by Beth | Nov 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 26, 2005 (Zenit.org).- International migration can be an important tool in helping developing countries, affirmed a World Bank report published Nov. 16. Migrants and the money they send back home, remittances, is the main theme in the annual...
by Beth | Nov 21, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The dire struggle to survive in the U.S. on near-minimum wage jobs is the subject of “Waging a Living,” a forthright documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Roger Weisberg. Through sensitive, in-depth profiles of four workers, Weisberg drives home the...
by Beth | Nov 21, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Reuters carries a reprot on the shattered hope of people promised prosperity after pipeline development. … grinding poverty in oil producers like Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea show that petrodollars often do not translate into a better life for local people...
by Beth | Nov 15, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a different kind of “plunge” on November 9 SJU students were invited to experience something of homelessness by sleeping on the lawn at SJU and then reflecting on the experience with the help of a formerly homeless person.From the campus flier… A...
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…...
