by Beth | Aug 7, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Food For The Poor” not only has wonderful recycling program for used printer cartridges but also a fine series of “Virtual Pilgrimages” allowing one to see for one’s self what life there is like.For those who have made a pilgrimage to a...
by Beth | Aug 6, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
MELBOURNE, August 5, 2004 (theage.com.au): The interaction of the politics of values and the politics of wealth will be the key to the election result, writes Gregory Hywood in The Age today – As material wealth rises and the competitive ethic takes hold, so too...
by Beth | Aug 4, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON – Wealthy nations and international organizations, including the World Bank, spend more than $55 billion annually to better the lot of the world’s 2.7 billion poor people. Yet they have scant evidence that the myriad projects they finance have...
by Beth | Jul 17, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A Flash video depicting the cost of armanments and who pays it.http://www.luccaco.com/wewerehumans/ The uproar of the poor becomes more acute when one thinks about the enormous cost that the “arms race” presents. It has been estimated, that in 2000 the...
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...