More than 1.4 billion people live in poverty so extreme that they can barely survive, and around 25,000 people die from hunger each day whilst a new billionaire is created every second day. The call for a global safety net has never been so urgent – and compels the international community to transform economic priorities and guarantee the universal securing of basic human needs.
via Poverty & Inequality.
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Sustainable Economics to End Global Poverty
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One thing that often gets shoved to the backburner is the effect of the global financial crisis on the poor. The new edition of Global Future which is publisehed by World Vision tackles that question.
Articles include:
- More than financial by David Lansley
- Aid in the time of financial meltdown by Roy Culpeper
- Small fish: global crises and the Latin American poor by Eduardo Nunes
- Africa: to integrate or to de-link? by Simon Heliso
- The global crisis and developing countries: what role for the G20? by Dirk Willem te Velde
- Families lose their main source of income (Armenia) by Gayane Ayvazyan
- Global crisis affecting micro-enterprise (the Philippines) by Jonar Dorado, Jonathan Neri & Roni Oracion
- Remittance : the past and future for Albania’s rural families (Albania) by Bardha Prendi
- Averting a development crisis by Rica Garde
- Re-thinking food security by David Lansley
- Bailing out the world’s poorest by Martin Ravallion
- Re-building the world’s financial architecture by Steve Keen
- Morals and money by Ann Pettifor
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The ONE Campaign will be sending a team of bloggers to the G20 Summit. This team will be composed of 50 bloggers, 20 will be from G20 countries, 15 from the developing world and 10 will be focused onpoverty reduction.
For more info see:
Send a Blogger to the G20 Summit.
G20 Voice
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