Poverty reduction

I wish to discuss about women and children being the most endangered amongst the poor. In the essay, I will analyze their problems, examine their susceptibility to poverty and discuss on how to eradicate or reduce to the barest women these issues. Women and children are the most susceptible class amidst the poverty stricken because of the following reasons - they do not have opportunities to access essential social services such as education and health, lower or no recruitment chances, no access

Transnational corporations are companies who’s business activities have an influence on economic, social, and environmental outcomes in more than one country. There are some similarities in principles, expectations, and motives between countries regarding these matters, however there are also some differences too. This makes it vital for companies to consider these issues, in order to be socially responsible on an international scale as well as a national scale. (Boddy 2012) states that corporate

After the liberation in 1961, Tanzania, created new policies for liberating people from poverty imprisonment. The government strategized to move people away from distant, remote locations of the country to designated village areas (villagelization), where services such that schools, clinics, piped water, roads, and adult education would easily be available to citizens. The villagelization blueprint famous in Kiswahili as vijiji vya ujmaaa linked with African communal life or African socialism (Hope

1. a. Social determinants of health may influence the burden of disease on global health in many ways. There are major differences in the leading causes of death between low-income, middle income, and high income countries (Moss, 2015). These differences are the result of the varied level of wealth, access to healthcare and clean water, knowledge of health care needs, and the countries’ ability to provide adequate health care to their citizens. Therefore, certain diseases are more prevalent in poor

THE ROLE OF ZAKAH(ALMS GIVING) IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN NIGERIA BY DR. MUSTAPHA ISA QASIM, DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION, (ISLAMIC STUDIES SECTION) AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. ABSTRACT The main objective of Zakah(Alms giving) is to alleviate poverty in the Muslim community .The system is specifically designed to take care of the needs of the poor and the needy from the Muslim Ummah. In this paper, a close look at this vital role of Zakah is made, indicating that the

The Causes of Poverty in Mexico | |[pic] |Are you aware that 20 million people in Mexico live on less than two dollars a day? Sixty million people, half the Mexican | |population, live in poverty, and 20 million of them live in extreme poverty. Most of the time, garbage is their food, and some | |days, they don’t even eat anything. This critical situation in Mexico is caused by individual, geographic and political factors. | |The purpose of this essay is to analyze these three main causes

institutions to eliminate global poverty. The MDGs need to be emphasized and implemented at all stages and their success is highly dependent on financing the project. The UN Millennium Project is centered on the belief that .7 percent of rich countries' GNP can provide enough resources to meet the goals. If every developed country followed through with a timetable to reach the necessary target by 2015, the world could make dramatic progress in the fight against extreme poverty. At the Monterrey Consensus

analyze the progress towards realization of MDGs in the Madhya Pradesh (MP). The study found that Madhya Pradesh had huge poverty especially the urban poverty. The decline in poverty was slow. Urban poverty was also the fall out of rural poverty as very and poor move to urban slums to eke out livelihood. The report revealed that the present situation did not reflect that poverty goals could be fulfilled by 2015. Efforts are required to enhance livelihood avenues in rural areas. Non-farm sector development

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

is mainly due to poverty and the inability of some families to pay for their child’s education. Cynthia Changyit Levin an activist living in Saint Louis, Missouri is one example of someone who is determined to help solve this problem. She recently became an activist after giving up her job revolving around engineering. She felt empowered one night after thinking about all of the people around the world living in poverty. From then on she has been an activist focused on anti-poverty, this topic branches