Rising Food Prices Harm Indias Poor, Middle Class Its 5 p.m. and customers are crowding this vegetable market in the northern Indian city of Lucknow. Annamma Rajput listens closely to the vendors and then haggles to bring prices down. She focuses on...
GENEVA The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reports it is struggling to provide assistance to increasing numbers of new poor in Europe. The latest statistics by the European Union show more than 26 million peopl...
Fiscal Cliff Could Have Greatest Impact on Poor, Unemployed At a Los Angeles center, Catholic Charities provides food and other assistance to the poor, unemployed, and homeless. A homeless man, John Wood, is sitting with his belongs in a grocery cart...
Where Do the Worlds Poor Live? Most of the worlds poor do not live in poor countries. New research says nearly 80 percent are actually in middle income countries. Two billion poor people those who live on two dollars a day or less live in middle inco...
Dump Provides Livelihood, Brings Perils to Nairobi Poor Sixteen-year-old Joseph is one of the many children working at the Dandora dump site. He has been here since January, when he left school because his family could not afford his school fees. Hes...
Economics Report - Microcredit Is Expanding to New Products for the Poor This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Modern microfinance started with economist Muhammad Yunus. In the nineteen seventies, he started what became the Grameen Bank i...
Economics Report - Microsavings Could Mean Big Gains for the Worlds Poor 经济报道 - 小额储蓄大收益 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 When it comes to savings, no amount is to...
Neglected Diseases Afflict South Asia's Poor At a time when economists predict that South Asia's economy will grow, health experts point to hundreds of millions suffering from neglected infections, often as a result of poverty. In a series of new stu...
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- It is widely accepted that obesity leads to an increased risk of health complications, but new studies quoted by media Tuesday challenge the conventional notion. Our studies challenge the idea that all obese individual...
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