The development opportunity offered by mining lies in the potential for an increase in local procurement.

Local spending is how companies can maximize benefits to local communities. Increased local spending helps small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) create and sustain jobs, invest in their businesses, and establish performance records that make them more competitive and sustainable.

Poverty can be beaten when people have jobs. In the world’s poorest economies, 9 out of 10…

Every business institution and businessman can play a great positive role to develop a country. Many business institutions and businessmen have been working to develop their countries for a long time, side by side doing their profitable business. If every businessman would come forwards to do some works to develop…

Use the Poverty Research Archive as search tool for getting results related the poverty research. The search covers more than 60 Websites, which were selected for their excellent content on poverty reduction research and practice. The list of sourcescovers the major poverty research institutions.

Poverty…

Save the date to join us for our benefit: A 'Virtual Visit' to Choix, supporting Haiti's L’Ecole de Choix, the School of Choice, October 20, 2012, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at Francis Parker School, 330 West Webster St., Chicago

Choix provides children in Haiti living in conditions of extreme poverty access to a quality education with a focus on leadership development, human dignity and respect. We honor Haiti's culture while…

A South African company has reached the finals of a R7-million ($1-million) global challenge to solve the crisis of creating secure and affordable shelter for the poor. Over 100 presentations from around the world were submitted for the 2012 Hult Global Case Challenge, in the housing category –  and just six, including PE’s Moladi Housing Technology, have made the cut.…

The Community Cooker Foundation (A PLANNING Systems Services Initiative).

The Community Cooker Foundation is a result of Jim Archer’s determination to find a solution to the heaps of rubbish in Africa.  He is the brains behind the invention and development of the Community Cooker. Jim was moved by the massive amounts of garbage he saw and wanted to do something about it. He believed there could be proper ways of disposing of this garbage in a healthy, economical and profitable…

Caught up between wars, political unrest, droughts, floods and backward agriculture, Ethiopia sometimes seems doomed to never develop. And yet half or its problems (if not more) are man-made, just like famine is.

While restoring its deteriorated environment will take a long while, modernizing the agriculture, building a proper road network and promoting regional trade in East Africa are key aspects of solving the issue of the…

In my opinion, poverty is invariably self perpetuating. It breeds where the environment is conducive for its existence and growth. It survives and grows with all those individuals, families and communities who do not take express interest to shake off poverty and come out of poverty. It makes people feel comfortable just to remain in it and complain about it and living it out rather than doing something to drive it away.

One sure way to eradicate poverty would be to create a…

This is an excerpt from the introduction of an article on poverty in the United states (full article here):

"In 2009, the Census Bureau counted over 43 million people living in poverty in the United States. And the idea is that this makes US recovery all the more difficult because the more poverty there is, the more it affects the economy and the…

I’m a self-confessed value chain fundi.   Tracking what happens up and down a company’s value chain, where and how poor people engage, can be massively revealing.  So I welcome the new report, ‘Exploring the Links between International Business and Poverty Reduction; The Coca-Cola/SAB Miller value chain impacts in Zambia and El Salvador.’

It's not earth shattering, but that is precisely why…

The method of poverty lines has been under constant criticism for its partial representation of poverty (limited to income) and the easiness to manipulate them.

If there are good historical reasons for using poverty lines, they are less and less relevant as a unique tool for measuring poverty in developing countries.

Hiding behind a veil of technocracy, policymakers should rather…

For decades and decades debates in academic and international organizations milieus have striven to define absolute poverty. Does such thing exist? Is there anything absolute on earth, while most approaches link poverty with their social, cultural and regional context ?

Is it that necessary to rack one's brain over a proper definition of what absolute poverty is ?

What is at stake,…

Why not start a fight against poverty with the appropriate definitions and concepts in mind?

This is what my website's lastest section is about. Definitions of poverty, its different forms, causes, statistics (and the manipulations and stakes behind the numbers), ... !!

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Dario

Anything or anyone claiming to save the world is appropriately met with eye-rolling and sighing- we’ve been there and done that.  We are the cynical people who have been sold a bill of goods our whole lives by Wall Street and Madison Avenue. With the recent forced-opening of the finance industry's kimonos there is no question in our minds- there is no silver bullet to save the world. 

The general consensus (globally) is that every activity of the human race…

 It's 9:34 pm, and I am editing a transcript for Hasina Kharbhih, warrior extraordinaire in the battle against human trafficking.  I should have edited it a month ago, but I volunteered for too many things and subsequently got stuck in the land of procrastination.  

But, now I am editing, and the report is covering how the media in the northeast region can help or hinder the fight against trafficking.  I came across this…