by Beth | Jan 17, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Someone in England asked Yahoo “How many people live in extreme poverty.According to NetAid, over a billion people, or roughly one in six, live in extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than US$1 a day. The World Bank goes on to define...
by Beth | Jan 14, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“On the basis of available statistical data, it can be said that less than half of the immense sums spent worldwide on armaments would be more than sufficient to liberate the immense masses of the poor from destitution. This challenges humanity’s...
by Beth | Jan 13, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
860 million children live in dire straits, victims of a variety of tragedies and abuses, says a report from a Vatican agency. ROME, JAN. 10, 2006 (Zenit.org).- A staggering 860 Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, highlights...
by Beth | Jan 7, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Last month, as corporate boardrooms toasted Australia’s “boom” economy, the Catholic charity organisation, the St Vincent de Paul Society, released a report documenting the growing gap between the country’s rich and poor. The social policy issues paper, Winners and...
by Beth | Nov 28, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
GENOA, Italy, NOV. 23, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Loans by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as country-to-country loans, are usurious and should be declared illegal, says the archbishop of Genoa. Cardinal Tarsicio Bertone voiced this criticism when...
