Homelessness in Ghana: Who to Blame? My eye caught sight of something; I peered at it and decided it was a bundle of clothes. However I couldn’t bring to tear my eyes away and upon further investigation I realized the bundle of clothes were human beings‚ a sea of human beings. My mum said’’ can’t you see their heads‚ jutting out of the plastic sheath that covers them as the rain pelts them at this ungodly hour of the night in Accra? “Yes I can. But don’t they have homes? Why do they sleep on
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Unemployment Unemployment is defined as when a person is available to work and seeking work but currently without work. Unemployment is one of the most important social problem of not only Pakistan but the problem of all over the world. Unemployment is a central problem of Pakistan because when unemployment is high‚ resources are wasted and people’s incomes are depressed; during such periods‚ economics distress also spills over to affect people’s emotions and family lives. The socio economics
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2020‚ i.e.‚ 2.0 percent per annum. A glance at unemployment in INDIA Total unemployment in India has been estimated to be about 35 million persons in 2002. This figure takes into account the significant level of underemployment and seasonal variations in the availability of work. It also reflects wide variations in the rate of unemployment among different age groups and regions of the country. Approximately three-fourth of the unemployed
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be a number of people who are unemployed. Unemployment is when there are people in our society who desire work but are unable to obtain it because of the fact that there are not enough jobs for everyone. There are many factors that can cause unemployment but one of the biggest factors is lack of private investment. This is caused by private companies not expanding their activities fast or not expanding them fast enough. Another main factor of unemployment is the increase of labour costs. Labour costs
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Introduction Youth homelessness has profound consequences reaching well beyond individual youth and their immediate families. Research suggests that as many as 1.6 million young people are living unsupervised on the streets‚ in abandoned buildings‚ with friends or with strangers at some point during the year. When youth leave their homes‚ and enter the homeless population‚ they are in jeopardy of engaging in anti-social and risky behaviors‚ as well as becoming one of the most severely victimized
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1.0 INTRODUCTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT Unemployment is a situation where people have no job whether they are quitted or being fired and they are actively searching for it. There are two theories that were explained about unemployment that is Classical theory and Keynesian theory. 2.0 THEORIES THAT EXPLAIN UNEMPLOYMENT 2.1 CLASSICAL THEORY The first theory is Classical theory. It was first developed by Karl Max. From this theory it state that the level of unemployment will increase if there is government
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Bishwakarma Paula Wilder EFL 074 30 August 2013 Summary of Ghana In the Ghana reading project and presentation by author Paula Wilder‚ she presented the information about Ghana. Ghana is one of the countries of Western Africa with more than 23 million people‚ who are living and working in different places of country. Ghana has six ethnic groups with different languages‚ but English is the official language as Ghana was freed from Britain in 1952. Ghana designed their flag with three colored stripes and
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GSM5200 MARKETING MANAGEMENT - GROUP STUDY Nestlé (Ghana) Ltd. “An Analysis on Situation and Marketing Strategy Proposal to Maintain Brand Equity and Expand Brand Penetration of Nestle Products in Ghana‚ West Africa” “How to effectively expand market in least developing countries” is the major issue found in the case. This consists of derived issues faced by the company which can be correlated with marketing studies. By The American Marketing Association‚ marketing is defined as the activity
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independence from British colonial rule in 1980 to an economic crisis that reached its climax in the years 2006-2008 and that had far-reaching effects into almost every sector of the economy and a world topping unemployment rate of over 95% according to the CIA World Factbook (2012). The unemployment rate is the proportion of the economically active population that is unemployed and actively looking for employment (Hussmanns‚ 2007). In 1990‚ Zimbabwe embarked on a program of Economic Reforms popularly
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which is an ancient banking system in Ghana‚ worth USD 160 million. The model resembles microfinance in several ways; susu collectors (equivalent of loan officers) roam villages and rural communities to collect savings (micro-savings) and sometimes offer credit against these savings (microcredit). The susu collector is expected to manage the “mobile mini-bank” on his/her own with integrity and honestly. There are currently around 4‚000 susu collectors in Ghana and each one of them serves between
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