Rich, poor gap worries world leaders
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Ahead of the UN General Assembly annual session, nearly 50 world leaders and the United Nations on Monday raised concerns about the rising gap between rich and the poor, but disagreed with United States on the strategy to fight poverty.
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In successive appeals to some of the world's business and political elites, Britain's Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac of France called for a concerted international effort to stem the twin ravages of disease and poverty hobbling the poorest nations.
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Rich nations failed to agree at meetings this weekend on a plan for canceling the debts the world&#39;s poorest countries owe to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
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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 or declining living standards, according to a report released Thursday by the...
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The politically sensitive gap in incomes between China's booming cities and the poor countryside is widening
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The gap between rich and poor remains huge, but a survey of global health finds that significantly fewer people in poorer countries say they have had to go without food or health care because they lacked the money to pay for it.
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By Terry Wade SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The gap between rich and poorin Brazil is huge but when it comes to housing, they often liveside-by-side.
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GENEVA, Oct 23 (IPS) - Rich countries have failed to carry out reform of  their domestic farm subsidies programmes to reduce distortions in  global trade, says a senior official of the Paris-based  Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a  grouping of 30 wealthy nations.
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A fifth year of powerful economic growth in East Asia and the Pacific has driven the number of people living in poverty in the region to its lowest level ever, but the World Bank warned Tuesday that oil prices could dampen the boom next year.
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The world's seven wealthiest nations said Saturday they were willing to take on up to 100 percent of the debt owed by some of the poorest countries. But they failed to agree on a British plan to boost international aid by &#36;50 billion a year.
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More than 100 nations struggled Monday to strike a balance between what rich and poor countries must do to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
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Many of the world's poorest countries lamented at a U.N. ministerial meeting Monday that some of the least developed nations are experiencing increases in extreme poverty.
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Finance officials failed to resolve their differences over debt relief for the worldâs poorest countries and Iraq while expressing concern about the impact high oil prices would have on a strengthening global economy.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The leaders of France and Brazil warned on Monday that poverty leads to violence and urged the international community to find ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor, casting a spotlight on the more than a billion people living on
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The poor could have a harder time moving up the income ladder as the higher education gap widens, a report said.
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Although world families are getting smaller in many regions, the 50 poorest countries are expected to triple in size to 1.7 billion people by 2050, posing many challenges for world countries.
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President Hosni Mubarak opened a World Economic Forum meeting Saturday with jabs at the United States and warnings that the world must overcome the widening gap between rich and poor and block escalating threats of terrorism.