by Beth | Oct 23, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
British government aid programmes aimed at some of the poorest people in the world are to be emasculated to allow ministers to commit £540m in aid to help rebuild Iraq, The Independent has discovered. So writes Leonard Doyle Foreign Editor 23 October 2003....
by Beth | Oct 17, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
AUSTRALIA, October 17, 2003 (theaustralian.news.com.au): Â Dennis Shanahan comments for The Australian on poverty as a national issue – “…..Too much of the fight for the poor has become empty rhetoric, envy and malice directed at the rich. Too much of...
by Beth | Oct 6, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 5 – About a sixth of the world’s population – nearly 1 billion people – live in slums, and that number could double by 2030 if developed nations don’t reverse course and start giving the issue serious attention,...
by Beth | Oct 5, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
CANBERRA, Octer 5, 2003 (aapmedianet.com.au): Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President, Archbishop Francis Carroll has joined with other heads of churches and leaders of the Jewish and Islamic faiths in sending a letter to Prime Minister John Howard, urging...
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...
