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- Fiona Harvey
- • June 28, 2022
Food, fossil fuel and pharmaceutical companies that have enjoyed bumper profits in the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath should be hit with a swingeing windfall tax on their excess income, the global head of Oxfam has said. A windfall…
- Categories: Climate Change, Health and Population, Poverty
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 11, 2018
International organizations, governments and a vast army of nongovernmental organizations justifiably welcome the sharp reductions that have been achieved in global poverty in recent decades. Data researchers show, however, that when it comes to defining who are the poorest,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Poverty, Take a Look
- Bill Buchanan
- • January 1, 2018
Since 1971, the United Nations has recognized least-developed countries as those deemed highly disadvantaged in their development strides because of structural, historical and geographical reasons. The aim has been, and still is, to support these countries to graduate to…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, Poverty, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 3, 2015
When the final assessment of what the Millennium Development Goals achieved was released on July 6, the United Nations said confidently that more than 1 billion people had been lifted from poverty since 1990, the baseline year for setting…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America, Poverty
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