A new report published today by UNICEF finds that the proportion of children living in poverty has risen in 17 out of 24 industrialised nations of the OECD over the past decade. This amounts to some 40 -50 million children growing up below national poverty lines in the world’s richest countries.
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Monday, March 21, 2005
Social Class and the US Economy: The uneven burden of money's higher cost
By Ron Scherer
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK – The cost of being a borrower is rising.
As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates - as it is expected to do again Tuesday - everyone from students to car buyers to anyone carrying a credit-card balance will start to notice that lenders are charging more.
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Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK – The cost of being a borrower is rising.
As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates - as it is expected to do again Tuesday - everyone from students to car buyers to anyone carrying a credit-card balance will start to notice that lenders are charging more.
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Social Class and the US Economy: The uneven burden of money's higher cost
By Ron Scherer
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK – The cost of being a borrower is rising.
As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates - as it is expected to do again Tuesday - everyone from students to car buyers to anyone carrying a credit-card balance will start to notice that lenders are charging more.
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Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK – The cost of being a borrower is rising.
As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates - as it is expected to do again Tuesday - everyone from students to car buyers to anyone carrying a credit-card balance will start to notice that lenders are charging more.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
BRAZIL: Lack of Land Rights is Killing Indigenous Children, Say Activists
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 14 (IPS) - ”We don't want charity or paternalistic projects,” stressed the leaders of the Guarani-Kaiowá indigenous community in the midwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, where at least eight children have died so far this year from malnutrition.
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Sunday, March 06, 2005
Globalization and Health
Mexico's Minister of Health talks about the role that disease, violence, and malnutrition play in the dialogue over global economic development.
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