Africa to miss key poverty goals
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Africa will miss key targets for reducing poverty by more than 100 years, says UK chancellor Gordon Brown.
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LONDON  - Rich nations need to do much more to overcome global poverty, Oxfam said in a report aimed at influencing Britain&#39;s turn at the helm of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations.
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With little progress on the primary goal of United Nations climate talks, a secondary quest to help poor countries cope with global warming has now become a central theme of the gathering.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 7 -- Despite an intensified campaign against poverty, World Bank programs have failed to lift incomes in many poor countries over the past decade, leaving tens of millions of people suffering stagnating and even declining living standards, according to a report released Thursday by...
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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is under pressure over crime but his annual speech is expected to highlight poverty.
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Africa, a continent usually synonymous with hunger, is falling prey to obesity.
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The recent goodwill of wealthy  industrialized countries toward Africa could dissipate unless  the continent tackles corruption, rock star and activist Bono  told African finance ministers on Sunday.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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Climate change threatens to undo the world's attempts to eradicate poverty, a coalition of aid agencies warn.
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Poverty in Africa, global economic growth and revaluation of China's currency were the issues expected to dominate a two-day meeting of top G7 finance ministers.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair this week will put efforts to curb disease and poverty in Africa at the center of the agenda of the Group of Eight industrial nations next year.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - African leaders lobbied the  Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money  on Wednesday to solve a cash crunch but were told a new round  of funding was likely to be delayed by several months.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will try to push poverty reduction back onto the G8 agenda, warning it will take &amp;quot;hard work for years to come&amp;quot; to tackle extreme poverty in Africa.
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International assistance to the Palestinians will not be effective unless Israel eases travel restrictions that have stalled some aid projects and sent the costs of others soaring, Oxfam International warned on the eve of a donors' conference.
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LUSAKA: Africa must move away from conflicts and begin to pool its resources to develop the impoverished continent and reduce poverty, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday.
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With Africa lagging behind in global development goals and rich countries cutting aid, leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme poverty on the continent.
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Rising global temperatures will hit Africa's poor the hardest, reducing their ability to deal with disease, feed themselves and earn a living, a scientist told an international conference on climate change Wednesday.