lacking health insurance dropped by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush...
made popular Aug 26 2008
AP, Washington
The Census Bureau on Tuesday reports new numbers on poverty, income and health insurance _ an annual snapshot of the economic well-being of American households.
made popular Aug 26 2008
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Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama star in a new television ad that highlights successes in helping the world’s poor and encourages people to do more this election...
made popular Aug 21 2008
The American flag landed on the scorer’s table, launched by a family member with exceptional aim. Henry Cejudo grabbed it from his coach and draped it around his...
made popular Aug 20 2008
Unfortunately, Brazil’s government has not made similar progress in the fight against maternal mortality.
made popular Aug 14 2008
I’m a member of ONE, a campaign that raises awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and more in the world’s poorest countries. One of the...
made popular Aug 11 2008
Nepal s Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Saturday underscored the need to eliminate poverty and unemployment by the South Asian Association for Regional...
made popular Aug 3 2008
Kids who could afford PlayStations definitely do not know the pangs of hunger that millions of children endure throughout the globe. To tutor children about the...
made popular Jul 31 2008
The most widely held question by the contemporary non-Muslim world is as to what is there so unique about Islam in particular when all the religions teach us to do good...
made popular Jul 28 2008
Seebohm Rowntree was the son of wealthy Quaker businessman Joseph Rowntree but was acutely aware of the poverty that surrounded him in late-Victorian York, England.
made popular Jul 27 2008
Somewhere in the world today, one man or woman (or both) are going to tuck into the finest linens that money can purchase after wining and dining in the finest of...
made popular Jul 24 2008
Development work can be excruciating. One will traverse leech-infested rivers to reach towns, as well as walk 8 kilometers up a mountain to get to an isolated village....
made popular Jul 24 2008
“Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?”
What happens when a poor mother parts from her children as she is unable to...
made popular Jul 22 2008
Some sketches of people living their lives late at night and under the self-inflicted weary eye of some indefinable inner alienation. Hollow people in a hollow world. ...
made popular Jul 21 2008
IF Obama is elected he would crush this nation by doing the following:
Obama’s World Poverty Bill (google it) would be passed and take ALL of the US Gross...
made popular Jul 16 2008
I have written many times in the past few months about actual events on the ground in Zimbabwe, and I have watched for the past 10 years (whilst I have been living in...
made popular Jul 16 2008
The Republic of Chad, situated between Niger to the west and Sudan to the east, will be celebrating nearly half a century of independence in a month. But this central...
made popular Jul 12 2008
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The UK Independent characteristically highlights the changing status of Asia and Africa in world diplomacy, nonetheless pointing out the Eurocentric nature of...
made popular Mar 6 2008
About two million babies don’t see the second day and four million don’t see another month in the developing countries. The ’save the children’...
made popular May 10 2006
The main objective of the child activist and advocates is to protect the right and welfare of the children. They stand as the ‘pressure group’ working for...
made popular Dec 10 2005
In the final days of the climate conference, the Canadian bid to draw Washington into future global talks on climate change went unsuccessful. The United States on...
made popular Dec 9 2005
Large population of Asia is the biggest reason behind the large number of orphans. In 2001, an estimated 65 million children were declared as orphans, of which 2...
made popular Nov 19 2005
Recent studies conducted by the UNICEF highlighted that due to the absence of medical care facility, around 30 to 50 percent children in the rural Africa dies before...
made popular Nov 12 2005
According to the report of World Health Organization (WHO) infectious diseases have become the world’s largest killer of children and young adults. Around there...
made popular Nov 11 2005
Craig Kielburger through his book Free the Children has made a call to end abusive child labor. Furthermore, he has given voice to the weakest and the most vulnerable...
made popular Nov 11 2005
Mohammadu Nakilou, a Nigerian boy, is on a respirator because of a lung infection. Doctors find his condition critical and admitted that there are little chance of his...
made popular Nov 11 2005
Children’s working in mines and quarries is one of the worst forms of child labor. They work in the environment which is contaminated with heavy metals. Children...
made popular Nov 11 2005
Luxurious plazas in the central Jakarta are the evidence of the export- led development. But this is not all about Jakarta. There is much more to know about it. Behind...
made popular Nov 10 2005
Deprived of their childhood, children in dozens of the countries are participating in wars. Around 300,000 children are serving as soldiers in the battlefield. These...
made popular Nov 10 2005
The UN’s millennium ambitious goal to eradicate extreme poverty, disease and inequality by 2015 was a real ray of hope for the unwanted children of the Third...
made popular Nov 6 2005
The Third World children suffering from HIV/AIDS are the most vulnerable section of the society. And this probably appears to be understood by the International...
made popular Nov 4 2005
National Bureau of Investigation Intelligence Division has revealed that trafficking of Third World children is on an increase, particularly from Philippines.
If these...
made popular Oct 27 2005
Samaritan Purse, a Christian organization has planned to distribute gifts in Christmas among the children of the Third World. The organization will distribute...
made popular Oct 27 2005
Pakistan is a conservative country. People are not even ready to talk about HIV/AIDS here. That being the reason, many false notions attached to it, have come to stay,...
made popular Oct 26 2005
It’s a warehouse of its own kind. Here, the shoes are not for sale. Mona Purdy, popularly known as ‘Shoe Messiah’, is the founder and executive...
made popular Oct 25 2005
Lords of Poverty by Graham Hancock dares to reveal not only the failure of the big projects, but also unmasks the immoral character of the protagonists. Hancock has...
made popular Oct 21 2005
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