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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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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
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John Kerry to USAID: ‘Deeply, deeply committed’
John Kerry did not detail his plans for development cooperation, but his message to colleagues at the U.S. Agency for International Development on Friday may have been as important: He fully supports their work and will fight for their cause in upcoming budget battles and hot spots around the globe.
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John Kerry to USAID: ‘Deeply, deeply committed’
John Kerry did not detail his plans for development cooperation, but his message to colleagues at the U.S. Agency for International Development on Friday may have been as important: He fully supports their work and will fight for their cause in upcoming budget battles and hot spots around the globe.
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