Poverty
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest - Nelson Mandela
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To Help End Extreme Poverty, Strengthen Support for Global Nutrition Programs
Like dangerous roads, dirty water, and a lack of electricity, poor nutrition is part of the infrastructure on which extreme poverty festers. It undermines growth in developing countries and communities, gnawing at progress from the inside and preventing millions of people from reaching their potential.
But for as much life-saving and economy-growing good as they do, efforts to improve the basic nutrition of those living in the poorest parts of the world receive shockingly little investment from the U.S. government. Nearly half of all deaths of children under five are caused by a lack of the essential ingredients that their bodies…
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Bill and Melinda Gates: The world’s priority should be poverty reduction in Africa
The world’s priority for the next three decades should be a third wave of poverty reduction in Africa,” the Gates write in the report, noting the two earlier waves of poverty reduction in China and India that have contributed to the emergence of over a billion people from extreme poverty over the last two decades.
Government Can’t Rescue the Poor
Federal programs have reduced material poverty at the cost of promoting idleness and dependency.
Is It Getting Harder to Care for Poor Patients?
We’ve been unable — or unwilling — to include social factors in how we support and pay doctors.
Our Global Food Challenges: The Decade to Act
In the context of a rapidly and dramatically changing global nutrition landscape, influenced by economic and income growth, rapid urbanisation and globalisation, human diets and diet-related epidemiology have seen significant shifts in recent decades.
Play as a Way to Ameliorate Poverty
The benefits children get from play are incalculable, yet the children who may need it most tend to get the least of it.
The Science of How Poverty Harms the Brain
The stress of poverty can change the brain in ways that further disadvantage the poor.
Causes of Poverty
Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Why is this? Is it enough to blame poor people for their own predicament? Have they been lazy, made poor decisions, and been solely responsible for their plight? What about their governments? Have they pursued policies that actually harm successful development? Such causes of poverty and inequality are no doubt real. But deeper and more global causes of poverty are often less discussed.
How Being Poor Makes You Sick
Some patients are being "prescribed" bicycles and groceries as doctors attempt to treat the lifestyle consequences of poverty, in addition to its medical symptoms. Can it work?
How Many People in the World Are Actually Poor?
Good news: Economists at Oxford have come up with a better method for measuring global poverty. Bad news: There are way more poor people than previously thought.
It Is Expensive to Be Poor
Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can't save up enough to move on.
Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life
As it turns out, living in poor neighborhoods isn't just an inconvenience. It's a huge factor in what our lives — and our children's lives — turn out to be.
Shame on People Who Fat-Shame
Obesity isn’t nearly as bad for your health as poverty is. Let’s extend the logic...
The Countless Ways Poverty Affects People's Health
Many gaps persist, from lower birth weights to shorter life spans.
The Role of Highways in American Poverty
If part of a body is sick, the whole body can’t be healthy, and many cities across America have parts that aren’t doing very well. But there are regions that are trying to become healthier by coming together, rather than pulling apart. Tearing down a highway can be one way to do this.
To Help End Extreme Poverty, Strengthen Support for Global Nutrition Programs
The truth is: the future of foreign assistance isn’t simply more aid, it’s better aid. It’s innovative programs, public-private partnerships, and the prioritization of investments in efficiently fighting the causes of extreme poverty, instead of merely its symptoms. Investment in getting the world’s poorest people the nutrition they need to thrive not only save lives... it helps grow economies.
Health Poverty Action
Health Poverty Action is an international NGO that was established in 1984 by a group of health professionals. Since our very beginnings, we have taken a justice-oriented approach, developing strong community roots, creating comprehensive and integrated health systems, and addressing the social determinants of health.
ONE
ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organization of more than seven million people around the world taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. We believe the fight against poverty isn’t about charity, but about justice and equality.
Poverty.com
About 21,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every four seconds...Sadly, it is children who die most often. Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty.
The Borgen Project
The Borgen Project believes that leaders of the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global poverty. We’re the innovative, national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy.
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