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140 million Arabs are poor, says UN
21 hours ago ago from Dubai Business | Kippreport
About 40 percent of the population in Arab countries-around 140 million people-live below the poverty line, according to a report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Arab League. There has been no reduction in poverty rates over the last 20 years, it said. Although the region is rich in labor and fertile land, it suffers from malnutrition, unemployment and a huge gap between the rich and the poor, said the report. ...
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6 hours ago ago from Green Resistance (teaching, organizing, and eco-thinking)
So, I spent this past weekend in Cairo. I was one of the main authors of the two-volume report, entitled Development Challenges for the Arab Region. Sunday, we presented our findings and our recommendations to the League of Arab States at the 29th meeting of the Arab Social Affairs Ministers Council. The report is quite strong -both about the poverty and food (in)security in the Arab world and the concrete policy changes a new social ...
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17 hours ago ago from Oil of War
CAIRO: Nearly 140 million Arabs live below the poverty line, according to a report published on Sunday by the United Nations Development Programme and Arab League. The joint report stressed there has been no decrease in the rates of poverty in the Arab region over the past 20 years, with some countries actually showing an increase. Overall poverty remains high, reaching up to 40 percent on average, which means that nearly 140 ...
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14 hours ago ago from OwensOpines's Blog
Dear Readers, I am returning to a topic that has consumed a fair amount of my blogs and my letters to the editorial pages of the Press Register-Mobile (my local newspaper): reform in the health care insurance industry. The fact that many in the body of 435 grown men and women, elected by the general public and drawing salaries and benefits that place them beyond middle-class, are bickering and making snide personal remarks about ...
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