poverty

Poverty is a lack of the necessary money or financial holdings needed to sustain a socially recognized standard of living from members within a community. As such, it is often difficult to specify what poverty is without contextualizing the discussion.

Poverty may result in homelessness or malnourishment, which has spawned worldwide efforts to reform welfare systems directed at assisting those most in need. The economic poverty of its people is always a primary responsibility for government officials the world over.

Some argue that poverty is an inherent consequence of capitalism, which is certainly a debatable claim. Others, however, suggest that poverty arises as a lack of education or educational opportunities, skills or a mastery of trades and services.

Poverty is a popular topic in the blogosphere because of its ties to the world of politics and economics.  It has also become the cause du jour for celebrities like U2 frontman Bono, who has started his own foundation.

 

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  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 162
  Internet marketing is the most popular kind of business for today. Millions of people in Asia , USA and Europe deal with internet marketing. You have to try it out to make sure it is for you and internet marketing is easy to set up. You are able to set up internet marketing business even if the poverty is starting in ...
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• Internet Marketing - The Best Internet Business Opportunity To Opt For!

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 162
  Internet marketing is a powerful kind of online business. Today millions of people all over the world deal with internet marketing and you are the witness of these dealings. Why does online business and the most popular kind internet marketing go this way? Internet marketing is a kind which has got huge possibility to ...
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• India deserves access to dual use technology: Manmohan Singh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 22 (IANS) As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in the US on a state visit he said as a responsible nuclear power, India should be given access to dual use technologies to help it grow.“We are a nuclear weapon state, but we are a responsible nuclear power,” he told CNN [...]
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• It is Better to “Spic”? When Were Ricans Ever the Model Minority?

  
  VivirLatino — Authority: 591
  Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans have been in the news and all over the internet this week in some opposing ways. In fact, one could say that this year, the rise of one particular Puerto Rican woman, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor , has put Ricans in the U.S. media’s eye. Despite being a U.S. colony since 1898 ...
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• Social care pledges for elderly receive cautious welcome (Guardian Unlimited)

  
  Stompernet SEO Course — Authority: 166
  Essential that local councils are properly funded to deliver free personal domiciliary care, says charity Organisations representing the elderly welcomed the pledges on social care featured in the Queens speech today, but said the government should have gone further in instigating overdue reform of the widely-derided ...
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• $93 billion needed for African infrastructure

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 460
  Investing in infrastructure is essential for the development and growth of a society. For example, by connecting farmers with local and regional markets, and providing access to school and health care facilities, infrastructure enables communities to prosper. However, a recent World Bank report, Africa’s ...
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• $93 billion needed for African infrastructure

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 460
  Investing in infrastructure is essential for the development and growth of a society. For example, by connecting farmers with local and regional markets, and providing access to school and health care facilities, infrastructure enables communities to prosper. However, a recent World Bank report, Africa’s ...
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• $93 billion needed for African infrastructure

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 460
  Investing in infrastructure is essential for the development and growth of a society. For example, by connecting farmers with local and regional markets, and providing access to school and health care facilities, infrastructure enables communities to prosper. However, a recent World Bank report, Africa’s ...
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• Senate Confirms Daniel Yohannes to head MCC

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 460
  Yesterday the US Senate confirmed Daniel W. Yohannes to be the new CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. During his confirmation, Yohannes stated his confidence that “MCC’s anti-poverty partnerships worldwide will generate sustainable economic growth and opportunity.”You can read the MCC’s statement ...
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• Attack on the Blind?

  
  From My Bottom Step — Authority: 144
  I’ve been aware of past citizen requests for public transit subsidies, but I only just become aware of this latest development when I was approached for assistance by a member of the local chapter of the Canadian Council of the Blind . At it’s 2009/11/02 meeting, the Community and Protective Services (CAPS) ...
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• Bigg Boss 3, Ep 49-Vindu turns bald

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Mumbai, Nov 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Vindu tried to distract the viewers from his wrongdoings with a makeover that chiefly consisted of a bald look. Kamaal Rashis Khan popularly known as KRK did the honors and shaved off his hair. Vindu wanted to imitate the Ghajini-look, but looked more the villain that he is in [...]
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• Buddhadeb attacks Trinamool on development plank

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Tamluk (West Bengal), Nov 22 (IANS) Attacking the opposition Trinamool Congress on the development plank, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday alleged that all work has come to a halt in areas where that party tasted electoral success over the past one and a half years.Addressing a large rally at ...
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• WFP Unable to Feed Millions of Children and Mothers Due to Lack of Funding, Access

  
  Armies of Liberation — Authority: 508
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• New Census Bureau Numbers for Poor People In the U.S.

  
  Poverty & Policy — Authority: 457
  The Census Bureau has issued alternative poverty estimates based on recommendations by the National Academy of Sciences. They dont tell us how many poor people there are in the U.S. But they give us at least six sets of figures that generally point in the same direction, i.e., that the official poverty measure ...
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• Chhattisgarh police to probe death threat to BJP lawmaker

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Raipur, Nov 22 (IANS) The Chhattisgarh police have begun a probe into a banner put up by suspected Maoists in a village threatening that a legislator of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be killed in a month.The banner was recovered at Tokapal village, around 20 km from Jagdalpur town, the headquarters of ...
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• Where Thirty Years Old Stuff is Still in Style

  
  Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo — Authority: 129
    Do you know about tie-dye cloth?  Most people probably do not remember the tie-dye cloth era of the late 60s and 70s.  It was very popular among hippies.  I remembered those days. On trip to Congo in 2001, I was faced with tie-dye cloth from a 30 year prior period.  At that point, I realized Congo was not ...
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• Saving the World, One Baby Butt at a Time

  
  LA Moms Blog — Authority: 131
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• Parties promise corruption free government in Jharkhand

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  By Nityanand ShuklaRanchi, Nov 22 (IANS) Political parties contesting the Jharkhand assembly elections are promising a corruption free government and cheaper food grain to the poor.The manifestoes of major parties read alike promising to subsidize food to families living below the official Below Poverty Line (BPL).And ...
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• Is Anyone to Blame for Poverty?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  In the nineteenth century it was strongly felt that the poor only had themselves to blame, that they were lazy and did not bother to look for work. In some societies this belief is still held.  Looked at baldly the idea comes as a surprise, surely no one would chose to be poor. Being poor means not being able to buy ...
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• Tentative global economic recovery raises questions about reforms in post-crisis world

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 120
  As countries around the world recover from the crisis, unanswered questions about the necessary restructuring of the global economy require urgent attention, four leaders from business, academia and civil society said on the opening day of the World Economic Forum’s Summit on the Global Agenda. “We’ve got a ...
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