Together all three readings this week highlight the enormous impact disability schemes have on individuals and the monumental task the current reforms have in addressing these issues. Ultimately, any in depth discussion is both outside the scope of this discussion but also my very preliminary understanding of the issue. ... The NDIS is undeniably a social policy delivered within neoliberal economic ideologies. ... Without going into a detailed analysis of the negative consequences of delivering social policy using neo liberal ideologies, it is suffice to say that there is an overwhelmingly lar...

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Yet, loads of the issues that they manage are strikingly familiar. ... Various precolonial African social orders had towns and little urban areas. However even in these social orders, the vast majority were occupied with horticulture in provincial towns or residences. ... These progressions frequently tested existing qualities, convictions, and social practices (EA). ... Another significant issue in developing provincial world is restorative issues; minimum are interested in experimental and designing mastery. ...

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These occur as social disadvantages of the aforementioned benefits which affect social development and cultural development. ... Sonia Cuales raises the issue of the dilapidated situation of societies due to high infant and child mortality rates, stating that, "Child mortality rate is a most important indicator of the state of human development in a country." ... It is thus a break down in social development because it suggests that the quality of health and the availability to it is poor. ... It too, like high infant and child mortality rates, shows a lack of social development because qua...

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Give an overview of the issue as to be investigated by you. Barrow Island has a unique place in Western Australia's history, geography and social development. ... Another negative externality is the "foot print issue". ... Describe the impact on the environment and the economics issues that are involved and need to be considered to solve this environmental issue. ...

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Firstly, historical institutionalism looks at the issues that people face, in a historical, political context, specifically the issues surrounding scarcity and vying for resources and the inequality that is equivocated with scarcity, especially as it pertains to goods and services. ... Because this school of thought develops on pre-existing political institutions, Social Institutionalism does a much better job of exposing the inefficiencies that might arise in a more archaic model. ... This mode of living is harmful to communities because when individuals maintain this mindset they tend to ove...

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Escobar concluded his article recognizing that for post-development to be a socially effective tool depends on how we assess the current state of modernity. He posits that we are moving beyond the paradigm of modernity, both epistemologically and socially. ... While he acquiesces to the criticisms of development – as many others have pointed out the same issues, the problem with this view is the rhetoric and posturing. ... While he provide answers to these issues, Ziai also recognizes these criticisms have root in the two discourses within post-development itself. ... They particularly...

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Various laws and regulations of customs authorities are being issued more and more often. ... The history of civilization, the development of the state and law show that through the application of criminal prohibitions and sanctions, none of the states is able to solve the social problem of crime combating in general, the economic smuggling in particular. ... Market relations, accompanied by unemployment, property and social stratification, competition, stimulate the growth of economic crime. ... The mechanism of this control assigned criminal and customs laws the place of last chance when oth...

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Some scholars have also pinpointed the positive impact of development aid which come in form of social aid. Social aid includes education aid such as that provided by the GIZ and DFID in Malawi, health aid such as that was provided by the Global fund towards the fighting of HIV/AIDS and water aid like that provided by European Union and other Non-Governmental organisations funded by Foreign economies. ... Since different components of social aid such as health aid, education aid and sanitary aid play a positive role in influencing the health and educational index of many developing countries ...

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Cantillon also further breaks down the social class of dependents into the entrepreneurs and wage-earners. ... This idea may seem somewhat profound, but it is also largely due to the loose definition and social ranking of an entrepreneur held by Cantillon himself. ...

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Around the world, unemployment or the threat of it remains one of the main challenges to long-term social sustainability. Indeed, the experience of recent years has underscored social sustainability as key to longer-term competitiveness, and thus to sustainable growth. ... More recently, in order to better place the discussion of competitiveness in the societal and environmental context, the World Economic Forum has begun exploring the complex relationship between competitiveness and sustainability as measured by its social and environmental dimension. ...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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