by Beth | Sep 29, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The World Bank has released its latest set of statistics using national poverty lines, and the $1 and $2 international poverty lines. http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/poverty.html There are also some some very fine links to further...
by Beth | Sep 13, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty: daily staple of Philippine society By Gemma Tulud Cruz MANILA, Philippines — Run-down houses … dusty roads … travel by boat to the next barangay … intermittent power cutoffs …These are the sights that greeted me when I visited...
by Beth | Sep 12, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In order to be able to rent at fair market value a two-bedroom unit in San Jose, Calif., renter must earn $35.02 per hour. In San Francisco, CA, Stamford-Norwalk, CT, Oakland, CA, Boston, MA-NH, Nassau-Suffolk, NY, Westchester County, NY, Washington, DC-MD-VA, one...
by Beth | Aug 20, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
As part of his installation homily Archbishop Sean O’Mally used the following brief story about a the painful consequences of not understanding a different culture .When I was a young priest at the Centro Catolico in Washington, a Salvadoran refugee came into my...
by Beth | May 30, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The UN World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) Conference to be held in Helsinki on May 30-31 2003, will review recent advances in analytical concepts and methods and identify ways in which future research on inequality, poverty, and human...
