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| Rumble: October 15th - Blogger Action Day on Poverty | | 2008-08-20 05:59:42 | | Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day.Their aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. The day is October 15th.This year's topic is "Poverty", a subject taken at heart on The Road to the Horizon. So stay tuned, more to come.Meanwhile, if you are a blogger, get get involved. Already over 2,000 blogs are registered to participate, gathering over 4 million readers.
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| Government to take inflation into account when calculating poverty | | 2008-08-20 05:42:00 | | The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has asked government agencies to set a new poverty baseline for the 2009 – 2015 period. Any city resident earning VND12 million (US$750) or less a year and a rural resident earning VND10 million ($625) will be considered poor.
Poor households under the former poverty line used from 2006 – 2010 are those with an income of no more than VND6 million a year ( | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
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| “KnockOut Poverty” | | 2008-07-25 08:55:14 | | All-African Pro Boxing Show
Tuesday night, Sept. 23 at Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City
NEW YORK CITY (July 25, 2008) – Bob Duffy’s “Ring Promotions” announced today that it has been hired to promote the inaugural “KnockOut Poverty” pro boxing show, featuring all African boxers, on Tuesday night, September 23 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in [...] | | By: Fight News Unlimited | | |
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| Poverty, Summary of Causes and Solutions | | 2008-07-19 16:21:03 | | I’ve written a lot about poverty on this blog - I think it’s one of the most severe human rights violations - and therefore it seemed appropriate to have a post which summarizes the topic.
more poverty
less poverty
bad governance
absence of democracy
corruption
rights violations
no rule of law
economic causes
economic stagnation/recession
lack of economic freedom
protectionism/trade restrictions
child labor
resource curse
foreign debt
social causes
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| Human Rights Facts (50): Poverty and Economic Growth | | 2008-07-18 05:13:55 | | (source)
Economic growth is the increase in value of the goods and services produced by an economy or a country. It is the percent rate of increase from one year to the next in gross domestic product or GDP of an economy or a country. In order to correct for the population sizes of different economies [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Is Poverty Ever From God? | | 2008-07-10 17:53:15 | | In most realms of religion, there seems to be a prevalent concept that poverty makes a person more pious. The added deduction from this concept is that God sends poverty on His people to teach them or purify them. There are several possible reasons for the development of this line of thought...However, Scripture actually says that God works to bring good out of evil done to us (Gen. 50:20; Deut. 23:5; Rom. 8:28)...God's own words express that poverty is destructive to people, a trait contrary to God's nature. | | By: ReceiveHealing com | | |
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| 10 Million Millionaires equals 2.8 billion in poverty | | 2008-06-25 22:05:28 | | It's an old joke poor people tell ourselves:Why are people poor?Because we don't have money! Do away with sociological and psychological reasons for poverty; stop confusing the symptoms with not the causes, and in the end, it all boils down to money, which is about distribution of wealth, which is about control of resources.Merrill Lynch & Co reported yesterday that the world now has 10 million millionaires, with an average wealth of about $4 million. Their wealth grew 9 percent last year, some $41 trillion dollars. Those 10 million make up one fifth of 1 percent of the world population. Meanwhile, some 2.8 billion people live on less than $2 a day.The super-rich are doing particularly well. Those with incomes of $30 million or more saw their incomes go up by 15% last year. There are about 103,000 of the super-rich.Very few people in the U.S. earn less than $2 a day, Yet more than 20% of us earn less than $20,000 a year; another 23% of us earn under $40,000. And in this cou | | By: Michaelann Land | | |
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| Livin’ on the Russian Poverty Line | | 2008-06-14 14:53:37 | | Who is leading the tandem dance? Is it Medvedev’s or Putin’s turn this week? The answer to who is at top in Kremlin Inc. is superfluous to those who live at Russia’s poverty line. Like in most places, the little guy is mostly a creature for cardboard cut out used for political [...] | | By: Sean\\\'s Russia Blog | | |
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| Rags2Riches; From Poverty to Progress | | 2008-05-08 20:32:00 | | From poverty to progress, from handicraft to design, from rags to riches.Rags2Riches is an enterprise creating social statement in style. A company of talent, passion, and commitment. A community of skill, dedication, and hope. A stylish product line that pleases the eye and touches the heart Rags2Riches. Elegance with a conscience.Payatas—one of the most depressed areas in the country—is known more as a garbage dumpsite than anything else. But beneath the mounds of trash and dirt lies a tru | | By: Angat ang Pinoy | | |
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| Poverty News from the Southern Hemisphere | | 2008-05-04 08:50:09 | | An opinion piece in The Australian by the national secretary of the Australian Workers Union is asking labor unions to rethink their migrant labor policies in the face of a shortage of at least 100,000 workers this year.Recently the Asian Development Bank assessed that at least one-quarter of the people in the Pacific have insufficient incomes to meet their basic needs. Today in the East Timorese capital of Dili 58 per cent of young people are out of work; one-third of the population of the strife-torn Solomons capital Honiara live in poverty; and more than half the population of Australia's former colony of Papua New Guinea live below the basic needs poverty line.Previous migrant worker schemes have suppressed wages of Australian workers. (Sound familiar?) But unions could endorse a new plan if:First, Australians would get the first opportunity to be employed before any migrant labour is deployed. Second, a worker on the scheme can expect to earn the same as an Australian doing | | By: Michaelann Land | | |
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| Poverty and the Ability to Learn | | 2008-04-30 15:03:00 | | Being the ever dutiful hearing officer, I'll start with a disclosure before I get to the substance of this post: I am passionate about the need to eliminate poverty in the USA, or at least to substantially ameliorate its effects. That having been said, let me state that I firmly believe there is an unfortunate and nearly direct relationship between the poverty of a child's family and his poor performance in school.This makes sense. If a child doesn't eat properly, it affects the brain negatively. If a household is constantly under the extreme stress associated with being poor, a child suffers emotionally. The side effects of poverty, high crime neighborhoods, the lack of the prospect of a better life, etc. also take their toll. It is difficult enough to educate a child under the best of conditions. Poverty causes many extreme obstacles to the learning process.The effect of poverty upon learning also has an effect upon certain legal issues. Concerning No Child Left Behind data crunching | | By: Special education Law | | |
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| Poverty, Trachoma And Blepharoplasty Beverly Hills: | | 2008-04-28 23:58:00 | | According to ORBIS International, 37million people worldwide are blind but 28 million don’t have to be blind. They can get relief for their situation- if only they could afford it or were educated enough to be aware about their condition. Trachoma, a water-related eye disease is held to be the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness and largely affects those with limited access to water and health care. A child in Sub-Sahara Africa is as much likely to suffer as a person in contact | | By: Eyelid Surgery Beverly Hills | | |
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| Can WiFi and Laptops Cure Poverty? | | 2008-04-24 12:04:00 | | Could wireless internet service really improve a rural community? Other than the Apple PR in the photo, this is not marketing-related, but I could not resist posting it. Check out the great story of how empowering and caring about kids is improving poverty-stricken Greene County, NC. | | By: Out of the Fog Marketing Blog | | |
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| Overpopulation = Poverty = Crime | | 2008-04-21 07:46:37 | | I sternly believe that overpopulation is the cause of poverty. In the Philippines, the country where I grew up in, the population of the poor people outnumbers the rich and the working class. Filipinos has this old belief that the more children they have, the more number of people will work to take them out for poverty. Well I say that this notion is outrageous! Children are not there to make your life better, it is actually the other way around. It is parents who should work hard to prepare and | | By: My Nurse\'s Notes | | |
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| Poverty and the Kingdom of God | | 2008-04-15 11:43:35 | | Last year when I worked at World Vision Appalachia our executive director, Ruston Seaman, interpreted poverty experts Jayakumar Christian and Bryant Myers by summarizing the circumstance of the poor into two general concepts: the poor have a marred identity and the poor lack purpose. ... | | By: The Over-Educated Youth Pastor | | |
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| The snow job: why personal responsibility won't end poverty | | 2008-04-13 18:11:07 | | Yesterday Bob Herbert at the New York Times wrote about the apparent futility of every effort we've taken so far to end the war in Iraq and change our nation for the better. Herbert described the results of our lack of collective power in concise and heartbreaking terms:The U.S., once the greatest can-do country on the planet, now can’t seem to do anything right. The great middle class has maxed out its credit cards and drained dangerous amounts of equity from family homes. No one can seem to figure out how to generate the growth in good-paying jobs that is the only legitimate way of putting strapped families back on their feet.The nation’s infrastructure is aging and in many places decrepit. Rebuilding it would be an important source of job creation, but nothing on the scale that is needed is in sight. ......The U.S. seems almost paralyzed, mesmerized by Iraq and unable to generate the energy or the will to handle the myriad problems festering at home. The war will eventually co | | By: Michaelann Land | | |
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| Poverty is increasing | | 2008-04-11 06:56:27 | | With expenditures growing and income being lessened today many members of a family have to earn. In old days one member used to earn and all others were dependent on him. Now the situation has changed.So all family members should leave hesitation and do some work so that they too can contribute to the family earning. | | By: Uplift of the poor | | |
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| Jayakumar Christian on Poverty | | 2008-04-04 09:49:36 | | For many years I had a somewhat unilateral, materialist understanding of poverty. I saw poverty only in the dimension of the financial and neglected to recognize the structural, spiritual, relational, emotional and even intellectual dimensions. I once felt that if those of us w... | | By: The Over-Educated Youth Pastor | | |
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| Poverty #4: Some helpful poverty blogs | | 2008-04-03 09:16:31 | | The Confessing Tiger shares about Fuller Seminary’s Curriculum on poverty developed for World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine
Chris comments on some reflections on youth ministry and poverty from Tony Campolo
The Just Life blog breaks down the Christian Community Development Movement
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| Working with students in poverty, #3 | | 2008-04-01 15:40:23 | | To read the beginning of this series on working with students in poverty check out post #1 and post #2.
For my third situation in which I failed to bring trnasformation to families in poverty I'm going to reiterate a post from September of 2007 that originally fit into my "How not to do y... | | By: The Over-Educated Youth Pastor | | |
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| Working with students in poverty, post #2 | | 2008-03-28 10:12:35 | | Find post 1 HERE... Situation #2:
In the late 1990s I entered into a ministry setting in which a young child was accidentally scolded to death in the tub by a grandmother. The family was a block away from my church and another daughter (not the mother of the child) occasiona... | | By: The Over-Educated Youth Pastor | | |
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| Working with students in poverty, post #1 | | 2008-03-25 15:48:54 | | Over the course of my fifteen years in youth ministry I have consistently worked with children and youth in poverty. In my first paid role in the mid-1990s I worked in a rural setting in Kentucky where half of my students were the children of rich tobacco farmers and the other half were children of ... | | By: The Over-Educated Youth Pastor | | |
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| News roundup from homeless and poverty blogs | | 2008-03-02 17:42:00 | | New Orleans: The 13th Juror reports that Phil Mangano, executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, is not happy with Mayor Nagle's plan relocating homeless people from under a bridge into a large, barracks-like tent, and would prefer him to focus on long-term solutions...wonder why he was so quiet when the decision was made to tear down hundred of units of public housing. Tulane students are tracking new in New Orleans at their blog, Homeless of New Orleans. I got an email this week from the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. Their national coordinator Cheri Honkala (I should say "our" national coordinator, seeing as Arise is a part of PPEHRC) had charges of impersonating an officer dismissed in court this week; fellow PPEHRC organizer JR Fleming, Chicago Coalition to Protect Public Housing, still has charges pending.Nashvillian Kevin Barbieux' site The Homeless Guy is running a survey on whether liquor stores should sell alcohol to al | | By: Michaelann Land | | |
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| The Poverty of Prophet Muhammad | | 2008-02-27 02:25:51 | | Faqr FakhriPoverty is my pride- Prophet MuhammadAli Eteraz writes beautifully worth sharing here:(...) the abject poverty that afflicted the Prophet Muhammad. Here was a man who was subjected to such a long series of painful episodes, and survived them all so miraculously, that it was almost if God put him here on earth to disprove despair.That you could lose your parents within your first eight years and still become a man; that you could lose your family and their protectioin and still become a leader; that you could lose numerous sons in that age in which children are the most innocent and still be compassionate; that you could have stones thrown at your head till pools of blood accumulated in your shoes and still not give in to vengeance; that you could have your uncle impaled upon spears and his heart literally eaten and still forgive the killers; that you could sleep on mats of hay and still be regal; that you could be so lonely that rather than sitting in the city circles you ha | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
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| Barack Obama’s Global Poverty Bill Put on Hold in the Senate | | 2008-02-26 19:13:16 | |  Barack Obama’s global poverty bill has thankfully been stalled in the senate by two conservative Republicans. You probably haven’t heard too much about this bill in the mainstream media. The only place I have even seen it mentioned was in this post at Pro Patria.
 Ryan, from Pro Patria, wrote in his post on February 13th that Obama’s [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Viet Nam leads way in tackling poverty, says WB | | 2008-02-15 03:47:00 | | The World Bank (WB)’s Country Director for Viet Nam Ajay Chhibber has praised Viet Nam’s efforts in reducing poverty in the country over the past year.In his article ran on “The Banker†magazine in February edition, Ajay wrote that the declining poverty rate in Viet Nam is due to the country’s policy of inclusive development.Over the past 15 years, Viet Nam has achieved one of the world’s fastest declines in poverty. The country’s poverty rate – measured as the percentage of people who live below 1 USD a day – has declined from about 58 percent in 1993 to 16% in 2006, and 34 million people have come out of poverty.“Steady and rapid growth in income, of about 7% to 8% a year, have been a key factor in this reduction,†Ajay said.The WB official stressed that what marks Viet Nam out from other-fast growing economies is the combination of spectacular growth with limited increase in inequality. The Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality, has increased from 0. | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
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| mud cookies | poverty and utterly sad state of humanity | | 2008-02-14 21:53:46 | | Have you heard of mud cookies? Imagine cookies made of dirt, salt, and vegetable oil! Few days back Dr. S. Amjad Hussain, a Toledo surgeon whose column appears every other week in The Toledo Blade shared an article he wrote about utter poverty in Haiti where people had resorted to eating dirt to stave off hunger. Dr. Hussain writes:... Haiti where poverty and starvation are forcing the poor and the destitute to eat mud cookies called terre made from yellow clay, salt, and vegetable oil.Haiti is not, by any stretch of imagination, the only country in the world where people are starving. Poverty and hunger are worldwide phenomena and these numbers attest to that assertion. Each year more than 80 million people die worldwide because they cannot afford to stay alive. More than 1 billion people, 1 in every 6 persons, live on less than $1 a day and a great majority of them go to bed hungry and get up hungry.There are reasons and causes galore for poverty and being lazy or unmotivated are not | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
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| How to Eliminate Poverty Consciousness | | 2008-01-19 00:55:00 | | By Jafree Oswald and Margot ZaherCreators of The Secrets of ManifestingHave you ever wondered how poverty consciousness is created and what you can do to step out of it?Sometimes it happens that we become overly entangled in the material world and get wrapped up in feeling that we always need more money. This idea of lacking money sends toxic stress chemicals to the brain causing the body to fight or flee for its life.Anytime we repetitively feel that there is not enough of "this or that", it forms a chemical rut of impoverished thinking in our body-mind which depletes our energy, manifesting vibration, and financial outlook on life. Every time this lacking feeling is regurgitated it creates mini "poverty attacks" in the inner world, which eventually manifest into physically lacking finances on the outer world.The good news is that this entrapped cyclical experience is only here to give you an experience of what you don’t want, so that you are inspired to one day become clearer on wh | | By: PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT | SELF IMPROVEMENT | BODYN | | |
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| JEEPS-MONEY-TOW TRUCKS= POVERTY, NOT SECURITY | | 2007-10-20 09:48:00 | | Well, it happened... for the second time in 64 years, I had to call a tow truck !Actually, the "first" time was a AAA deal, that cost me nothing ... yesterday was a hundred bucks !!Intermittent problems on vehicles are hard to diagnose (actually they are the hardest), if something simply "breaks"...it is easy to locate, -then to also repair the "cause", and you are done (with confidence).An intermittent or random problem firstly has to be "identified" in order to not keep causing "indeterminate" failure modes. I have seen some really errant and disguised (goofy) things occur with machinery and electrics over the years, but, that does not allow you to ever "accept" their presence, or cope with the failure.Add-in the complexity and unforgiving designs of today's autos, and you are actually "set up" for disaster. surely the guy who laid out the ignition systemics on 1967 and later Jeeps also owns controlling amounts of stock in AAA (which should be prosecuted as a conflict of interest | | By: whazammo and the buffalo | | |
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| Today is the International Day of Action to Eradicate Global Poverty | | 2007-10-17 11:59:48 | | Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 80 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, environmental, labor, and community groups working for the definitive cancellation of crushing debts to fight poverty and injustice in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
STAND UP & MAKE THE CALL AGAINST DEBT!
Today is the International Day of Action to Eradicate Global Poverty and Jubilee's National Lobby Day. As 65 Jubilee advocates from across the United States meet with their Senators and Representative and call on them to co-sponsor the Jubilee Act, will you join with them by calling your members of Congress in the House and Senate today?
Yesterday we broke our 40-day Cancel Debt Fast with an exciting announcement: Senators Casey (D-PA), Lugar (R-IN) and Dodd (D-CT) have stepped forward to introduce the Jubilee Act into the U.S. Senate!
But we need your help to get this bill off to a strong start! Take 5 minutes and take action during the Call-In Day Against Debt by contacting your members of Congress in the House and Senate to sign on as a co-sponsor to the Jubilee Act.
In the House, the Jubilee Act is HR 2634. In the Senate, the Jubilee Act is S 2166.
A billion people around the world live in extreme poverty. They don't have a voice in Congress. Let's lend them ours. On this Global Day of Action Against Poverty, take a minute, make a call, and help to save their lives.Practice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
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| Jane Avril, One Woman's Tale of Fame and Poverty | | 2007-09-25 22:58:41 | | The fear of poverty and obscurity runs deep in the minds of many women. Decisions to marry, leave a career, provide sacrificial support of a spouse's career, raise children and caring for family are some of the reasons women find themselves in vulnerable situations. "[O]ver their working lifetimes, women spend a total of 11 ½ years off the job on average, versus only 16 months for men."*One woman's tale of fame ended in extreme poverty. Jane Avril, a famous Parisian can-can dancer was one of the most famous dancers of her time. You've probably seen her depicted in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's posters or as Nicole Kidman's character in the 2001 movie, Moulin Rouge. She was a woman everyone adored and she brought in large crowds as she performed on stage. Yet, when she died, she had no money and no support.Jane stopped dancing when she married a German artist and became pregnant. She cut herself off from her previous career and did not have a suitable replacement way to earn money.Have you ever cut yourself off from a financially profitable job or career to tend to family duties? That is exactly what Jane did and when her husband died, she had very little of her own savings to sustain her. Even though Jane Avril lived in Paris in the early 1900's, her story is told over and over again in the lives of women we know today.So how can we avoid her fate? The answer is to protect yourself and plan for the future. Women need to have a strong understanding of how to manage money. I am not referring to paying the bills. I mean that we need to learn how to invest in stocks, real estate, or businesses. We need to know what bank accounts we have and we have to actively manage them. If you take time off from your career, then develop another source of cash flow. With the help of a broker or on your own, invest in the stock market or other similar products. By taking proactive steps to ensure your financial security, you can avoid the sad fate of Jane Avril.If you take time o | | By: Famiss - Women's Success Literature & History | | |
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| Basil Rajapaksa to wage war against poverty and hunger | | 2007-09-18 19:19:54 | | There are quite a number of MP’s in the parliament who spend their time just seating like dummies. Mr Arjuana Ranathunga and Ven. Uduwe Dammaloka are well-known among this category, and we have herd of tiger proxies in the parliament who are mere dancing into the tune of tiger terrorists and not to mention the political clown like Mervin Silva who was made last in the preferential vote in Colombo district, still somehow creep into the parliament in shameless manner. Parliament is not to play devil nor for those who need to burn their extra calories.It is in this backdrop that senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa is to be sworn in as a national list MP today to fill the vacancy created by the demise of Irrigation Minister Anwer Ismail. It is believed that once Basil Rajapaksa is appointed an MP, he will be appointed as the Cabinet Minister of Nation Building.This is the time where the nation is badly in need for leadership and the nation has apprehended the meaning of leadership. There was a time when political clowns and witches were procession in front of the nation by NGO mafia and foreign forces as leaders using their media network.Still these media networks work crazily to cell their old agents as leaders, but the people of this country has march extra mile ahead of these vicious forces.The whole political system in this country were under the custody of these foreign forces through their local agents CBK and Ranil. UNP never manage to come out of this grip but it was Mahinda Rajapaksa from Ruhuna who managed to defeat this evil grip in SLFP.People were desperate to break free and finally they found a leadership. Now it is the time for gradually cleansing this mechanism and removing microbes from national politics. We need fresh leadership for this and luckily we are blessed with not just one leader, but a family of true born leaders.It was under Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s prudent politico-military leadership that the war against terrorism is winning and the whole Eastern province has already been cleared. It is Basil Rajapaksa who took leadership in reviving the Eastern province economically and socially by withholding the winning flag hand over by military leadership.If any one ask the question of which is the most successful task under this government, the unanimous answer is the ‘war against terrorists’ which is sphere headed by Gotabaya Rajapaksa.That is why all the pro LTTE evil forces are targeting Gotabaya physicall and politically. That is the sole reason that these anti nationalistic groups lead by Ranil Wickramasingha try to spread false fear of existence of ‘Sahodara Samagama’ (brother’s union), because they clearly identified the threat if Basil Rajapaksa come into the political arena, it is economy and infrastructure development that is going to be rise next. It is a bold decision by Mahinda Rajapaksa to elect Basil as a MP in order to get the maximum use of his leadership and talent and we are pretty confident that just as his brother Gotabaya, Basill will justify for the responsibility his Mahinda is vesting on his shoulders.When king Gamunu was busy fight against Elara’s invasion, it was prince Tissa who took up the challenge of boost up the prosperity in the south in order to wage the war successfully and roles of both the brothers were written in gold in the history. | | By: Lanka Rising | | |
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| The War on Poverty is Lost | | 2007-09-18 05:00:01 | | The war has failed.
It is time to withdraw and cut our loses.
We have spent way too much money on a war we can’t win and it’s time to surrender.
No, I’m not talking about the Iraq war. And no, I haven’t turned into a moonbat. What I am talking about is the [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Poverty and Sleeping Elders | | 2007-08-16 12:38:05 | | The issue of poverty is a reality for most parts of the world. While there are nations who do not show a striking number of poverty stricken individuals, they can be seen from the homeless elders, or often termed as “bums”, who look for rest and slumber in any public place they can.
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| Down to Earth: Agriculture Iand Poverty Reduction in Africa | | 2007-07-28 10:24:00 | | Author: Luc J. Christiaensen, Lionel DemeryPaperback: 118 pagesPublisher: World Bank Publications (February 2007)Language: EnglishISBN: 0821368540This book contributes to the debate about the role of agriculture in poverty reduction by addressing three sets of questions: Does investing in agriculture enhance/harm overall economic growth, and if so, under what conditions? Do poor people tend to participate more/less in growth in agriculture than in growth in other sectors, and if so, when? If a focus on agriculture would tend to yield larger participation by the poor, but slower overall growth, which strategy would tend to have the largest payoff in terms of poverty reduction, and under which conditions? Zip Password: T0sT@rN@
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| Edwards Kicks off Poverty Tour | | 2007-07-16 13:38:00 | | Does anybody else find the idea of a poverty tour kind of odd? If poverty is a big issue you want to address, wouldn't taking the fat loads of money you're spending to tour poverty stricken areas and donating to feed said poverty striken people a better idea?I know I don't need to say this, but it's just another photo opportunity, plain and simple. Instead of trying to help people that are poverty stricken, why don't we get them jobs and offer them low income housing? Oh wait, we have the welfare system, nevermind.As long as we have a system in place that makes it too easy for people to not work and make money, we're always going to have 'poverty' issues. Let's help empower people and get them employed, which in turn would more than likely get them health care as well.Seems like a good many of the issues Mr. Edwards is concerned about would quickly dissapear, and the kicker is it would probably cost less tax payer dollars to do so instead of hemmoraging money to support those that really don't want to work anyways. | | By: The Dissident Awakens | | |
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| Iranians Live Under the Poverty Line | | 2007-07-05 10:47:00 | | A sociologist in the Iranian Ministry of Welfare, Sa’id Madani, believes that over the past three decades the level of poverty in Iranian society has widened greatly. According to Madani, 50% of Iranians lived under the poverty line in the 1980s, but since then this level has continued to rise, reaching 70-80% in recent years.In a newspaper article, Madani wrote that the Iranian national income per capita at fixed price (excluding inflation) was lower in 2003 and 2004 than in 1977 and 1978 (before the Islamic revolution). More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| No more poverty | | 2007-06-24 23:18:00 | | Christy
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I have lived in poverty my whole life. Even at 39 years old there seems no end in sight. My husband is disabled and my income is small and now they are cutting my hours. I have to dirve 40 miles to work and gas prices are really keeping income down. I have a 16 year old daughter that needs a vehicle to get to work and two of ours are broke down. I need prayers that the LORD hears me and that blessings are finally coming my way. I just want to pay bills and live comfortably. I don’t want riches, just enough to live. Oh Lord Hear my prayers. Let your blessings shine down upon me.I’ve lived in poverty for you my whole life and I still believe you want more for me. Please pray for my everyone. God Bless you and yours! | | By: Prayers Online | | |
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| Life Bank One Coin Counter, Tallying Up Your Escape from Poverty a Penny at a Time | | 2007-06-21 20:03:55 | |
Here’s an idea: Instead of just dropping your spare change into a gigantic bottle and putting off all that tedious counting for another day, why not just screw the Life Bank One coin counter on top of that bottle, and you’ll know how much money is in there all along? It gives you a running total in its little odometer-like readout.
Only trouble is, it counts Japanese yen at this point, but it’s a cool enough gadget that we’re hoping someone will convert it to US currency. Then you’ll be able to go ahead and manually count out $8 in change and plunk it down for this helpful little doo-dad, saving you the trouble and keeping you informed of your vast riches at the same time. – Charlie White
Life Bank One change counter [UberGizmo, via Sci Fi Tech] | | By: Information Popular Technologies Review | | |
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| Children of Poverty in the Philippines | | 2007-06-20 23:00:00 | | A very moving painting of the last supper titled Hapag ng Pag-asa (Table of Hope) with dirty street children of poverty portrayed in a different light by Joey Velasco. A symbolical portrayal instead of the long robed apostles we see haunting images of street children tempered with scavenging in garbage dumps amidst the squalor of their surrounding. These are children of poverty exposed to the | | By: Pedestrian Observer | | |
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| Children Casualties of Poverty in the Philippines | | 2007-05-30 08:00:00 | | The sad plight of children born in poverty and the dangers they faced on a daily basis has its cruel psychological and physical impact on the innocent existence of a young life. If life was indeed beautiful Philippine society has to respond to this nagging problem we have unwittingly created for them.
Children with Guns
Surfing the internet I came across this picture of an Amazon NPA in the | | By: Pedestrian Observer | | |
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| On the Fortuitous Poverty of Memory | | 2007-05-11 18:30:00 | | Introducing a friend of Peace, Case Wagenvoord, of Open Letters to George W. BushThe following poem was written by Renato Redentor Constantino who has been called the Phillipine's Eduardo Galeano.An Opening BenedictionHallowed Homeland, great Fatherland,Bless the star-spangled armada massing today in the Persian Gulf.Bless the gallant, nuclear-powered cavalry.They have come once more near the place of the malefactors calledIranians to punish purveyors of fell deeds.Glorious, indispensable natioin,Bless your cruisers, destroyers, and submarines.Part the sea for the steel raiment of the Uss Nimitz, the Uss Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Uss John C. Stennis aircraft carrier battle groups.Purify your soldier so they may do the bidding of the red, white and Bush.Bring them to temptation but lead them away from the epiphany ofrememberance.Men do not care to remember,And women would rather forget,And the innocent bombs, they know not what they do.
| | By: The Peace Tree | | |
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