Posts Tagged ‘Migrant Workers’

The debate on if the world will meet the MDGs

With five years left to go, there is a lot of debate on if the Millennium Development Goals will be met.

Some economists say that most areas of the world will at least be able to meet the Goal of halving poverty.

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Indonesian women look to other countries for work

From IRIN, a story on Indonesian women who are going overseas to find work, this is leaving many villages with a shortage of women.

The number of women leaving the archipelago, legally or illegally, has been steadily climbing over the past decade, according to the National Authority for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers.

An estimated six million Indonesian woman – some 90 percent of all Indonesian migrant labourers – are now working overseas, according to the authority.

Most go to the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Jordon and Qatar, with the rest are in Asia Pacific, including Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan.

Many Indonesian villages are left with a shortage of women.

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Trying To Stop The Afghan Drug Trade

Canadian soldiers patrol through an Afghan poppy field – Photo MCpl Robert Bottrill

Marines Try Unorthodox Tactics To Disrupt Afghan Opium Harvest — Washington Post

CAMP LEATHERNECK, AFGHANISTAN — U.S.

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How the Kyrgyzstan story relates to poverty

A big international news story during this past week has been the political turmoil in Kyrgyzstan. The impoverished country of 5 million people serves as a military base for the US Afghan war.

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Moneylenders vs microcredit

A story in the Wall Street Journal today challenges a claim made many microcredit advocates.

Before microcredit began, moneylenders would charge unfair interest rates to to the poor, rates so high that they were impossible to pay off.

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