Rural Reforms 4.2. Public Investment in Education‚ Research and Infrastructure 4.3. Labour Absorption in Non-farm Sector and Urbanisation 4.4. Regional Cooperation and Globalisation 4.5. Rising Inequality in China 5. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Pakistan: A Historical View 5.1. Land Reforms 5.2. Agricultural Growth and Rural Poverty 5.3. Rural Non-farm Economy 5.4. Urbanisation 5.5. Public Spending 1 2 3 3 6 7 7 11 12 12 13 14 16 16 17 18 19 22 26 29 Page 6. Why Pakistan could not Succeed in Poverty
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(Waillis and Bruce‚ 1992‚ p.8). Globalisation has been defined as the global spread of modernization (Beayer 1994‚ cited in Bowman et al‚ 2009‚ p.82). Modernisation is used to refer to the process of social transformation involving industrialisation‚ urbanisation‚ expansion of the role of the state‚ development of global capitalism and mass of education. It is basically a process where society ^ moving from evolutionary role of
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How far were divisions among its opponents responsible for the survival of Tsarist rule in the years 1881-1905? To a certain extent the divisions among the opponents of the Tsar‚ such as the Bolshevik and Menshevik split in the Marx party after the 1903 conference‚ or even the divisions among different revolutionary parties entirely‚ e.g. Marx and the Social Revolutionaries‚ was responsible for the survival of Tsarist rule in this period as this led to disorganisation and lack of effectiveness
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escalating‚ principally due to a sharp rise in the developing countries which are experiencing rapid health transition. Contributory causes include: demographic shifts with altered population age profiles; lifestyle changes due to recent urbanisation‚ delayed industrialisation and overpowering globalisation; probable effects of foetal undernutrition on adult susceptibility to vascular disease and possible gene –environment interactions influencing ethnic diversity. Altered diets and diminished physical
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modern materialism‚ greed and over-exploitation of forests have left the bitter taste of the fruits of prosperity. It has created a disharmony and imbalance in our ecology and environment‚ an evil that is being intensely realised now. The urbanisation and industrialisation on a vast scale‚ during the past few decades‚ have resulted in mass deforestation and depletion of the green cover. Forests are one of the priceless boons of nature‚ but human consumerism has created such a great pressure on forests
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It is evident that the global economy has moved on from the Asian Tigers and the present and future of the global economy does in fact lie elsewhere‚ in particular India and China. The Asian Tigers are a group of countries which are the first set of NIC ’s; Taiwan‚ Singapore‚ Hong Kong and South Korea. They underwent rapid development in the 1960 ’s by encouraging TNC ’s to invest by opening up manufacturing plants by offering cheap labour and less strict pollution laws. TNC ’s also had the advantage
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revolution’ from the upper classes filtered down to the middle and lower classes None of these economic changes were critical enough to create an industrial revolution but without this new‚ solid economic platform that they had by 1750‚ British industrialisation would have taken much longer than it did. Economic Growth after 1750: The century following 1750 is named as the birth period of industrial Britain The invention of machines‚ such as the spinning jenny. The use of steam and the creation
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Iyengar sanjay ! ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND ITS EFFECT ON INDIAN ECONOMY The environmental problems in India are growing rapidly. The increasing economic development and a rapidly growing population that has taken the country from 300 million people in 1947 to more than one billion people today is putting a strain on the environment‚ infrastructure‚ and the country’s natural resources. Industrial pollution‚ soil erosion‚ deforestation‚ rapid industrialization‚ urbanization‚ and land degradation
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blend together and become chemically and biologically contaminated‚ which renders their retrieval rather difficult. INTRODUCTION: Environmental pollution is the major problem associated with rapid industrialisation‚ urbanisation and rise in living standards of people. Industrialisation has caused serious problems relating to environmental pollution.Therefore‚ wastes seem to be
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www.kewpid.com Globalisation Case Study: South Korea by Dan Nguyen 1 of 6 www.kewpid.com Globalisation‚ an important characteristic within the contemporary economic environment‚ has resulted in significant changes to individual nations in terms of economic development strategies undertaken by national governments. The term globalisation refers to the integration of local and international economies into a globally unified political‚ economic and cultural order. Globalisation is not a
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