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    Causes of Poverty

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    GENDER PERFORMANCE OF PUPILS IN KENYA CERTIFICATE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF KIMUMU WARD‚ UASIN GISHU COUNTY DECLARATION Declaration by the candidate This research proposal is my original work and has not been presented by anyone else for examination in any other institute of learning. Production of any part of this proposal is prohibited without prior permission of the Moi University or the author. Name: xxx Sign…………………… Date………………………… Reg No:________________ Declaration

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    poverty and hunger

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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 Obesity

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    Pv Poverty and Obesity: Why the Government is to Blame Poverty and Obesity Many people believe the American government to be corrupt and run by people who do not deserve the positions they are in and while this may be true‚ there are bad facts that point in their direction when it comes to certain things. One of those things includes the epidemic of obesity ultimately linked to poverty caused by the government and the food industry that is run by the government as well. Over a short amount

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    Culture of poverty

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    The controversial idea of “Culture of Poverty” was featured in the NY Times article by Patricia Cohen on October 17‚ 2010. The article starts with the historical roots of the debate in the work of Daniel Patrick Moynihan‚ who drew on the anthropologist Oscar Lewis in describing a culture of poverty among African-Americans. By “attributing self-perpetuating moral deficiencies” to African-American people‚ he placed individual blame for their own misfortune. Originally intended as an internal memorandum

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    Functionalism And Poverty

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    Discuss how social institutions contribute to 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

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    War on Poverty

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    War on Poverty I believe poverty is a big social issue in America. Poverty can be the main cause of robberies‚ drugs‚ alcoholism‚ prostitution‚ and homelessness. These are some examples that concern me the most. Many people in this country don’t realize how serious this issue is‚ although we see it happening all the time. This issue is so overwhelming that it’s not brought up by many people nowadays. Poverty in this country has been since America was established. There has always been poverty

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    Identify Core Competency

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    IDENTIFYING CORE COMPETENCIES FOR ELECTRONIC RESOURCES LIBRARIANS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LIBRARY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE TEXAS WOMAN‘S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION BY SARAH W. SUTTON‚ M.L.S. DENTON‚ TEXAS MAY 2011 TEXAS WOMAN‘S UNIVERSITY DENTON‚ TEXAS December 3‚ 2010 To the Dean of the Graduate School: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written

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    Poverty in Chile

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    nearly three minutes with a magnitude of 8.8 destroyed an estimated 500‚000 homes‚ schools‚ hospitals‚ and other buildings‚ leaving countless Chileans homeless (Kurczy). This earthquake was 500 times stronger than the earthquake that occurred in Haiti‚ and caused severe damage in central Chile (Kurczy). It’s the second strongest earthquake to ever hit Chile and one of the top ten strongest in the world (“Chile’s Earthquake”). The 2010 earthquake in Chile left millions of Chileans in poverty which

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    Chronic Poverty

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    Poverty: Causes‚ Responses and Consequences in Rural South Africa Elizabeth Francis‚ April 2006 Development Studies Institute London School of Economics Houghton St London WC2A 2AE e.m.francis@lse.ac.uk CPRC Working Paper No. 60 Chronic Poverty Research Centre ISBN: 1-904049-59-1 Elizabeth Francis is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the London School of Economics. Acknowledgements The research on which the case study is based was carried out as a collaborative project

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    Poverty in Pakistan

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    Poverty in Pakistan Abstract: Poverty is Pakistan’s biggest problem which today’s Pakistan facing‚ it is interconnected with several elements which are having direct or indirect relationship with poverty. This paper is an effort to find out and discuss the elements related to poverty and it is a contribution from author to do something for his country and same time for the rest of world. Poverty in Pakistan does not affect people of Pakistan only but it has an effect on rest of world as well. Today

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