Sri Lanka has been considered to be South Asia's outsider in terms of the circumstances of poverty and deprivation. ... Consequently, the poverty and vulnerability of affected households worsened as a result. ... Sri Lanka boasts having a lower percentage of its population below the official poverty line in comparison to other South Asia countries that is an average of 15.2 percent between the years 2000 and 2009. The most recent computation of poverty, the government of Sri Lanka now claims that the poverty has decreased further to 8.9 percent of the population in 2010 based upon an off...

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Such result can be observed through the reduction in poverty rate and increase in life expectancy. ... " This dramatic reduction in poverty is a result due to multiple factors, but mainly land reform and remittances. ... This inflowing cash has allowed millions of Vietnamese to consume more nutrition in daily diet and move away from poverty. However, Vietnam government still has a lot of work to do to eliminate poverty. Based on the new poverty line that post on World Bank, Vietnam is VN 653,000/person/month or $2.25/person/day, which is significantly lower than the U.S. $11,490/person/ye...

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This is an effective means of luring victims as many of the local populations would already like to migrate in search of better economic conditions, wealth and to help them and or their children escape the chronic poverty they are currently facing. Of the economic factors poverty is by far one of the biggest causes of human trafficking especially in countries where the majority of the population have nothing or very little to lose, leading to some parents even selling their children to the traffickers; either to make ends meet or in the hope that they will escape the poverty cycle. 20% of inte...

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In general, the World Bank leans in favor of a bigger opening for the trade and the IED because the evidences suggest that the benefits as regards economic development and reduction of the poverty spread to be relatively bigger that the risks or possible costs (although attention is also paid to concrete politicians to attenuate or to alleviate those costs and risks). ... Far from condemning to those countries to that you/they continue sunk in the isolation and the poverty, it is urgent that the international community helps them to incorporate in more degree to the world economy, offe...

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In the early 1990s per capitaEconomic Growth has slided to 1-1.5 percent, investment rates had declined from 20 to 15 percent of GDP, poverty had doubled from 17 to 34 percent, external debt had doubled from $18 to $36, debt servicing was claiming 56 percent of revenue, fiscal deficits were averaging about 6 percent of GDP, while development expenditure were curtailed from 6 to 3 percent of the GDP15. ... For example, The social Action Programme launched in 1991, along with many other poverty reduction initiatives of civil society, has started to correct the serious imbalance between econom...

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Although the region has had a history of civil unrest (Los Angeles Riots in 1992) and high crime and poverty rates, Koreatown has experienced growth since the 1980s (Chang and Dias-Veizades, 25; Park and Kim, 138). ... This essay will argue that although Koreatown has had a history of crime and poverty, it is currently in the early stages of gentrification. ... While the US median income is $42,000, Koreatown's median income is $22,000 with more than 30 percent of its residents live below the poverty line (Park and Kim, 132).Yet, middle and upper-middle household incomes exist in the west...

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Monetary policy is the main line of defence for government to tackle inflation as it is the fastest to affect the economy while fiscal policy plays a support role in maintaining low inflation. ... Other social costs involved with unemployment are severe financial hardship and poverty. While Australia may not have much poverty, there are many families who are living in relative poverty where they cannot afford most of the general goods and services that are expected of within a society. ...

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Economic Growth has it's benefits and disadvantages, as it can lead to greater material welfare, higher employment rates and reduce poverty, but also it can lead to crime and many other factors such as environmental pollution and can cause inflation. ... This could lead to the reduction of poverty in a country, as if tax rates stay the same, whilst tax revenue increases, some of the extra income can benefit schemes to help the poor in areas of the country. ... This can cause problems in jobs, as workers may not receive a pay increase that is in line with inflation, and thus they will ...

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The development of oil resources has led to much corruption, conflict, environment devastation, and poverty, which is currently experienced in Nigeria. ... Forcing many of the citizens to continue to live in poverty while the rich were getting richer off of the poor. Nigeria has a population estimate of about 127 billion in the year 2000 45 percent of its population is living below the poverty line. ...

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), as said in their official website, claims to promote macroeconomic stability and to reduce poverty by giving aid to country members, especially developing nations, facing economic difficulties. ... To reinforce this point, Vaubel (p.65) cites Wilson Schmidt, the individual in line to head the World Bank at the time of his tragic death: It can be argued that, absent the Fund, individual countries would presumably be less likely to get into balance of payments difficulties because they could not rely on the prospect of Fund resources when those difficulties...

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At the end it will suggest the line the policy ought to take ensure that there will be less marginalization of women. ... Coelho and Coffey observes in their studies, "Cutbacks in public expenditure generated by SAP relocates many state-provided health care and child care services back to the household, and eliminates food subsidies and other welfare benefits that helped women meet some of their family's food needs." (1996) Women are faced with much burden, generating the feminization of poverty, all in the name of development and growth. ... The line between "natural women kind of job" a...

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This loss of rural funds contributed to the poverty of the farmers, which lowered agricultural investment, which further slowed down China's agricultural production. ... In addition, the continuing poverty of the Chinese farmers made it clear that something needed to be done and a new agricultural system need to be put into place. ... The six steps are as follows: (1) raising the purchasing price of grain and other farm products by twenty percent for planned purchase and another twenty percent for the crops produced in excess of the amounts required (see table 3); (2) reducing the pro...

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