Archive
Keyword - Poverty
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Briefing: Millenium development goals under scrutiny - Premium content
At the halfway point of the global project to eradicate poverty, Nature asks how much has been achieved and how science can help.
25 September 2008
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China: The great contender - Premium content
China's performance has been remarkable in any number of fields. Declan Butler charts the country's scientific and economic growth.
23 July 2008
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Food crisis spurs research spending - Premium content
Agricultural research comes in from the cold.
30 April 2008
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Q&A: Larry Brilliant - Premium content
He's a physician who has had a major role in the eradication of smallpox and in tackling blindness. Now Larry Brilliant is heading up Google.org, the dotcom giant's philanthropic arm, which plans to tackle emerging diseases, climate change and poverty. Declan Butler talks to him about his diseases strategy.
23 January 2008
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Field trials aim to tackle poverty - Premium content
Pioneering lab applies medical sense to development projects.
22 October 2007
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NEWS FEATURE: From wheat to web: Children of the revolution
M. S. Swaminathan transformed agriculture in India in the 1960s. Now Daemon Fairless finds him at the heart of another high-tech scheme to help the rural poor.
22 October 2007
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Malaria is killing one African child every 30 seconds - Premium content
Experts meet around world to discuss report of "impending crisis"
25 April 2003
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Science enters welfare-to-work debate - Premium content
US welfare reform has neither helped nor harmed poor children.
7 March 2003
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Lean times add pounds - Premium content
Lack of food puts poor women at risk of obesity.
18 June 2001
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