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Anger at DECC as fuel poverty hits millions

Campaigners will today take their anger to the offices of Department of Energy & Climate Change to express their dissatisfaction with rising energy bills and increased fuel poverty. The demonstrations are part of a UK-wide week of ac [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2013 | Comments : 0

Pensions ‘condemn millions to poverty’

Private sector pensions need urgent reform to fix the current “risky and complex” system and avoid sentencing millions of workers to poverty in old age, an independent report has said. The Workplace Retirement Income Commis [...]

Posted On : Aug, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Millions face pension poverty as 'golden' era ends

Almost three quarters of private sector staff will be unable to “adequately exist” when they retire due to a low level of savings and the complex, costly and inefficient pensions system, the report claims. Many workers retirin [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Millions in Asia face poverty if prices surge: UN

Soaring food and oil prices could keep an additional 42 million people in poverty in the Asia Pacific region and threaten economic growth, the United Nations said Thursday. As regional economies continue to pick up pace in the wake of [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

High food prices keep millions in Asia-Pacific region in pov...

High food prices prevented more than 19 million people in the Asia-Pacific region from lifting themselves out of poverty last year, the United Nations said in a new study released today, warning that soaring food and fuel inflation will [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Financial crisis hurting millions - ADB, UN

Seventeen million Asians have fallen into extreme poverty due to the global financial crisis, the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations said on Wednesday. And another four million could this year slip into the same situation [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Poverty still grips millions in India

Every now and then, India gets a stark reminder that the feel good factor created by high growth rates in recent years eludes millions of its people. One came earlier this month when Unicef said that India had some of the worst rates of chi [...]