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'Nearly 1m' over-75s living in poverty
2016-05-16 02:04:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Nearly one million people aged over 75 live in poverty and need more help from the government, a report suggests.
What is the future of Brazils drive to reduce poverty?
2016-05-11 01:13:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Why Brazil's poor fear losing their benefits
Young women 'risk pension poverty'
2016-04-20 12:13:20| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Women aged in their 20s and 30s are risking poverty in retirement by cutting contributions as they pay for childcare, a think tank says.
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Its Not Just Poverty
2016-03-20 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: Mar 20 2016 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh) - You give dowry and I receive it, why are you bringing government into this?"said a woman in a village in Rangpur district during a discussion on women`s status. I had the opportunity to facilitate the session, and have thought of this many times since hearing several years ago. The comment reminds me that it is extremely challenging to get rid of a harmful practice if it is socially accepted, even when it is prohibited legally. Law is important, but not...
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Phil Knight Wants to Solve Poverty
2016-02-24 19:22:13| Footwear - Topix.net
Philip H. Knight, the co-founder and chairman of Nike Inc., said on Monday that he had pledged to give Stanford University $400 million to recruit graduate students around the globe to address society's most intractable problems, including poverty and climate change. The gift to the new Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, which is modeled on the Rhodes scholarships, matches one of the largest individual donations ever to a university, the $400 million that John A. Paulson, the hedge fund tycoon, gave to Harvard last year to improve its engineering school.
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