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Food security is about ensuring that all people at all times have both physical and economic access to the basic food they need. In a number of African countries chronic malnutrition and transitory food insecurity are pervasive. Like most African countries, Eritrea is also a victim of the...
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Based on meso data, study analyses the causes of poverty and food insecurity. It seeks to identify who is food insecure … financial services and promoting small scale industries as well as micro enterprises and strengthening anti-poverty programmes … within the state. The two district sampled, where more or less half population are under poverty. Livelihood options are …
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Zambia is a landlocked country located in southern central Africa and it is one of the poorest countries in the world … Zambia and mortality rates are among the highest in the world. The rural transportation network is largely undeveloped and …
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poverty and agriculture in Tamil Nadu. The paper examined present status and trends in rural poverty in Tamil Nadu. It also … between agriculture and poverty, the study argued that agricultural development would ensure food security, health and … nutritional security, income and employment security, and economic and social security and thereby facilitate removal of poverty …
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This chapter reviews the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty, drawing on the collected works of …, Globalization and Poverty. We focus on two measures of global¬ization: trade integration (measured using tariffs or trade flows … globalization to poverty reduction via the growth effects of trade reforms is likely to be important. …
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Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality … and political scientists. In the present paper the achievements of the modern age, and in particular of the post- World …
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some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through … which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure …
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An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances … that remittances have significant poverty-alleviating effect, with the poorest of the poor being the least beneficiaries …
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For a large sample of 61 developing countries, over the period 1980-95, we calculate a measure of the efficiency with which national political-economic systems convert a given volume of material resources (GNP per capita) into human development (longevity, education and literacy) for their...
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