Full Coverage: Poverty

02.11.2009 Climate change and food security negotiations are stumbling over the reluctance of rich countries to stump up the costs. They have thrown all their resources at a bunch of bankrupt banks.

30.10.2009 Poor communities in the developing world are “part of the solution” to tackling climate change, a leading Catholic aid group has told UK faith leaders.

22.10.2009 "When a feisty young married woman inspires a church minister known for his inappropriate choice of women to join a campaign to end poverty, the result is an explosive mix that takes them into a world that neither bargained for."

16.10.2009 The Stand Up Take Action global event has officially begun.
+ The global financial crisis: identifying the chronically poor in low income countries

13.10.2009 After a year in which progress on eradicating global poverty has actually reversed, millions of people will come together across continents, cultures and time zones next week to tell their governments in no uncertain terms what they want them to do: End Poverty Now.

27.09.2009 William Easterly asserts that poverty is not a human right because governments cannot be accountable for its violation. Amnesty has replied to this nonsense. Aid Watch

27.09.2009 William Easterly is critical of the UN basis of calculating that the economic crisis will add 100 million to the numbers experiencing extreme poverty in 2009. Fair enough, but is he suggesting that poverty is falling? Aid Watch

07.09.2009 Many of us who are critical of the process of globalisation have enjoyed its rewards. But we must speak out on behalf of the poor who continue to get a raw deal.

19.08.2009 An international water conference this week wants to ensure that rural and poor people have access to clean water even as climate and population pressures drive the number of those in need beyond 1 billion.
+ Progressio takes “Just Add Water” message to Stockholm’s World Water Week

13.08.2009 The Chinese government has announced a pensions initiative to reduce the gap in living standards between its urban and rural populations. BBC

10.08.2009 The new OneWorld Global Poverty Guide strives to inject new energy into the reordering of global priorities that is needed more than ever to create a fairer world.

11.07.2009 An important report published jointly by Oxfam and Greenpeace suggests that climate change will be the strongest force acting on poverty reduction in China. Oxfam Hong Kong

19.05.2009 Personal reflections on global events of the past week by Bill Gunyon, Editor of OneWorld Guides.

27.04.2009 Governments are responding to public disgust at financial greed by increasing taxes for high earners. But it's a reminder that becoming a little less rich does not address extreme global inequalities.

22.03.2009 A new site which aggregates civil society opinion about the global financial crisis, based on the premise that the political response so far is wholly inadequate. from Bretton Woods Project

14.03.2009 Tanzania is often described as a development success story in Africa. It doesn't look that way if you study the facts of life for the poor.

02.02.2009 We're seeing a lot of headlines about global unemployment. But is it really "global" or just a measure of problems for the richer countries?

01.02.2009 Beautifully written explanation of the contribution of post War history to the structural faultlines that impede development in northern Ghana. Pambazuka News

26.01.2009 Would global poverty feature in the new president's inauguration speech? Yes it did, but let's hope that Barack Obama adopts rather less biblical language when it comes to real policy.

18.12.2008 Despite driving poor communities off their land and patently failing to deliver carbon emissions reductions, lobbyists for big industries and institutions such as the World Bank were active in Poznan climate negotiations pushing for further deregulation and expansion of the market-based Clean Development Mechanism.