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In our efforts to better understand how policies geared towards poverty reduction may impact teen childbirth, we analyzed the impact of the 10-20-30 provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA, P.L. 111-5) on teen childbirth. The 10-20-30 provision allocated at least...
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perceptions of India's new economic policy. The article first situates itself within the context of new theoretical literature on … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the … article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty' in India and the various cultural, historical …
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Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...
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The economic growth in India has been impressive in the last few decades, yet it continues to be a home for millions of … increase and a stagnant CTP ratio for urban and rural India implies that poverty reduction interventions are less impactful in … rural India. A renewed thrust on poverty alleviation programmes is required in Urban India. Other developing and …
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Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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In the last decade of the 20th century, the issues of poverty eradication in developing countries, particularly in Indonesia, have mostly been associated with the success stories of NGOs. Vakil (in Jordan & Tuijl, 2006: 8) defines NGOs as institutions which are characterized by...
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