World Hunger and Poverty

I just read an article on Waterford Today about the threat that spiraling food prices pose in the battle against world hunger. The costs of basic foodstuffs have jumped 40% in the past year, according to the the UN’s food price index.
The article points to fuel as the main reason. Mainly, it says that the […]

Carl Bialik recently wrote about the flaws in the way that the World Bank calculates poverty levels. I include an excerpt:
[T]o some economists, the World Bank’s definition of poverty is flawed, arbitrary and tends toward suppressing the numbers. Sanjay Reddy, a Columbia University economist and longtime critic of the bank’s counts, says, “If their dream […]

Sarah Arnquist recently wrote an article exploring the possibility of ending homelessness. I include an excerpt:
Is ending homelessness a realistic goal?
The National Alliance to End Homelessness and the federal government have championed the idea that it is possible to end homelessness, or at least significantly reduce the number of people who chronically lack a place […]

A recent report on israelinsider.com says that a third of Holocaust survivors in Israel live in poverty:
Some 80,000 of the 260,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel are living under the poverty line, according to the Holocaust Survivors’ Welfare Fund, Ynetnews reported. That is almost a third of all Holocaust survivors in Israel.
Many of them suffer from […]

An eat-all-you-can invitation that rewards gluttony may seem like a curious way to remember a frail man who used the hunger strike as a political weapon during India’s freedom struggle.

But an Indian vegetarian restaurant in Hong Kong offers just that on October 2 every year, hosting an Open House where patrons are encouraged to “eat […]

By Hassan Masum.
“For all of us, there comes a time on any given day, week, and month, every year and in different degrees over our lifetimes, when we choose to act in some way that is oriented toward fulfilling our social and psychological needs, not our market-exchangeable needs. It is that part of our […]