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GLOBAL: Escaping the Poverty Trap

ipsnews.net » 2008 » August » 14th » GLOBAL: Escaping the Poverty Trap

PRETORIA, Aug 14 (IPS) - What do they have in common -- the landless widow with a deaf son in Bangladesh, the 12-year-old miner in Kyrgyztan, the Ugandan farming couple with 12 children and the South African domestic worker who loses her home when her husband dies and her job when she breaks a leg? They, and their children, are trapped in chronic poverty, even as their countries show economic … Continue Reading »

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