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    rural poverty in morocco

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    Rural poverty in the Kingdom of Morocco Poverty is essentially a rural phenomenon in the Kingdom of Morocco. About 4 million people in the country live below the national poverty line‚ and 3 million of them are in rural areas. During the decade from 1994 to 2004 there was a significant increase in the incidence of poverty in some of the poorest provinces. And although there has been progress in the country’s standing in the human development index‚ the gap between urban and rural areas remains a

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    Essay On Childhood Poverty

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    What is Childhood Poverty? What is Childhood poverty and what can be done to prevent it? Childhood poverty is almost always the effect of a cause that a child is having trouble with. This cause could be from something that is happening within the family like drugs‚ alcohol‚ and/or violence. It could also come from something the child was born with‚ such as a disability. Childhood poverty can affect a number of different categories in a child’s life‚ such as education and also brain development

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    ------------------------------------------------- Efforts to alleviate poverty Since the early 1950s‚ govt has initiated‚ sustained‚ and refined various planning schemes to help the poor attain self-sufficiency in food production. Probably the most important initiative has been the supply of basic commodities‚ particularly food at controlled prices‚ available throughout the country as poor spend about 80 percent of their income on food. The schemes have however not been very successful because the rate of poverty reduction lags behind the

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    Poverty and its causes In Pakistan Submitted by: Muhammad Ahmad Adil Submitted to: Ms. Mehwish Submitted date: 8th February 2012 Assignment Topic: Poverty In Pakistan Management sciences Department Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan 2012 www.awkum.edu.pk February 8‚ 2010 Ms. Mehwish Teacher‚ Economy of Pakistan

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    Poverty Narrative Analysis

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    Education is considered to be an important sign in any success story that we heard of in the world. many people suffered a tough childhood and poor life in their youth and become successful later on their careers because of a good education. In this paper‚ I will be discussing how gender‚ race‚ and class can change the educational experience depending on people’s race‚ class‚ and gender. I had three interviews with three individuals‚ the first one is Anthony a nineteen years old African American

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    Langston Hughes Poverty

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    portrays a black man’s rise to poetic greatness from the depths of poverty and repression are largely exaggerated. America frequently confuses the ideas of segregation‚ suppression‚ and struggle associated with African-American history and imposes these ideas onto the stories of many black historical figures and artists. While many of them have struggled with these confines set upon them by American society‚ Langston Hughes did not fulfill this historical stereotype due to his personal wealth‚ education

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    MICROFINANCE AS A STRATEGY FOR POVERTY REDUCTION INTRODUCTION Microfinance is not something new in Malaysia. It has been operated by credit unions‚ co-operative banks and specialised credit windows of banks. Microfinance services of financial credit range for about RM10‚000 (USD2‚631) and mostly to finance small businesses‚ agricultural loans and loans for poverty reduction. Microfinance program in Malaysia has been implemented since 1987 as one of the poverty eradication strategies in the country

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    Poverty and Money

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    future sons-in-laws have jobs with good prospects. Many young people marry for money rather than love. Security is more important than happiness. Some people in Shanghai would even trade their self-esteem for money. Materialism influences education‚ too. Students acquire knowledge not for its own sake‚ but for a bigger wage. Students choose business courses rather than liberal arts for the sake of earning big money in the future. Very few people want to be teachers because teaching is not a

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    Poverty from a conservative point of view There seems to be an increase in poverty in the United States and there are so many theories behind why this might be a problem. It seems as if Society as a whole wants to blame this social "condition" on Society itself. I believe that the problem of poverty lies within the actual individuals that are experiencing poverty. There are a few reasons why people experience poverty. They are as follows: One‚ the liberal welfare programs that were started

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    Poverty is a complicated issue. It is a phenomenon not limited to the third world. It’s an issue even faced by the wealthiest countries. There are many reasons and causes‚ and there are equally as many disagreements on where the blame should lay. People who are not poor often blame the less fortunate for their own situation and tend to have little sympathy. Those who are in poverty often blame society for making it impossible to escape from their situation. Poverty also tends to affect groups within

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