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World Bank echoes food cost alarm - 14-04-2008
The rapid rise in food prices could push 100 million people in poor countries deeper into poverty, World Bank head, Robert Zoellick, has said.
His warning follows that from the leader of the International Monetary Fund, who said hundreds of...
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The South Teaches the North How to Break Poverty Cycle - 03-04-2008
Development solutions usually travel North to South or South-South. But now one of the most successful ones has gone in a totally new direction from Mexico to the U.S. To help
some of its poorest people climb out of poverty traps that are often mult...
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Globalisation and War - 25-03-2008
Corporate-led, finance-driven globalisation has successfully transferred wealth from labour to capital. This has resulted in inequality and exclusion on a massive scale which, combined with the pressure on water and other environmental resources, is likely...
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