reduce the high rate of poverty in the country, the Federal Government introduced some policies aimed at reducing the poverty level by 2010. This was the case in Asari-Toru local government area of Rivers State. It is true that the Asari – Toru Local Government council both past and present have embarked on several developmental policies. Nevertheless, the incidence and scourge of poverty have worsened over the years. The people from that area still live in abject poverty, no good and accessible
The public school to prison pipeline was examined in the literature review through zero-tolerance policies and the effects it has played on graduation rates. Zero-tolerance policies have dramatically increased students being recommended to the court system according to the literature review. The literature review has shown a need for school districts to examine zero-tolerance policies and the negative effects that it has caused on students. Fran Silverman (2005) discusses students being punished
Corruption and Poverty This review found that few studies examine or establish a direct relationship between corruption and poverty.4 Corruption, by itself, does not produce poverty. Rather, corruption has direct consequences on economic and governance factors, intermediaries that in turn produce poverty. Thus, the relationship examined by researchers is an indirect one. Two models emerge from the research literature. The ”economic model” postulates that corruption affects poverty by first impacting
Introduction to Literature Review Literature review is a comprehensive assessment that aims to review the critical points of current knowledge including substantive findings as well as theoretical contributions to a particular topic. (Zhang Ying Ying 2004)It is the ultimate goal of this chapter to bring the reader up to date with current literature on the topic and forms the basis for another goal which is to determine where future research may be needed in the area. It should be established that
Analysis of Socio-Economic Determinants of Poverty in Tanzania Mainland. 1.0: Introduction Poverty is a condition of living below a defined poverty line or standard of living (Mtatifikolo, 1994);. Ogwumike (2001) defined poverty as a situation where a household or an individual is unable to meet the basic necessities of life which includes consumption and non-consumption items, considered as minimum requirement to sustain livelihood. At the household level poverty is always measured by possessions index
The Impact of Poverty & inequality on Economic Growth Introduction: In present scenario: People who per capita income is less than one dollar fall in criteria of poverty , along with inequality is also on other issue which contain limited number of household had lion share in GNP which large number of people had limited share in GNP. These limited number of people (Richest) increased their share in GNP day by day. These both issue create so many other issue and indicators like limited personal
serious to poverty reduction. The economies of scale and collection in cities attract investors and entrepreneurs which is good for overall economic development. Many of the problems of urban poverty are fixed in a difficulty of resource and capacity restrictions, poor Government
crash, not planes that take off (Kristof 2015)”. Then he leads into is thesis, journalists do not cover what he considers the most important thing happing in the world today, the decline in poverty, illiteracy, and disease. He goes on to write about how Americans are uninformed of the major decrease in extreme poverty, the increase in education of children in third world countries, and the significant drop in the number of children dying under the age of five (Kristof
INTRODUCTION Relevance of the topic: Poverty exists in the whole world. There are a lot of countries where the poor is the majority of people (estimated at billions). Today, almost half of the people in the world live with less than one or two euros per day. According to investigators poverty is increasing every day, even 40 percent of the world's poorest have only 5 percent of the income and the other 20 percent the world's richest people have the rest. Poverty lowers the rights and freedoms of others
contributes to income generation. Tourism in developing and least developed countries is one of the main sources of foreign exchange earnings, and one of the significant tool for reducing poverty (UNWTO, 2013) and achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (UN MDGs) i.e. to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (Scheyvens, 2007; Zhao & Ritchie, 2007). Besides, the Secretary General of the UNWTO, in 2006 stated that the tourism industry could play