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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The debate on if the world will meet the MDGs
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on August 31st, 2010
Posted in World News 
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Comments OffIndonesian women look to other countries for work
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on April 29th, 2010
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.
Posted in World News Tags: Archipelago, Edin, Employment Agents, Farming Community, Indonesian Woman, Indonesian Women, Java Island, Jordon, Malaysia Singapore, Migrant Labour, Migrant Labourers, Migrant Workers, Remittances, Saudi Arabia, Singapore Hong Kong, Single Parent, South Korea, Travel Costs, Two Teenagers, World News, Yoko Comments OffTrying To Stop The Afghan Drug Trade
Posted by Bookyards on April 13th, 2010
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.
Posted in World News Tags: Administration Personnel, Canadian Soldiers, Crops, Drug Enforcement Administration, Enclave, Farmers, Field Photo, Gap, Intensive Effort, Leatherneck, Marines, Marja, Migrant Workers, Opium Harvest, Peril, Poor Sharecroppers, Poppy Field, Stop Gap, Taliban, Washington Post, World News Comments OffHow the Kyrgyzstan story relates to poverty
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on April 13th, 2010
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.
Posted in World News Tags: 7 April, Afghan War, Bishkek, Breakfast Hotel, Discontent, Economic Situation, Financial Meltdown, Government Takeover, Hotel Employee, International News, Mass Protests, Migrant Workers, Military Base, Mountainous Regions, Political Turmoil, Private Property, Remittances, Shopkeeper, Strongholds, Tv Sets, World News Comments OffMoneylenders vs microcredit
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on December 18th, 2009
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.
Posted in World News Tags: Andhra Pradesh, Borrowers, Chit Funds, Counselors, Credit Lenders, Day Loans, Dusk, Highest Bidder, Journal Writer, Main Drag, Micro Credit, Microcredit Loans, Microfinance, Migrant Workers, Peer Groups, Rupees, Unfair Interest Rates, Unknown Number, Vegetable Market, Wall Street Journal, World News Comments Off
