Disease as a consequence of poverty is presently the number one issue that needs to be addressed in concern with international security for several reasons. The reality that poverty perpetuates disease and ill-health is a testament to the fact that global health security can never be achieved without first reaching the goal of poverty eradication. As we become more interconnected through increased globalization‚ poverty becomes not only a threat to those in third world countries‚ but living organisms
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------------------------------------------------- Efforts to alleviate poverty Since the early 1950s‚ govt has initiated‚ sustained‚ and refined various planning schemes to help the poor attain self-sufficiency in food production. Probably the most important initiative has been the supply of basic commodities‚ particularly food at controlled prices‚ available throughout the country as poor spend about 80 percent of their income on food. The schemes have however not been very successful because the rate of poverty reduction lags behind the
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Timothy Collins 2/10/2013 National Security: An Intuitive Understanding The debate over the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is one with strong opinions on both sides of the issues. There are pros and cons to the extensive network of security that the federal government has created to combat domestic and international terrorism. National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic power‚ diplomacy‚ power projection and political power. The
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A Case Study on the Masala sector in Pakistan( (With Reference to National Foods) Introduction The food and its allied products industry is considered Pakistan’s largest industry‚ and is believed to account for 27 percent of its value-added production. Trade sources estimate the sector’s total value of production is over Rs.46 billion. Pakistan’s food industry produces cooking oils‚ hydrogenated vegetable oils‚ sugar‚ flour‚ dairy products such as milk‚ butter‚ yogurt‚ cheese and ice-cream‚ biscuits
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Is the label “national cinema” still a useful one? Critically evaluate the usefulness of the term in relation to at least two films from this course. 1. floating life 2. chunking express 3. my blueberry night Like different countries have different culture‚ customs and give people different feeling‚ as an important part of one’s culture industry‚ movies from different places gives people different sense of feeling. That’s the magic of National cinema. But under the big trend of globalisation
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Mersland Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences‚ School of Management‚ University of Agder‚ Kristiansand‚ Norway Vu Thi Hong Nhung Faculty of Economics and Business‚ University of Groningen Email: t.h.n.vu@rug.nl Abstract Using a global data set of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 61 countries‚ this study tests whether those that specialize in financial services perform better in terms of financial returns and/or outreach than those that provide both financial and nonfinancial
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“Globalization‚ the process by which an increasing share of world production is trade internationally‚ and the productive systems of different countries become increasingly integrated‚ is credited with many merits and held responsible for many evils”(Cigno et al.‚ 2002: 1597-1589). It’s a special pattern which can destroy and reconstruct all aspects of human being activities‚ for example‚ politics‚ economics‚ culture‚ thought and other areas. This essay will argue that although to some extent globalization
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GLOBAL WARMING : WHAT LIES AHEAD GLOBAL WARMING Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. In recent usage‚ especially in the context of environment policy‚ it is more generally known as "global warming"‚ which occurs due to increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Most of the observed temperature increase has been caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases‚ which result
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developing countries?” is “No!” Quite the contrary‚ in fact. Trade and globalization have improved the lives of billions of people in developing countries. For example‚ in the short span of 1990 through 1998‚ the number of people living in extreme poverty in East Asia and the Pacific
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Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. Global average air temperature near the Earth’s surface rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.3 ± 0.32 °F) during the past century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes‚ "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas
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