overarching theme‚ "BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Development‚ Integration and Industrialisation”. The Fifth BRICS Summit concluded the first cycle of BRICS Summits and we reaffirmed our commitment to the promotion of international law‚ multilateralism and the central role of the United Nations (UN). Our discussions reflected our growing intra-BRICS solidarity as well as our shared goal to contribute positively to global peace‚ stability‚ development and cooperation. We also considered our role in
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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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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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the financial‚ social and environmental threat‚ obligation and opportunity. These may be translated as the 3 P’s of Business Sustainability – Profits‚ People and Planet. According to the World Commission on Environment & Development (WCED)‚ sustainable development is development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” With women comprising a major count in our population and their ability to have transformed themselves into
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ICT as an enabler of Socio-Economic Development Tahir Hameed* School of Engineering‚ Information & Communications University‚ 305-732‚ Daejeon‚ Republic of Korea. Abstract: Today’s is a world of many divides‚ one of the most typical being the Digital Divide which in itself has given birth to or is worsening other economic and social divides. In this world more suffer and less are able to benefit from technology. This paper fosters the importance and need of international cooperation for use & promotion
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DEDICATED TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE DRIVING SUCCESS Marketing and sustainable development What is sustainable development? The term sustainable development means different things to different people. But‚ in essence‚ it is concerned with meeting the needs of people today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable development therefore involves: A broad view of social‚ environmental and economic outcomes; A long-term perspective‚ concerned
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AMRITSAR: Women education and the resulting women empowerment was the major concern of the society at large. It was because educated women could play a significant role in the overall development and progress of the country ‚ this was observed by Ritu Aggarwal‚ Chairperson‚ Hospital Welfare Section‚ District Red Cross Society while talking to media persons here on Wednesday. District Red Cross Society provides free of cost sewing machines to help the widows to be self independent and training
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Partnership Strategic alliances among business‚ government‚ and civil society are an established feature of social development and policy development in both mature and emerging economies. Such multi-sector partnerships are necessary because it is increasingly clear that no one sector in society can address the complexities surrounding these issues on its own. Training and development is no exception. There are many definitions of “partnership” in use today‚ and increasingly the term is used to describe
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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES (DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES) FIELD ANALYSIS CARRIED AT BOLGATANGA MUNICIPAL‚ UPPER EAST REGION GHANA BY: AMOAH ANETU DAMIEN (UDS/CHD/0061/12) APRIL‚ 2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is being generated on data gathered from the Municipal Health Management Team (MHMT) and the Municipal Assembly of Bolgatanga. Bolgatanga municipality has a population of about 154‚185 with a population growth rate of 1.1%. It has nine
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Centre in Florence‚ Italy‚ was established in 1988 to strengthen the research capability of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and to support its advocacy for children worldwide. The Centre (formally known as the International Child Development Centre) helps to identify and research current and future areas of UNICEF’s work. Its prime objectives are to improve international understanding of issues relating to children’s rights and to help facilitate the full implementation of the Convention
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