Background Papers
The Millennium Development Goals: Stepping Up Efforts
Number 2010 (September 2010)
The U.N. Millennium Development Goals aim to improve the lives of extremely poor people around the world. How have governments fared in achieving them?
Better Foreign Assistance, Fewer Hungry People
Number 215 (June 2011)
Better, more effective U.S. poverty-focused development assistance is critical to reducing hunger and poverty around the world.
The U.S. Budget: Myths and Realities
Number 214 (May 2011)
Did your attention begin to wander as soon as you saw “U.S. Budget” in this headline?
Perhaps the most pervasive “myth” of all is that the issues and unfamiliar terms swirling around the budget make it nearly impossible to understand.
Development and Migration in Mexico's Rural Communities
Number 213 (May 2011)
Here’s a question conspicuous by its absence from most U.S. discussions of unauthorized or illegal immigration: Why do people risk their lives crossing the Mexican border, take jobs most Americans won’t do, and live away from their families—surrounded by an often unfamiliar language and culture? The answer isn’t complicated: inequality, hunger, and poverty in the communities immigrants leave behind.
U.S. Foreign Aid: Focus on Poverty Bread for the World’s 2011 Offering of Letters
Number 212 (January 2011)
Just a few hundred miles from the U.S. coast, people in Haiti are struggling to recover from longstanding poverty made worse by the devastating earthquake of January 2010. Halfway around the world in West Africa, Liberia is rebuilding farms, schools, and health clinics torn apart by two successive civil wars.
Our Common Interest: Ending Hunger and Malnutrition
Number 211 (December 2010)
2011 is a time of opportunity to achieve lasting progress against global hunger and malnutrition. For the United States, it is a time of renewing our commitment to this objective and strengthening partnerships with countries that are eager to work together in this common interest.
Safer Motherhood: Significant Progress on Maternal Mortality
Number 209 (June 2010)
Global maternal mortality has fallen by about 40 percent since 1980. What is behind this good news, and how can we sustain progress?The Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative: New Hope for Farmers
Number 208 (April 2010)
The 2008 global crisis in food prices pushed the number of hungry people past the 1 billion mark.
Worldwide, it underlined the urgent need to invest more in agriculture for the longer term and in nutrition assistance for vulnerable people now.
Childhood Hunger: A Time to Act
Number 207 (February 2010)
Who are the children going hungry in the United States, and what can we do to help?Bridging the Gap for Working Families: Offering of Letters 2010
Number 206 (January 2010)
Bread’s Offering of Letters 2010 calls on Congress to protect and strengthen tax credits that help low-income working families – such as the four profiled here – stretch their budgets.
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