HIGHER EDUCATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION AMONG THE YOUTH BY OKUNOLA‚ PHILIP OLAYIDE (Ph.D)‚ ONYENE.V.E(Ph.D.)(frontisresource@yahoo.com) SUBAR‚ S.TAYO. ASHIRU‚ AL-MAHROOF OLASEEWO (sirmooree@yahoo.ca) PAPER PRESENTED AT THE 8TH REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH POLICY NETWORK VENUE: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE (IITA)‚ IBADAN AUGUST‚ 2008 ABSTRACT Education in Nigeria and higher education in particular‚ are fundamental to the
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Poverty is the state of being without the necessities of daily living‚ and often associated with need‚ hardship and lack of resources across a wide range of circumstances. Poverty has wide-ranging and often devastating effects. Many of its effects‚ such as malnutrition and starvation‚ exposure to infectious diseases and mental illness and dependence to drug‚ result directly from having too little income or too few resources. As a result of poor nutrition and health problems‚ infant mortality rates
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Whitney Jefferson Ms.Hatfield-4B English II 22 April 2013 Effects of Poverty on Children in Sub-Saharan Africa Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is a major issue that is not discussed much. The health and wellbeing of these people in country’s such as Ghana‚ Kenya‚ Madagascar‚ Ethiopia‚ Liberia‚ etc. is drastically declining. The food supply in some places is harsh. The complexity of how some of these people live is outrageous. Africa is one of the poorest continent’s in the world. A third of sub-Saharan
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The Effects Of Poverty ‚ WRIT 300 October 15‚ 2012 Poverty is an enigma that seems to plague each corner of the United States. No matter how rich how stabilize or how strong our country may claim it is poverty lurks in shadow of all places on this earth and in it’s silhouette the opprobrious effects. The three scholarly articles I summarized connect the dots on how poverty impacts the United States economically; and socially. The first articles I summarized Haiyun Zhao‚ Zhilan Feng
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million people are currently in need of funds. Microfinance encompasses many different types of services such as credit‚ savings‚ insurance‚ remittance and pensions. Microfinance initiatives primarily focus on microcredit services because rural towns are heavily reliant on credit for a wide range of needs for example engage in economic activity‚ consumption needs‚ mitigate income shocks‚ increase savings and improve self-empowerment. In many microfinance areas‚ women comprise most of the groups because
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Ariana Ruela POSC 340 Dr. Adams October 5‚ 2011 Advancing Poverty Reduction Progress in Cambodia After Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia was brought to an end in September of 1989‚ the country attempted to rid itself of a corrupt government and of poverty. With the help of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)‚ Cambodia was able to hold elections and begin a journey of economic development and poverty reduction. While on the surface the coalition government‚ a multiparty democracy
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CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION The British colonialists started the Nigeria public service‚ which later developed in the modern of the British civil service with its doctrine. The design of the civil service was not to work for the Interest of Nigeria and its people but to serve the British colonial interest. It was difficult after independent for the service to evolve good plans for the development of the country. A civil service whose characteristics continued with Max Webber’s ideal type of bureaucracy
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Direct impact of FDI on poverty reduction FDI’s direct impacts on poverty may work through providing opportunities‚ particularly providing jobs and training to local workers. To the extent that foreign capital inflows do not replace local investment absolutely and foreign investment takes the mode of green- field investment FDI may contribute to reducing existing unemployment and underemployment‚ providing people with income and therefore directly contributing to poverty reduction. In this sense FDI’s
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What is microfinance? Microfinance typically refers to a range of financial services including credit‚ savings‚ insurance‚ money transfers‚ and other financial products provided by different services providers‚ targeted at poor and low income people. More broadly‚ microfinance refers to a movement that envisions a world in which low-income households have permanent access to a range of high quality and affordable financial services offered by a range of retail providers to finance income-producing
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Definition of ’Microfinance’ A type of banking service that is provided to unemployed or low-income individuals or groups who would otherwise have no other means of gaining financial services. Ultimately‚ the goal of microfinance is to give low income people an opportunity to become self-sufficient by providing a means of saving money‚ borrowing money and insurance. Investopedia explains ’Microfinance’ Microfinancing is not a new concept. Small microcredit operations have existed since the mid
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