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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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INTRODUCTION Poverty refers to the condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as clean water‚ nutrition‚ health care‚ education‚ clothing and shelter. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country‚ or compared to worldwide averages. In the Caribbean‚ education is the most dominant way of getting out of poverty. It seems to be the main thing
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Determinants of poverty INTRODUCTION Background to the study The translation of consumption into welfare units is a function of various physiological characteristics such as age and sex of recipient‚ and environmental factors ( The possession of assets is a measure of the socio-economic status of the household. According to the 2002 Uganda Population and Housing census main report‚ majority (79%) of the households owned the houses they lived in especially in rural areas with 86% compared to urban
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Poverty in Pakistan Poverty is one of the major social problem Pakistan is facing. It is one of the most important and sensitive issue not only for our self but for the whole world. Poverty can cause other social problems like theft‚ bribe‚ corruption‚ adultery‚ lawlessness‚ injustice. To eradicate the evils of society we have to fight with poverty. We can’t control theft by enrolling thousands of police men. Corruption and injustice can’t come to an end through tight legislation but by demolishing
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Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. COUNTRY INFORMATION 4 A. Market Potential Index 4 Market Size 4 Market Intensity 5 Market Growth Rate 5 Market Consumption Capacity 6 Commercial Infrastructure 6 Market Receptivity 7 Economic Freedom 7 Country Risk 8 B) Macro Environment 8 Political 8 Economic and Trade information 9 Socio-cultural 9 Technological 10 3. MARKET EVALUATION TABLE 10 4. GE MATRIX 12 Market Size 12 Market Share 13 Future Projection 13 5. RECOMMENDATION 14 6. CONCLUSION
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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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Chapter two: Research Methodology: 2.1 Introduction: We conduct a survey to document the perceptions of slum dwellers about causes of poverty and petty corruption and examine how fate affects poverty and other related variables. Since no one has funded this research‚ it was not possible for us financially to visit all these slum areas. Moreover‚ almost all of these slum areas have very similar structure. Once you are inside the area you cannot recognize in which slum area you are in. We have
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2.5 These are the following two ways in which the media acts as “watchdogs of society”: - 1. By safeguarding the interests of common people by exposing the appalling elements in the society 2. Furthermore they keep the public informed about recent happenings‚ in the event emergencies occur they shall be notified. 2.5.1 These are three ways in which the media does not reflect the society we live in: - 1. The media is selective with the type of news they render worthy‚ it does not
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The myth about the connection between poverty and Laziness is real. Whenever I look at a panhandler the first thought that comes to my head is why? I start to wonder why this people would rather sit beg rather than get a job own an apartment and at least enjoy the bare necessities of life. The myth is that most of these people are mentally ill and drug users but this is far from the truth. They are usually working class people who couldn’t meet up payments and lost their homes or people who work
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