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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
12/3/2024 10:18:19 PM
Parliament provisionally approves a draft law aimed at financially supporting those who live below the poverty line
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/19/2024 9:11:00 AM
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi highlighted Egypt's commitment to tackling global inequality and hunger, announcing the country’s membership in the newly launched “Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty” while urging to end the Israeli war on Gaza and Lebanon.
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World
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International
11/18/2024 9:41:44 AM
G20 leaders gather in Brazil on Monday to discuss fighting poverty, boosting climate financing and other multilateral initiatives that could yet be upended by Donald Trump's impending return to the White House.
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Business
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Economy
10/22/2024 8:58:05 PM
The global war against inflation has largely been won, and at surprisingly little cost to economic growth, the International Monetary Fund declared Tuesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/22/2024 12:48:44 PM
The poverty rate across the Palestinian territories will almost double this year to 74.3 per cent after a year of the Israeli war on Gaza, according to a report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) released Tuesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/17/2024 2:55:59 PM
More than a year into Israel's war, "nearly 100 percent" of Gaza's population has been plunged into poverty with a ruined economy and "staggering" unemployment, the UN said Thursday.
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World
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International
10/17/2024 10:14:06 AM
More than one billion people are living in acute poverty across the globe, a UN Development Program report said Thursday, with children accounting for over half of those affected.
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Business
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Economy
10/15/2024 7:29:13 PM
A global target of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is "out of reach," said the World Bank on Tuesday, adding it could take three decades or more to do so.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/15/2024 6:59:59 PM
The three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics emphasise the importance of institutions and governance in explaining the poverty and wealth of nations, writes Mahmoud Mohieldin
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World
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International
9/23/2024 11:45:29 AM
The U.N. General Assembly approved a blueprint Sunday to bring the world’s increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges from climate change and artificial intelligence to escalating conflicts and increasing inequality and poverty.
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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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