Poverty reduction Essays

  • Project Proposal on Poverty Reduction

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    Project Proposal on Poverty Reduction "Poverty reduction through pro-active, participatory, income- generating involvement of Rural youth in goat rearing" 1. Name of the project: Income generation through goat rearing. 2. Implementing organisation: Lemon grass 3. Objectives of the project: I) Income generation of the distressed women and land less farmers, II) Establishment of small scale goat rearing enterprise, III) Raise nutritional status through goat rearing and

  • A Reflection On The Impact Of Technology And Poverty Reduction

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    Reflect on how technology can be used for poverty reduction. For a long time, poverty has been understood purely in the form of money i.e. lack of income. In today’s scenario, the concept of understanding poverty has been broadened, a multidimensional concept is developed rather than the income only which has the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions. However, poverty has no specific and generally accepted definitions. For many people, poverty signifies the lack of access to land, easy

  • Economic Improvement: A Closer Look at Poverty Reduction

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    Journalist, Patricia Cohen, in her New York Times article, writes that millions have managed to lift themselves out of the poverty in the past year. Cohen’s purpose is to inform and convince readers that indeed poverty levels have declined despite that millions across the country are still heavily affected by the 2008 Recession. She adopts a sympathetic and informative tone in order to transmit upon her readers the idea that the economy is not perfect but it is in fact improving. Cohen establishes

  • The Millenium Development Goals

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    In the year 2000 the United Nations set out a goal to stop hunger poverty and unfair living to people of the world not just the United States. This idea was called the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Upon taking on a task such as this the UN wanted to break down goals in sections of eight to better categorize them to use every resource they had to make this plan possible. Not every catgeroy had the same plan put in place and for that exact reason these goals where not something to be done over

  • The Role of the Informal Sector in the National Economy

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    The Role of the Informal Sector in the National Economy MOZAMBIQUE Introduction ============ In an attempt to respond to the topic this essay will discuss the role of the informal sector in the Mozambican economy. For a better understanding of the topic some important definitions shall be given. For the purpose of this essay, the concept of economy can be defined as the science that deals with production and consumption of goods and services, the circulation of wealth and the redistribution

  • Essay On Environmental Issues In Tanzania

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    The Tanzanian Vision 2025 notes Tanzania’s problems with donor-dependence, corruption, and faulty implementation. But the IMF’s poverty reduction report for Tanzania related two more issues that Tanzania itself didn’t touch upon, inflation and the environment. The IMF’s Poverty Reduction Report goes into detail on the issue of the depreciating Tanzanian shilling, supposedly since 2005 the inflation rate for the Tanzanian shilling has been increasing and as of 2009 it sits at 12.1 percent. This is

  • How Does the Minimum Wage Affect Poverty?

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    How Does the Minimum Wage Affect Poverty? Introduction Understanding how the minimum wage level functions to affect poverty in a given society is crucial for informing policy in a number of important areas. Indeed, examining the link between poverty and the minimum wage is necessary for policy-makers working to establish sound economic policy as well as labour and social advocacy groups seeking to ensure the minimum wage is at a level sufficient to ensure workers can meet their most basic and fundamental

  • How the Gates Foundation Reduces Poverty

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    How the Gates Foundation Reduces Poverty “We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule, and where all children have the same chance to thrive, no matter where they’re born” (Guacci). The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation started in 1997 when the Gates family read an article about the millions of children in poor countries who were dying from disease. They have been working to reduce poverty and poor health throughout the world ever since as

  • Poverty Situation in Zambia

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    This essay will first begin by defining poverty in the Zambian context and proceed to give a background of how Zambia arrived at this definition of poverty. The essay will then outline the poverty situation in Zambia today and will focus on the issues of Health, HIV/AIDS, Education, Women and Children, Rural Poverty and Urban poverty. The last part of the essay will focus on the causes of Poverty and what measures can be taken to reduce absolute poverty for the poorest. Zambia today is one of

  • Class-Size Reduction

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    Class-Size Reduction As our country continues to grow, so do our classrooms in which our future is grown. Crowded classrooms can make it difficult for children to learn and can increase stress to pass a class. Reducing class sizes at an early age can "improve student learning" by their being exposed to more one on one attention with a teacher (Class-Size Reduction Program). To achieve this goal, the Class-Size Reduction Program calls for more and better-qualified teachers

  • Core Elements of Health Education and Risk Reduction Activities

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    Core Elements of Health Education and Risk Reduction Activities A number of core elements should be considered in health education and risk reduction program and evaluation activities. Effective Health Education and Risk Reduction program activities: •     State realistic, specific, measurable, and attainable program goals and objectives. •     Identify methods and activities to achieve specific goals and objectives. •     Define staff roles, duties, and responsibilities. •     Define the populations

  • The Millennium Development Goals

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    meet the target date of 2015. The progress of the MDGs has been measured and compared within various studies, and although there is still a long way to go, this UN incentive has encouraged positive action within developing countries to break the poverty cycle (Permanyer, 2011). In particular, the progress of the targets and indicators of Goal 1, as implemented in the country of Bangladesh, will be discussed to methodologically explore the success of this initiative in achieving higher quality of

  • The Expiration Of The Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

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    The expiration of The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) has made the post 2015 landscape an intergovernmental priority. The revised Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs) propose seventeen global initiatives that focus on the eradication of extreme poverty whilst also considering economic development and environmental protection (Veit & Hazlewood, 2014). Whilst Matuschke (2015) agrees that this is a “pivotal year for sustainable development”, she also questions the validity of these global directives

  • Single Moms In Poverty

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    In a long term effect, rates of school dropouts and teen parents are increasing. Children with single-moms experience the problems of growing up due to poverty. In the article”U.S children in Single-mother Families”, Mark Mather, PH.D writes there are big risks for children who grow up in single-parent household are to drop out of school and become parents under 18 years old. This kinds of children are more likely to give up their academic achievement. Because they grow up in a single family, they

  • St. Thomas Aquinas’ First Two Ways in Proving the Existence of God

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    mover which is unmoved. Now, it is certain as a matter of sense-observation that some things in this world are in motion. Whatever is in motion, Aquinas states, is moved by something else. Aquinas then defines one type of motion as the reduction of something from potentiality to actuality, and says that nothing can make this movement except by something that is already in actuality in the same respect as the first object is in potentiality. For example, something which is actually

  • Hybrid Cars and the Reduction of Air Pollution

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    make them last longer. With a hybrid electric vehicle the vehicle gets better gas mileage than a typical gasoline fed engine. In doing this a hybrid vehicle will make the resources last longer and will not use them up as fast as they are now. The reductions that the hybrid electric vehicle will make in the emissions problem will be one that is looked upon as a revolution towards helping the planet. As a human it is our right to live in a sustainable environment and with the production of this car maybe

  • Exterminating Poverty and Hunger

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    MDG #1 The first Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is to eradicate poverty and hunger from a country. There are three parts to the goal. The quintessential step that the UN must take is to decrease the percentage of people who are living only on $1,25 a day by fifty percent. The second step is to balance employment rates of females and young people by twenty-five percent. The third part states that by 2015 the number of people suffering from food shortage and hunger will be decreased by 50 percent

  • Christians' Responsibility for Others

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    Christians' Responsibility for Others I am going to look at references from the bible and find out what the Catholic Church teaches, to find out what Christians believe about their responsibility for other people, not only Christians but also every religious group. There are a number of stories in the bible about how we should treat our neighbours, the ones I will look at were told by Jesus who uses stories to get across points to the people of the time, who could relate to these stories

  • Exploring CAFOD And Their Role

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    health programme. One year later, CAFOD was officially set up in 1962 by the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales. CAFOD has been fighting poverty in developing countries (low or middle income) ever since its launch. Why did CAFOD form & what were its aims? CAFOD was set up to aid the already existing charitable efforts. They hope to reduce poverty and give those countries in need the help they require. Due to the kindness and dedication of the CAFOD team, the organisation is making a

  • The Dependency Theory: The Dependency Theory

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    are coming together to ensure that we regain and maintain international stability. 2. Global poverty is a problem with deep roots. The problem lies behind simple financial status, it extends across many dimensions. Each of the theories provide a different perspective on the issue of poverty. When viewing poverty through the scope of the realism theory one must first examine how power plays a role in poverty. Those who are impoverished typically have very little perceived power in every meaning of