Full Coverage: Poverty

31.07.2007 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have reached a halfway point but little seems to have changed, particularly for women whose lives are most affected by extreme poverty. The MDGs do not deal with the underlying causes for women and girl's poverty which needs to be understood in ways men and women access and control services and resources.

31.07.2007 New Delhi based organisation Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), announces a five-day refresher workshop on how to use the environment to eradicate poverty in rural India, from 19-23 November, 2007 at the Anil Agarwal Green College New Delhi 110062, India.

30.07.2007 ActionAidÂ’s Hunger Monitoring project reveals that climate change and oppression in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have worsened hunger and deprivation amongst the population. The study points out significant changes in weather patterns over the last four to five years which has adversely affected farming.

26.07.2007 The Community Radio movement in Bangladesh is likely to get a fillip after a high level meeting was organized by the Ministry of
Information to find out ways to launch community radio on a pilot
basis.

26.07.2007 According to a recently released report by the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the world's least developed countries (LDC) are falling behind in technology. The report said foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into LDCs had increased substantially three times in the past 10 years but with little contribution to technological apability accumulation in LDCs.

24.07.2007 A new research says that with controversies taking place often - genetically modified crops and AIDS drugs - there has to be more involvement of the common man in decision-making related to scientific and technological issues.

24.07.2007 Egov magazine interviews Kuanishbek Esekeev, the Chairman of Agency for Informatisation and Communications, Republic of Kazakhstan on the development of IT-technologies and the vision of the National e-Government Programme of the country.

23.07.2007 A meeting by Bangladeshi NGOs - Strategic Use of ICT for Poverty Reduction - held on July 17, 2007 at in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka focused on using ICTs strategically to empower the poor.

23.07.2007 A new report by the United Nations - Knowledge, Technological Learning and Innovation - focuses on how governments in the least developed countries (LDCs) can promote technological progress in order to achieve economic growth which can reduce poverty.

19.07.2007 The first-ever conference on the use of Web 2.0 tools for rural and agricultural development and natural resource management will be held at Rome, Italy, from 25-27 September, 2007. The meeting will be hosted by FAO and supported by CTA among others.

18.07.2007 Pakistan NGOs are calling to voice the demands of masses for ending poverty on the worldÂ’s longest banner. The campaign is a follow-up to the events of 07.07.07 that highlighted the need to actualize the Millennium Development Goals.

16.07.2007 Manthan Award 2007 announces nominations for e-Content stakeholders across India working on developmental issues at the grassroots level. The last date for the nomination is 31st July 2007.

12.07.2007 Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) has launched the Global Young Social EntrepreneursÂ’ Competition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Global Competition will select 100 winners who will attend the upcoming Young Social Entrepreneurs Forum. The winners will be announced on 1 October 2007, after a review by an independent jury.

12.07.2007 Economic growth eludes the poor in South Asia, according to the recently-released UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report 2007. The report says that over 30 per cent of the population still lives on a dollar a day in the region.

12.07.2007 APDIP (Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme) has released its second e-Note on information and communications technology (ICT) skill development in the Asia-Pacific region. The first in the series examined the gaps between demand and supply of ICT skills, this e-Note focuses on what could be done to bridge the identified gaps at national and regional levels.

11.07.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 (OneWorld) - Government leaders across the world are being shamed for failing to keep their words on eliminating extreme poverty.

11.07.2007 Poverty is decreasing in Bangladesh but disparities between rich-poor disparity is on the rise. So claims the Civil Society Progress Report on MDGs 2007 released by PeopleÂ’s Forum on MDGs (PFM), to mark the mid-point to the MDG deadline in 2015.

10.07.2007 To mark the mid-point to the MDG deadline, 07.07.07, Delhi based WNTA has prepared state mid-reviews and a national level checklist – a ready-reference on the progress made by the Indian government against the key targets and indicators of the Millennium Development Goals.

06.07.2007 Anti-poverty campaigners around the world are organising a broad range of events around July 7th to mark the midway point for the UN Millennium Development Goals and to hold their governments to account. Part of the growing Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), the July 07, 2007 events will focus on how governmentsÂ’ efforts to meet these goals are insufficient and to highlight the growing threat of climate change on the poor and marginalised.

06.07.2007 NEW DELHI, Jul 6 (OneWorld) - 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 Indian subcontinent.