Poverty is cyclical and the best indicator if a child will end up in poverty is if her parents live in poverty. One common practices among families with girls living in poverty is child marriages. It has been found that poverty is the main driver of child marriage and traps girls and their families in a cycle of poverty (Poverty Girls). The practice of child marriage is more common in families who are already in poverty and perpetuates the cycle. In recent years, child marriage has gained increasing
they were protected, and constant advocation to improve upon nineteenth century poor laws that favored separating families reached the White House in 1909. Incited by the peoples demands President Theodore Roosevelt called a conference to address their concerns on how to properly deal with poor single mothers. The outcome would be the formation of Mothers Pension, a “movement (that) sought to provide state aid for poor fatherless children who would remain in their own homes cared for by their mothers”
CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT Relevance for the post-2015 MDGs agenda Conflict is a relatively new concept in development, and the relation between the two is complex and remains not entirely understood. However, and given that the correlation among insecurity and development is clear, there is a general consensus in arguing that development cannot happen without security. In 2015, end of the Millennium Development Goals cycle, fragile and conflict-affected countries are lagging far behind other developing
Government’s Role in managing instability in the economy Introduction: The economic crisis is a situation when country’s GDP tends to decline, Unemployment increases, the rate of inflation rises faster than it should etc. All these factors combined bring short-run instability in an economy. All of these elements play a major role in creating economic issues in a country (Trading Economics, 2016). Generally, every country has their own rules and regulations to control all these economic factors
in the economy (Ekwu, 2008). 2.2. Causes of Unemployment Economists break unemployment down into three distinct varieties. These are structural, frictional, and cyclical unemployment (Moffat M. 2012). Policy makers and Economists distinguished unemployment in three types namely: - Structural Unemployment, Frictional and Cyclical (Borjas, 2004). 2.2.1. Seasonal Unemployment This type of unemployment arises from regular and predictable seasonal variation that causes changes the demand for labour
An essential part of corporate strategy is choosing the right portfolio of business to compete in especially when it concerns growth strategy and over the years this has become one of the key challenges faced by managers. It is highly imperative for business leaders to understand the different strategic options suitable for operating in various types of industries or markets. Suffice is to say that the business environment, which includes the competitive activity also plays a deep-seated role in
Postmodernism and Social Praxis Whereas the interpreter is obliged to go to the depth of things, like an excavator, the moment of interpretation [genealogy] is like an overview, from higher and higher up, which allows the depth to be laid out in front of him in a more and more profound visibility; depth is resituated as an absolutely superficial secret.(18) So those are the changes, and I try to show those changes...(19) In Communities of Resistance and Solidarity, as well as in A Feminist
Inflation It’s causes, effect and remedies. By: Subrat Choudhury Inflation and Deflation I INTRODUCTION Inflation and Deflation, in economics, terms used to describe, respectively, a decline or an increase in the value of money, in relation to the goods and services it will buy. Inflation is the pervasive and sustained rise in the aggregate level of prices measured by an index of the cost of various goods and services. Repetitive price increases erode the purchasing power of money and other financial
Inflation It’s causes, effect and remedies. By: Subrat Choudhury Inflation and Deflation I INTRODUCTION Inflation and Deflation, in economics, terms used to describe, respectively, a decline or an increase in the value of money, in relation to the goods and services it will buy. Inflation is the pervasive and sustained rise in the aggregate level of prices measured by an index of the cost of various goods and services. Repetitive price increases erode the purchasing power of money and other
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