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Healthcare Costs Impoverish 150m Worldwide - 17-07-2007
At least 150 million people worldwide suffer financial catastrophe each year and 100 million are pushed under the poverty level simply because they need to pay for health services, according to new World Health Organization (WHO) research published today i...
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Incomes and Inequality Rising in South Asia - 10-07-2007
Despite rapid economic growth, economic disparity is increasing in South Asia, according to the annual Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report by the UN, which also says that a massive 30 percent of the population still lives on a dollar a day in the Ind...
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Have your say on DFID's new research strategy - 10-07-2007
The Department for International Development (DFID) is seeking views to help it develop a new research strategy. The new strategy will start in April 2008 and replace the Research Funding Framework 2005–2007.
The Government’s 2006 White Pape...
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Live Earth - succes or failure? - 09-07-2007
The Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium and other cities around the world was held on Saturday to raise public awareness about the dangers of climate change and global warming, but what where you thinking while you were watching it - "enjoyable music" or...
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Anti-poverty targets in Africa will not be met, UN warns - 03-07-2007
The whole of sub-Saharan Africa - the poorest region of the world - will fail to meet the goals set seven years ago for eradicating global poverty by 2015 - the United Nations warned today.
In a progress report at the halfway point to the target dat...
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