End Poverty Day 2020: Surmounting Setbacks

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End Poverty Day 2020: Surmounting Setbacks

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Ravi Kumar

“When I grow up, I want to work in the bank, help my family members. Make money flow into my country and assist my people,” says M’Balu Tucker, a 17-year-old student from a village in Sierra Leone, a post-conflict country. Tucker is also a participant in an IFC-funded advisory program that is teaching girls how to make soap, as a livelihood and to help with COVID prevention.
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:42
Ravi Kumar

New analyses from the Bank’s recently released Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report estimate that climate change will drive 68 million to 135 million into poverty by 2030. Climate change is a particularly grave threat for countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia — the regions where most of the global poor are concentrated. https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-prosperity
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:44
Titi Jayeoba

Honestly, none of the above suggestions will work in a developing country like Nigeria.
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:46
Ravi Kumar

Sarah Colenbrander, Director of Climate and Sustainability Programme at Overseas Development Institute, and Saleemul Huq, Director at International Centre for Climate Change & Development in Bangladesh are sharing their thoughts on the impact of climate change on the fight against poverty.  
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:48
Md. Kamal Uddin, Director of SED, Friendship.

What will be the strategic way to ensure the food security and social safety of Char People in Bangladesh in the backdrop of Covid -19.
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:49

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