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- How Can We Help the World’s Poor? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/Kristof-t.html?ref=books 2 comments
- China gives US$3b to help world's poor http://www.asianewsnet.net/news-52564.html 4 comments worldnews
- Pope Francis has challenged the world's business elite to do more to help the poor and vulnerable http://www.local10.com/news/money/pope-to-global-elite-do-more-for-poor/-/1717308/24031292/-/hkonrj/-/index.html 1818 comments worldnews
- UN calls for ‘billionaires tax’ to help world’s poor http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/06/un-calls-for-billionaires-tax-to-help-worlds-poor/ 3 comments politics
- Inventor sacrifices family savings to help world's poor http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004091239_stove25.html 2 comments reddit.com
- 'Urgent' need for rich world to help poor prepare for climate extremes http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/urgent-need-for-rich-world-to-help-poor-prepare-for-climate-extremes-wmo-head-20170821-gy0qpq.html 18 comments worldnews
- Sting and Chevrolet help fund One World Futbol, an effort to deliver millions of indestructible soccer balls to poor children around the world http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/giving/the-one-world-futbol-promises-a-lasting-source-of-fun-in-poor-countries.html?_r=1& 9 comments worldnews
- Help world’s poor as well as Ukraine, say faith charities as pope visits South Sudan https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/02/help-worlds-poor-as-well-as-ukraine-say-faith-charities-as-pope-visits-south-sudan 2 comments worldnews
- UN calls for ‘billionaires tax’ to help world’s poor: The annual World Economic and Social Survey says it is critical to find new ways to help the world’s poor as pledged cash fails to flow. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/06/un-calls-for-billionaires-tax-to-help-worlds-poor/ 16 comments worldnews
- After kicking their massive lending powers into overdrive to help the nations hardest hit by Covid-19 last year, the IMF and the World Bank are now focusing on getting vaccines to poor countries to keep the pandemic from derailing the global economic recovery https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210602-imf-world-bank-prioritize-vaccine-access-to-end-pandemic 9 comments worldnews
- Economist Lant Pritchett defends immigration, the least-popular--and most-proven--idea for helping the world's poor. http://www.reason.com/news/show/123912.html 3 comments politics
- IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, plans to spend 1 billion euros ($1.13 billion) on renewable energy and steps to help poor nations cope with climate change, the latest example of firms upstaging governments in efforts to slow warming. http://reuters.com/article/iduskbn0ok0nn20150604?irpc=932 55 comments business
- IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, plans to spend 1 billion euros ($1.13 billion) on renewable energy and steps to help poor nations cope with climate change, the latest example of firms upstaging governments in efforts to slow warming. http://reuters.com/article/iduskbn0ok0nn20150604?irpc=932 192 comments worldnews
- “Donald Trump is worried about helping poor little Wall Street?” Warren asked the crowd with a laugh. “Let me find the world’s smallest violin to play a sad, sad song.” http://www.salon.com/2016/05/25/a_small_insecure_money_grubber_elizabeth_warren_delivers_a_searing_anti_trump_speech_and_brings_down_the_house/ 30 comments politics
- The Psychological Poverty Trap: "A poor person has very little. In fact, not only isn't he helped, he gets harassed, taken advantage of, cheated. I have a good lawyer, he has a lousy lawyer . . . It's not that the world just doesn't help the poor, it trips him up even further" http://www.haaretz.com/business/the-psychological-poverty-trap-1.414260?article 36 comments politics
- "Pope Francis on Thursday [16 May 2013] called on world leaders to put an end to the 'cult of money' and to do more to help the poor, warning that insecurity was rising in many regions of the world and the 'joy of life' was diminishing in developed countries." http://www.france24.com/en/20130516-pope-urges-global-leaders-end-tyranny-money 20 comments worldnews