Full Coverage: Poverty

31.05.2006 Throughout 2005, partnerships continued to play a central role in all of IICD’s activities. Indeed, IICD could not have carried out its work without the commitment and support of its partners; from its local partners on the ground, to likeminded organisations in the development sector, to its private and public sector partners.

31.05.2006 UNESCO’s Community Multimedia Centre initiative is contributing “to improving quality of life through access to information” according to an independent evaluation report carried out by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

31.05.2006 Net private capital flows to developing countries reached a record high of $491 billion in 2005, driven by privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, external debt refinancing, as well as strong investor interest in local-currency bond markets in Asia and Latin America, says the World Bank’s annual 2006 Global Development Finance report.

31.05.2006 Information and communication technology (ICT) is the best means to eliminate poverty. Microsoft Bangladesh Limited Country Manager Feroz Mahmud said this while speaking as the chief guest at the certificate distribution ceremony of the trainees of 'Partners in Learning.'

29.05.2006 THE strategies for poverty alleviation and development followed by the countries in Asia and the Pacific region have high relevance for Bangladesh where more than 80 per cent of its people have a rural existence and the majority of them remain below the poverty line. An opinion by Mustafa Jasim Ahmed.

29.05.2006 India's prime minister pledged on Monday to fight poverty and share the wealth of economic success as his government nears the halfway mark of its first term, but said he would not do so at the cost of strong growth.

29.05.2006 For the first time in the history of India, more than 5 million Musahars - the most disadvantaged section of India's Dalit Population in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal – are joining hands to wage struggles against their miserable conditions in Independent India.

29.05.2006 Reacting to reported plans by the Government of Pakistan to demolish thousands of dwellings and evict their inhabitants as part of a massive construction project, a United Nations human rights expert today called for a halt to operations as well as stepped-up efforts to avert homelessness as a result of the initiative.

26.05.2006

26.05.2006 In the last few decades, some progress has been made in helping poor people overcome poverty across the world. However, hundreds of millions still remain trapped in poverty. Stephen C. Smith, author of “Ending Global Poverty,” argues that effective programs and organizations in those countries are making a positive impact.

26.05.2006 According to the Denied a Future? 2001-2006: The Right to Education for Roma Children in B&H survey, published by Save the Children UK in April 2006, there are still Roma communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in which not a single child is included in the elementary education.

26.05.2006 The World Food Programme organised a walk global walk in 118 countries to deliver a strong message that child hunger has no place in the world and and citizens working together can root it out. Funds from the campaign will be used for helping pregnant women as well as school-going children.

26.05.2006 Breaking the cycle of hunger and poverty in Nepal and meeting the goal of halving the number of chronically under-nourished by 2015 seems an elusive task, said Jean Pierre de Margerie, representative of the World Food Programme Nepal (WFPN), at a press meet organised in Lalitpur today.

26.05.2006

Jeffrey Sachs on Poverty

One of the world's top economists offers a blueprint for transforming the developing world.

25.05.2006 A civil society assessment of the Indian government has found that the government has failed in honouring its commitments made to the people in employment, education, health and social equity among others. An assessment of two years of the government was done by over 100 NGOs and experts in New Delhi recently.

25.05.2006 Meet held to find new approaches to solve problems faced by child labourers; Proper employment and decent wages sought for adults in unorganised sector; Education system should be make more attractive

24.05.2006 Pakistan's new budget for the coming financial year which is due to be presented on June 5 has prompted a sharp divide between supporters and critics of the country's economic direction.

24.05.2006 The slum population in Dhaka has doubled in a decade to reach 3.4 million in 2006 from only 1.5 million in 1996 following heavy rural-urban migration, according to a recent study.

23.05.2006 Experts, at a meeting of NGOs in New Delhi, said that if the Indian government had delivered on its promises related to education, as promised by it two years back, it may not have faced the huge country-wide agitation by medicos on reservations.

23.05.2006 The three-month plan, likely to be approved at the Rome headquarters of the U.N. agency this week, envisions 3,800 tonnes of rice and flour being delivered to the region by trucks, mules and porters, WFP deputy country director Jean-Pierre de Margerie told IPS.