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Curb water use, emissions to end poverty: studyGovernments must impose radical limits on everything from water use to greenhouse gases if they want to have any chance of ending global poverty, a group of scientists said. States needed to tig More… |
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Gaza teenager burns himself to deathA young man has died after setting himself on fire in the Gaza Strip, apparently in protest at economic hardship in the Palestinian enclave, the man's family and police said on Monday. Ehab More… |
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Ranks of America's working poor grew in 2010The number of working Americans earning so little they lived in poverty reached 7.2 per cent of the labor force in 2010, the highest level in at least two decades, the US government said on Friday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 7. More… |
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UN goal of halving poverty 'met'Developing countries appear to have already met a United Nations goal to halve extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries by 2015, thanks mainly to China's economic boom, the World Bank said on Wednesday. The Washington-base More… |
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Bahrain launches new growth strategyBahrain has started implementing a new strategy to improve the living standards of its citizens, Human Rights and Social Development Minister Dr Fatima Al Balooshi said. The strategy has been mapped out in co-operation with the World Bank More… |
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Clean up world seas to boost economy says UNCleaner and better-managed seas and coasts would help boost economic growth and reduce poverty and pollution, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report said. The report, produced with several other UN organisations, highlights t More… |
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Clean up world seas to boost economy says UNCleaner and better-managed seas and coasts would help boost economic growth and reduce poverty and pollution, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report said. The report, produced with several other UN organisations, highlights t More… |
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Oil, aluminium boost Bahrain GDPThe oil and aluminium are still the biggest contributor to Bahrain's gross domestic product (GDP), and form most of the kingdom's exports, according to the Economic Development Board's (EDB) third quarter economic report. Despi More… |
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High food prices 'to push Eurasia into poverty'More than five million people risk falling into poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia as a result of higher food and energy prices, a World Bank official said. 'While we do see steady growth projected this year and next in the reg More… |
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Jobs, equality key to preventing conflict: World BankA new World Bank report, challenging a view long embraced by global institutions, says high economic growth alone cannot reduce the poverty and unemployment that breed conflict and violence. The World Bank's World Development Report re More… |
