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Citizens urged to promote nation

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Citizens urged to promote nation : "Ordinary South Africans have been called on to help build the country's image and brand, and put an end to myths about it. THE International Marketing Council of South Africa (IMC), the custodians of Brand South Africa , has urged every citizen to ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Training on Young People's SRR and Poverty Reduction - Youth Coalition

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Training on Young People's SRR and Poverty Reduction - Youth Coalition : "This 4-day training brought together 12 youth activists from Ghana and used a youth and sexual and reproductive rights lens to analyze the Ghanaian Poverty ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Millionaire who built business empire on chili sauce

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Millionaire who built business empire on chili sauce : "Having established a business empire from the bottom up, he's now training local farmers to help make Rwanda an agricultural exporter. "My aim is to make sure that the Rwandan people build themselves and get out of poverty ," he says. ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Biofuels are driving food prices higher

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Biofuels are driving food prices higher : "The World Bank estimates that between June and December 2010 an additional 44 million people fell below the poverty line due to rises in food prices. The bank's president, Robert Zoellick, called for the world to "put food first". ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Zimbabwe's parliament approves $98 million loan from China

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Zimbabwe's parliament approves $98 million loan from China : "Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's parliament has ratified a 20-year $98 million loan from China to build a defense college, despite objections from members Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party that the poverty -stricken country should prioritize ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty during the AIDS ...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty during the AIDS ... : "dollar per day poverty in the latest World Development Indicators (e.g. why dollar per day poverty is so much higher in Uganda than in Ethiopia or Tanzania, ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Government against blacks

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Government against blacks : "In his book " South Africa's War Against Capitalism," he studied that country's labor markets during apartheid: "White racist unions in South Africa that would never have a black as a member were the major supporters of minimum wage laws. ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Mozambique's free newspaper becomes a tool for social transformation

Mozambique's free newspaper becomes a tool for social transformation ... turned corporate leader, came from a realisation that most people in Mozambique lacked access to quality information about their government, country and the world. Between a half and three-quarters of the 23 million Mozambicans live in poverty . ...

Gates Foundation spends $1.7B on farming in Africa

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Gates Foundation spends $1.7B on farming in Africa : " ... Institute of Tropical Agriculture research station in Abuja, Nigeria . The world's largest charitable foundation announced five years ago it would spend millions of dollars to fight poverty and hunger in Africa, largely by investing in agriculture. ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

What's the correlation between hygiene and poverty? | DEFEATDD.ORG

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What's the correlation between hygiene and poverty? | DEFEATDD.ORG : "If there ever was a statement that dispelled assumptions about the correlation between hygiene and poverty , it was this statement from Rwanda's Minister for ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Orphans, vulnerable children come under spotlight - by Albertina ...

Orphans, vulnerable children come under spotlight - by Albertina ... Namibia , compared to other countries, is among the driest countries in the world, ... are common across the region and include poverty , HIV/AIDS, conflict, ...

Denmark marks Constitution Day with support increase to Tanzania

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Denmark marks Constitution Day with support increase to Tanzania : "To me, however, the missing link between economic growth and poverty reduction is jobs. Jobs are crucial to give people the possibility of lifting themselves out of poverty . Tanzania needs reforms and investments within the agricultural sector, ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

The Movement to Kickstart Rural Agriculture

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The Movement to Kickstart Rural Agriculture : " ... has sold 174610 pumps across Africa and 63505 pumps in Kenya . Creating a new generation of "farmerpreneurs," Kickstart businesses have generated $113 million annually in new profits and wages, helping move over half a million people out of poverty . ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER

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CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER : "As Tanzania joins the rest of the world today in marking the International Children's Day, the wellbeing of our young ones is far from secured. The large numbers of children living on the streets in towns and those condemned to a life of hunger and ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Oxfam Urges Reform Of 'Broken Food System'

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Oxfam Urges Reform Of 'Broken Food System' : " Ahead of the UN climate summit in December in Durban, South Africa , Oxfam is also calling on world leaders to launch a global climate fund to help those who are unable to adapt to the impacts of climate change. RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty "

Malian-born BMCC Alum, Nohoum Traore, Fulfills a Commitment to Give Back by ...

Malian-born BMCC Alum, Nohoum Traore, Fulfills a Commitment to Give Back by ... Diplomas in hand, he was hired as a project coordinator by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a non-profit group that evaluates economic aid programs. Traore flew back to West Africa, where he would spend the next two and a half years. Based in Mali ...

Thomas Pogge on Global Poverty

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Thomas Pogge on Global Poverty : "A dramatic example is Rwanda , which borrowed a lot of money. Some of this was used by the Habyarimana government to fund the genocide which killed some 800000 Tutsi. In the end, the Tutsi resistance managed to overthrow the government—and then the ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Uganda

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Uganda : "Envision the children of Uganda with bellies and minds full. The reality of this vision can lift entire communities up and out of the cycle of poverty . ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Cash transfers target vulnerable children

Cash transfers target vulnerable children : "Developing countries are increasingly relying on cash transfer programs to tackle childhood poverty . In 2009, Lesotho introduced a pilot program in three ... "

Swaziland Likely to Receive Requested Loan From World Bank by 2012

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Swaziland Likely to Receive Requested Loan From World Bank by 2012 : "“All Bank investments -policy or sector loans -are assessed on their ability to deliver positive development outcomes, including poverty reduction. A figure of US$20 million (E160 million) has been discussed, but all figures are notional until approved ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Sierra Leone: South Africa-Nation - 50 Years Forward Or Backward?

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Sierra Leone: South Africa-Nation - 50 Years Forward Or Backward? : "Freetown — Sometimes when people read in the foreign press, listen to radio reports or watch television analysis about events in Britain, USA, France etc concerning corruption, abject poverty , mal-governance and the embezzlement of public funds, ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

Fairtrade sales in South Africa reach over R18 million

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Fairtrade sales in South Africa reach over R18 million : " Fairtrade Label South Africa (FLSA) is the local marketing organisation for Fairtrade and aims to alleviate rural poverty and to empower small-__scale farmers and disadvantaged workers primarily in Africa by creating market opportunities for and ... Supermarket Online "

Social Assistance Inspectorate needed - Patricia Kopane

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Social Assistance Inspectorate needed - Patricia Kopane : "SASSA is the agency responsible for administering social services grants to the most poverty stricken South Africans. Many recipients are largely dependent on grants to survive- making the need for reform of SASSA even more pressing, and the absence of ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |

What an outright majority MDC government and Tsvangirai presidency will do and ...

What an outright majority MDC government and Tsvangirai presidency will do and ... ... poverty and misery amongst the people. And we ask the people of Zimbabwe to prepare to flush them out and elect an outright majority MDC Government led by President Tsvangirai at which will work and focus on the core bread and butter issues of: 1. ...

Jonathan's campaigns after election

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Jonathan's campaigns after election : "The National Programme for Eradication of Poverty (NAPEP) has famously admitted that more than 80 million Nigerians are below the poverty line. That means that more than half of the Nigerian people live on barely one US dollar a day. ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | English |