In line with the UN's fundamental role to support national development efforts, the UN also responds to national partners' requests to develop capacity and fill technical gaps where they exist. ... Approximately 32 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line. ... It is widely believed that there is a "feminization" of poverty, meaning that more women than men are poor. ... Given the scale and multi-dimensionality of poverty, it is self-evident that adopting a sectoral approach is not necessarily the best way forward. ... The UN will offer support needed to adva...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If we can gain economic justice for all, it will mean the difference between poverty and survival for many, especially women and children."" ... Thus a perfectly equal distribution can be depicted by the straight line y = x; this line is called the line of perfect equality. ... We call this curve the line of perfect inequality. The Lorenz curve is used to calculate the Gini coefficient, which is the area between the line of perfect equality and the Lorenz curve, as a percentage of the area between the line of perfect equality and the line of perfect inequality. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Poverty is also a relevant issue. ... One-third of such women-headed families lived below the poverty line, which was $13, 359 for a family of four in 1990. ... It is no surprise that women who are independent are in poverty. ...

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In The Blot cars are used as a symbol to reinforce the main narratives of the film of poverty, wealth and class status. ... When comparing a scene (in which the setting is transport) which is important to a main narrative line in The Wild Party similarities arise in the patriarchal control over public space. ... Here Arzner is setting up the important narrative line of the heterosexual relationship between Professor Gil and Stella. ... (Kaplan 135) Mrs Griggs is explained to the audience as "Well born and fiercely loyal to her family, was ill equipped for the endless struggle with poverty...

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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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Gender and the Media In this essay I will discuss the types of images presented by the mass media of men and women. I will use examples and insights from the text, video clips and lecture, and my own media experience to support my observations. Mass media presents something called gender ima...

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Tuon Bunkong, who wrote an essay concerning guilt and the effects of war, writes that Andrew is guilt ridden due to the fact that, "because his parents had money, his family was able to escape the kind of poverty that seems to permeate Viet Nam," (220). ... On his way to Saigon, Andrew finds himself lost but too embarrassed to ask anyone for directions because, "the hungry, curious way people gawk at [him] makes [him] feel stupid, self-indulgent," as he spends money to travel to witness their poverty, (Pham 172). ... One night he stays in a hotel, hears a knock at his door,...

• Word Count: 2179
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate