Meantime, with little state action, a microlevel remedy for world poverty is having macrolevel impact.
In 1995, at a UN conference on social change, countries pledged to halve world poverty by 2015.
Now, with his wealth and celebrity status, he wanted to mobilise the rich to help end world poverty.
Even in the poorest regions of the world poverty-stricken people have cell phones.
This is the bottom billion you hear Oxford university world poverty scholar Paul Collier and others talking about.
The last time the UK was the host in 2005, in Gleneagles, more than 200, 000 people marched against world poverty.
World leaders meeting in New York were due to endorse a 35-page declaration on overhauling the United Nations and progress towards tackling world poverty.
Overindebtedness is a symptom, not a cause, of Third World poverty.
Anybody concerned with alleviating world poverty must reckon with the MIFFs.
Mr Brown said that banning export credit guarantees for "unproductive expenditure" was an important step towards eradicating Third World poverty and urged other industrialised nations to follow suit.
The efforts of Bono of U2 (No. 5 this year) to focus attention on world poverty, though often not pointed where we would suggest, are nevertheless worthy of attention.
But if we are to meet our targets for reducing world poverty, it is vital that sustainable growth requires them to have a firm commitment to increase social investment and to reduce poverty.
The World Bank warned in August that world poverty was much greater than previously thought, with the number of poor people in Africa having nearly doubled from 200m in 1981 to 380m in 2005.
As for Bono, investing in a publication that celebrates capitalism and consumption may seem to sit awkwardly with his crusades against world poverty, including a trip to Africa with Paul O'Neill, America's treasury secretary at the time.
What a weird feeling - here we are floating on the ice in the Arctic, and I've just had a chat with International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander and over 300 people in the audience at the Department for International Development conference on world poverty, which is being held in London.
This excerpt is from Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty (Public Affairs: 2008).
But in the United States, or elsewhere in the developed world, poverty often goes hand in hand with a fragmented or broken social fabric.
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The organisers said global companies, international finance and advances in technology had created a small world in which poverty was increasing, both at home and across the world.
Doha represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to help millions in the developing world rise from poverty and despair.
The whole world talks about poverty alleviation, but very few have a practical idea on how to do it.
Many are coming from a world of extreme poverty and would take the chance for a multi-million dollar lifestyle for themselves and family.
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Capitalism has lifted the world out of poverty because it gives people a chance to get rich by creating value and reaping the rewards.
Fairtrasa helps underprivileged small-scale farmers in third world countries escape poverty and improve their lives by providing them with technical support and access to international markets.
We are in addition to being citizens of the United States with our own concerns, we are also relatively privileged, I might add, citizens of the world, and poverty at the global level is a very important, very compelling moral and political problems affecting all of us.
The focus is increasingly on country's own efforts to alleviate poverty, with the World Bank - the lead anti-poverty organisation - providing guidance and advice, and at times loans for specific programmes.
Not that there will be no poverty in the world but, if the momentum continues, the extreme-poverty rate will be smaller than we can measure.
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The Why Poverty series by Steps discusses how and why people around the world continue to live in poverty.
Davos, she said, is an important place for dialogue among world leaders but that discussion should not occur at the expense of finding ways to combat poverty around the world.
"Just getting the macroeconomic fundamentals right isn't enough anymore, " says Masood Ahmed, head of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network.
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