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1.2 From Copenhagen to the Millennium Declaration: Working Out of Poverty
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| In 1995, the Copenhagen Social Summit put the “people’s agenda”
back into the forefront of international policy.
By stressing the interlinked
challenges of poverty, unemployment and social exclusion as central to a
global social justice strategy, the Social Summit marked a turning point for
the multilateral system.
It reinforced the ILO mandate in the world of work
and gave new impetus to the promotion of core labour standards. |
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Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth - Job Plans
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| However, most countries have not yet incorporated job creation plans into their national development frameworks. The national strategies include anti-poverty programmes, commonly based on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). These are documents developed with assistance from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to set national priorities, direct spending of debt-relief funds and coordinate donor programmes.
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Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth - Policy Reforms
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| “For successful poverty reduction, African countries have to be in the driver’s seat,” says World Bank Africa Region Vice-President Gobind Nankani. “Africans know best where the shoe pinches. They should craft their own poverty-reduction strategies based on national realities.” |
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African Countries Focus on Microfinance: Twelve African Nations Engaged in the International Year of Microcredit to Date
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| Half of the population in Africa lives on less than one dollar a day. More than half the population has no access to safe drinking water. More than two million infants die annually before reaching their first birthday.[1] Such is the harsh reality of the scale of poverty in Africa. The Millennium Development Goals and the objective to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 has driven a number of regional and national initiatives focused on poverty eradication in Africa based on local needs and priorities. |
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The Role of Microfinance in Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Zambia: The Rainbow Model Provides a Future for AIDS Orphans
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| Poverty and HIV/AIDS constitute a vicious circle. Poverty creates vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and HIV/AIDS leads to poverty. Unfortunately, the interventions of the national and international community are not moving as quickly as the desperation and the loss of hope in the people coping with the pandemic at the grassroots level. |
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3.0 Community action for decent work and social inclusion: Working Out of Poverty
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| Global and national strategies for poverty reduction should provide a
framework for local strategies to escape cycles of low incomes from work
and social exclusion. The ILO has considerable practical experience of community
actions that create more and better jobs for women and men living in
poverty and improve their chances of securing a life free from deprivation.
Much of this work is in developing countries, but these approaches have also
proved to be easily applicable in a number of transition and industrialized
market economies. |
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5.6 A coherent framework for national and local action: Working Out of Poverty
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| Increased in-depth analysis of the multifaceted experience of poverty is
leading to a growing awareness of the need for a range of policies that are
specific to the problems faced by different communities and countries. Given
that the causes of poverty are many and interconnected, targeted policies
have most effect when they act in combination to break cycles of poverty.
One of the most encouraging aspects of the new approach to poverty reduction
and eradication is therefore the emphasis on policy coherence, based on
a comprehensive development framework. |
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5.12 Social dialogue: Working Out of Poverty
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| Promotion of tripartite mechanisms to strengthen the decent work dimensions
of national economic and social development policies aimed
at poverty reduction. |
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IV. Introduction - MICROFINANCE IN AFRICA: THE MODEL
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| The last twenty years have seen significant advances in understanding and providing
financial services to better advance development and eradicate poverty. This includes providing
the financial means to save, access credit, and start small businesses, with the potential to
enhance community development, as well as local and national policy making. When properly
harnessed and supported, microfinance can scale-up beyond the micro-level as a sustainable part
of the process of economic empowerment by which the poor can lift themselves from poverty. |
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Micro-finance Policy and Development Framework: Malawi
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| In Malawi poverty is more persistent in the rural areas at about 65.3% of the population. The
recent poverty profile (National Economic Council, 2000) suggests that these poor are characterised
by malnutrition, lack of income earning opportunities, and unfavourable production environment.
Female-headed households, which are estimated to be about 35% nationally, are consistently
poorer than male-headed households, and are mainly engaged in subsistence farming and petty
trading activities. |
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EVSE target groups: Learning to change
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| Poverty is the inability to maintain a minimal standard of living. It consists of two elements. The first is the expenditure necessary to buy a minimal standard of nutrition while the second element varies from country to country and reflects specific national normative concepts of welfare. As societies become wealthier, perceptions of the acceptable minimum level of consumption also change. Consequently, poverty is a context-specific concept and, as such, is very much a moving target (See DANIDA,1996). |
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