by Beth | Dec 10, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Shan Ali writes for the Sydney Morning Herald – Last night a Bangladeshi economist and the institution he founded 30 years ago (Grameen Bank) received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Professor Muhammad Yunus, known to many as the “banker to the...
by Beth | Nov 13, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House will hold a summit next month seeking strategies for combating malaria, a largely preventable disease that kills 3,000 children every day and claims nearly a million lives a year in Africa. President Bush and his wife, Laura,...
by Beth | Nov 11, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
ROME, NOV. 10, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is the address of Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, at a “special event” on the application of the humanitarian right to food. The Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture...
by Beth | Nov 8, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Pope Benedict yesterday purchased the first bond issued by the British government to help fund immunisation programs for children in the developing world as the Vatican renews its call to cancel poor countries’ debt. The Catholic News Agency reports that...
by Beth | Oct 27, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Education for Justice has produced a short 2 page fact sheet on the issue of a living wage.It can be downloaded. Of interest to famvin subscribers is the fac the Blessed Frederic proposed a “natural wage” ssome 50 years before Rerum Novarum, the first ot...
by Beth | Oct 27, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The St Vincent de Paul Society has warned that credit card customers who pay the minimum on their bills end up paying outrageously high interest rates. The charity also criticised the prominence given on credit card bills to the minimum payment credit customers must...
