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Poverty & Inequality

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Poverty Reduction Claims Under Scrutiny

The World Bank's recent estimates on global poverty, particularly in relation to China, are being challenged by an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which monitors poverty eradication and gender equality: the 2008 Basic Capabilities Index. By Thalif Deen.

 
World Hunger Outstripping Aid Efforts

Some 220 million people are "on the edge of emergency" in 2008, almost twice as many as in 2006, says a report by CARE released ahead of next week's UN summit to measure progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. By Alison Raphael.

 
Escaping the Poverty Trap

Between 320 and 440 million people live in chronic poverty worldwide - but need not, according to five policy measures that could help them escape the poverty trap, says the Chronic Poverty Report 2008-2009. By Mercedes Sayagues.

 
A Warning on Wealth and the Wealthy

Global levels of inequality threaten to halt progress toward economic development and efforts to alleviate deprivation such as the Millennium Development Goals, argues a new report.

 
World Now Has 10 million Millionaires, Report Says

Add an extra zero to the ranks of the millionaires club. The number of people around the world with at least $1 million in assets passed 10 million for the first time last year, according to a new report. And their bank accounts are growing even faster.

 
Power vs Poverty

Privatisation, free trade and market forces. . . the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don't work. Is it time to let countries determine their own destinies, asks Duncan Green.

 
The World's Most Deprived: Characteristics and Causes of Extreme Poverty and Hunger

A new report defines 162 million people who live in 'ultra poverty' - less than 50 cents a day. If all of the ultra poor were concentrated in a single nation, it would be the world's seventh most populous country.

 
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