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    Bajpai, Sachs and Volavka (2005) studied the confronts to meet the MDGs in India. The authors revealed that India would attain some of eight goals like reducing extreme poverty and would miss many of others like reducing hunger, reducing infant mortality rate, achieving environmental sustainability. Indian population living in severe poverty has been diminishing sharply since economic reforms started in 1991. The headcount poverty rate in 2015 would be less than half of the rate in 1990, as called

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    However, national policies relating to the issues have not been fully implemented, or even developed in some cases. Admittedly, there is recognition of urban poverty in the National Urbanisation Policy, the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Medium Term Development Strategy of PNG (Storey 2010, p. 11). However, there is limited consensus on what constitutes urban poverty, or how it should be measured. Proposed methods on how it should be tackled has proven inadequate

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    One of the major problems of our society nowadays is the rapid growth of drug addicts. This is because people misused and abused drugs, which can lead to addiction and dependent on drugs. In addition, the most abused drugs are psychotropic drugs such as cocaine and heroin, which can change the way people thinks, acts and feels. Today, there are many programs that are established to help drug users and prevent the spread of diseases. Needle exchange program (NEPs) is one of the programs, which has

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    Social science has proven that where you live can influence your health and well-being in either a positive or negative way. Living in poverty and growing up in a deprived neighbourhood has a direct link to various social problems such as a lack of employment opportunities, poor housing conditions, educational problems, lack of amenities, and not feeling safe in your neighbourhood. These disparities are especially prevalent amongst minority communities due to their lower socioeconomic status (CDC)

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    Development Challenges Vietnam is one of the fastest developing countires in the world, however it still faces many development challenges. The Vietnam War that began in 1955, is the main factor to why Vietnam is a developing country. The war lasted almost 20 years and took over 2 million lives, 3 million were wounded and too many children were left as orphans. From 1960-1975 (during the war) life expectancy was very low. The average age varied between 59.07 - 61.54 years. Now they average to around

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    Poverty is often thought off as the lack of wealth or even the absence of it by this school of thought as one looks at how Poverty can be alleviated. The question is how prosperity can be increased, at the various levels of society from the singular individual to the collective of individuals that form governments. The war on poverty should not just be directed at bringing people out of poverty rather it should seek to change the normal condition of human beings. Attacking the roots of the issue

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    Case Study Of A Rural Development: The Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Support Project (ARISP) III [pic] By LEONILA TANYAG-CONRADO 2012 Table of Contents Case Study Abstract Introduction Definition of Terms Objectives Project Beneficiaries Analysis of the project Development Framework Expected Outcomes Recommendation for Sustainability Sources CASE

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    Anthropology is the study of what makes us distinctively human, including culture. Culture is the system of human behaviors that is shared, patterned, learned, symbolic, and adaptive. Culture is a unique human capacity, which every society has but varies considerably across them. Culture comprises the myriad possible ways that human societies allow individuals address (and allow them to fulfill) their biological needs. As such, culture demonstrates how nothing human is ever 100% biological and

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    NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF WORLD BANK’S STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM (SAP) IN GHANA INTRODUCTION: Writing about the negative impacts of The World Bank Structural Adjustment Program in Ghana, my country of origin is something I can do with my eyes closed, because being an ordinary Ghanaian, born and raised in Ghana, I do not need a research to know what these institutions have done to the developing countries they impose their ill intended programs on. Even the blind can feel hunger, lack of access to

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    The MDGs identify—and quantify—specific gains that could be made to improve the lives of the world’s poor people. Their aim is to reduce poverty while improving health, education, and the environment. These goals were endorsed by 189 countries at the September 2000 UN Millennium General Assembly in New York. They focus on significant, measurable improvements for the efforts of the World Bank Group, governments, other international organizations, and other partners in the development community. The

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