Bilal Mirza
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In the context of security issues, growing violence and conflicts, the World Bank has released its flagship report – World Development Report (WDR) 2011: Conflict, Security and Development.
According to the World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick, “If we are to break the cycles of violence and lessen the stresses that drive them, countries [...]
In the latest report released by the United Nations Group of Eminent Persons, appointed by the UN Secretary General, Ban-Ki Moon, the international organization has expressed its optimism towards poverty eradication in Least Developed Countries (LDCs). According to the report, 48 LDCs can reduce the poverty by half within 10 years, provided [...]
Greg Kaufmann posted an extremely interesting story at the Nation (US newspaper – see link below), highlighting the key facts of US poverty. According to Kaufmann, an astonishing number of 47 million people live below poverty line in the United States.
An interesting part of the post is the interview between him [...]
Another disaster, another tragedy and another Tsunami jolts Japan, killing more than 1000 people, with death toll expecting to rise further. The pictures popping up on facebook and videos uploaded on Youtube are really heart-touching for all of us and shows that how human beings with all their technological and economic advancement are [...]
World Bank, Senior Vice President, Otaviano Canuto in his blog at the Huffington Post reveals that the recent hikes in food prices have forced an additional 44 million people into extreme poverty (earning less than $1.25 per day). However on the other side, the data from the World Bank also shows that poverty [...]
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