by Beth | Jul 10, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, JULY 10, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Hunger continues to be an acute problem for millions worldwide. On Monday in Addis Ababa, the U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan, addressed a seminar to discuss how to meet goals set on reducing hunger. The seminar...
by Beth | Jul 7, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05 is about people living in chronic poverty – people who remain poor for much or all of their lives, many of whom will pass on their poverty to their children and all too often die easily preventable deaths. People in chronic...
by Beth | Jul 5, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“United States patent 6,708,443, a wide-ranging patent covering several approaches that he contends might help control mosquito populations across wide areas such as wetlands or regions in Africa where mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria are rampant. Most of...
by Beth | Jul 4, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
DAROU SALAM DIOUF, Senegal – More than 1.1 billion people in developing countries wake up each morning faced with the same riddle of survival, forced to find some way to get by, like Mbaye, on less than $1 per day.Surviving on one dollar a day Sub-Saharan Africa...
by Beth | Jul 3, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
According to the Center for Disease Control, “In several instances over the past decade, malaria incidence in Canada as a whole, or in individual provinces, reached epidemic levels.”Why some were not immediately identified and why no comprehensive analysis...
by Beth | Jun 28, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”His son John Eisenhower writes, “The most fundamental conviction...