Mar’02-May’02 Issue 31 RURAL LIVELIHOODS Kirankumar Vissa (AID Maryland) Why are they begging on the trains? When you are traveling in India‚ you are invariably forced to ask yourself‚ “What do I do when someone comes to me begging on the street or in the train?” Many say that by giving them money‚ you are only encouraging them not to work for their living - that you are encouraging them to remain poor. But‚ are the people who say this doing anything that helps remove the poverty? Should
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EFFECTS OF URBAN CRIME ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT Technical Paper by: Ms. Adit Padhi (aditipadhi@gmail.com) “Greater concern about terrorism places new opportunities before the design community. If protection is considered from the outset‚ design can make buildings and people safer.”1 Introduction Violent crime was the issue of the nineties‚ while terrorism has become the talk at the onset of 21st century. Understanding crime prevention design is therefore an invaluable tool in organization and
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Matt Torres Dr. Cay Hehner Modern New York November 1‚ 2012 Research Paper The history of the urban utopia arose when theorists and city planners decided that a radical reconstruction of their cities (Venturi 4) was needed. There are problems that arose in cities of every generation and these problems have sparked the minds of the greatest thinkers‚ planner‚ architects‚ and theorists of the 19th century. These were the first attempts at correcting the problems that we deal with today. Problems
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SEMINAR PAPER FOMT 1.2: Forest-Related Development and Land Use Policy Seminar Topic: Migrations and effects on Rural Development - A Case of Ghana Supervisor: Prof. Jurgen Pretzch Submitted by: By Ataa- Asantewaa Martha (Student of M.Sc. Tropical Forestry and Management) Submitted to the Institute for International Forestry and Forest Products‚ Faculty of Forest-Geo-and-Hydro Sciences‚ TU Dresden 2012 Abstract Migration continues to dominate discussion on both social
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Rural Retailing in India-The Road Ahead Shikhar Das Srivastava* ABSTRACT The decision to liberalize the Indian Economy in 1991 had far reaching consequences‚ which is still continued into the new millennium also. On the marketing front‚ there was the arrival of many well-known Multi National Companies especially FMCG product dealers. In the initial years the focus was on the easily accessible well developed urban markets but soon it got saturated because of proliferation of brands and intense
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Sector “Challenges in Rural Market ” “Challenges in Rural Market ” Mr. M Q Khan‚ Director (LPG Infrastructure India Pvt. Ltd.) Mr. M Q Khan‚ Director (LPG Infrastructure India Pvt. Ltd.) Reliance Industries Ltd. Reliance Industries Ltd. 1 Indian Scenario Urban Population (Million)‚ 2001 House Holds (Million)‚ 2001 LPG Connections (as of 01.04.04 (Million) LPG Consumption (MMTPA) As of 01.04.04 LPG Per Capita Consumption KG (PA) Penetration 286 54 68.52 7.95 Rural 742 138 8.58 1.55 Total
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Features of Indian Rural Markets *Large and Scattered market: The rural market of India is large and scattered in the sense that it consists of over 63 crore consumers from 5‚70‚000 villages spread throughout the country. *Major income from agriculture: Nearly 60 % of the rural income is from agriculture. Hence rural prosperity is tied with agricultural prosperity. *Low standard of living: The consumer in the village area do have a low standard of living because of low literacy‚ low per capita
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NAME : FATIN NAZIHAH BINTI ABDULLAH STUDENT I/D : 2014177579 Compare and contrast raising children in a small town and raising children in the city. Children who grow up in the city are prone to gain adaptability skills at a tender age‚ develop acute social awareness‚ and have consistent coverage to culturally diverse populations and experiences. A University of Virginia research found that cities are in fact much safer places to live than small
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What is Urban renewal? Discuss the issues and strategies of urban renewal of a state capital. Urban renewal is a program of land re-development in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. It can be envisaged as the physical and infrastructural changes in land use‚ built environment or intensity of the use of land or building that could be considered as inevitable outcome of the action from economic‚ social‚ political‚ technical and environmental forces acting upon urban areas at different
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Sustainable Cities: Building the Future City for the Next 100 Years Songdo International City-S. Korea In his book Urban Geography‚ Michael Pacione‚ discusses the “Future City-Cities of the Future”. In his analysis there are several principles that must be included in the future city in order for it to strive and be successful‚ “by 2025 65 percent of the world’s population will be in urban areas” (Pacione 2005) The need for the city of the next 100 years to be sustainable in all aspects is paramount
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