'This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage points is attributable to the wage premium paid to maquila workers, 0.1 percentage points to the wage premium received by women in the maqui more...
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The European Consensus on Development: the contribution of Development Education & Awareness Raising
'In 2005 the Council of the European Union and the representatives of the governments of the European Union Member States meeting within the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Parliament agreed a joint statement on development (‘The European Consensus on Development’), outlining the challenges to be faced in eradicating poverty and in promoting sustainable development, and the commitments of the European Union in meeting those challenges.
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The mandate of the SCN is to promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner organizations in support of community, national, regional, and international efforts to end malnutrition in all of its forms in this generation. It will do this by refining the direction, increasing the scale and strengthening the coherence and impact of actions against malnutrition world wide, and raise awareness of nutrition problems and mobilize commitment to solve them at global, regional and national levels.
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A report by UN-Habitat reviewed by Tann vom Hove, City Mayors. 27 November 2008: The word transition perhaps best describes China: the world’s most populous country is transitioning from a predominantly rural society to an urban one. China’s urbanization process in the last two decades has been extraordinary: the urbanization level in the country has nearly doubled from 25 per cent in 1987 to roughly 42 per cent in 2007; it is estimated that by 2030, 60 per cent of the country’s population more...
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"Human development index (HDI) is extensively used to measure the standard of living of a country. India made a study progress in the HDI value. Extreme poverty is concentrated in rural areas of northern States while income growth has been dynamic in southern States and urban areas. This study was undertaken to assess the trends in HDI, human poverty index (HPI) and incidence of poverty among Indian states, the socio-economic, health, and diet and nutritional indicators which determine the HDI, more...
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CDIA was established to help Asian cities meet the challenge of development. While urban planning has improved in many Asian cities, there is often a “gap” between the strategic development plans that many cities have formulated (typically presenting a wish list of projects) and the requirement of potential financiers for considering only well-formulated infrastructure projects in order to consider funding the needed investments. The Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), was establi more...
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'Urban Poverty in India takes stock of the present poverty scenario in India. It is divided in sections headlined issues and policies, women as marginalised subset among the urban poor, access to basic services, shelter for the urban poor, eradication and spatial distribution of urban poverty & urban poverty and Dalits. It attempts to identify workable practical measures to tackle urban poverty effectively. The problems requiring attention of urban planners, policy makers, technocrats, administr more...
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