History: The Ethiopian government has transitioned from Marxist era to a more democratic process‚ where there are three branches of government. The Dreg committee had an influential role in the governmental history of Ethiopia‚ which was developed by the Marxist ideology. The Dreg attempted to make Ethiopia into a socialist government‚ with certain land reforms that benefitted some regions of Ethiopia. As they began to face opposition the newly developed party‚ Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary
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“Social inequality is a more pressing socio-economic challenge than poverty in contemporary South Africa.” South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world‚ but not the poorest (with reference to income). We can see that the inequality in South Africa has worsened over time by looking at the country’s Gini Index score. In 1996 the score was 0.66 and in 2008‚ 0.70. The score has also deteriorated in terms of population groups: the score went from 0.54 to 0.62 between Blacks and from
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Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race ‚ 1 (2)‚ 377-388. Chaitin‚ J. (2004). My Story‚ my life‚ my identity. International Journal of Qualitative Methods ‚ 3 (4). Gallagher‚ T. (2006). Rev.of - Identity and Violence: the illusion of destiny; Sen‚Amartya. Retrieved March 26‚ 2011‚ from Community Relations Council: http://www.community-relations.org.uk/services/publications/ Hall‚ B Hogg‚ M. A.‚ Terry‚ D. J.‚ & White‚ K. M. (1995). A Tale of Two Theories: A Critical Comparison of Identity Theory
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female child is a basic facility area. Though the demographic characteristics do not show much or in some cases ‚ anti-female bias‚ there is always a woman who receives a small piece of the pie. There are two main inequalities as pointed out by Amartya Sen‚ the educational inequality and health inequality‚ these are the indicators of a woman’s status of welfare. In India irrespective of the caste‚ creed‚ religion and social status‚ the overall
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What are your perceptions on the universal declaration of human rights would you like to amend any of the articles or add a new article to the declaration? In: International Laws [Edit categories] Answer: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is half a century old‚ but critics are still asking whether anything in our multicultural‚ diverse world can be truly universal. Some ask‚ isn’t human rights an essentially Western concept‚ ignoring the very different cultural‚ economic and political realities
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Looking back‚ I was introduced to my first masculine activity when I turned four. At this young age‚ my Dad signed me up for Kung Fu. My Dad thought it was proper because I was a boy. On the other hand‚ my sister who is hardly younger than me‚ was never introduced to Kung Fu because she was a girl. While practicing Kung Fu in an all-boys class‚ I was encouraged to get excited about fighting. As a child‚ I loved anything that had to do with action‚ whether it be watching Power Rangers on television
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Bengal Famine‚ an estimated 4 million people died of hunger that year in eastern India (which included today’s Bangladesh). Initially‚ this catastrophe was attributed to an acute shortfall in food production in the area. However‚ Indian economist Amartya Sen (recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics‚ 1998) has established that while food shortage was a contributor to the problem‚ a more potent factor was the result of hysteria related to World War II‚ which made food supply a low priority for the
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org/Documents/Class_Caste_or_Race.pdf. February 9‚ 2012. Pakistan Census Organization (2000). Islamabad Census Report 1998. Government of Pakistan: Islamabad. Rutstein‚ S.O.‚ Johson‚ K. (2004). The DHS wealth index: DHS Comparative Report No. 6. Calverton‚ Maryland: ORC Macro. Sen‚ A. (1984). The living standard. Oxford Economic Papers‚ New Series. Vol. 36. pp. 74-90. Sern‚ A. (1977). Social choice theory: A re-examination. Econometrica. Vol. 45(1). pp. 53-88. Pigou‚ A.C. (1932). The economics of welfare. (3ed). London: Macmillan
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A RECENT publication‚ Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban India‚ brought out by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) indicates that more than 38 per cent of children under the age of three in India’s cities and towns are underweight and more than 35 per cent of children in urban areas are stunted (shorter than they should be for their age). The report states that the poor in India’s burgeoning urban areas do not get the requisite amount of calories or nutrients
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CULtURAL GENOCIDE RECONSIDERED Robert van Krieken* I Introduction One aspect of the Bringing them Home Report1 that has caused considerable controversy was its appeal to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide2 (‘UNGC’) to characterise the removal of Aboriginal children as state-sponsored genocide.3 This utilisation of the UNGC having been debated in the wake of the Bringing Them Home Report‚ there is now general agreement that it was deeply
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