They would display public lists of those receiving poor relief, says Joanna Innes, modern history lecturer at Oxford University.
"Access to poor relief was heavily gendered, " says Williams.
They might attach legislation demanding reform to the administration's request for more money for poor-country debt relief.
Congress has, for instance, finally agreed to fully fund the administration's request for debt relief for poor countries.
IMF's Interim Committee is likely to agree to sell some of the Fund's gold to finance debt relief for poor countries.
The IMF and the World Bank, facing increasing pressure from campaigners, have announced plans to speed up debt relief to poor countries.
One of the first life insurers, in 1759, was called the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers.
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Ministers failed to close divisions over debt relief for poor nations, promising to devise a new plan that would ease the debt burden stifling growth in mainly African countries.
Myanmar authorities, too, have issued warnings to coastal communities, but aid officials warn that areas there are far less equipped to deal with such potential disasters because of relatively poor investment in disaster relief.
That, in turn, has stiffened opposition to further official gold sales, and, in particular, to the sale of another 300 tonnes planned by the International Monetary Fund to help pay for debt relief for poor countries.
By broadening the prospect of relief to all poor countries, the British proposal eliminates that inequity.
Under the IMF''s Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief program, Senegal benefited from eradication of two-thirds of its bilateral, multilateral, and private-sector debt.
However, Matt Hemsley, spokesman for the transport charity Sustrans Cymru, criticised the M4 relief road as "poor value for money", saying investment in public transport would do more to ease congestion.
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Food for the Poor has already sent 30 container loads of relief supplies to Haiti.
In Thailand, farmers from the poor north-east protest in Bangkok demanding debt relief.
"After a poor showing in recent years, it is a relief to see that the footfall for some towns in the Borders is on the rise again, " he said.
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In recent months some of the leading well funded charities have begun to realise that the essentially unfunded arguments of our Centre for Accountability and Debt Relief can do more to help the poor in many of these over borrowed and criminally exploited nations.
The scheme is only a slight relief, if at all, for the poor.
Ms Short has declared aid to be purely for the relief of poverty, to be spent in poor countries with agreed long-term aims and measurable targets.
Some 40 countries, mostly in Africa, were sufficiently poor and indebted to be eligible for the 1996 debt-relief plan.
Lant Pritchett, of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, argues that faster global migration would bring huge gains for poor countries, exceeding the combined rewards offered by foreign aid, debt relief and trade reforms proposed under the Doha development round.
That is, tax relief for casualty losses generally are limited to those with the unfortunate confluence of poor insurance coverage, low adjusted gross income (AGI), and good documentation.
Under that bargain, the poor countries were to have the Millennium Development Goals reaffirmed, along with promises of more aid and debt relief, a pledge to tackle climate change and progress on disarmament.
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