Archive for the ‘Income and poverty’ Category
Friday, February 11th, 2005
This piece from Interworld Radio cught my eye this morning:The Peruvian government is considering giving cash payments to its poorest people. Officials have proposed making a payment of thirty dollars a month to people who get their children vaccinated and enrol them in school. A quarter of the countryÂ’s ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
I've got a letter in tomorrow's Irish Times, but somehow I feel little satisfaction. It's one of many written in response to this column by Kevin Myers. So strong has the general response been that the Irish Times has had to turn over its entire page to the issue - ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
This snippet gives an interesting overview of Ireland's economic growth:Ireland is set to become the world's third-wealthiest nation. The Bank of Ireland has announced that its wealth per head of population overtook that of the US for the first time in 2004. In 1988 Ireland was one of the ...
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Friday, January 7th, 2005
Zephoria has criticised what she sees as the 'stingy' response of America to the tsunami disaster - both as a government and a people. On the other side we have Carol Adelman in the New York Times touting the 'high quality of mercy' of the Americans in general. So where ...
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2004
As I've reported previously the Irish government has abandoned its commitment to reach by 2007 the target for overseas development aid (ODA) of 0.7% of GNP. The Labour Party has, as I mentioned previously, launched a campaign to bring them to task.In the wake of this, however, and in light ...
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Friday, December 24th, 2004
An interesting story in the Guardian today about a Europe-wide petition calling for some CAP funds - specifically half of those going to the top 2% of farmers, or 12.5% of the total funds - to be instead allocated to help children orphaned by AIDS in Africa. The petition is ...
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Thursday, December 9th, 2004
A new UNICEF report estimates that 1 billion of the world's 2.1 billion children (of whom 1.9 billion live in the developing world) are suffering extreme effects from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS. As UNICEF's executive director says:"Poverty doesn't come from nowhere. When half the world's children are growing up hungry ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
The Irish Labour Party is launching a campaign "to pressure the Government into honouring its commitment to increase spending on Overseas Development Aid to 0.7% of GNP by 2007." 0.7% is the target advocated by the UN, and the Irish government announced its intention to hit the target by 2007 ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
According to Labour's Jan O'Sullivan, new HEA/ESRI figures "give the lie to the view that the abolition of fees in the mid-90s has not produced any discernible effects on access to third level." Attendance at third-level by those from semi-skilled and unskilled manual backgrounds has increased from 1/4 to half ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2004
Following last week's article on the claim that Ireland is the 'best' place to live, this week's Observer has a piece on the manner in which many citizens are being denied the right to live in Ireland. Specifically, those children who hold Irish citizenship, but whose parents are the subject ...
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