unable to read or write’ and it is one of the main causes of poverty in any society‚ and Pakistan unfortunately. According to the 1998 census the definition of literacy is ‘one who can read a newspaper and write a simple letter‚ in any language’. Based on this definition Pakistan has a literacy rate of 55% *. Illiteracy contributes to poverty in numerous ways‚ both indirect and direct. The first link between illiteracy and poverty tends to be when the poor man is unable to afford a high quality
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Poverty The word poverty is derived from French word “Pauvre”‚ meaning poor. Material possession of having little or no more means to support oneself is called poverty according to Bargata and Borgata . Poverty is of two types absolute poverty which refers to the basic needs of human life which commonly includes food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ shelter‚ clothing‚ health care and education and relative poverty which is defined as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live. According
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radio‚ or newspapers that reach very large numbers of people. Media’s unique power and reach can be used to educate children and enrich their lives and have negative consequences at the same time. Heavy media exposure on children increases the risk of harm which includes obesity‚ smoking‚ sex‚ drug and alcohol use‚ attention problems and poor grades in school. Too many children are neglecting schoolwork and exercise in favour of eating chips in front of the television. Fast-paced video games and
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CAUSES OF POVERTY “Poverty is the worst form of violence”- Mahatma Gandhi. Poverty is a problem of unmet human physical need. That is‚ persons and families in poverty lack the goods and services needed to sustain and support life and the income to purchase the goods or services which would meet those needs. Have they been lazy‚ made poor decisions‚ and been solely responsible for their plight? What are the causes of this extreme need? Overpopulation is the situation of having large numbers of people
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Children and TV Professor: Dr. Germain Course Title: ENG090035VA016-1116-001 (Writing Fundamentals) 08/22/2011 Children and TV Watching Every child loves to spend countless hours in front of the TV watching cartoons‚ and various TV programs. What a lot of parents don’t realize is that although watching TV keeps a child occupied and quiet‚ long periods of TV watching can be harmful to the child in three major ways I would like to discuss. Children that spend hours in front of a TV are
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Poverty in Ethiopia What exactly is a social problem‚ one may ask. Simply stated‚ a social problem is a condition arising from operation of society which is viewed as unacceptable by an influential segment of the population and becomes the target of attempted corrective social action. One particular social problem is poverty. Ethiopia is one country that suffers tremendously from poverty. In early 1992‚ the economy of Ethiopia was in a catastrophic condition and economic performance was
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Poverty is generally accepted as an undesirable condition. However‚ defining poverty is extremely difficult and several definitions exist. According to Dennis brown (1995)‚ He defined poverty as a state in which an ‘‘individual or group possesses less than some standard which has been defined as acceptable”. In the world we live it is generally accepted that there are two kinds of poverty‚ public and private poverty‚ however‚ the focus on poverty in this paper relates to Jamaica and its struggle
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Poverty: Causes‚ Responses and Consequences in Rural South Africa Elizabeth Francis‚ April 2006 Development Studies Institute London School of Economics Houghton St London WC2A 2AE e.m.francis@lse.ac.uk CPRC Working Paper No. 60 Chronic Poverty Research Centre ISBN: 1-904049-59-1 Elizabeth Francis is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the London School of Economics. Acknowledgements The research on which the case study is based was carried out as a collaborative project
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Poverty in the Philippines I wrote this piece as a way to share the negative aspects of poverty with the public‚ and hopefully turn them against it. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. By the time one has finished reading that sentence‚ a child would have died from poverty-related causes‚ That’s a life every 3.5 seconds –on average. Poverty affects everyone; globally‚ regionally‚ and locally. To be living in poverty is a horrible state to be in‚ for the individual will
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in poverty (“Poverty in the‚” 2013). The question these numbers pose is whether or not there is a direct correlation between obesity and poverty. Existing studies suggest a direct relationship between poverty and obesity. If there is a causal relationship between these two variables‚ what does this mean for America in terms of its over-reliance on processed food? What consequences may Americans expect to see if such a relationship were ignored over the longer term? Americans living in poverty are
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