Poverty

poverty We do not choose to be poor, it is poverty which chooses us. That means we are not guilty but we don't have to stay impotent, we must avoid poverty or we must do whatever it is possible for fight it. First we evoke cause of poverty, than we focus on the demographic cause in poor countries. To finnish we may wonder if penniless really means poor. First, there is no doubt in my mind that there are lot of causes of poverty in the world. Indeed there is ecologic cause which prevent countries

* It is a material world we live in, yes, and money is the way we live, but if you look around you, look where our lifestyle has gotten us. Global warming, bankruptcies, high gas prices, food prices. It all has to do with money. Money gets us many things. Not happiness, or true happiness, at least. Sure, you're happy when you're able to save up for something you wanted, that's true. True happiness is found in the REAL things in life. Everyone's happy when they wake up and the sun is shining. When

the assumed existence of a straightforward accounting relationship between debt relief and pro-poor spending: debt relief is needed because the debt burden prevents HIPCs from investing in poverty reduction programs. Theoretically, debt relief is expected not only to free-up resources for poverty reduction (i.e. increase HIPCs “fiscal space” (Heller, 2005)) but also to remove a series of disincentives to make developmental investments (i.e. remove the “debt overhang” (Krugman, 1988))

Slumming it: Poverty tours come to Kenya « Slumming it: poverty tours come to Kenya » is an article from the Guardian issued on September 26th, 2009. This article is about a new tourism in Africa far from safaris or cultural visits. Actually this new tourism consists in visit slums in Kenya by tourists coming from the entire world. Visiting shanty towns became a way to distract tourists searching for a new way to have some fun. The question that arises is how can this unusual kind

Poverty reduction policies, the case of Burundi In a first part, the case study of Burundi will highlights the impact of poverty reduction policies on social capital. In a second part, we will generalise these results on the sustainability of poverty reduction policies linked to develoment aid. 1ere partie : en quoi les politiques de lutte contre la pauvreté sont elles destructrices de capital social, et plus généralement peuvent elle avoir un impact négatif ? 2eme partie : en quoi ces politiques

Faces of rural poverty in contemporary Rwanda : Linking livelihood profiles and institutional processes Gezichten van armoede in hedendaags Rwanda An Ansoms Universiteit Antwerpen Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen Faces of rural poverty in contemporary Rwanda : Linking livelihood profiles and institutional processes Gezichten van armoede in hedendaags Rwanda An Ansoms Proefschrift voorgelegd tot het behalen van de graad van Doctor in de Toegepaste Economische

EU’s 2010 objective: a year for combating poverty and social exclusion The European Parliament and the Council of European Union have officially announced that the year 2010 shall be designated as the “European Year for combating poverty and social exclusion”. Despite significant achievements in the past years, the Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2008 highlights the fact that 78 million people in the EU live at risk of poverty. In addition, there is a groing danger of

Influence of Women Literacy and Female Unemployment over the Poverty Rates of Female-Headed Households in Costa Rica during the last decade Content Summary 2 Background 3 Methods 6 Results 8 Conclusions 12 References 13 Summary The objective of this study was to estimate the determinants of poverty rates in female-headed households, in Costa Rica during the last decade. For the purpose of this study, the data were collected from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC)

Notes on Inequality and Poverty in Brazil: Current Situation and Challenges Nathalie Beghin Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world. The paper analyses the causes of this inequality in terms of Brazil’s development process, which has traditionally ‘managed poverty’ without making efforts to promote change in the socio-economic order: what the author terms ‘conservative modernisation’. Accordingly, universal education and social security were not prioritised, and urban segregation

(ECO311) Dr. Mary Habib Notes for Chapter 5 Inequality, Poverty, and Development I. Inequality and Poverty Overview & Recent Trends: Despite significant improvements over the past half century, extreme poverty remains widespread in the developing world. At the moment, close to 1 billion people live on less than $1 per day (extreme poverty), and some 2.7 billion (around 40% of the world’s population) live on less than $2 a day (poverty). These impoverished people often suffer from various other