Poverty Index
Latest Additions:
- 338,000 Afghan infants dying under Obama war
- Number of Hungry Rises Above 1 Billion
- World cannot survive without a revolution
- Images of the Day: G20 at a Glance
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- The Anti Poverty Day
- What We Always Believed, World Bank Finally Confirms
- Fight For Food!
- We Need Food!
- If the world were falling apart!
- Emerging Food Crisis
Articles:
- Income-Inequality Gap Widens: Wealthiest 1% of Americans earned 21.2% of all income in2005
- U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty, By Tony Pugh
- U.S. Poverty Data Raise New Questions About Cost of War
- Proud Veteran
- Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
- While poverty persists, there is no freedom: Millions remain enslaved and in chains at a time of breathtaking advances in technology and wealth. By Nelson Mandela
- A Humanitarian Critique of Winning the Oil Endgame
- Hunger Report
- Champaign Glass Economy: Richest 2% hold half the world’s assets, the poorest half hold only 1 per cent of wealth.
Poverty Index
- UNDP: The United Nations Development Program
- UNDP Poverty Page
- Poverty Report 2000
- The Human Development Reports
- Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism: The consequences of the global expansion of capitalism
- Facts on the Concentration of Wealth
- Global Poverty: The Gap Between the World’s Rich and Poor Is Growing, and the Dying Continues
- Poverty Map: Resources Page
- Global Issues That Affect Everyone: Causes of Poverty
- Odious Debts: An information source for the global odious debt movement
- Probe International: Exposes the devastating environmental, social, and economic effects of Canada’s aid and trade abroad
- The Rural Poverty Portal
- Poverty: Wikipedia Entry
- Forbes List of the World’s Richest
- Social & Economic Injustice: Rich Man, Poor Man; Rich Nations, Poor Nations
- The state of the world: Brief introduction to global issues
- Inequality of Wealth and Income Distribution: The consequences of income inequality
- Economic inequality: Wikipedia entry
- UC Atlas of Global Inequality: Most of the world’s people are poor
- The UNU/WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID): Information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries
- Extreme Poverty (Wikipedia Portal)
- Extreme Poverty (Images)
- World Hunger
- Money as Debt [Video]
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