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Ending global poverty: the fight goes on
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Esther Duflo (back row, second from left), co-author of Poor Economics, with Rwandan coffee farmers. Professors of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-authors of Poor Economics , which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs
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Poverty tsar Frank Field plans own pilot project after coalition 'ignores report'
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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Frank Field, the poverty tsar, says the coalition has all but ignored his findings and plans to test his proposals in Wirral. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The government's poverty tsar, Frank Field , aims to implement his anti-
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Parents given �100 vouchers to learn how to raise a child and halt moral decline
Middlesbrough :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Parents given 100 vouchers to learn how to raise a child and halt moral decline Last updated at 12:01 AM on 17th October 2011 Around 50,000 parents will be given free parenting classes in an attempt to halt the country's moral decline. Mothers and
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It's not women holding men back, Mr Willetts | Barbara Ellen
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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The minister's belief that middle-class women have done down working-class men is completely ludicrous It's not women holding men back, Mr Willetts The minister's belief that middle-class women have done down working-class men is completely ludicrous
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Taxpayers to fund £33.5m study of children's life chances... but only up to their first birthday
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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Taxpayers will fund a 33.5million project to follow the lives of 90,000 British children from birth. Ministers hope to find out more about what roles different social, economic, biological, environmental and health factors play in youngster's life
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Response: Racism isn't a scourge from the past, it is just enacted in different ways
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Racism isn't a scourge from the past, it is just enacted in different ways In Britain, race still determines the life chances of too many citizens Aditya Chakrabortty bemoans what he sarcastically calls "state-of-the-art thinking on race" in a recent
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Labour MP Field to work with Government
London :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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The Prime Minister confirmed he was recruiting Mr Field, a former Labour minister, to chair the Review on Poverty and Life Chances. The review is charged with studying the extent of poverty in the UK and coming up with recommendations to help poorer
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‘The extended school is a lever to improve the life chances of children’
London :: United Kingdom | over 3 years ago
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Younger children in its primary school start at 8.30am and finish at 4pm...Its secondary school, which opened in September with two classes for 12-year-olds, operates from 7.50am to 5pm...Children are given a snack of fruit with their morning break,
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New DFID programme to focus on women
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | over 3 years ago
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Syed Nahas Pasha, London Dhaka, Nov 25 (bdnews24.com)�A new UK-funded programme to improve women's life chances and tackle violence against women in South Asia was launched today, which is the international Day for the Elimination of Violence Against
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