Dear me, here we go again. It's true, poverty in Africa is shocking. All this wibble about "children in poverty" in the UK is absolutely fatuous when you look at genuine, breathtaking absolute poverty. Really poor people, earlier But there is no quick fix to poverty. Chucking huge amounts of money, even directly at the poor, does nothing permanent. Chucking huge amounts of money at charities just ...

I was enormously impressed by the past work of Moeletsi Mbeki (yes he IS related - how different people in one family can be to one another) on poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, and specifically on how Africa's elites perpetuate it...

Some people say that Africa needs “A new Marshall Plan” of massive aid to drag it out of poverty and set it on the road to prosperity and self-sufficiency.  Yet they seem unaware that in the last fifty years, Africa has received the equivalent of five Marshall Plans in foreign aid.  Yet many African countries

Nick Clegg has done an interview and video clip for ONE Vote 2010, a campaign group “committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa”. Here’s a sample: What would you do to secure a global climate deal that helps people living in poverty? Would you ensure that climate funding is additional to

This made me laugh. Anria Minnaar, who grew up in South Africa, writing about her country's election: Today, although the cruel apartheid system which judged people on the body they were born in has collapsed, South Africa still has its share of problems, including Aids, poverty and extremely violent crime. But when I cast my election vote at the High Commission in London last week and saw the cr...

With food and fuel prices rising by huge amounts we will hear much over the coming months about poverty and it will all concentrate on money. It is quite right that money should feature high on the poverty agenda because most definitions of poverty look at nothing else. My intention is to address the monetary side of poverty in a series of ramblings over the next few weeks, but today I want to cha...

Hot on the heels of his assessment of over-ambitious EU renewable energy targets, Sir David King has come up with another corker: Greenies' anti-science superstitions are causing unnecessary suffering in Africa. King blames "anti-poverty" campaigners, aid agencies and environmental activists for keeping modern farming techniques and bio-technology out of Africa. For instance: For example, Friends ...

Tony Blair's charity set up to alleviate poverty in Africa spends more than £1.6 million on its staff.

THE CONVICTION that the elimination of poverty - child poverty, pensioner poverty, Third World poverty - is at the heart of the Labour movement. Every Labour activist I’ve ever met would agree that the fight against material poverty must be a priority for any Left-of-centre government. I’ve commented here before about the Tories’ new-found - and ut...

Sarah Silverman turns her thoughts to poverty with spectacular results...