Low-Wage Jobs Alleviate Poverty

From: NextBillion.net – Development Through Enterprise In this Sunday’s Business section of the New York Times, Daniel Gross from Slate Magazine writes about the latest trend in international development: the $2 a day job. He begins his article discussing A to Z Manufacturing, a mosquito bed-netting business from Tanzania that pays its 2,000 female employees […]

The Current Status Of World Hunger

By Thomas Sullivan Where does starvation exist in the world today? What are some of the causes of world hunger? Are citizens of developed countries donating monetarily to the ongoing relief efforts? In this article I will address these questions with the hope that by creating an understanding of the current world hunger situation, morally […]

Economic growth not enough to tackle hunger

By Laura MacInnis GENEVA (Reuters) – Hunger kills more people than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and keeps millions of children out of school, the United Nations said on Thursday. The U.N. World Food Programme, which provides food aid to about 90 million people every year, estimated that 25,000 people die each day from malnutrition-related […]