Poverty

Poverty growing in DuPage County (The Lisle Sun)

16 May 2008

Compared with its neighboring counties, DuPage County's poverty rate has exploded in the past quarter-century.

RP anti-poverty projects eligible for US funding (GMA News)

16 May 2008

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines is considered eligible to secure funding from the US-based Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), indicating that local, innovative, and results-driven anti-poverty projects could be sponsored by Washington.

Nigeria: Napep Promises to Eradicate Poverty (AllAfrica.com)

16 May 2008

Coordinator, National Poverty Eradication Programme, Dr. Magnus Kpakol said that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has made poverty eradication a central point in his development agenda in the country to meet up his vision 2020.