Library Index :: World Poverty

The Causes of Poverty and the Search for Solutions - The Myths And Realities Of Poverty, The Millennium Declaration, Hunger And Malnutrition, Low Wages And The Working Poor

Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times—times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation—that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils.

—Nelson Mandela, 2005

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