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But just as Udoma was reeling government’s facts, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation released its 2018 Goalkeepers report which estimates that by 2050, more than 40 percent of the extremely poor people in the world will be living in Nigeria and DR Congo and that Nigerians living in extreme poverty will continue to grow to 152 million by that time....

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'Modicare': India's PM promises free health care for poorest citizens

The Observer 24 Sep 2018

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has launched the world’s biggest health insurance scheme, promising free coverage for half a billion of India’s poorest citizens ahead of national elections in May ... “We want to strengthen the hands of the poor and stand shoulder to shoulder with them in pursuit of good health,” he said on Twitter....

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Peace activists dismayed by India’s stubbornness over bilateral talks

The News International 24 Sep 2018

“It is in the larger interest of the people of both countries to give peace a chance,” they said, adding that a long interval in the dialogue process has already negatively impacted both countries, which are homes to the largest number of the world’s poor, and any further delay in dialogue would jeopardise the efforts for progress and prosperity....

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World Bank, UN launch mechanism to prevent famine

Xinhua 24 Sep 2018

23 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank, the United Nations and partners on Sunday launched the Famine Action Mechanism (FAM), the first global initiative dedicated to preventing famine ... These conditions continue in many parts of the world today, derailing hard-won development gains in chronically poor countries, according to the press release....

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American Anomie

Truth Dig 24 Sep 2018

The old rules, imperfect and often untrue for poor people of color, nevertheless were not a complete fiction in the United States ... American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.” There is aggressive criminalization of the poor while the ruling elites are protected by high-priced lawyers and non-enforcement or rewriting of laws ... Durkheim noted that the poor have lower rates of suicide. The poor know the rules are rigged against them....

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QBiz: 5G Spectrum Auction in 2019; Import Curbs to Bring Rupee Up

Yahoo Daily News 24 Sep 2018

The programme, which will benefit about 100 million poor households, or 500 million people, is touted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government as the world’s largest healthcare programme. “People are calling the scheme Modicare, and by other names, but for me, it is an opportunity to serve the poor....

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Gendered debate

Dawn 24 Sep 2018

EARLIER this month, on World Suicide Prevention Day, Hajra Khan, the captain of our women’s football team, took to Twitter to discuss mental health ... She has struggled to put Pakistani women’s football on the world map ... disorders cost the world $1 trillion annually. Naya Pakistan cannot prosper if one-third of its citizens have poor mental health....

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Thank you Ghana for uniting behind Busumuru Kofi Annan's funeral

Joy Online 24 Sep 2018

A man who reached the pinnacle of global recognition yet came down to the level of all race, gender, or creed, rich or poor. He sought for a world of peace and ironically, it was reported that he fell suddenly ill fulfilling one such passion of his while on duty in Southern Africa and never regained his health in a Switzerland hospital....

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Arogya mitras – the backbone of Ayushman Bharat scheme

Hindustan Times 24 Sep 2018

The government has an ambitious target to have 100,000 arogya mitras by the end of this year. india Updated ... Follow Story. Follow Story. -->. An army of 6000 people across 31 states and union territories will act as facilitators in empanelled hospitals to ensure smooth functioning of the world’s largest public health insurance cover for the poor and vulnerable which Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched on Sunday ... First Published....

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World's poor looking to US, UK for economic wisdom

Jamaica Observer 23 Sep 2018

According to the World Bank's latest projections (September 2018), over the last 25 years, more than a billion people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty, and the global poverty rate is now lower than it has ever been in recorded history ... The poor of the world are looking to the United States and the United Kingdom to choose economic wisdom over political pride....

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14555 – all you need to know about the Ayushman Bharat hotline number and benefits ...

DNA India 23 Sep 2018

Describing it as a 'game changer', Modi said the scheme was a step towards serving the poor people of the country and it would come into effect from Sunday. "Some call it Modicare, some call it a scheme for the poor. It is definitely a scheme to serve the poor," he said ... #AyushmanBharat to be World's largest Health Insurance Initiative....

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Narendra Modi launches Ayushman Bharat scheme from Jharkhand’s Ranchi

Live Mint 23 Sep 2018

The scheme aimed at providing health cover of ₹5 Lakhs per family per year to about 500 million economically deprived people is touted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as the world’s largest healthcare programme ... “People are calling the scheme Modicare and by other names, but for me it is an opportunity to serve the poor....

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Fit in my 40s: ‘It’s not Grand Theft Auto thrilling. But VR running is incredible’

The Observer 23 Sep 2018

video graphics programmer and amateur triathlete Jon Mayfield invented it after the birth of his first child, his PR told me, “when he found himself very time poor”. Training on an exercise bike is famously boring, so Mayfield added a gaming element, connected all the time-poor cyclist fathers across the world on the internet, and lo… one in India could race another in Australia up a virtual Alpine mountain....

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