Poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. In the past four decades‚ the proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People’s Republic of China‚ Indonesia‚ Thailand‚ and Viet Nam. Economic growth has gone through boom and bust cycles‚ and recent episodes of moderate economic expansion have had limited impact on the poor. Great inequality across
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Inflation‚ Unemployment and Poverty: Still Major Problems of Pakistan Zoha Siddique Forman Christian College University Since Pakistan came into being‚ it’s going through hard times. From newly born country to getting sixty four year old country‚ sometimes it has given sacrifices and sometimes remained victim of inapt political system. For the long time‚ it is facing number of challenges and conspiracies which has weakened its foundations and so is the structure. Therefore‚
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War is a horrible medium‚ which has been used for hundreds of thousands of years‚ to achieve certain goals through the use of force. The major causes for war are resources‚ which can be territory‚ water‚ gold‚ minerals or animals; and ideologies: political beliefs‚ religion‚ philosophical differences. In other words‚ brutal outrageous kings‚ rulers‚ commanders and emperors possessed the purpose of having power and control over the whole world. But do these egoistic goals really bring benefit to humanity
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Poverty alleviation programmes in India - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_alleviation_programmes_in_India Poverty alleviation programmes in India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Contents 1 Jawhar Gram Samridhi Yojna 2 Employment Assurance Scheme(EAS) 3 National Old Age Pension Scheme(NOAPS) 4 National Family Benefit Scheme(NFBS) 5 National Maternity Benefit Scheme 6 ANNAPURNA 7 Integrated Rural Development programme 8 Rural Housing-Indira
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MANKIND KILLING OUR PLANET. Our planet contains a variety of landscapes‚ forests and different climates. Over the years it has gone through many changes in its climate and the species that live on it. Now it seems that our planet is being detrimentally transformed‚ not by natural events‚ but by the actions of one species-mankind. Are we as humans changing planet earth? The facts certainly show that there has been a change in climate and that it is Human induced. It has become noticeably hotter
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My Greatest Goal Graduation had to have been one of my biggest goals. I’ve had many throughout high school‚ but this would by far be my greatest accomplishment. I had overcome the whole high school episode. Graduation was something that had to be done and something I wanted to do. I have always known that I was capable of anything I put my mind to‚ and finishing school made that clear to me and everyone else. If finishing school could be done then‚ I knew I had other things that had
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during ones childhood. Fear also comes in a variety of common things such as Snakephobia (fear of snakes) or Hypsiphobia (fear of heights) but there are uncommon fears as well such as Hadephobia (fear of hell) or Heliophobia (fear of the sun). My biggest fear is actually very common called Coulrophobia (fear of clowns). For many people such as myself‚ the cause of coulrophobia develops during our childhood‚ affecting us in many different ways‚ and it stays with us well into our adulthood affecting
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Music’s Biggest Night: The Annual GRAMMY Awards Each year‚ the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science recognizes the most influential music-makers of the year through its GRAMMY Awards (RoBair 36). It recognizes categories such as: albums‚ singles‚ videos‚ and other multimedia works‚ by celebrating a range of artists with styles as diverse as Americana and Rap‚ Bluegrass and Classical‚ Gospel and Electronica (RoBair 37). The Grammy’s are for recognition of amazing works. Hailed as “Music
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My biggest pet peeves are someone chewing with their mouth open‚ and people who don’t use their manners. It makes my skin crawl to here the saliva and food get chewed up. Watching someone who chews food with their mouth open is the most unattractive thing to me. It actually makes my stomach weak thinking of someone doing this. I notice it every time and instantaneously my attitude changes. Nobody enjoys watching or hearing food as someone chews it up. I am disgusted and I just want to leave where
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Position of Poverty In the world we live in today there are only two kinds of poverty as identified by John Kenneth Galbrith in “The Position of Poverty.” Galbrith made a distinction and labeled the distinction as “case poverty” and “insular poverty.” According to Galbrith case poverty is defined as‚ restricted to an individual and his or her family and often seems to be the caused by alcoholism‚ ignorance‚ mental deficiency‚ discrimination‚ or specific disabilities. Insular poverty on
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