Do more to stop poverty, PM urged
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More than 100 charities, trade unions and campaign groups join forces to urge Tony Blair to fight poverty.
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Â· Conditional support excludes right to vetoÂ· PM also calls for reform of World Bank and IMF
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Global lenders need to offer more grants and debt relief to poor countries and tailor lending toward the private sector, Treasury Secretary John Snow said today.
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Britain will provide more debt relief for the world's poorest countries and challenge other rich countries to do the same, Prime Minister Tony Blair's government said Sunday.
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India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the country's poor farm output and decrepit infrastructure are major barriers to achieving the double-digit economic growth needed to free millions from poverty.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown  outlines his plans to increase aid to developing countries and eliminate their debt.
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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 ...
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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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British finance minister Gordon Brown pledged over 2.0 billion pounds (2.9 million euros, 3.7 million dollars) to help eradicate poverty in the developing world and give a brighter future for millions of children.
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Housing charity Shelter welcomes the Prime Minister's commitment to create more social housing.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said that despite the huge aid operation in Asia, the world must step up efforts to tackle the plight of Africa, where there is "the equivalent of a man-made preventable tsunami every week".
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Despite India's economic boom in software and outsourcing services, economists have warned the government needs more reforms to create jobs in manufacturing to cut poverty.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown says institutions worldwide must change to better handle a globalised economy.
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Young workers need more help to get on the property ladder, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says.
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Major reforms to the benefits system are needed to ensure people who can work are not "written off", the PM will say.
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Oxfam urges Tony Blair to make the fight against African poverty a priority for his time left in office.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate says we need to devote global resources to education to end poverty.