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Jonathan Power

Women are key to curbing poverty

By Jonathan Power
May 21, 2006

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THE SECRET KEY to driving down the rates of poverty and population growth is female. To be absolutely precise, it is poor women living in the Third World's rural backwaters, where 75 percent of the world's hungry scrape a living. Everything else is a sideshow. (Full article: 702 words)

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