Poverty | -Making the Invisible Visible-

Sanjan Haque spells out the importance of a poverty eradication day By the time this piece has been published and circulated, the dust, leftovers, decorations and fanfare of Extreme Poverty Eradication Day will have been swept up and discarded. The grand announcements will have been made, oaths pledged, ideas shared and applause long faded. What [...]

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Poverty | -The Millennium Development Goals – Heading towards 2015-

In the year 2000, all the world’s countries came together and agreed to make a commitment to ending poverty and improving the well-being of the poor and marginalized around the world. They decided on a set of 8 goals, which they hoped would be achieved over 15 years, by 2015. These goals are: Goal 1: [...]

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Poverty | -Does hunger still rule?-

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set up by the United Nations in the year 1990 to blueprint the steps needed to eradicate poverty worldwide. The 8 goals, including universal primary education and halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, form a set of unprecedented efforts galvanising international action to help the world’s poorest. With the deadline [...]

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Poverty | -The Struggle to Understand a Solution to Poverty-

I recently stumbled upon a blog post “How the Culture of Aid Gives Us the Tragedy of Somalia” written two decades ago by aid worker Michael Maren that is still relevant today. It’s a great piece that demonstrates that throwing money at a cause isn’t necessarily going to solve problems, even if the donor has [...]

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The Rural Challenge (via The Official Blog of the UNA-GB)

Another week has just begun and today we have our weekly blog post from our Get Educated, One Topic At A Time blog series. This week learn about rural development in today’s world, including the benefits and challenges it introduces to areas around the world in rural areas with the need for development for a brighter [...]

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Part 1: Defining Poverty.

Politifact recently fact-checked a Bernie Sanders tweet claiming that 12 million slipped out of the middle class and into poverty, rating it Half-True for getting the number and underlying trend right but  suggesting that Sanders was misrepresenting the dynamic of how people fall in and out of poverty. After all, 12 million is a net figure; [...]

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The real top killers.

Two days ago I mentioned Hans Rosling, Professor at the Karolinska Insitute in Stockholm and the man behind Gapminder. If you are interested in any sense in global public health has developed and which factor are behind, I suggest that you check out Hans Rosling’s presentations at TED.talk. This one is a good one to [...]

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Helping the Poorest

Micro-credit is hailed by many as a “magic bullet” with the potential to eradicate poverty and empower women, and providing the poor with access to affordable credit has become a central plank in development … Read More via Save A Family Plan

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