Fighting Poverty with Better Nutrition for Women

Hunger and poverty continue to be major obstacles to the well-being of millions of women and children around the world. The Bread for the World Institute says those problems can be reversed by improving the social, economic and political status of ru

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Terrorism: Religious and Poverty Roots?

By Leta Hong Fincher Over the past decade, analysts and government officials agree that the threat posed by Islamist terrorism has grown. But does Islam play a role in recruiting terrorists? Or are th

Nepal's poverty battle

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The fall meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund just took place in Washington. Earlier, the bank used its latest World Development Report to call for more investment in agricult

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India has the largest number of hungry people in the world, despite the strong economic growth witnessed in recent years. From New Delhi, Anjana Pasricha says a new report shows that India's economic boom has brought new prosperity to its middle cla

美国国家公共电台 NPR How To Fix Poverty: Why Not Just Give People Money?

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's an unprecedented experiment happening in a village in Kenya. Most people there had been scraping by on less than $2 a day. But last fall, an American charity announced they're going to give every adult an extra $22 a mont

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China to "basically eradicate poverty" in 10 years

BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- China aims to basically eradicate(根除) poverty by 2020 while greatly raise its poverty line, in order to help more people in need, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said here Sunday. The State Council is drafting a new ten-ye

U.S. finds low levels of radiation in milk

WASHINGTON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- A trace amount of radioactive(辐射性的) iodine（碘） has been found in a sample of milk from the west state of Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sai

2018年CRI China move factories back to the countryside in fighting poverty

A goal of leaving no one behind is Chinese government's ultimate goal in fighting poverty. In a new approach to win the fight, Hua County in Henan has brought satellite factories into rural villages to help farmers earn money. CRI's Min Rui has more.

U.S poverty rate rises to 14.3 percent last year

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. poverty（贫困） rate climbed to 14.3 percent in 2009, the highest level since 1994, as households' incomes were squeezed by the deepest recession（衰退） since the 1930s and high unemployment（失业率 ）

CCTV9英语新闻：New strategy of targeted poverty reduction

Now for more analysis, let's bring in Tang Min, Counsellor at the State Council, and our senior reporter Xu Zhaoqun. Welcome, both of you, to our discussion. Q1: Let me start with you Xu Zhaoqun. You've been to a lot of villages in poor regions, and

NW China to lift 100,000 people out of poverty

LANZHOU, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Over the past few days, Rugur and his partners have been reconsidering how to help their village in northwest China's Gansu Province shake off poverty and make more money. Rugur is head of the remote Haikang village in t

More Nigerians Slip Into Poverty, Particularly in North

Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and its biggest oil producer. The West African country exports more than two million barrels of crude oil a day. Despite its oil wealth, however, a new government study says the number of Nigerians sinking int

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今天我们要学的词是poverty。 Poverty, 是贫困的意思。To sink into poverty, 意思是陷入贫困。To fight poverty, 意思是打击贫困。美国人口普查局公布的最新数字显示，美国去年的贫困人口率出现下降，

CCTV9英语新闻：China moves to alleviate funeral poverty

Rich or poor, death is something that comes to us all. Yet for many in China, the cost of giving loved ones a proper send-off is an increasing struggle. To help those families living below the poverty line, welfare funerals are being introduced in so

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