social daily activities -Dr Amartya Sen Global extent of chronic poverty APPROX. 300-420 MILLION CHRONICALLY POOR Reasons Why Poverty cannot be ignored…… 1. Some Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can never be achieved without reaching the poor. 2. Other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be achieved fully or in part by excluding the poor. The poverty of those left behind post-2015 will likely be even more intractable. 3. By denying the poorest – those with least to lose – we
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Access to Clean Water is a Life Changing Experience Access to clean water is a life changing experience. 30‚000 people die every year because they don’t have access to clean water. Now imagine if those people hadn’t died there would be over 780 million people who don’t have access to clean water‚ that is more than 2 ½ times the population of the US. Every single person in these conditions has to make a decision that ends in death. They have the choice of drinking the dirty water and becoming
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People’s Republic of Bangladesh United Nations Development Programme Preparatory Assistance Document Project Title: Strengthening Upazila Parishad (UZP) through Capacity Building Initiatives and Policy Advocacy Implementing Partner: (Formerly Executing agency) UNDP Cooperating Government Partners: Local Government Division‚ Ministry of Local Government‚ Rural Development and Cooperatives. National Institute of Local Government (NILG) Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD)
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: 5 9. The impact of HIV on women : 7 10. Prevention : 9 11. HIV treatment : 9 12. Prevention Challenges : 11 13. The Global Response to HIV/AIDS : 11 14. The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS : 12 15. Women and HIV related MDGs‚ its target and impact of HIV to achieve the target : 13 16. HIV/AIDS and women in Bangladesh : 14 17. Conclusion : 16 References : 18 1. Introduction: Human immunodeficiency virus infection / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
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Inequality and health in Malawi 2011 – an analytical study identifying trends over 19 years George Chapotera1 and Cameron Bowie2 1: Department of Planning‚ MOH 2: Department of Community Health‚ College of Medicine‚ University of Malawi‚ Blantyre‚ Malawi. October 2011 Prepared for the Technical Working Group on health equity Ministry of Health and SWAp partners Abstract Background Malawi is the eleventh poorest country in the world according to UNDP (HDR2010). Health affects
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AND THE PATTERN OF EDUCATION SPENDING IN BANGLADESH; Bangladesh Development Studies‚ Vol 10. World Bank (2008); EDUCATION FOR ALL IN BANGLADESH; Bangladesh Development Series‚ Paper No. 24 11. UNDP (2007); A SITUATION ANALYSIS REPORT ON EDUCATION (MDG 2)
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Policy Response Rajiv Kumar Growth Downturn and Its Effects Bibek Debroy Global Crisis and the Indian Economy Jayati Ghosh Impact of the Economic Downturn on Non-farm Sector Workers Vijay Mahajan Impact of Financial Crisis on India’s March Towards MDGs K. Seeta Prabhu About the authors 5 7 14 5 36 45 56 4 Global Financial Crisis: Impact on India’s Poor Global Financial Crisis: Impact on India’s Poor Some Initial Perspectives As part of contribution by the United Nations
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Importance Of Economics Everyone is a part of economy and everyone uses the rules of economy too. From the time we are born‚ we become consumers of various products and services (say‚ medical services‚ baby foods‚ and so on). We grow and diversify to attain various different roles as producers‚ traders‚ mediators and agents. Today’s world is that of “economic imperialism”‚ where economical factors‚ most importantly‚ money dictates all the elements of the society‚ not to forget close family relations
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United Nations Development Programme CASE STUDIES OF S U S TA I N A B L E D E V E LO P M E N T I N P R AC T I C E TRIPLE WINS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT United Nations Development Programme C A S E S T U D I E S O F S U S TA I N A B L E D E V E LO P M E N T I N P R AC T I C E TRIPLE WINS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT United Nations Development Programme June 2012 Copyright © 2012 United Nations Development Programme. All rights reserved. This publication or parts of it may
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Girls’ education: towards a better future for all Cover photo: A schoolgirl in Surinam. (© Ron Giling/Still Pictures) Girls’ education: towards a better future for all Published by the Department for International Development January 2005 ii Foreword by the Secretary of State for International Development ‘To be educated means… I will not only be able to help myself‚ but also my family‚ my country‚ my people. The benefits will be many.’ MEDA WAGTOLE‚ SCHOOLGIRL‚ ETHIOPIA
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