1 China’s economic growth and poverty reduction (1978-2002) By Hu Angang，Hu Linlin and Chang Zhixiao1 [Abstract] This article has summarized and evaluated the trend of China’s poverty decrease in the period of 1978-2002‚ considering that China has obtained great achievements in the area of poverty decrease sine 1978 and made great contributions to the world; however‚ poverty decrease has not corresponded to the economic growth and it has slowed down the pace since the middle of 1980s; in addition
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RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO JANUARY 2010 Microfinance in the Philippines uring the last few years‚ the volume of microfinance activity has grown considerably in the Philippines and an increasing number of financial institutions have engaged in retail microfinance operations. While this sector has been traditionally dominated by rural banks‚ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and finance cooperatives‚ in 2009 a number of commercial banks sought entrance into the retail microfinance market
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION According to Phillips (2007) “Corporate governance is an encompassing policy‚ processes and people‚ which serves the needs of shareholders and other stake holders by directing and controlling management activities with good business savvy‚ objectivity and integrity”. The author stated that sound corporate governance is dependent on external market place commitment and legislation plus a healthy board culture that safeguards policies and processes. Magdi and Nadereh (2002)
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The effects of poverty The effects of poverty are serious. Children who grow up in poverty suffer more persistent‚ frequent‚ and severe health problems than do children who grow up under better financial circumstances. Many infants born into poverty have a low birth weight‚ which is associated with many preventable mental and physical disabilities. Not only are these poor infants more likely to be irritable or sickly‚ they are also more likely to die before their first birthday. Children
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PIDE Monograph Series Poverty Reduction in Pakistan: Learning from the Experience of China G. M. Arif and Shujaat Farooq PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ISLAMABAD All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise—without prior permission of the author and or the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics‚ P. O. Box 1091‚ Islamabad
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Study on GENDER EQUQLITY IN EDUCATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION Shanta Laxmi Shrestha Submitted to Assoc. Professor Mahesh Nath Parajuli‚ PhD Kathmandu University In partial fulfilment of the requirement of the course Educ 545 Theory and Practice in Education and Development M Phil (Development Studies) School of Education Kathmandu University Lalitpur May 2009 Word Count: 4564 Gender Equality in Education and Poverty Reduction Abstract This paper discusses the concept
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profile of poverty in Nigeria is assuming a worrisome dimension as empirical studies have shown that Africa and Nigeria in particular has witnessed monumental increase in the level of poverty. Available records from the Federal Office of Statistics (1996)‚ shows that about 71% of Nigerian households are considered poor‚ which reveals that poverty has been massive‚ pervasive and engulfs a large proportion of the Nigerian society. The high level of poverty has a lot of destabilizing effects on the citizens
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EFFECT OF ETHNICITY ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA CHAPTER 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION Nigeria is by far the most populated of Africa’s countries‚ with more than one-seventh of the continent’s people. The people belong to many different ethnic groups. These groups give the country a rich culture‚ but they also pose major challenges to nation building. Ethnic strife has plagued Nigeria since it gained independence in 1960. Officially known as the ‘Federal Republic of Nigeria’‚ she has a federal
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Microfinance is usually understood to entail the provision of financial services to micro-entrepreneurs and small businesses‚ which lack access to banking and related services due to the high transaction costs associated with serving these client categories. For some‚ microfinance is a movement whose object is "a world in which as many poor and near-poor households as possible have permanent access to an appropriate range of high quality financial services‚ including not
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Effects of poverty Again in a developed nation council houses in Seacroft‚ Leeds‚ UK have been deserted due to poverty and high crime. See also: Malnutrition Health Main article: Diseases of poverty Hunger‚ disease‚ and less education describe a person in poverty. One third of deaths - some 18 million people a year or 50‚000 per day - are due to poverty-related causes: in total 270 million people‚ most of them women and children‚ have died as a result of poverty since 1990.[67] Those living
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