minimum literacy levels among the poor? Yes they can be used in the absence of minimum literacy levels among the poor. The ICT plays a big role in the rural areas and benefits the people that live there. ICT’s are used in the poor communities to empower and help the illiterate and people with less knowledge. Applications in agricultural and rural development have often been to provide direct access to market and weather information for the poor and also provides knowledge support to research and
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Absolute Poverty: Right from the 19th century‚ some researchers are trying to fix some yardstick for measuring poverty in precise terms. Ideally speaking such a yardstick would help us establish a fixed level of poverty‚ known as “poverty line” below which poverty begins and above which it ends. Such a yardstick is believed to be universal in character and would be applicable to all the societies. This concept of poverty is known as “absolute poverty”. Absolute poverty is often known as
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Rural-Nonrural Differences in Educational Attainment: Results from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988-2000 Soo-yong Byun‚ Judith L. Meece‚ and Matthew J. Irvin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill April‚ 2010 Running Head: Rural-Nonrural Differences in Educational Attainment Revisited Word count: 7‚890 *This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association‚ May 3‚ 2010‚ Denver‚ CO. The analyses
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PATALINGHUG Competition Policy‚ Technology Policy‚ and Philippine Industrial Competitiveness Epictetus E. Patalinghug Abstract The disappointing performance of the Philippine industrial sector in the past five decades has been attributed to several factors such as the lack of a stable macroeconomic environment‚ poor infrastructure‚ low productivity‚ low savings rate‚ and an overvalued currency. This paper attempts to summarize the link between competition policy‚ technology policy
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INTRODUCTION Poverty is one of the main problems which have attracted attention of sociologists and economists. It indicates a condition in which a person fails to maintain a living standard adequate for his physical and mental efficiency. It is a situation people want to escape. It gives rise to a feeling of a discrepancy between what one has and what one should have. The term poverty is a relative concept. It is very difficult to draw a demarcation line between affluence and poverty. According to
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Poverty has worsened in the Republic of Congo since the 1980s and half the country’s people now live below the poverty line. This average‚ however‚ masks wide geographic and economic inequalities. Most of the country’s poor people (64.8 per cent) live in rural areas and women are among the hardest hit by poverty. In 2006‚ more than a third of children under five in rural areas suffered from malnutrition. Access to water is also poor in rural areas where only 11 per cent of people can get water
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unable to read or write’ and it is one of the main causes of poverty in any society‚ and Pakistan unfortunately. According to the 1998 census the definition of literacy is ‘one who can read a newspaper and write a simple letter‚ in any language’. Based on this definition Pakistan has a literacy rate of 55% *. Illiteracy contributes to poverty in numerous ways‚ both indirect and direct. The first link between illiteracy and poverty tends to be when the poor man is unable to afford a high quality
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Rural Entrepreneurship for Women: A Case for Wealth Creation by Africa’s Rural Poor amidst Global Financial and Economic Crises K M Baharul Islam1 Introduction: The growing emphasis on rural small and medium size entrepreneurship for economic development‚ especially in the context of poverty alleviation in developing countries has thrown up some major challenges for the commercial ventures led by women in global perspective. The position of women‚ even in the developing world‚ has been far from
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Poverty in India is widespread‚ with the nation estimated to have a third of the world’s poor. In 2011‚ World Bank stated‚ 32.7% of the total Indian people fall below the international of US$ 1.25 per day (PPP) while 68.7% live on less than US$ 2 per day. According to 2010 data from the United Nations Development Program‚ an estimated 37.2% of Indians live below the country’s national poverty line. A 2010 report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) states that 8 Indian states
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Since the discovery of Tea in 2737 B.C in China‚ and after the Europeans learnt about tea in 1589‚ drinking tea has spread throughout the world and today it is a widely consumed beverage. Tea production in Sri Lanka is of high importance to the Sri Lankan economy and the world market. Sri Lanka is the world’s fourth largest producer of tea and the industry is one of the country’s main sources of foreign exchange and a significant source of income for labourers‚ with tea accounting for 15% of the GDP
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