Poverty+Research+Resource

__The Poverty Portal__

For a a comprehensive coverage of [|poverty web portal].

__ **Youth Crime is the Symptom of a Wider Disease** __

Gangs of violent boys lording it over their disintegrating neighbourhoods hold a mirror up to society. This is [|an interesting article] which explores how poverty leads to youth crime.

__ The Shift to Thrift __

People will soon have to live more modestly as the age of turbo consumerism comes to an end and the rich-poor gap grows wider. [|Read more...]

**Poverty: 260m driven into hunger by push for biofuel - ActionAid**

Excuse me! Your environmentally freindly ways are impoverishing people!!! You don't believe me!!! [|Read..].

__The Aid Trap__

Many economists challenge the idea that aid offers an escape to the poverty trap. Some say it may even create a trap of dependency and corruption all its own. BBC visits the two poorest countries in the World, according to the United Nations, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the radio documentary, [|The Aid Trap].

__Can Poverty Ever Be Eliminated?__

Hear what the Leading economist and director of the UN's Millennium Development Goals’ Jeffrey Sachs has to say. []

__**The Giving Game**__

The last fifty years have seen a massive proliferation in the number of non-governmental organisations. In a four part series, [|The Giving Game], Tim Whewell takes a critical look at the NGO movement.

__For Richer For Poorer__

A candid study of globalisation and inequality in the world in []

__A Dollar A Day__

Almost half the world's population lives on less than a dollar a day, but the statistic fails to capture the humiliation, powerlessness and brutal hardship that is the daily lot of the world's poor. In this series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on a dollar a day and how it can mean different things in different countries, and asks whether the global target of halving world poverty by 2015 can really be achieved.

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