Poverty/World Development
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In: Poverty/World Development (general)
Kiva allows any individual to make a small loan to help a new business in a developing country. You can help reduce poverty, one person at a time. more...
Food Prices Continue to Increase
In: World Hunger
By: Corinne Casella
Due in part to climate change effects and various underlying factors, a perfect storm has been created in regards to food inflation. Lower supplies mean higher prices. more...
By: Trenton Truitt
Madonna joined forces recently with Gucci, and a myriad of A-list celebrities to raise a few eyebrows and $5.5 million for UNICEF. more...
By: Jodie Martin
Climate change policies must consider gender issues and women's involvement for the advancement of world development. more...
Climate Change as Catalyst for War
In: War & Poverty
By: Jaci Burton
UN CEO Water Mandate calls for corporate and government action but goes largely ignored. Only 20 of 1000 companies who attended the World Ecoonomic Forum have signed. more...
In: Poverty
By: Jodie Martin
70 per cent of the world's poor are women. The majority of the 1.5 billion people living on $1 a day or less are women. more...
Trade Exploitation in the Americas
Free trade in the Americas has yet to achieve that grandeur that the policies promised. Yet, the U.S. is still drafting agreements and nations continue to sign. more...
By: Robert Dailey
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus founded the Grameen Bank, a not-for-profit bank lending to the very poor. more...
By: Gregory G Smith
Migration is a catalyst for change and development, and in a world that is changing at a lightning pace, not harnessing the power of migration is shortsighted more...
Austin, Texas Group Aids Homeless
In: Homelessness
By: Lacey B. Lyons
Mobile Loaves and Fishes provides food and essentials to the poor by traveling to where they live. The group plans to expand in 2008 to provide housing as well. more...
Getting a Good Wife Shipped to You
In: Poverty
By: Greg Cruey
From Russia to Ethiopia, Manila to São Paulo, people just looking to make a buck are looking for a way to market women. The mail order bride industry is it. more...
In: Poverty
By: Greg Cruey
Are you looking for a wife? Someone small and quite and maybe half your age? You can probably order her from the Philippines... more...
Sweatshop-Free Pants to Poverty
By: Sandra Williams
Pants to Poverty support fair trade and make underwear using organic cotton, helping farmers and families in India get out of poverty. more...
By: Sandra Williams
People all over the world broke a Guinness record for the largest number of people opposing world poverty. more...
