There is an increasing awareness of the moral, economic and security challenges posed by global poverty. Governments, the private sector and a broad range of non-governmental organizations are working—often in collaboration—to create new tools and bring to scale the innovative approaches that will sustain poverty alleviation.
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Much more can, and should, be done to seize new opportunities and tackle even the most daunting obstacles. While poverty has been reduced in some parts of the world, it is on the rise in others, and in an increasingly competitive global environment, targeted initiatives are essential.
2007 Annual Meeting Sessions
Session 1:
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs - From Poverty Alleviation to Wealth Creation
(Wednesday, September 26 at 1:30 PM)
Session 2:
Increasing Our Reach through Public-Private Partnerships
(Wednesday, September 26 at 3:30 PM)
Session 3:
Emerging from Crisis and Investing in the Future
(Thursday, September 27 at 10:30 AM)
Session 4:
Women as the Leaders of Change
(Thursday, September 27 at 2:00 PM)
Session 5:
Filling the Financing Gap
Friday, September 28 at 9:00 AM
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› Chinese Flocking in Numbers to a New Frontier: Africa The Xinhua press agency recently estimated there were at least 750,000 Chinese working or living for extended periods on the continent, a reflection of burgeoning economic ties between China and Africa that reached $55 billion in trade in 2006, compared with less than $10 million a generation earlier.
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› Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum Launches Foundation to Promote Human Development
His Highness, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, today launched the "Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation", a major initiative to promote human development and provide hope and opportunity by investing in education and the development of knowledge in the region. His Highness, Sheikh Mohammed, made the announcement in a keynote address at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East being held at the Dead Sea in Jordan.
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| › Residents Who Pin Their Hopes on BIG The residents of the small village of Otjivero in the Omitara area have their hopes pinned on the Basic Income Grant (BIG). The poverty-stricken village, 115 km from Windhoek, will be the first beneficiaries of the BIG, a monthly cash grant aimed at reducing destitution, poverty and inequality. Most of the 1 000-odd residents of this village, who are former farm workers evicted from the farms surrounding the area, have no source of income of their own. The only people with a regular income are those working for the primary school, the clinic, the police station, NamWater and Telecom. Others have to use their brains and hands and other means to survive. |
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