Shack settlements began to emerge in and around the city centres of Johannesburg‚ Cape Town and Durban in the 1940s and 1950s. A shack settlement as defined by the Oxford English dictionary is‚ “an area where many shacks are set up‚ with or without the consent of the owner of the land.” These settlements began to emerge for many reasons and inadequate housing was just one of many. This essay will show that the inadequacy of formal housing was one of the explanations for the shack settlements but there
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Rural-Nonrural Differences in Educational Attainment: Results from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988-2000 Soo-yong Byun‚ Judith L. Meece‚ and Matthew J. Irvin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill April‚ 2010 Running Head: Rural-Nonrural Differences in Educational Attainment Revisited Word count: 7‚890 *This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association‚ May 3‚ 2010‚ Denver‚ CO. The analyses
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Judicial Review of Class Action Settlements Jonathan R. Macey Deputy Dean and Samuel Harris Professor of Corporate Law‚ Corporate Finance and Securities Law‚ Yale Law School. Geoffrey P. Miller Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor‚ New York University Law School. We thank Richard Stewart for helpful comments. Both Macey and Miller have consulted in class action cases‚ and Miller has testified as an expert witness in a number of class action settlements‚ including several of the cases referenced
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RURAL NON-FARM EMPLOYMENT IN INDIA: MACRO-TRENDS‚ MICROEVIDENCES AND POLICY OPTIONS Brajesh Jha Agricultural Economics Unit Institute of Economic Growth University Enclave‚ Delhi-110007 Gram: Growth-110007 Phones: 91-11-27667101‚ 27667288‚ 27667365 Fax: 91-11-27667410 E-mail: brajesh@ieg.ernet.in Website: www.ieg.nic.in RURAL NON-FARM EMPLOYMENT IN INDIA: MACROTRENDS‚ MICRO-EVIDENCES AND POLICY OPTIONS Brajesh Jha* ABSTRACT Towards the end of the 1990s‚ the incidence of unemployment
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secure (ihealthbeat.org June 1 2010)." According to the article on ihealthbeat.org‚ "Government health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid already provide some reimbursement to doctors and hospitals that provide remote care to patients in rural‚ underserved regions. Some private insurers also are starting to market interactive video technologies to large employers." Telemedicine is an expensive technology to put in place even for major medical institutions since it requires a great deal
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The barriers of access to better health services by rural population have been identified as; lack of health care professional‚ cost and limited access to specific services and lack of culturally acceptable services (Hegney‚ Pearson and McCarthy‚ 1997). In most remote parts of Papua New Guinea‚ there are few qualified health professional working and limited or no medical resources available to carter for the people. It’s because there were no road links or deteriorated infrastructure because of
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1. Introduction to Rural Credit In modern world credit has become one of the crucial inputs. The co-operative credit societies were‚ in the past and even now‚ the most important source of credit to the farmers. Since 1969‚ commercial banks are also financing agriculture because of `social control’. There has been tremendous increase in the bank branches in the rural areas‚ Govt. has adopted the policy of `multi-agency approach’ in agricultural credit‚. At present‚ primary agricultural co-operative
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RURAL AGRI – MARKETING – WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ABSTRACT: India is basically an agrarian society‚ mostly dependent on agriculture‚ since times immemorial. Rural marketing is as old as civilization. Surplus of the agro-products were exchanged in earlier days by barter system. Gradually‚ the scenario has changed with the introduction of currency‚ transport and communication. This has relatively increased the scope of rural marketing. There are networks of co-operative societies
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In researching viatical settlements‚ I was able to obtain a substantial amount of information using internet research‚ online archival research‚ and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette online library. A viatical settlement is a procedure that takes place between a Viator (policy owner who sells his or her life insurance policy) and an investor or a funding firm. The first documented viatical settlement happened in the early twenty century between Dr. Grisby and his patient John C. Burchard
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Rural Entrepreneurship for Women: A Case for Wealth Creation by Africa’s Rural Poor amidst Global Financial and Economic Crises K M Baharul Islam1 Introduction: The growing emphasis on rural small and medium size entrepreneurship for economic development‚ especially in the context of poverty alleviation in developing countries has thrown up some major challenges for the commercial ventures led by women in global perspective. The position of women‚ even in the developing world‚ has been far from
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