by Beth | Nov 6, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
I was recently stopped in my tracks by this email I received. — Given the global concern about an Avian Flu pandemic who will be the voice of the poor as plans are being made?The sender wrote, “The poor don’t figure highly for a scarce resource...
by Beth | Nov 4, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
This web guide contains useful sources of information that are on the World Wide Web (web) about poverty and the related topics covered in PovertyNet.In additions to resources by regions of the world the following will give some idea of the resources it covers…...
by Beth | Nov 3, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Hurricane Katrina has forged a strong consensus among America’s major racial and ethnic groups to eliminate poverty in America, according to a new multilingual poll. The storm and its aftermath also shook public confidence in the U.S. government’s capacity...
by Beth | Nov 2, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Center for Economic Policy Research has released a new online calculator (http://www.cepr.net/calculators/bc/cbc.html) that they hope will make it easier for reporters, policymakers, and others to quickly place budget numbers in context. The results are often quite...
by Beth | Oct 31, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
LONDON (AP) – Malaria research accounts for about one-third of 1 percent of the total amount of money spent on medical research and development, even though it accounts for 3 percent of all the productive years of life lost to diseases, according to a report...
by Beth | Oct 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
UNICEF, UNAIDS and other partners launched a global campaign focusing on the enormous impact of HIV/AIDS on children, saying it was a disgrace that fewer than 5 per cent of HIV-positive children receive treatment and that millions of children who have lost parents to...
