Gifts from rich highlight plight of world's poor
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Huge gifts to charity from U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett and others have won widespread praise, but some say the same economic process that helped earn those fortunes is leaving billions more in dire poverty.
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A Bridgewater company is betting the road to success goes through some of the world's poorest countries.
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A resort in Labadie, Haiti, is a world away for most people in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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Privatisation and trade liberalisation policies foisted on developing countries in return for financial help are often bad for the poor, according to a confidential government paper.
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When analysts hand you gifts like these, it's hard to know what to say.
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People worldwide opened their hearts and wallets on Thursday to give millions of dollars to the victims of Asia&#39;s tsunamis, jamming phone lines and web sites and outpacing their own governments in their generosity.
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Malawian widow Akice Kunkhoma  makes just pennies a day as she looks after five grandchildren  orphaned by AIDS, but she still owes the world's richest  nations $240 -- with interest.
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A major UN report on world poverty calls for a huge increase in development aid to the poorest countries.
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Food donations to the world's hungry have fallen to their lowest level since 1973 as surging grain and shipping prices outpace the aid budgets of rich nations.
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In countries where A.T.M.âs are few or nonexistent, cellphones are helping microlenders bring financial services to poor and remote areas.
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Income inequality is near record levels in many countries, and the worldÃÂs wealth has become even more narrowly concentrated than income.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed up with the Rockefeller Foundation to invest some 150 million dollars in a development project tackling poverty and hunger in African communities.
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British Finance Minister Gordon Brown urged rich nations to provide extensive debt relief to developing countries to help them in their efforts to eradicate poverty.
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The world's richest man, one of its most visible social activists and Britain's leader put a sharp focus on the horrors facing Africa's poor on Thursday, saying the planet's indifference to the suffering has been scandalous.
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Rural and deprived communities worldwide are benefiting from the increased availability of computers.
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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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DROWNING IN DEBT: African nations say debt incurred by past generations is keeping them poor and unable to cope with pressing needs, such as the AIDS epidemic.