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Tag: economic growth

Mixed messages out of Africa

Two contrasting narratives on Africa’s fragile economic development will confront heads of state gathering in Turkey for a critical UN conference on the world’s “Least Developed Countries” which starts today.

Published May 9, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged africa, economic growth, poverty reduction, yahoo

African economic growth fails the hungry

Latest world polls conducted by Gallup find that 57% of sub-Saharan Africans periodically lack sufficient money to feed their families. Gallup says the recent surge in global food prices could make matters worse.

Published April 11, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged africa, economic growth, food security, land grabbing, yahoo

Global poverty needs global priority

The new OneWorld Global Poverty Guide strives to inject new energy into the reordering of global priorities that is needed more than ever to create a fairer world.

Published August 10, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged development data, economic growth, oneworld, poverty reduction
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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things