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Washington; A US-based social scientist has claimed that the role of China’s social safety net programme, known as dibao, has shifted over time from providing support to the poor and vulnerable to being used partly as a tool to repress dissent. more
Pledging ongoing UN support during visit to cyclone-hit areas, Guterres praises resilience of Mozambicans
New York, July 13 (JEN): Determined children learning in classes without roofs, resilient women farming without tools or much land, and grateful people who survived a cyclone that destroy ...
Billions needed to eradicate poverty and hunger: IFAD
Rome, Jan 26 (Just Earth News) The world needs to take urgent action to mobilise the estimated US$265 billion a year needed to achieve the first two Sustainable Development Goals to end pove ...
Poverty and early deaths await millions of world's most disadvantaged children – UNICEF
New York, June 28 (Just Earth News):Some 69 million children under five years of age will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million children will live in poverty, and 750 million women ...
