Mr Brown visited the Vatican on Thursday and said he had discussed the need to help poor countries during the economic crisis.

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And for poor kids who need help the most, this lack of access to preschool education can shadow them for the rest of their lives.

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The assessment argues that modest outlays on rain-fed agriculture, in particular, could drastically improve the productivity of farming in poor countries and so help both to raise farmers' incomes and also to cut the need for an expansion of agriculture elsewhere.

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We need to look at ways of giving incentives to people to help the poor.

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The Milburn review proposes loans for poor students to help them work for free, signalling to businesses that they need not worry too much about pay, minimum or otherwise.

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