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Opinion
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6/14/2024 2:44:03 PM
The task is immense, because Africa’s challenges are great. Nearly 500 million Africans live in poverty, while conflict, climate change, unsustainable debt burdens, and other crises cast a shadow over the continent’s economic outlook.
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World
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Region
5/25/2024 9:01:53 PM
More than a quarter of Syrians live in extreme poverty, the World Bank said Saturday, 13 years into a devastating civil war that has battered the economy and impoverished millions.
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World
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Region
5/23/2024 3:22:30 PM
Poverty in Lebanon tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country slid into a protracted financial crisis, the World Bank said Thursday.
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Opinion
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5/23/2024 12:32:04 PM
The world’s development institutions are increasingly turning away from poverty-related ills like hunger, infectious disease and illiteracy—the challenges still facing most people across the planet.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/2/2024 9:03:05 PM
The Palestinian economy is estimated to shrink by 26.9 percent after seven months of Israel's Gaza war, with the poverty rate surging, said a new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) assessment released Thursday.
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World
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International
3/26/2024 7:18:14 PM
More than a decade ago, the death of 600 migrants and refugees in two Mediterranean shipwrecks near Italian shores shocked the world and prompted the UN migration agency to start recording the number of people who died or went missing as they fled conflict, persecution or poverty to other countries.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/18/2024 2:04:57 PM
Anti-poverty charity Oxfam on Monday accused Israel of intentionally preventing the delivery of aid into Gaza, in violation of international humanitarian law.
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World
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International
1/15/2024 11:10:39 AM
The world's wealthiest five men have more than doubled their fortune since 2020, the charity Oxfam said on Monday, as it called on nations to resist the ultra-rich's influence over tax policy.
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Opinion
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12/27/2023 6:17:11 PM
The ongoing war in Ukraine and the fighting in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack must not distract the world from our collective priorities: reducing our CO2 emissions, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, preserving biodiversity, and fighting poverty and inequality.
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Business
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Energy
12/9/2023 3:49:17 PM
The Swedish Energy Agency entered a $28.2 million agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to combat global carbon emissions and alleviate poverty in Africa, according to a statement by UNDP on Friday.
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World
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International
12/9/2023 10:06:57 AM
A century-old territorial dispute deepened by the discovery of oil is boiling over between neighbors Guyana and Venezuela. Steeped in patriotism, the Venezuelan government is seizing on the fight to boost support ahead of a presidential election among a population fed up with a decade-long crisis that has pushed many into poverty.
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World
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International
9/18/2023 10:44:41 AM
For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic. Then, it was Russia's war in Ukraine. Throughout it all, the perils of climate change, poverty, and inequality have steadily, increasingly thrummed through each convening of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
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World
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International
9/13/2023 11:14:28 AM
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a sharp slowdown in the fight to end child poverty, with 333 million children still living in extreme poverty, according to a report published Wednesday.
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World
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International
9/7/2023 8:44:21 PM
From the fight against poverty to education access, from political representation to economic opportunity, the world is "failing women and girls," the United Nations warned in a report on gender equality released Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/6/2023 9:59:00 AM
"Whether in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger or Gabon, one key reason behind the popular support for recent coups is that many African peoples have grown frustrated with the status quo and the way the ruling elites have functioned for decades, leading to more poverty, suffering and waves of refugees who would rather die trying to emigrate than stay home, jobless and poor."
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Business
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Economy
8/17/2023 12:17:01 PM
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for patience in a speech released as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a deepening economic slump and said Western countries are “increasingly in trouble” because of their materialism and “spiritual poverty.”
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/18/2023 6:53:13 PM
G20 finance chiefs ended talks in India Tuesday with disagreement over Russia's war in Ukraine, limited progress on debt restructuring and warnings that divisions between rich and poor nations risked deepening poverty.
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Business
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Economy
7/18/2023 11:47:02 AM
The new head of the World Bank said Tuesday that growing divides between rich and poor nations risked deepening poverty in the developing world, at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in India.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/27/2023 2:34:06 PM
For many Sudanese struggling to survive the war, a taste of the sheep Muslims traditionally sacrifice for the feast of Eid al-Adha is but a distant memory.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/26/2023 1:08:57 PM
A quarter of children around the world are set to live in poverty this year after Russia's war in Ukraine raised food and energy costs, a rights group warned on Monday.
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