Right of a child to free‚ compulsory and universal primary education— Section 2 (15) of the Child Rights Act signed by 16 states in Nigeria) “Any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.” — Section 29 (4b) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. Social media was awash last weekend with news that the Senate had signed a ‘child marriage act’ into law‚ legalizing marriage for girls under the age of 18. Although lawmakers have corrected this notion‚ saying that the section stated above only
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Mortality in India for the years 2007-2009 using the Sample Registration System (SRS). This Special Bulletin was published in June‚ 2011 and shows that the number of states that have realized the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) set by the United Nations have gone up three against one. One of the main goals was to reduce the Maternal Mortality Rate to 200 maternal deaths per lakh of live births by the year 2007 and to 109 maternal deaths per lakh of live births by the year 2015. In order to understand
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The Effect of Poverty on Child Development and Educational Outcomes PATRICE L. ENGLEa a AND MAUREEN M. BLACK b California Polytechnic State University‚ San Luis Obispo‚ California‚ USA b University of Maryland Baltimore‚ Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ USA Poverty affects a child’s development and educational outcomes beginning in the earliest years of life‚ both directly and indirectly through mediated‚ moderated‚ and transactional processes. School readiness‚ or the child’s ability to use and profit from
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SUMMARY NOTES HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT UNIT 4 * definitions of developed and developing countries according to WHO‚ including high/low mortality strata Developing countries are defined as those countries that have not achieved significant industrial growth relative to increase in population and GDP remains relatively low. As a result‚ standard of living is low and formal structures such as governments and education are often unstable. (e.g.: Sierra Leone‚ South Africa‚ Bangladesh‚ Afghanistan
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is a human development program of the national government that invests in the health and education of poor households‚ particularly of children aged 0-14 years old. The program aims to provide social assistance and social development to its beneficiaries. By providing opportunity for the development of the young‚ it envisions to prevent the vicious transmission of the cycle of poverty. Pantawid Pamilya helps to fulfill the country’s commitment to meet the Millennium Development Goals. The aforementioned
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rate of income tax‚ and increases in indirect taxes. This has made the tax system less progressive. (e.g. top rate of income tax in UK used to be 80% now it is 40%. Importance of Skills in Global Economy. Arguably globalization and economic development have changed the nature of the economy. There is now less demand for unskilled manual labour. This is because there has been a shift in manufacturing to the east. Therefore‚ workers with low skills and qualifications have found it harder to get
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The Role of the Local Government in Poverty Alleviation Case study in Blantyre District‚ Malawi 1. INTRODUCTION: This research has been conducted to investigate the role of the local government in poverty alleviation‚ in reference to the projects they design and implement and the contribution this makes in the efforts to develop the society as a whole‚ focussing on the Malawi business capital city of Blantyre. The following terms have been defined for clarification purposes
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5 CONTEMPORARY WORLD PROBLEMS Global Financial Crisis The global financial crisis‚ brewing for a while‚ really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen‚ large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out‚ and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems. Treatment of Women in Afghanistan Women in Afghanistan are treated unfairly due
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Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (Volume 13‚ No.4‚ 2011) ISSN: 1520-5509 Clarion University of Pennsylvania‚ Clarion‚ Pennsylvania A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW OF THE GROWTH CENTRE STRATEGY: PERSPECTIVES FOR REENGINEERING THE CONCEPT IN ZIMBABWE I.O. Manyanhaire1‚ R.Rwafa1 and J. Mutangadura2 1. Geography and Environmental Studies‚ Zimbabwe Open University. 2. English and Communication‚ University of Zimbabwe ABSTRACT Growth points (GPs)‚ growth poles (GPs)‚ small towns (STs) or growth
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- “Onchocerciasis Control Programme of West Africa (OCP/WA)” that was conducted from 1975-2002 that focused on 11 major countries and “The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (ACOP)”. These programs helped to achieve the Millennium Development Goals along with supporting foremost health care for the people of Africa. ACOP mainly aimed at providing drug called “Ivermectic” to local communities that helped to reduce the risk of Onchocerciasis. These programs were able to able to control the
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