Poverty Reduction
Miners Call for Policy Reform in Zimbabweglobalpressinstitute.org | 15 May 2012Although Zimbabwe is a mineral-rich country, mine laborers and owners say that profits arent enough to cover costs, leading to low or little pay and unsatisfactory working conditions. The government has implemented laws aiming to reform both issues, but fee hikes to boost federal revenue have been problematic.Read more: http://www.globalpressinstitute.org/global-news/africa/zimbabwe/miners-call-policy-reform-zimbabwe#ixzz1uvejG7f0
Zimbabwe | Economics and the Environment | Poverty Reduction Governments Can't Do It Aloneips.org | 05 May 2012CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 5 (IPS) – African countries need more support from the private sector in order to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015, which include important development targets like poverty reduction, and improved health and education.Governments cannot...
South Africa | Health and Environment | Poverty Reduction Successful innovation depends on engaging the grassrootsSCIDEV.NET | 02 May 2012Technological innovation can't be imposed on poor people — they must be engaged to select ideas that suit their lives, writes Lawrence Gudza.Technological innovation is generally viewed as a panacea for the problems of developing nations. The result is that in countries such as Zimbabwe, institutions from well-off nations have tended to 'push' technologies according to their own agendas — and not ones that suit local communities.
Environmental Awareness | Education Des fonds pour les agriculteurs libériensmediaterre.org | 08 Feb 2012Le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA) a accordé un prêt de 24,9 millions de dollars au Liberia pour renforcer sa production de cacao et de café, annonce un communiqué publié jeudi à New York. Selon le communiqué, cette facilité est destinée à réduire la pauvreté parmi les communautés rurales du Liberia, qui souffrent toujours des effets des conflits passés. (...)
Liberia | Agriculture | Poverty Reduction GHANA: No Pensions for Majority of Elderly Womenips.org | 03 Nov 2011Untouched by Ghanas meager social support system and beyond the reach of its tatty pension scheme, she is a composite of this West African countrys elderly women: poor, struggling, and often forgotten.Gender activists say the situation of women like Sayitou is caused by a confluence of...
Ghana | Poverty Reduction Guinée:L'opposition se préoccupe de la cherté de viefr.allafrica.com | 02 Nov 2011L'ADP et le Collectif déplorent l'augmentation inconsidérée du prix à la pompe des produits pétroliers intervenue le 17 octobre dernier, ont-ils condamnés.Selon eux, de telles pratiques confirment si besoin était, le peu de considération que le Gouvernement accorde aux préoccupations des...
Guinea | Energy | Poverty Reduction