Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gAUEd0X14267; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:39:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:39:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <002e01c2987d$79469d00$d45dfea9@hppav> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:978] Cross-posts on publications related to poverty X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 Status: O Content-Length: 1433 Lines: 38 The following are cross-posted from the "Librarian-at-Every-Table" listserv. -Mary Ann Corley NIFL-Povracelit List Moderator * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * DEEPENING DEMOCRACY IN A FRAGMENTED WORLD Politics matter for human development. Reducing poverty depends as much on whether poor people have political power as on their opportunities for economic progress. Democracy has proven to be the system of governance most capable of mediating and preventing conflict and of securing and sustaining well-being. By expanding people's choices about how and by whom they are governed, democracy brings principles of participation and accountability to the process of human development. Download the complete Human Development Report. 2002. http://www.undp.org/hdr2002/ POVERTY REDUCTION Poverty is an old enemy with many faces. The global attention to poverty reduction is a call for action to provide enough for those who have too little, for those who need protection against violence, and for those who have no voice in decision-making. Despite hopes that economic reforms would solve the problem, and in spite of what is shown by the $1/day poverty data, which is notoriously unreliable, the number of people struggling to survive in conditions of extreme poverty is most likely to have increased during the 1990s. New Newsletter from the United Nations Development Programme. http://www.undp.org/newsletters/povertynov02.htm
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