Bob Geldof grades anti-poverty report
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Bob Geldof unveiled an anti-poverty report card Thursday, sounding off on broken promises made at last year&#039;s G-8 summit and looking ahead to next month&#039;s meeting of the world&#039;s richest countries.
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LONDON, Feb 5 (IPS) - In response to a massive civil society campaign   spearheaded by Nelson Mandela to make poverty history, G7  finance  ministers agreed Saturday to examine debt relief for the  poorest  countries on a ''case-by-case''  basis.
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Asia's surging economic growth is helping to cut the region's poverty levels, but some areas are lagging behind, a report says.
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Bob Geldof has appealed to governments around the world to allow VAT receipts on purchases of the new DVD of the 1985 Live Aid concert to be spent on aid for Africa.
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Bob Geldof, the musician better known for founding the Live Aid and Band Aid music acts for charity, said he was sick of being "Mr. Bloody Africa".
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Bob Geldof would consider becoming a peer after topping a poll for nominations to the House of Lords.
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Millions of Britons face poverty in old age without radical reforms, analysts expect a politically-sensitive report on the country&#39;s creaking pensions system to say on Tuesday.
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Huge gifts to charity from U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett and others have won widespread praise, but some say the same economic process that helped earn those fortunes is leaving billions more in dire poverty.
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Frustrated by the federal governmentâs method of determining who is poor, the Bloomberg administration is developing its own measure, saying it will offer a more accurate picture of poverty.
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Millions face poverty in old age without radical reforms, analysts expect a politically sensitive report on Britain&#39;s creaking pensions system to say today.
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The anti-corruption watchdog group, Transparency International, has ranked Bangladesh and Haiti as the world&#39;s most corrupt countries in its annual report.
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More than 500 million people can  escape abject poverty, 250 million people will no longer go to  bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if rich  countries double development aid over the next 10 years to $195  billion, a new U.N.-sponsored report said on Monday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell calls it the most promising development in foreign assistance in decades. That is quite a claim for a program that has yet to disburse its first dollar. But it is clear that President Bush's Millennium Challenge Account, first proposed 2 1/2 years ago, represents a fresh approach to helping countries overcome economic backwardness.
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor swelled to 35.9  million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the U.S.  government said on Thursday in a report sure to fuel Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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House prices suffered their worst decline in at least 20 years in the second quarter, and there is no sign of a bottom for the market, according to data from Standard and Poor's and economist Robert Shiller.
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A US Treasury Department spokesman on Monday gave a positive, though muted, reception to a British proposal to ease the debt of heavily indebted poor countries, which was unveiled over the weekend.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell assesses a UN report on children's well-being that puts the UK bottom of the class.