2011 Current Affairs at a Glance JANUARY The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act‚ UPA’s flagship aam admi scheme‚ turned five on February 2‚ 2011. On January 14‚ the Ministry of Rural Development issued a notification revising the wage rates under the MNREGA from Rs 100 per day to between Rs 117 and Rs 181 (17-30 % hike) in different States. The revision under Section 6(1) of the 2005 Act‚ coming in wake of inflationary pressures on the poor‚ adjusts the wages by indexing it
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burden of weight and obesity falling disproportionately on the poor. There is a powerful inverse relation between obesity and socioeconomic status in the developed world‚ especially among African-Americans. So‚ what is responsible for this association? There are at least two possibilities: obesity influences socioeconomic status or socioeconomic status influences obesity. But there is strong evidence supporting the latter as highlighted by the causal pathway between being poor and being at higher
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Pd. 1 Do people need to look to the past or the future when making decisions? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading‚ studies‚ experience‚ or observations. Do people need to look to the past or the future when making decisions? Today there are many obstacles to success‚ and the decisions you make‚ whether you succeed
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Vision of future By: Omar Second year of secondary stage We in Egypt must have unique goals to be achieved in the journey of our life‚ those goals have to come as a result of thinking about problems which face each one personally‚ face the whole country and face many people in the world‚ so we have to add something valuable to our community which will change the face of the future in any way possible because the future belongs to the people who prepare
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essay‚ I will be defining the key terms: Socioeconomic status and Health then proceed to talk about how poverty‚ income‚ housing‚ employability and social environment impacts on a
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for baring children‚ yet they are malnourished and in poor health. Women are also overworked in each and every field and complete all of the domestic work. Most Indian women are illiterate. Although the country’s constitution says women have equal status to men‚ women are powerless‚ ineffective and are mistreated inside and outside the home. It is very rude on the part of present day society to talk about the elation of women. This paper studies the Indian women and their problems since the society
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[PROJECT STATUS REPORT] Rev. 1.0‚ 25/10/2013 Company here Bi-weekly Project Status Report GENERAL INFORMATION Project Name Project Manager Project ID Number Prepared by Project Sponsor Reporting Period Ending Date [DD/MM/YYYY] Report Number Section I TASKS/MILESTONES COMPLETED This section only includes tasks/milestones that are completed since last reporting period (Report Number CT-BWR-09‚ dated 23/05/2012). [Insert rows as needed] Description of Task/Milestone
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Prospect Theory Review This paper is written in order to compare and contrast two articles that were chosen from the social psychology field. I chose my topic as Prospect Theory. It is one of the theories related to decision making process. This theory not only supported in social psychology but also supported fields of economic‚ consumer choice‚ political science and marketing. Prospect theory explains that people
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Socioeconomic Status: Poor Nutrition Children who live in poverty face many mental and physical health problems: “higher mortality rate due to infections‚ dental caries‚ chronic ear infections‚ mental retardation‚ learning disabilities‚ and poor school performance” (Shah‚ Kahan‚ & Krauser‚ 1987‚ p.485). One of the reasons for these problems appears to be the basic necessities of a human being which is adequate nutritious food. In a 2001 article‚ Alaimo studied the impact of food insufficiency and
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM Background of the Study A socioeconomic status is based on family income‚ parental education level‚ parental occupation‚ and pointed by Demarest‚ Reisner‚ Anderson‚ Humphrey‚ Farquhar‚ and Stein (1993) social status in the community (such as contacts within the community‚ group associations‚ and the community ’s perception of the family)‚ as). Families with high socioeconomic status often have more success in preparing their young children for school because they
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