Poverty

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Mandate of the People

Tom Odhiambo | 01 February 2013 |

tags: book reviews, entrepreneurship, Kenya, politics, poverty

Politics can be dirty, but it will be cleaner if decent people get involved.

A musical path out of poverty

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 March 2012 |

tags: El Sistema, music, poverty

A visionary Venezuelan programme for social development is catching on around the world.

As the family goes, so goes the economy

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 May 2011 |

tags: economics, marriage, poverty

There is an intimate relationship between our income wealth and our sexual culture.

How not to solve poverty

Rebekah Hebbert | 28 April 2011 |

tags: minimum wage, poverty, youth unemployment

Raising the minimum wage may look generous, but whom does it benefit really?

Confessions of a Greenpeace dropout

Patrick Moore | 03 February 2011 |

tags: environmentalism, poverty, sustainable development

A new book tells how a founding member of the radical group became a sensible environmentalist.

Time for the good news on poverty

Michael Kirke | 01 February 2011 |

tags: Africa, aid, Asia, poverty

Despite all the bad economic news since the Great Recession hit, there is some spectacularly good news on poverty

How the other half lives

Carolyn Moynihan | 12 November 2010 |

tags: disasters, economic crisis, poverty, protest

Shame on the comfortable who riot against cutbacks when millions of people are destitute.

Women, children, poverty…

Carolyn Moynihan | 24 September 2010 |

tags: child mortality, family, maternal mortality, Millennium Development Goals, poverty

What’s missing from the Millennium Development Goals programme?

The new divorce divide

W. Bradford Wilcox | 17 September 2009 |

tags: divorce, marriage, poverty

There is good news and bad news on the marriage front in America, and the poor are having the worst of it.

A new agenda for the world’s women

Carolyn Moynihan | 12 September 2009 |

tags: development, poverty, security, women

What’s behind the discovery that women are the world’s greatest unexploited resource for fighting poverty and terrorism?

The Beautiful Tree

John Fox | 08 September 2009 |

tags: education, parenting, poverty

A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves.

The guru of philanthropy

Michael Cook | 04 September 2009 |

tags: human dignity, Peter Singer, philanthropy, poverty

Peter Singer's latest cause is lifting billions out of poverty.