NIGERIA’S 521 LANGUAGES AND THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS In this present time‚ and in the face of different ethnic tensions plaguing our nation‚ many Nigerians are asking themselves an important question: what is the value of our many languages? They want to know how it can put food on the table of the average Nigerian. When I posted on The Green Heritage Facebook page‚ last year‚ that Nigeria has the third highest number of languages in the world (after Indonesia and Papua New Guinea)
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The DaimlerChrysler organization has developed a smart fortwo automobile. They have developed this to target teenagers‚ urban residents‚ baby boomers‚ and retirees. The teenagers or Millennials are those that spend a lot of money on clothes and automobiles. Most are pursuing a college education‚ and are either renting or still living at home. They tend to spend money on big ticket items. The next target is the urban resident. These are consumers who live in the city. They can be people from
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Isabel & Peter /NUS Business School_2013 BSP 2005 Asian Business Environments /Syllabus ‚ Lecture and Tutorial Guide Course Outline Module Code Module Title Description BSP2005 Asian Business Environments This module builds an understanding of business environments in Asia. The first part of the course focuses on macroeconomic fundamentals‚ politics‚ culture‚ and institutions in Asian countries and regions. The second part of the course explores relationships between national and regional
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hunger‚ unemployment‚ slow economic growth‚ infant and maternal mortalities among others. The recent world’s attention focused on reducing income gap between the world’s richest and the world’s poorest nation is enshrined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This is necessitated by the uneven distribution of global resources where the world richest 1% controls as much wealth as the poorest 57% of the population (Chua‚ 2003) Today 60% of the world 6.4 billion population live in abject poverty (Sampson
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Long-term goals I have two long-term goals in mind for the next 5-10 years: (a) register to practice social work in South Africa‚ and (b) organize support groups for women there. When I left South Africa in 2002 to study in the United States‚ my interest was always to advance my education and experience in different social work programs which could benefit the communities of South Africa in the end. My ultimate goal is to go back to South Africa and work in collaboration with communities and social
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Abstract Over the last one decade along with this running decade MDG has gained enormous success in developing goals on a global scale. As an efficient financial mechanism‚ MDG enables various governmental and non-governmental actors to realise the millennium development goals (MDGs). Based on our recent field-research on Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh‚ this paper empirically examines and analyze the role of MDGs in promoting livelihoods in the country. The study reflects on recent
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"Role of Youth and Millennium Development Goals : Challenges and Opportunities" Introduction Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals that all 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international or organizations These eight time-bound goals provide concrete‚ numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions. They include goals and targets on income poverty‚ hunger‚ maternal and child mortality‚ disease‚ inadequate shelter‚ gender
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Achievement OF THE Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for education in ethiopia PREPARED BY: ABIY NEGUSSIE A senier ESSAY SUBMITTED in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree in public administration and development Management Department of Public Administration and Development management Faculty of business and economics Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia JUNE 2008 ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to express my deep appreciation for my mother and
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can access - A community (MINI Space)‚ interact well with Facebook for dealers and users to share news‚ events and ideas. * Weaknesses * Higher price: the prices are higher than its competitors’ (almost double the prices of Fiat 500 and Smart) * Not attract men as well as women * Opportunities * Fuel efficiency‚ low carbon emission fits the emerging trend of eco-consciousness. * Appeal to the countries where gasoline is expensive and where need a small
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Umair Zia Houghton English June 30th‚ 2013 Book Smart vs. Street Smart In the article‚ “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff discusses the topic of book smart versus street smart. Being street smart means having interest in other activities more than in school work‚ while being book smart is the complete opposite of that. Graff believes that having the personality of a street smart person can benefit society if one knows how to channel their potential correctly. He persuades his views
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