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Rich nations' wealth gap widens as welfare cutA growing divide between rich and poor risks will grow still wider if cash-strapped governments keep cutting back the welfare state, an industrialised nations' think-tank warned on Wednesday. Weighing into a debate on inequali More… |
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As crops rot, millions go hungry in IndiaEvery day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country. It is an extraordinary paradox created More… |
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Unrest fears as world food prices rise furtherGlobal food prices rose in March for a third straight month with more hikes to come, the UN's food agency said on Thursday, adding to fears of hunger and a new wave of social unrest in poor countries. Record high prices for staple foods la More… |
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Unrest fears as world food prices rise furtherGlobal food prices rose in March for a third straight month with more hikes to come, the UN's food agency said on Thursday, adding to fears of hunger and a new wave of social unrest in poor countries. Record high prices for staple foods la More… |
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UK budget to help poorer families: MinisterBritain's finance minister, George Osborne, said he would use his 2012 budget to help those at the bottom of the earnings ladder, hinting he could go further in lifting more people out of paying income tax. O More… |
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$2.7 billion UAE fund to help poor citizensThe United Arab Emirates on Wednesday set up a Dh10 billion ($2.7 billion) fund to help to pay low-income citizens' debts and announced plans to raise wages of some state employees, state news agency WAM said. The agency said President More… |
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Wealthy 'getting fatter, poor still remain thin'The 'First world' health problems such as obesity and heart disease may be gaining ground in developing nations, but they are mostly afflicting the rich and middle class while poor people remain undernourished and underweight, a study said More… |
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Rural poor rally in Tunis seeking changeProtesters from Tunisia's poor rural heartlands demonstrated in the capital on Sunday to demand that the revolution they started should now sweep the remnants of the fallen president's old guard from power. A week after Prime Minis More… |
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Rural poor rally in Tunis seeking changeProtesters from Tunisia's poor rural heartlands demonstrated in the capital on Sunday to demand that the revolution they started should now sweep the remnants of the fallen president's old guard from power. A week after Prime Minis More… |
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Policy changes 'needed to help poor regions'The Middle East and North Africa region can raise living standards in geographic areas that are less economically developed with an informed mix of policy choices, says a new World Bank report. The report, “Poor Places, Thriving Peop More… |
