Rural life vs Urban life Nowadays the smaller rural communities are considered to be more sociable and pleasant to live in than larger urban communities. Are these assumptions factual or are they merely based on sentiment? The most important difference can be found by comparing the sociological structure of farm life to the same structure in a city. Larger communities enable all members to have more privacy than in smaller communities‚ thus a certain sense of “anonymity” arises which in it’s
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Absolute Poverty: Right from the 19th century‚ some researchers are trying to fix some yardstick for measuring poverty in precise terms. Ideally speaking such a yardstick would help us establish a fixed level of poverty‚ known as “poverty line” below which poverty begins and above which it ends. Such a yardstick is believed to be universal in character and would be applicable to all the societies. This concept of poverty is known as “absolute poverty”. Absolute poverty is often known as
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PATALINGHUG Competition Policy‚ Technology Policy‚ and Philippine Industrial Competitiveness Epictetus E. Patalinghug Abstract The disappointing performance of the Philippine industrial sector in the past five decades has been attributed to several factors such as the lack of a stable macroeconomic environment‚ poor infrastructure‚ low productivity‚ low savings rate‚ and an overvalued currency. This paper attempts to summarize the link between competition policy‚ technology policy
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Absolute poverty is a level of poverty defined in terms of the minimal requirements necessary to afford minimal standards of food‚ clothing‚ health care and shelter. For the measure to be absolute‚ the line must be the same in different countries‚ cultures‚ and technological levels. Such an absolute measure should look only at the individual’s power to consume and it should be independent of any changes in income distribution. The intuition behind an absolute measure is that mere survival takes
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1 The Rural-Urban Divide Cities take up less than two percent of the Earth’s land surface‚ but are home to almost half of theworld’s population and utilize seventy-five percent of the Earth’s resources.In 1998 47 percent of the world’spopulation lived in cities as opposed to 29 percent in 1950.Globalization is leading to increased urbanization.According to the World Bank urban areas in developing countries account for an estimated 60 - 80 percent ofGDP.Urban populations mainly have greater access
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INTRODUCTION Poverty is one of the main problems which have attracted attention of sociologists and economists. It indicates a condition in which a person fails to maintain a living standard adequate for his physical and mental efficiency. It is a situation people want to escape. It gives rise to a feeling of a discrepancy between what one has and what one should have. The term poverty is a relative concept. It is very difficult to draw a demarcation line between affluence and poverty. According to
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INTRODUCTION This School Based Assessment is about the topic‚ “Teenage Pregnancy in my Neighborhood.” The people living in the various areas in Montego Bay Freeport consists of residents from all over the world. There are Chinese‚ English‚ American‚ Indian Jamaican and even German residents. Most of the residents in the neighborhood have teenagers‚ a majority of them are girls and the minority is boys. Most of the girls are teenage mothers‚ who have to care and provide for a child and some even
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Rural Urban Migration Aaapka Naam kya hai? Mera Naam “Bechaara” Hai Bechara ji..aap kahan jaa rahe ho? Mein apna gaon chod ke “Seher” Jaa raha Hoon Aap apna gaon chod ke seher kyun jaa rahe ho? Sahab jii…mein he kya…mere bahaut yaar dost jaa chuke hain..or ab mein bhi jaa raha hoon Lekin Kaaran toh bataoo….Bechara Ji Sahab jii…ek kaaran ho toh bataun…lekin aap zor de rahe ho toh sunoo.. Reasons for Rural-Urban Migration • Poverty/Low Income • • • • Unemployment Wage
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Determinants of poverty INTRODUCTION Background to the study The translation of consumption into welfare units is a function of various physiological characteristics such as age and sex of recipient‚ and environmental factors ( The possession of assets is a measure of the socio-economic status of the household. According to the 2002 Uganda Population and Housing census main report‚ majority (79%) of the households owned the houses they lived in especially in rural areas with 86% compared to urban areas (30%)
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POVERTY AS A CHALLENGE 1. A person is considered poor if his or her income or consumption level falls below a given minimum level necessary to fulfil basic needs. Each country uses an imaginary line that is considered appropriate for its existing level of development and its accepted minimum social norms. This is called the poverty line. While determining the poverty line in India‚ a minimum level of food requirement‚ clothing‚ footwear‚ fuel and light‚ educational and medical requirements‚ etc
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