In a recent article, Yuba Nath Lamsal describes Nepal’s commitment to meet the UN’s MDGs. In it, she makes a very valuable point about global poverty which I now quote: “Faster economic growth is a key to reducing poverty. However, economic growth alone does not reduce or alleviate poverty which has been the case in […]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
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Extreme Poverty in USA Increased 26% under Bush
Andrew Gumbel writes about the widening poverty gap: The number of Americans living in severe poverty has expanded dramatically under the Bush administration, with nearly 16 million people now living on an individual income of less than $5,000 (£2,500) a year or a family income of less than $10,000, according to an analysis of 2005 […]
No poverty in Africa by 2015?
In a recent GNA feature, Hannah Asomaning says: Imagine a world where there is no poverty, there is basic education for everybody, respect for human rights, equal rights and opportunities for men and women and all the goodies one can wish for. There would be no crime, pain, hunger and anguish as seen in some […]