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    India a Rising Superpower

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    1. India Rising Pointers * India’s per capita income increased at only around 1% annualized rate from 1950 - 1980 * In the late 2000s‚ India’s growth has reached 7.5%‚ which will double the average income in a decade. * The highest annualized 1999-2008 growth rates are for states Gujarat (9.6%)‚ Haryana (9.1%)‚ or Delhi (8.9%) and lowest Bihar (5.1%)‚ Uttar Pradesh (4.4%)‚ or Madhya Pradesh (6.5%). * India is the eleventh-largest economy in the world and the fourth largest by purchasing

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    Indian Institude of management ahmedabad | Sector analisys : Drinking water and sanitation in India | Social Enterpreneurship : Initiating Social Change | | Bruno LUSSATO & Antoine GERARD | 22/11/2012 | [Tapez le résumé du document ici. Il s’agit généralement d’une courte synthèse du document. Tapez le résumé du document ici. Il s’agit généralement d’une courte synthèse du document.] | Table of content Introduction: Current state of affairs  Poor quality of water is a real

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    urban exclusion in India

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    Topic : Urban Exclusion in India with Focus on Inequalities in Urban Areas Urbanisation is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanisation is also defined as the movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. Urbanisation is closely linked to modernisation and industrialisation. Urban growth takes place as more and more people leave villages and farms to live in cities. Urbanisation is a welcome phenomenon of change

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    the city of joy

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    touching international bestselling novel turned movie‚ which depicts a story of love‚ kindness and faith in the slum of Anand Nagar. The novel features 3 main characters Stephan Kovalski (a Catholic priest)‚ Max Loeb (an American doctor)‚ and Hansari Pal (an Indian rickshaw driver). The novel goes into depth about the different trials and tribulations these 3 men face. Their lives in the slum are that of starvation‚ poverty‚ hopelessness and violence. The novel discusses each man’s journey through such

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    immigrants hardly knew english and were in desperate need for work‚ they settled for low wage paying jobs that hardly covered living expenses. As a result‚ slums like the Lower East Side’s Five Points‚ were quickly filling with newcomers. Nearly 2.3 million people (two-thirds of New York City’s

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    a poor person who lives in the slum and wears the bedraggled bonnet and clothing but she is the queen in those cats’ mind. In the poem‚ Douglas has described Domain and

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    Social Justice

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    Question ‘Social justice ... is neither the exclusive terrain of social welfare nor of crime control. Indeed‚ the boundaries between these two domains tend to be mobile and porous’ (Book 1‚ Social Justice: Welfare‚ Crime and Society‚ p. 168). Explain and illustrate this with reference to examples drawn from at least two chapters from Book 1. According to Newman & Yeates (2008) Social Justice is a device that can be called upon to challenge particular forms of inequality or unfairness and

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    Slumdog Millionaire

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    different in some ways. Jamal‚ a boy comes from the slum in India is obviously the main character in the film as the whole film is about his life. Jamal is very important in the film as he illustrates to us how people that are from the slums are expected to get nowhere in life. It is a massive shock to me when he wins as much money as he does as even the most educated people never win this much money. Same as the other children in the slum‚ Jamal never receive a good education. Under the blanket

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    HOW WE PERCEIVE TROUBLED TIMES Many different contexts play a part in forming our identity. Where you live‚ who you live with‚ how financially strong you are all contribute to your perception of troubled times. If you live in a slum – like the boys from “Trash” by Andy Mulligan – then your identity‚ life and perception of troubled times would be different to that of a person from a 1st world country such as Australia. In my essay‚ I will demonstrate why troubled times differ depending on our contexts

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    Behind the Swoosh

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    the slums. The film opens our eyes and makes us think about the brands we wear and how they are made‚ more importantly who makes them and the kind of working conditions they are faced with everyday because of big name companies that decided to outsource to other countries for cheap labor. Outsourcing has become a trend that big name companies‚ like Nike‚ have come to practice to obtain cheap labor. In documentary‚ Kretzu and Keady film their stay in the slums of Indonesia‚ the same slums that

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