This limits the amount of income a person has with which to spend. ... There have been many organizations that try to help with this problem, and there is no easy solution. ... Part of the reason for the recent trend towards more financing of childcare is because economics now focuses more on the infrastructure to support business and the quality of life, and less on creating jobs, technical assistance and job training. ... The study also shows that parents who join the labor force with the help of child care subsidies earn $2.00 for every $1.00 invested in the subsidies. ... This is due ...

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The selected articles focus on the ideas of food shortage and economics, and the impact of the East-African food crisis. ... Created to help farmers deal with the uncertainty of growing crops, "futures" enable farmers to sell their crops in the future at a guaranteed price. ... Various groups around the world, both government-run and NGO's, have stepped into the famine, some trying to help and others trying to take advantage. ... However, the economics of this drought are appalling. ... Further details on the economics of this crisis are explained in the last two paragraphs of t...

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Sachs is a professor of economics, expert on sustainable development, and a senior UN advisor. ... The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution that "provides policy advice and financing to members in economic difficulties and also works with developing nations to help them achieve macroeconomic stability and reduce poverty" (IMF). Yet, Sachs sees the solution in Poverty Reduction Strategies as the mechanism to make sure that the aid is spent properly and calls for "clinical economics" (Sachs, 47). ... Finally, Duflo and Banerjee are chang...

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Foreign resource inflows are yet another similarity between the Zia and Ayub eras, where external resources helped fund Pakistan's development programme9. ... These facts and figures amply illustrate the extent to which foreign grants helped to change the economic fortune of Pakistan and instituted a precedent of sustainable development; however, development lasted as long as the aid kept flowing in. ... Along with the problems of urbanization other social evils such as a high crime rate, sectarian violence, illegal immigration, and so forth crop up. ... This problem is bound to arise ...

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And once the claimant has filed an application with the Fund they are committed and locked in to the system. If the claimant is dissatisfied with their compensation award there are no appeals allowed and since they filed with the Fund, they cannot file any other claims under any other jurisdiction either civil or federal. ... This is computed using age-based tabulations from "A Markov Process Model of Work-Life Expectancies Based on Labor Market Activity in 1997-1998" by James Ciecka, Thomas Donley, and Jerry Goldman in the Journal of Legal Economics, Winter 1999-2000l (Federal Register, Pg....

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On a geographical scale, Asia holds the highest rate of malnutrition with a staggering 70%, while Africa has 26% and Latin America only 4%. ... These statistics help confirm that those suffering from malnutrition are more susceptible to diseases because their immune systems are severely compromised. ... With a poverty stricken population and lack of funding to help those who don't have the resources for good nutrition, it is hard for Bolivia to quickly recover from their current state. From a geographical point of view, the country's location in the tropics combined with dramatic...

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There are several reasons, with geographical, political, and cultural factors all coming in to play. ... The concept of the nike foundation is to help the girls to achieve to their human potential, investing in a girl, before she is married, out of school, HIV positive, out of school and pregnant is the solution to end poverty, not cure for its symptoms. Since their put in that environment with these circumstances they can't break the cycle of poverty alone. ... This isn't a social issue; it's 'smart economics'. ... A quality education will help girls in a number of...

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As stated on Trading Economics website, the Gini coefficient for Vietnam grew from 34.5 in 1990 to 43.3 in 2006, where an index of 0 implies perfect equality and an index of 100 represents perfect inequality. ... With this policy, Vietnam will partly solve the challenges of growing income inequality and corruption. ... Their strategies were starting with reduction in quality, quantity, and frequency (Mayling). ... More people associated themselves with illegal activities to earn more income. ... In conclusion, Vietnam economic growth over the past decades undoubtedly helped millions of Vietn...

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Or is it smart economics? ... I am family friends with a man who is a multi millionaire. ... He also was great with saving his money. ... Government has set up transfer payments or government grants to these families to help with their situations. ... This is something that I believe varies with every type of person. ...

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First we will start with the culturally bad aspects in context with the internet and the so called digital divide between the east, west, rich and poor. ... Groups like these use the internet to expose the world of human rights violations and if needed use it to plea for help to eliminate the source of the violations. ... Or should economics and human rights be linked at all? ... With the assistance of these organizations and institutions, a globalized country can ensure high-quality sustainable growth. ... Other than human rights concerns, many people are concerned about the fate of the world...

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Whilst famine has received press attention, malnourishment has often been ignored largely because it does not have the same "drama" attached to it and because it is regarded as a longer term problem with fewer quick fix solutions, though it affects many more people. ... Sen also looked at the distributive methods of food, that is, what determines "how available food is distributed and how politics, economics and ideology influence its distribution" (Arnold 1988; Young 1996). ... It is possible to trace this problem back to colonial and neo-colonial roots, when the colonies (now periphery cou...

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