population) Diagram of the line in the Lorenz curve represents perfect equality in income distribution. The further the curve is a way of a diagonal‚ the greater the degree of income inequality. OECD – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Variation in income distribution within a country‚ e.g China: Huge variations between rural and urban areas‚ East‚ South – East and West of the country‚ Gini coefficient is growing in China Factors effecting internal disparities: Residence:
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INTRODUCTION A significant development in recent years has been the mushrooming of community-based organizations and initiatives at the local level for women. Reports indicate that self-help programmes‚ often in the form of savings and credit or micro credit schemes‚ have succeeded in changing the lives of poor women‚ enhancing incomes and generating positive externalities such as increased self-esteem. This paper addresses the challenging issue of whether self-help micro credit programmes are tools
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Summit on Sustainable Development held in September 2002 in Johannesburg. Difficulties with water supply for drinking and economic needs are especially obvious in countries with water supply deficits. Kazakhstan is one such country‚ as the majority of its territory lies in a zone of low humidity. This publication has therefore come at the right time and draws the attention of the public‚ academia and decision-makers to this key determinant of the sustainable development of the country. The
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Global Partnership for Development was adopted by 189 nations‚ signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. Bill Gates has called them "the best idea for focusing the world on fighting global poverty that [he has] ever seen." The signing of the partnership was the beginning of the process towards the establishment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Nigeria was among the countries to establish an office for MDG. The goals of the MDG which has
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day’ proposed in 1992 in Agenda 21 of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio-de-Janeiro‚ Brazil. Each year more than 1 billion of our fellow human beings have little choice but to resort to using potentially harmful sources of water. This perpetuates a silent humanitarian crisis that kills some 3900 children every day and thwarts progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The consequences of our collective failure to tackle this problem are the
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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Goals and Targets (from the Millennium Declaration) Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target 1: Halve‚ between 1990 and 2015‚ the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day Target 2: Halve‚ between 1990 and 2015‚ the proportion of people who suffer from hunger 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Indicators for monitoring progress a Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of poverty] Share of poorest
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conditions for the development of some of the world’s largest hydroelectric projects in Nepal. Current estimates are that Nepal has approximately 40‚000 MW of economically feasible hydropower potential. However‚ the present situation is that Nepal has developed only approximately 600 MW of hydropower. Therefore‚ bulk of the economically feasible generation has not been realized yet. Besides‚ the multipurpose‚ secondary and tertiary benefits have not been realized from the development of its rivers.
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for the performance of this important aspect of its work. Public administration’s role in the society‚ since the dawn of organized governments revolves around the concept of public service. In this times when the pace of social and economic development is so rapid‚ there is a great need of synchronizing the formulation of government policies with world events. As a result‚ public administration has assumed a new role – that of serving as change agent in the task of nation-building. With its new
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Behind The Beautiful Forevers: An Introduction Katherine Boo’s first book‚ Behind The Beautiful Forevers‚ details the lives of the citizens of Annawadi‚ a small slum in Mumbai‚ India. For three years and four months Boo chronicled the everyday struggles of several individuals illegally squatting within the cramped quarters owned by the Mumbai Airport Authority. Founded in 1991 by construction workers hoping to acquire temp work brought on by the ever-expanding airport (Boo‚ 2012‚ p. 5)‚ Annawadi
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Judith Tata HCSV 323 Professor L. Briggs 1/17/14 The Effects of Globalization on International Health Over the Past Century Over the last 100 years globalization has had both positive and negative effects on global health and health care. We are irrevocably interconnected and anything that is one country’s concern becomes the one concern of all. The world population has exploded‚ we live longer‚ but we are not necessarily healthier. Globalization has created challenges but also opportunities in combating
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