Oxfam wants more rich-world action on global poverty
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Rich nations need to do much more to overcome global poverty, Oxfam said in a report aimed at influencing Britain's turn at the helm of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations.
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The world&#39;s poorer nations are paying a heavy price in human lives for the failure of the rich to provide the resources they promised to fight global hunger and poverty, humanitarian agency Oxfam said in a report released Sunday.
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African leaders will lobby the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money Wednesday to solve a cash crunch facing its work, seen as vital for the continent's health, officials said.
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WASHINGTON: Chinese Minister of Finance Jin Renqing has called on the world&#39;s developed countries to step up their aid provision to poorer nations.
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South African democracy icon Nelson  Mandela challenged rich nations Thursday to help end the misery  of the world's poorest millions.
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U.S. aid should focus more on reducing poverty in the poorest countries instead of being driven primarily by security concerns, a coalition of U.S.-based charities said on Thursday.
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Global health leaders meeting in Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make those now on the market available to the poor.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find &#36;50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing global prosperity.
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil  - Brazil's President Luiz  Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday urged the world's poor and  hungry to unite against rich nations' interests before he  jetted off to a meeting of the globe's wealthy elite.
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The humanitarian agency, Oxfam, predicts that 45 million children will die in the next decade because rich countries have failed to meet their aid promises.
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Wealthy countries must donate billions more dollars to ensure women&#39;s reproductive rights and cut population growth, a UN report said on Wednesday.
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The United Kingdom on Friday urged the world's richest nations to rise to the challenge of creating "enduring global prosperity" by removing trade barriers and stepping up aid for poorer countries.
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Rock star and activist Bono,  pressing wealthy nations to keep their aid promises to Africa,  said on Sunday the continent needs to tackle corruption, the  single biggest obstacle to more investment.
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Britain will provide more debt relief for the world&#39;s poorest countries and challenge other rich governments to do the same, Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government said Sunday.
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The UK should stump up an extra Â£1.2bn to help developing countries deal with the effects of climate change, Oxfam said today.
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A major UN report on world poverty calls for a huge increase in development aid to the poorest countries.
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Nelson Mandela on Thursday compared widespread poverty in developing countries to man-made evils such as slavery and apartheid, and urged wealthy nations to do more to fight it.