- The Causes of Poverty
- This part of the globalissues.org web site looks into some of the causes of poverty. Why
are poor nations poor? What are the roles of the IMF, debt, the United Nations, United
States, Britain in all this? What is the effect of Structural Adjustment on developing
nations?
- Fidel Castro's Speech to
the UN about World Poverty - "...Why then is it still the case that each year, 12
million children under five years of age die - that is to say 33,000 per day - of whom the
overwhelming majority could be saved? Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no
war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by
hunger and poverty on our planet - 53 years after the creation of the United
Nations."
- The Institute on Race & Poverty - University
of Minnesota (USA).
- The
Lottery [Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly] - "People concerned about
environmental health, and about community economic development, should consider the
lottery like a poisoned well. People go there seeking hope, seeking huge benefits; instead
they get ripped off, impoverished by the state government that was elected to protect
them. The average person who consistently invests in the lottery will remain poor
forever."
- Partnerships for Poverty Reduction - An
initiative of the Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the World Bank, the United
Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Inter-American Foundation (IAF). Initiatives
to reduce poverty in the Caribbean region and Latin America.
- Poor People's Embassy - Christchurch New
Zealand. Advocates to give a voice to the Poor as well as teaching the Poor about their
own history and explaining to the rich what it is like to be poor. Web site topics include
workfare, privatisation, and rights under New Zealand law.
- Stewards Corporation Movement - Also known as the
Stewards Planetary House - A new just-being-born movement of working and non-working poor
people who seek to become increasingly able to work together to care for one another
together with the planet. Our approach is highly inquiry-oriented and includes new methods
of social organization, economics, information technology, childcare, personal
development, care of the earth, `co-obligation contracts to work together to care for one
another', and much else.
- Government benefit programs cut poverty nearly
in half, analysis finds - Study on the effectiveness of government programs in
reducing poverty. (September 3, 1998)
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