BCD 217: Understanding Poverty Course Purpose Poverty is both a cause and consequences of underdevelopment. This course is designed to give the students an understanding of poverty‚ its manifestations‚ causes and effects. Students will also be introduced to poverty assessment techniques as well as some of the frameworks for analysing poverty. Learning objectives By the end of the course‚ students will be able to: 1. Explain the concept of poverty‚ and the various manifestations. 2.
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POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND THE THIRD WORLD MUHAMMAD AZHAR IKRAM AHMAD* Abstract. Poverty‚ a global issue‚ plaguing developed as well as developing nations‚ has become the focus of economists since early 1950s. During the last two decades‚ this issue has received enormous worldwide attention and various international organizations have issued their findings regarding reasons of poverty and possible remedies to its reduction and/or eradication in the world. One of the components of poverty‚ however
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consciousness of other people around the world. As a product of increased communications Nation-states rely on each other more than ever to achieve prosperity and maximize productivity. Little by little the world is evolving from being individual nations to a global community‚ however that may not be beneficial for everyone. Multinational corporations and developed countries have taken advantage of their ability to access other countries resources and markets to profit from them without making a bilateral commitment
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witnessed the birth of the first human civilizations -- may be dying. As widespread drought‚ starvation and the unchecked spread of deadly diseases continue -- the numbers of people dying on a daily basis throughout Africa is staggering. Causes of poverty in Africa In many parts of Africa‚ the production of food depends upon the intense manual labor of every family. When large areas of Africa are dislocated by war‚ or adults die from the scourge of AIDS‚ fields cannot be worked‚ and food cannot be
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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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Paper No. 8 POVERTY‚ GROWTH‚ AND INEQUALITY IN THAILAND Anil B. Deolalikar April 2002 Anil Deolalikar is Professor of Economics and of International Studies at the University of Washington. This paper stems from RETA 5923: Pro-poor Growth and Institutional Constraints to Poverty Reduction in DMCs. The views expressed in the paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the view or policies of the Asian Development Bank. 21 ERD Working Paper No. 8 POVERTY‚ GROWTH‚ AND
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study in 2008‚ corruption in the Philippines is considered to be the worst among East Asia’s leading economies and the country has sunk even lower among those seen to be lagging in governance reforms.The 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index published by global watchdog Transparency International‚ showed that the situation in the country had improved slightly but still remained serious. The Philippines ranked 3rd among 180 countries included in the index‚ up from its previous 141st ranking in 2008. The
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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 Poorer? From Women and Poverty to Gender and
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restriction (QR) on rice under Annex 5 of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement. Japan and South Korea are the other two countries. The exemption will expire on December 31‚ 2004. The primary objective of the paper is to look at the possible poverty and distributional effects of the removal of the QR and the reduction in tariffs on rice imports. In particular‚ the paper attempts to analyze the following issues: (a) Do the poor share in the potential gains from a freer market for rice? (b) What
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POVERTY AS A CHALLENGE 1. A person is considered poor if his or her income or consumption level falls below a given minimum level necessary to fulfil basic needs. Each country uses an imaginary line that is considered appropriate for its existing level of development and its accepted minimum social norms. This is called the poverty line. While determining the poverty line in India‚ a minimum level of food requirement‚ clothing‚ footwear‚ fuel and light‚ educational and medical requirements‚ etc
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