LECTURE NOTE ON DEFINITIONS AND MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY By Professor S.I. Oladeji Department of Economics Obafemi Awolowo University‚ Ile-Ife. Introduction The eradication of poverty has been declared by the United Nations World Summit for Social Development in 1995 as the unfinished business of the 21st century. The issue was also topmost in the agenda at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York in September 2000. Apart from eradication of poverty and hunger‚ the other listed
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Introduction: The term professional is one of the most exalted in the English language denoting as it does long and arduous years of preparation a striving for excellence a dedication to The public interest and moral and ethical values. The service to the public as a professional turns out to be dedicated and committed only when moral‚ ethical religious values serve our bedrock foundation. The same moral‚ ethical and religious convictions inspire us to embrace continuing professional
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What has landscape architecture and industrialized society to learn from indigenous cultures and their symbiotic relationships with nature? “‘Despite nature’s many earlier warnings‚ the pollution and destruction of the natural environment has gone on‚ intensively and extensively‚ without awakening a sufficient reaction; it is only during the last century that any systematic effort has been made to determine what constitutes a balanced and self-renewing environment‚ containing all the ingredient’s
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IT IS THE TIME FOR THE REFORM IN THE UN 1. Introduction Reform of the United Nations (UN) is a hotly debated issue nowadays in the UN. Among those so many academicians and politicians‚ maybe the loudest voice comes from Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan‚ demand for reform in the structure of the UN because of the ineffectiveness of the UN on certain issues‚ including humanitarian intervention in some countries or dealing with the issues related with economic crises‚
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1. INTRODUCTION The Zimbabwean Economy went through a decade of Economic meltdown and hyperinflation which left the Zimbabwean authorities with no option but to dollarize the Economy. Dollarization started off as unofficial Dollarization until a time government decided to make it official and save the country from imminent collapse. Dollarization brought about some sanity in the economy and some relief of economic recovery to Zimbabwe as a whole. Some FDI started to trickle in but not withstanding
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JBAS Vol.1 No.2 Sept. 2009 1 An assessment of the impact of tourism globalization in Africa Thomas P. Z. Mpofu 1 Abstract The tourism sector is one of one of the exemplars of the phenomenon of globalization. This is due to the geographical scale of the industry‚ increased spatial linkages between places and people from different locations. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the extent to which tourism globalization had impacted on African countries. The paper submits that some
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w w ap eP m e tr .X w International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the June 2004 question papers 0470 HISTORY 0470/01 Paper 1‚ maximum raw mark 60 0470/02 Paper 2‚ maximum raw mark 50 0470/04 Paper 4 (Alternative to Coursework)‚ maximum raw mark 40 These mark schemes are published as an aid to teachers and students‚ to indicate the requirements of the examination. They show the basis on which Examiners were initially instructed
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The Causes and Effects of Global Health Issues. Despite the fact that a significant improvement has been made in medical treatment‚ global health is still a serious issue that needs addressing. One aspect of this is widespread diseases‚ which have been threatening nations all around the world‚ bringing about a number of problematic effects. Furthermore‚ developing countries are at a disadvantage in terms of reacting to these illnesses due to their high level of poverty and shortage of education
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"In their daily search for clean water‚ women in rural sub-Saharan Africa literally and symbolically walk the social‚ economic‚ and geographic paths along which‚ scholars argue‚ the HIV/AIDS epidemic can be mapped." Link It was back in 2002 when Kofi Annan identified women as the backbone of Africa‚ and sounded the dire alarm that the combination of famine and AIDS was disproporationately impacting African women "who keep African societies going and whose work makes up the economic foundation
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MAN WILDLIFE CONFLICT Introduction: Human–wildlife conflict refers to the interaction between wild animals and people and the resultant negative impact on people or their resources‚ or wild animals or their habitat. It occurs when growing human populations overlap with established wildlife territory‚ creating reduction of resources or life to some people and/or wild animals. Conflict between people and animals is one of the main threats to the continued survival of many species in different parts
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