poverty
Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: are the criticisms vague, vested, or valid?
by: rika, 55 pagesIn light of ongoing technological and managerial advances, a certain amount of globalization is inevitable. However the extent and form that globalization takes is highly dependent on the ...
HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION
by: shinta, 60 pagesWhile episodes of severe hunger such as famines receive considerable press coverage and attract much public attention, chronic hunger and malnutrition is considerably more prevalent in ...
Local Estimation of Poverty and Malnutrition in Bangladesh
by: shinta, 49 pagesBangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world: roughly half of its 126 million citizens live in deprivation, while roughly half of all children under six years show evidence of ...
Preventing Food Prices from Creating Poverty and Malnutrition
by: shinta, 7 pagesThe recent surge in food prices is causing acute hardship and social unrest around the world. The poor, who spend large shares of their income on food, are most adversely affected. Since ...
Poverty, Malnutrition and Mortality in South Asia : A Review of Issues and Options
by: shinta, 18 pagesThe contemporary world, in which we live, continues to register substantial progress in economic growth, abundance in production of food grains, and profound breakthrough in medical ...
Why malnutrition in shining India persists
by: shinta, 50 pagesIndia has a higher prevalence of child malnutrition, as manifested in stunting and underweight, than any other large country and was home to about one-third of all malnourished children ...
Malnutrition and Poverty in China and Around the World
by: shinta, 6 pagesChina, whose population has grown from 556 million in 1950 to 1.3 billion today, has grown tremendously in the last century, internationally, economically, and socially. The Chinese ...
The Current Economic and Financial Crisis: A Gender Perspective
by: shinta, 44 pagesWidespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current ...
Social Impact of a Tax Reform: The Case of Ethiopia
by: shinta, 39 pagesThis paper provides an assessment of the poverty and social impact of replacing Ethiopia’s sales tax with a value-added tax (VAT). The results indicate that this reform has not had a
Analyzing the Effects of Policy Reforms on the Poor
by: shinta, 113 pagesThe Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is an independent, three-part unit within the World Bank Group. IEG-World Bank is charged with evaluating the activities of the IBRD (The World Bank) and ...
