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    Poverty in Kenya

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    A growing population and rising poverty levels Kenya’s population has tripled over the past 30 years‚ leading to increasing pressure on natural resources‚ a widening income gap and rising poverty levels that erode gains in education‚ health‚ food security‚ employment and incomes. The causes of rural poverty include: low agricultural productivity‚ exacerbated by land degradation and insecure land tenure‚ unemployment and low wages‚ difficulty in accessing financing for self-employment‚ poor governance

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    HONG KONG INSTITUE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINSTRARION ASSIGNMENT FOR EXHIBITION AND EVENT MANAGEMENT Module Code: MPR4505 Enrichment Module 2014-2015 (Semester 4) Individual Assignment 2 Prepared for Mr. Leo Kwan Prepared by Chan Wing Yu BA 124012/2B 130170942 <Submitted on 21 November 2014> The Main Theme of the Event From 31 October 2014- 1 November 2014‚ there is a The Guangzhou / Hong Kong / Macao / Chengdu Youth Skills Competition cum carnival which is

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    Poverty in the Philippines

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    Background Poverty and inequality have been recurrent challenges in the Philippines and have again come to the fore in the wake of the current global financial crisis and rising food‚ fuel‚ and commodity prices experienced in 2008. he proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined very slowly and unevenly in the past four decades‚ and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ Indonesia‚ hailand‚

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    Philippine Poverty

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    Population below poverty line: 32.9% (2006 est.) |Year |Population below poverty line |Rank |Percent Change |Date of Information | |2009 |30 |73 |  |2003 est. | |2010 |32.9 |59 |9.67 % |2006 est. | |2011 |32.9 |58 |0.00

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    Functionalism And Poverty

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    Discuss how social institutions contribute to the problem of poverty. Explain the various ways in which poverty affects the basic rights and needs of people‚ including the relationship between crime and poverty. Does one perpetuate the other? If so‚ how? structural functionalism‚ conflict theory‚ and symbolic interactionism 1. How is the problem typically defined? a. a state in which income is insufficient to provide the basic necessities of fodd‚ shelter‚ clothing‚ and med care. b. the

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    Poverty in Indonesia

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    PAPER WORK: POVERTY IN INDONESIA By: Nur Shahida Binti Ramli 011211133128 PANCASILA AND CIVICS EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL CLASS PROGRAM FACULTY OF MEDICINE AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY 2012 ABSTRACT Indonesia is said to be the forth largest nation where the statistic of poverty among the people is relatively high. Poverty is defines as living without basic necessities like clean water‚ proper nutrition‚ healthcare‚ education‚ clothing and shelter. The statistics

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    Poverty in India

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    Poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have a third of the world’s poor. According to a 2005 World Bank estimate‚ 42% of India falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 a day (PPP‚ in nominal terms 21.6 a day in urban areas and 14.3 in rural areas); having reduced from 60% in 1981.[1] According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 27.5% of the population was living below the poverty line in 2004–2005‚ down from 51.3% in 1977–1978‚ and 36% in

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    poverty and children

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    Poverty Problem Poverty is quite an issue not only in third world countries but also here in the United States. Interviews were conducted with 74 families with school-age children‚ including 44 families living at or below 150% of the federal poverty level and 30 families living above 150% of poverty (Heymann 5). Over 14 million U.S. children lived in poverty in 1997 (Sherman and Sandfort 555). Many times it is easy for people to hide certain aspects of their lives. However‚ poverty is not one

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    Women & Poverty

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    Women and Poverty is a topic that comes close to my heart. More than 1 billion people in the world today‚ the great majority of whom are women‚ live in unacceptable conditions of poverty‚ mostly in the developing countries. Poverty has various causes‚ including structural ones. Poverty is a complex‚ multidimensional problem‚ with origins in both the national and international domains. The globalization of the world’s economy and the deepening interdependence among the nations present challenges and

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    The End of Poverty

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    “The End Of Poverty” Many theorists believe they know what causes poverty. “Too many people and not enough jobs” seems to be the slogan used to answer all questions concerning poverty. In the documentary‚ “The End of Poverty”‚ many theorists tell how poverty was created and why it still exists today. Poverty was caused by and still exist because of military conquest‚ slavery‚ and colonization. First‚ the conquest of the military helped create global poverty. By overtaking undeveloped countries

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