Livelihood Finance and Training POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES Uplift Training By Vivian G. Villegas – Uplift 2004 General Objective: To understand and know about some causes and effects of poverty‚ its impact on society. Objectives: At the end of the seminar the participant will be able to: 1. Describe the situation of poverty in the Philippines. 2. Identify some causes and effects of poverty. 3. Enumerate some programs and some solutions to alleviate poverty. Participant: All Staff Length
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the golf courses do not exist. Another economic impact is the fact that water shortage is causing environmental problems. One area of huge concern is the wildfire problem. It is not cheap to fight a wildfire‚ not to mention all the damage that it does to the environment. It costs millions of dollars to fight the wildfire. You can’t really put a price on the damage that it does to the environment. It takes a toll on the environment. Another economic impact of the water shortage is there are more
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and Economic Development Swapnil S. Bagmar 06HS2004 Development Economics term paper (Spring 2007-08) International trade International trade is the exchange of goods and services across international boundaries or territories. In most countries‚ it represents a significant share of GDP. While international trade has been present throughout much of history‚ its economic‚ social
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NAME- JACOBS OPEYEMI APRIL 01‚ 2013 MBA 640 TOPIC –OBESITY AND EFFECTS ON ECONOMIC PRODUCTION INTRODUCTION This study aimed to estimate the health burden and the direct as well as indirect costs of morbidity and mortality attributable to obesity and overweight to the national economy and recovery process. Simply stated‚ Obesity occurs when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns. Obesity is a condition defined by a person ’s weight. Although genetics may increase the risk of obesity
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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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* Why might a country in an early stage of economic and technical development want to limit importation of goods from more developed countries? They might want to sale the same products that these developed countries already have mastered and marketed well. It might be in there interest to enact protectionist legislation. They want to be able sale as much of their domestic product without competition from dominant developed countries firms. This would increase the market share available to sale
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on how economic development has lead to reduction of unemployment rates through both private and public investment according to the Solow’s model and endogenous theories of economic development. Empirically‚ the studies done on development have raised mixed up conclusions as some show that economic development has lead to capitalization hence capital replacing the labour and thus further unemployment. This chapter reviews both the theoretical and empirical literature on economic development and unemployment
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Economic development in New Zealand ! HDI Life expectancy GDP per capita PPP Literacy rate Mean years of schooling 2010 0.907 80.40 years $25‚293 99% 12.4 years 2013 0.919 80.82 years $25‚689 99% 12.5 years ! The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy‚ education‚ and income indices used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. From the year 2010 to 2013‚ New Zealand’s HDI has gone up
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Nations Development Programme SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ELIMINATION DIVISION WP 5 GENDER AND POVERTY* Nilüfer Cagatay May 1998 WORKING PAPER SERIES *The responsibility for opinions in these articles‚ studies and other contributions in this series rests solely with their authors‚ and publication does not constitute an endorsement by the United Nations Development Programme or the institutions of the United Nations system. Table Of Contents Introduction I. II. Women And Poverty: Are Women
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