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AfDB, researchers launch $63 m initiative to lift Africans out of poverty
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and researchers have launched the US$63.24 million AfDB-funded initiative aimed to raise agricultural productivity and also lift millions of Africans out of poverty.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pakistan to follow Brazilian model in tackling poverty
ISLAMABAD: Emulating the Brazilian model of zero hunger and with support from donors, the Pakistan government has expressed the resolve to alleviate poverty and hunger from the country.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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‘Rising Star’ Leila Janah on Fighting Poverty
Leila Janah is trying to find a way to connect women and young people living in poverty to dignified work via the Internet. Her company Samasource, which she founded in 2008, provides free, specialized technology training via 16 centers in nine countries, including India, Pakistan, Kenya, Haiti and Uganda.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Fantino’s private-sector foreign aid: It can work, if he gets the details right
The world’s poorest, sacrificed to the whims of the almighty market. Charities and non-governmental organizations carrying the water for profitable mining companies. Profits before people. These are just some of the critiques levelled against the federal government’s foreign-aid pivot, recently formalized in an address by new International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino.
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- Impact Assessment
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One billion raise a stink
Sanitation is not merely a development wish list, but a fundamental requirement that directly affects people's survival.
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- Health Care
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Child marriage perpetuates cycle of poverty for young people
In the developing world, one in 10 girls is married before the age of 18. One in seven is married before 15. Tino Borantu of Ethiopia was married at age 9.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa: Development Targets Ride on Vitamins
One hundred and ninety million - that's more than the populations of Germany, France and Poland combined. It is also the number of children affected by vitamin A deficiency around the world.
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- Health Care
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Enter the iShack, a possible answer to improving Africa’s slums
For those who aren’t familiar with South Africa’s informal settlements, it is estimated that seven million South Africans live in shacks in the country’s many “squatter camps” located around all major cities.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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