minimum literacy levels among the poor? Yes they can be used in the absence of minimum literacy levels among the poor. The ICT plays a big role in the rural areas and benefits the people that live there. ICT’s are used in the poor communities to empower and help the illiterate and people with less knowledge. Applications in agricultural and rural development have often been to provide direct access to market and weather information for the poor and also provides knowledge support to research and
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DETERMINANTS OF SAVINGS INTENSION A. Income Both the Keynesian savings function [21] and the permanent income hypothesis [11] Indicate a positive effect of income on savings. Using time series data for forty-nine countries‚ Rossi‚ for example‚ indicated the positive impact of current income levels on savings rate without differentiating types of income [32]. According to the permanent income hypothesis [11]‚ which distinguishes between permanent and transitory components of income‚ households
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PREDICATION As you observed‚ student’s are lazy during afternoon class they felt asleep. They could not listen to teachers lesson‚ ‘cause they are tired of playing during noon time. They failed in quizzes ‘cause they don’t understood what the teachers tackle about. Some students felt sleep ‘cause the discussion is boring‚ some of them can’t understand especially in academic subjects. Some student can cheat ‘cause they felt asleep. In examination day they forgot what had they discuss many
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Sociologists have identified a number of different types of rural communities‚ which have arisen as a result of changing economic trends within rural regions of industrial nations. The basic trend seems to be one in which communities are required to become entrepreneurial. Those that lack the sort of characteristics mentioned below‚ are forced to either seek out their niche or accept eventual economic defeat. These towns focus on marketing and public relations whilst bidding for business and government
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Will today’s small rural towns be the ghost towns of tomorrow? Will what’s now a moderately busy main street be overtaken by grasses and tumbleweeds? According to the CEDS “Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy”‚ which was compiled in 2003 by the South Central Economic Development District‚ Franklin County ranks last in housing unit counts‚ wage and salary income‚ employer establishments. County population has declined over 34% from 5‚449 in 1960 to 3‚574 in 2000. (Gorman‚ 20) Is the future
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How Does Media Promote Unhealthy Habits in Regulating Body Image? There are many detrimental physical‚ and psychological effects from observing the media. If body image concerns are intense enough‚ they may catalyze behaviours that are aimed at changing one’s physique to reduce discontent (Borzekowski‚ Bayer‚ 2005‚ pg.3). How does the media promote unhealthy habits in regulating body image? Studies have been done especially and specifically concerning the media’s influence on eating disorders
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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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1 The Rural-Urban Divide Cities take up less than two percent of the Earth’s land surface‚ but are home to almost half of theworld’s population and utilize seventy-five percent of the Earth’s resources.In 1998 47 percent of the world’spopulation lived in cities as opposed to 29 percent in 1950.Globalization is leading to increased urbanization.According to the World Bank urban areas in developing countries account for an estimated 60 - 80 percent ofGDP.Urban populations mainly have greater access
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Alcoholism in Youth Expectation‚ are they making things difficult? It seems that what is expected has not been achieved neither been integrated in mind and heart of the youth‚ being dubbed to as hope of the motherland. Did the famous national hero of ours‚ Dr. Jose P. Rizal‚ just had been mistaken with his proposition then? Or‚ is it because the influential matters in the society that dominates that is why those coined words by him do not materialized? Which is which?
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very devastating and HIV is the main cause in Haiti based on the article titled‚ “Culture‚ Poverty‚ and HIV Transmission‚ The Case of Rural Haiti” because it is a sexual transmitted infection that creates a deadly plague among people in Haiti. Factors such as culture‚ politic and economic factors have an impact in particularly addressing HIV transmission in rural Haiti; however‚ to understand this urban epidemic. Farmer proposes that we must move beyond risk groups and focus on the interplay of human
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