Poverty Alleviation‚ Economic Development and the World Trade Organization According to U nited Nations Conference on Trade and Development(2004)‚ international trade can play a positive and important role in reducing poverty in developing countires.Therefore‚ poverty alleviation has strong correlation with economic development and international trade.Even though other political‚ social and cultural problems arethe causes of poverty‚ it is believed that the various causes are so complicated that
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Reassessing Impacts of MDGs in Nigeria A Global Partnership for Development was adopted by 189 nations‚ signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. Bill Gates has called them "the best idea for focusing the world on fighting global poverty that [he has] ever seen." The signing of the partnership was the beginning of the process towards the establishment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Nigeria was among the countries to establish an
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As like other programmes launched by the Government of India‚ National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) has certain objectives to be met. The programme was launched in the year 1986 and was reformulated in National Health Policy 2002. The original objectives included the following – (i) To ensure the availability and accessibility of minimum mental healthcare for all in the foreseeable future‚ particularly to the most vulnerable and underprivileged sections of the population; (ii) To encourage the
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ENTERPRISES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Nigeria as a developing economy cannot achieve full development without the contribution of the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). In most developed economies‚ the main stay of their economy has been attributed to the effectiveness of the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) is accepted globally as a tool for empowering the citizenry and economic growth. It has been associated with the rapid economic growth of
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Poverty is basically the condition of having insufficient resources or income. It is the state of being where one is deprived of necessities in life such as housing‚ food‚ sufficient income‚ employment and access to required social services and status. There are many forms of poverty which exists in this world such as absolute poverty‚ relative poverty‚ human poverty and lastly income poverty. Absolute poverty is defined as living to an absolute minimum standard which is called the ’poverty line’
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towards concepts of sustainable development and the acquisition of progressively higher standards of living .Growth without development is being criticised as being an ephemeral and increasingly deceptive indicator of the actual state of the economy .Concepts like population growth which erode economic growth and education and health which enhance human capital accumulation are gaining a lot of importance and are being touted as being as essential to the development of an economy as the growth rate
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Eradication of Beggars India‚ with a billion plus population has a booming economy‚ more than half of its population feature in the world’s richest list. But still poverty remains the biggest menace today and each of us can help eradicate poverty from our society. Beggars are found in public places like bus stands‚ near railway station‚ around religious places‚ on busy streets‚ thoroughfares etc. Every district collector/magistrate should be empowered to identify such people with their names (names
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[Pick the date] | Home | development | Economic development‚ achieved largely through productivity growth‚ is very important to both developed and developing nations. However‚ even though we know that higher productivity leads to improved economic outcomes there has been no consensus among researchers about either the desired path of development or the role of state in economic development. Concerning the path of development‚ Lall (2001) says that the appropriate strategy for any
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RURAL DEVELPOMENT PROGRAMMES IN INDIA India is predominantly an agrarian country. At present 833 million (83.3 crore) of India’s population lives in villages. Hence it becomes important that proportionate amount of attention and funds be spent for betterment of the rural folk. But inspite of their being in majority‚ they have been lagging behind in the fields of education‚ civic amenities‚ medical facilities and economic well being. So the Government of India realize the need of improvement of
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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF TRADE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF TRADE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA MIKE I. OBADAN DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS UNIVERSITY OF BENIN BENIN CITY AND OKOJIE‚ I. ELIZABETH DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS UNIVERSITY OF BENIN BENIN CITY ABSTRACT Many economists generally agree that openness to international trade accelerates development. The relationship between trade and growth is envisaged through
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