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    Contents A. What is the difference between Training and Education?B. What/why are adults looking for when they reach out for education?C. What kinds of institutes and faculties offer Adult Education?D. What are the output documents?E. How are course pre-requisites handled? Mandatory requirements; grandfathering; combination of professional experience + education? Introduction   The purpose of this essay is to provide a baseline of definitions and language used within theeducation sector standard

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    Congo Poverty

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    Poverty has worsened in the Republic of Congo since the 1980s and half the country’s people now live below the poverty line. This average‚ however‚ masks wide geographic and economic inequalities. Most of the country’s poor people (64.8 per cent) live in rural areas and women are among the hardest hit by poverty. In 2006‚ more than a third of children under five in rural areas suffered from malnutrition. Access to water is also poor in rural areas where only 11 per cent of people can get water

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    Education and Poverty

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    Geared Toward White Students”. PolicyMic. 12 September 2011. Web. 1 April 2014. Demonbreun‚ Benjamin. Personal Interview. 5 April 2014. Freedle‚ Roy. Interview. 1 April 2014. Jensen‚ Eric. Teaching With Poverty In Mind. 2009. EBook’s (10-11)‚ Web. 8 April 2014. Polese‚ Mario. The Wealth And Poverty Of Regions: Why Cities Matter. 2009. EBook’s (3). Web. 13 April 2014.

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    Globalization of Poverty

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    Those nations and multinational corporations hide in the shadow of financial institutions that carry out agendas to further their interests and have abused the benefits globalization has to offer. Michael Chossudovsky’s book The Globalization of Poverty demonstrates that developing countries in the political community are being negatively affected by globalization. Financial institutions such as IMF‚ the World Bank‚ and the World Trade Organization through the administration of aggressive financial

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    Feminization Of Poverty

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    feminization of poverty is the theory that it is easier for women to fall into poverty and harder for them to climb out of it. Forty-three percent of households headed by single mothers are living in poverty in the United States. In the United States‚ whether or not you are considered impoverished depends on your annual income and the number of people in your household. For example a one person household with an annual income of less than $11‚770 would be considered to be living in poverty. A five person

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    Functionalism And Poverty

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    the problem of poverty. Explain the various ways in which poverty affects the basic rights and needs of people‚ including the relationship between crime and poverty. Does one perpetuate the other? If so‚ how? structural functionalism‚ conflict theory‚ and symbolic interactionism 1. How is the problem typically defined? a. a state in which income is insufficient to provide the basic necessities of fodd‚ shelter‚ clothing‚ and med care. b. the U.S census bureau determines poverty level by comparing

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    Corvinus University of Budapest UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals MDG 1: POVERTY AND HUNGER Budapest 2013 CHAPTER 1: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day Extreme poverty in the world has decreased considerably in the past three decades. In 1981‚ more than half of citizens in the developing world lived on less than $1 a day. This rate has dropped dramatically in 21 percent in 2010. Moreover‚ despite a 59 percent increase

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    Poverty and India

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    Poverty is one of the main issues‚ attracting the attention of the economists. It indicates a condition in which a person fails to maintain a living standard adequate for a comfortable lifestyle. India has the world’s largest number of poor people living in a single country. Out of its total population of more than 1 billion‚ 350 to 400 million people are living below the poverty line. Nearly 75% of the poor people are in rural areas‚ most of them are daily wagers‚ landless laborers and self employed

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    Poverty in the Philippines

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    restriction (QR) on rice under Annex 5 of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement. Japan and South Korea are the other two countries. The exemption will expire on December 31‚ 2004. The primary objective of the paper is to look at the possible poverty and distributional effects of the removal of the QR and the reduction in tariffs on rice imports. In particular‚ the paper attempts to analyze the following issues: (a) Do the poor share in the potential gains from a freer market for rice? (b) What

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    Poverty in Kenya

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    A growing population and rising poverty levels Kenya’s population has tripled over the past 30 years‚ leading to increasing pressure on natural resources‚ a widening income gap and rising poverty levels that erode gains in education‚ health‚ food security‚ employment and incomes. The causes of rural poverty include: low agricultural productivity‚ exacerbated by land degradation and insecure land tenure‚ unemployment and low wages‚ difficulty in accessing financing for self-employment‚ poor governance

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