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UN panel calls for end to extreme poverty by 2030
2013-05-31 08:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A high-level U.N. panel recommended an ambitious roadmap Thursday to tackle the world's major challenges, from climate change to equality for women, with a key goal of ending extreme poverty everywhere by 2030. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed the panel last year to recommend a new development agenda after the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, expire in 2015. World leaders agreed in 2000 on anti-poverty goals including cutting extreme poverty by half, halting the HIV/AIDS...
VIDEO: Public-private 'can beat poverty'
2013-05-30 03:18:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Addressing poverty amid booming economic times is challenge shared by many Asian countries, and the World Bank MD has ideas to tackle it.
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Fuel poverty gap widens
2013-05-16 12:34:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK's so-called "fuel poverty gap" is widening, although the total number in fuel poverty has fallen, according to a government report.
Bolivia: TIPNIS Road On Hold Until Extreme Poverty Eliminated
2013-04-28 04:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NACLA: Bolivian President Evo Morales has promised to eliminate extreme poverty in the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), before taking any further steps to design, fund, and build the controversial highway that would bisect the reserve. The decision is expected to put the highway on hold for three years, until the end of 2015. The surprise announcement comes as lowlands indigenous groups and their supporters continue to challenge the highway on a variety of fronts, and as...
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The End of Poverty? The World Bank and the Shared Prosperity Agenda
2013-04-26 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: Within our lifetimes, the world could be free of widespread, extreme poverty, replaced instead with shared prosperity and environmental and fiscal balance. That was the vision World Bank President Jim Yong Kim outlined at his first Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. last week. In a period of economic uncertainty, social exclusion, and climate and environmental crises, these goals hold immense promise. At the same time, for an institution already grappling with its redefined role in the coming...
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