Oxfam raps rich nations over aid
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Wealthy countries need to do much more to fight global poverty, the international aid agency Oxfam says.
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Wealthy nations will discuss absolving poor countries of loan payments at Friday's G-7 summit.
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JOWHAR, Somalia  - A top Islamist has accused   Western aid agencies of squandering funds on luxury cars and   fancy houses instead of helping the poor.
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Rich countries are likely to back  Britain's bid to channel more debt relief and resources to  Africa, which is ready to shake off the shackles of poverty,  British finance minister Gordon Brown said.
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Poverty leads to violence, the leaders of France and Brazil warned Monday in urging other nations to find ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor and help the more than 1 billion people who live on less than $1 per day.
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Wealthy countries are balking at financing World Bank projects because of their own budget problems and lingering questions over the bankâs relevance.
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International aid officials and development experts are voicing concern that the outpouring of generosity from the world's governments may deplete resources for other pressing needs in much poorer countries.
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One of the world's poorest countries, Cambodia, is set to ask for almost $2bn in aid over the next three years.
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The United Nations on Friday  asked wealthy nations to donate an extra $59 million in aid to  help about 400,000 people in Grenada and Haiti recover from a  recent wave of storms and flooding.
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South African democracy icon Nelson  Mandela challenged rich nations Thursday to help end the misery  of the world's poorest millions.
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The United Nations appealed to the world's prosperous nations on Thursday for $3.9 billion in donations next year to address humanitarian emergencies touching 27 million people in 29 countries, with most of the money targeted at Africa.
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A global emergency fund set up to get aid to disaster zones more quickly has received "exceptionally poor support" from some of the richest donors, aid agency Oxfam said on Friday.
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LONDON: The world's rich industrialised nations stepped up their efforts yesterday to help Asian countries devastated by the tsunami by offering to freeze billions of dollars in debt repayments.
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Britain needs to spend more to help poorer nations deal with climate change, Oxfam says.
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More than 100 countries have endorsed a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion (28 billion pounds) a year in development aid to combat global hunger, but the
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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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Britain will provide more debt relief for the world&#39;s poorest countries and challenge other rich governments to do the same, Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government said Sunday.