Full coverage: Poverty

31.03.2005 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is working on a project to improve the livelihoods of marine fishing and farming communities in three southern districts of Pakistan's Sindh province at a cost of $814,000.

30.03.2005 Strategijom razvoja i redukcije siromastva iskazano je jasno opredjeljenje za rjesavanje svih problema romske populacije. Sa predstavnicima Zavoda za zaposljavanje definisace se zanimanja za koja postoji potraznja na trzistu rada. Osposobljavace se za zanimanja iz oblasti gradjevinarstva, masinstva, obrade metala i licnih usluga - kazao je direktor Centra za strucno osposobljavanje Zeljko Raicevic, na okruglom stolu o integraciji Roma u strucno obrazovanje koje odrzan krajem prosle nedelje.

30.03.2005 North West Frontier Province in Pakistan focusses on rehabilitation of the communities affected by recent heavy rain, snowfall, avalanches, landslides and flooding.

29.03.2005 La grève étudiante amorcée par la Coalition de l'Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante élargie (la CASSÉÉ) entame sa cinquième semaine. En fait, les premières associations locales qui ont initié le mouvement sont en grève depuis le 24 février déjà!

29.03.2005 The year 2005 has been deemed the year to "make poverty history" as world leaders will have three opportunities to make decisions that could considerably impact the world’s poor. Find out what you can do to ensure they make decisions that represent the generosity and spirit their citizens showed in the wake of December's tsunami.

29.03.2005 "Heifer recognizes that women and men face poverty differently." Martha Hirpa, Heifer International's Director of Gender Equity, examines how improving the lives of impoverished people is tied to leveling economic differences between the genders, and targeting aid for this purpose.

28.03.2005 Our policy framework and investment priorities for agriculture were designed for addressing the issue of food security in the country and not for a balanced growth of agriculture. The future direction of policy clearly has to recognise that we are no longer in an era of chronic shortage, and that our emphasis now has to be on providing rapid growth in agriculture-based livelihoods, says Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

27.03.2005 The United States and Sweden will donate assistance to 12 Eastern European countries, Croatia included, for the fight against trafficking in women and prostitution.

25.03.2005 "Why should the world’s poorest people be excluded from the process of selecting one of the most important leaders who will affect their lives?" asks the Reverend Jesse Jackson, suggesting that southern countries nominate their own choice for World Bank president this week. How about Nelson Mandela, Arundhati Roy, or Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya--they all know a thing or two about helping poor people.

24.03.2005 Almost a year ago, the construction of the ‘Roma House’ started in Prijedor, through a joint effort of the Government of Republic of Srpska and municipal administration. Although it was a prefabricated building thta should have been finished long time ago, and in spite of the fact that it was officially opened on December 10, 2004, the house is not yet ready for people to move in.

23.03.2005 "Zip – zero – reference to housing. Promise betrayed." This was the content of an email I received from housing advocate Michael Shapcott as Finance Minister Ralph Goodale began reading the budget. I gasped when I read it. No doubt there was a collective gasp from housing advocates across the country. The federal Liberal government's election promise of $1.5 billion dollars for housing had been left out of the budget.

23.03.2005 The World Bank should publish the minutes of the upcoming board discussion and vote on the U.S. nomination of Paul Wolfowitz as World Bank president, said Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. More transparency is needed at the world body, writes Birdsall, especially as resentment among developing countries about the U.S. lock on the selection process increases.

22.03.2005 El Alton kaupungissa Boliviassa vesihuollon siirtäminen yksityisen ylikansallisen yhtiön hoitoon on suututtanut asukkaat. He vaativat ranskalaista suuryhtiötä ulos ja palveluja köyhien ulottuville. Mielenosoittajien mukaan yksityinen yhtiö on evännyt veden saannin noin 80 000 perheeltä. Tänään vietetään maailman vesipäivää, joka aloittaa samalla YK:n veden vuosikymmenen 2005-2015.

22.03.2005 Lokalna uprava Podgorice vec duze vrijeme desetine porodica drzi u neizvjesnosti i strahu od bagera koji sudeci po onome sto smo vidjeli prosle godine, predstavljaju jedino sredstvo komunikacije sa gradjanima koje Mugosa umije i zeli da koristi.

22.03.2005 Story of a women-headed household, which recognises the importance of education and decides to send their daughter to school despite facing hardships, in Mumbai slums.

22.03.2005 Little has been changed for the low caste indigenous community of Tharus, since Nepal's government made a historic move to outlaw the 'Kamiaya' bonded labour system, in July 2000.

21.03.2005 A freely downloadable software package, the Dashboard of Sustainability, provides the complex relationships among social, economic and environmental issues through a graphical interface. The visual interface helps the decision-makers and other stakeholders in sustainable development in making informative decisions.

21.03.2005 Trafficking in children is on the rise and is a matter of concern for all states throughout the OSCE region, said Helga Konrad, the OSCE's Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, at a conference in Vienna today.

21.03.2005 Twenty-two students at Washington D.C.'s Georgetown University stopped eating last week to compel school authorities to raise the wages of its janitors and other low-paid employees, some of whom earn only $8.50 per hour--much too little to adequately support a family.

21.03.2005 Y. S. P. Thorat, Managing Director, NABARD, and Graham A. N. Wright write, how innovative financial services can help poor and also help in achieving many millennium development goals.