poverty reduction
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Barbados to reduce extreme poverty and create jobs with $10 million loan
Barbados will strengthen its social safety net for its poorest citizens and improve labour market training opportunities with a US$10 million loan approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The program seeks to reduce extreme poverty and high unemployment rates in Barbados. The program will be structured in three components: first, reduce extreme poverty through the expansion and consolidation of…
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Jamaica Prime Minister Urges Poverty Reduction Cooperation at CELAC
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has urged member countries and governments of the Community of Latin American States and Caribbean States (CELAC) to continue to give focused attention to meaningful cooperation that can significantly reduce poverty in their respective countries through expanded production, trade, investments and job creation. Prime Minister Simpson Miller commended the CELAC Action Plan…
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FAO presents plan for eradicating hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean
Fight against hunger and poverty on the table at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit. 27 January 2015, San José, Costa Rica – Today FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva presented a new regional Plan for Food Security, Nutrition and Hunger Eradication by 2025 during a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) taking…
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CPDC launches regional campaign against poverty and inequality
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 14, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Policy Development Center (CPDC) says it will launch its Action/2015 Caribbean campaign on Thursday as part of the larger global Action/2015 campaign to end poverty, inequality and bring attention to significant climate change issues. CPDC said 2015 is the year for critical international meetings charged with determining the future of humanity…
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