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Egypt: Empowering Women Challenges Poverty – CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Reuters Foundation, Monique Villa, said on Monday that helping women know and defend their rights tackles the very root of poverty.
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- Education
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- North Africa & Near East
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Growth and Poverty
The ten years of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gave the Philippines a much faster economic growth at around 4.8 percent annually. The only decade-long gross domestic product (GDP) growth higher than this was recorded in the 1950s.
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- Asia Pacific
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Africa: Closing the Gap – Meet Aims to End Extreme Poverty
When 17-year-old Sona Traore represented the Child Protection Network of Liberia at a civil society event organized in conjunction with a three-day United Nations meeting in this capital city earlier this month, she knew she was not speaking for Liberian children alone.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa: Global Fund News Flash – Issue 14
The Global Fund plans to launch its new funding model in the coming days.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Creating Employment Opportunities At the BoP: An Interview with Ajaya Mohapatra
A Q&A with Ajaya Mohapatra, Managing Director of Justrojgar India Private Limited – a for-profit venture bridging the demand-supply gap in informal sector jobs by sourcing, training and placing people living at the base of the pyramid.
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- Education
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Entrepreneurship: One Answer to Poverty
In his State of the Union address President Barack Obama placed a spotlight on global poverty and the 1.2 billion people on the planet who stay alive on around $1 per day.
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- Uncategorized
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I promote farming to get people out of poverty
Following the success of Upland rice that Professor Gilbert Bukenya promoted throughout the country while he was Vice President, he is planning a similar exercise in the near future. He talked to Daily Monitor's Dorothy Nakaweesi about that and more.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Brazil’s Rousseff says extreme poverty almost eradicated
President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday raised the monthly stipend of 2.5 million people living below the poverty line to make good on her promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil, a nation with enormous income gaps between rich and poor.
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- Latin America