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5.2 International economic integration and social justice: Working Out of Poverty
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| Policies to improve the governance of the labour market based on the
decent work approach can create and enlarge the channels that ensure that
sustainable growth yields the largest possible reduction in poverty. However,
a large proportion of people experiencing extreme poverty live in
countries that are themselves economically and socially excluded. |
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Get aid or get paid?
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| I have been ignoring this topic deliberately until I recently stumbled on "The Bottom Billion - a book by Paul Collier who rightly says that about 70% of the poorest people in the world live in Africa. |
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Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth - Business Friendly
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| In the short term, countries need to do away with policies that hinder investment, notes the World Bank in its report Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs. African countries impose the most stringent regulations on entrepreneurs, the Bank reports. |
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9.0 Conclusions: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Enterprise Growth in Uganda
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| As the world turns global, many countries are emerging out of the abject poverty into wealth. South Korea and Singapore are classical examples. In the 1960's, South Korea's per capital GDP was similar to that of Uganda. South Korea is now among the developed countries. Uganda is still characterised by massive poverty. The only way to transform Uganda and many African countries is to fuel growth through business development. Given the global competition, Africa may not be able to position herself competitively as a world class competition but must foster the growth of businesses through micro and small enterprises. Many donor funding agencies have identified this and have focused their attention to this sector. |
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2.4 Agricultural workers and rural communities: Working Out of Poverty
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| A better understanding of the social and economic dynamics of rural
communities is critical to the reduction and eradication of poverty. The
world’s poorest countries are those most dependent on agriculture. Threequarters
of the people in extreme poverty live in rural areas. |
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3.6 Securing incomes: Working Out of Poverty
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| Societies at all levels of development face the challenge of organizing
systems to provide security against contingencies such as sickness, accident,
death of the main breadwinner, disability, old age, maternity and unemployment
that make individuals, families and communities vulnerable to poverty.
Through solidarity and fair burden sharing, social security systems contribute
to human security, dignity, equity and social justice. They are also a foundation
for political inclusion, empowerment and the development of
democracy. Half of the world’s population is excluded from any type of
social security protection, with the rate of coverage varying from almost
100 per cent in some industrialized countries to less than 10 per cent in the
poorest developing countries. |
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3.7 Tackling work-related health hazards: Working Out of Poverty
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| Most workers living in poverty lack basic health and welfare services
and work in an unhealthy and unsafe working environment. For many, their
home and workplace are one and the same place. Vulnerability to disease
and poor health thus result from a combination of poor living and working
conditions. Most workers in the informal economy work in precarious and
unsafe conditions, without sanitary facilities, potable water or proper waste
disposal. Every year, more than 2 million people die of work-related accidents
and diseases. In many developing countries, death rates among workers
are five to six times those in industrialized countries. More than
160 million workers fall ill each year as a result of workplace hazards. The
poorest and least protected – often women, children and migrants – are
among the most affected. |
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BRAC - Linking Food and Training with Microfinance
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| BRAC, the world’s largest NGO with a large microfinance program serving more than
five million Bangladeshi families, is another example demonstrating that microfinance can and
should serve the world’s poorest. |
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Sub-Saharan Africa Learning What Works
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| Africa is the world's poorest continent. But for the first time in a generation—amid all the bad news—there is hope for change. An increasing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa are showing signs of economic progress, reflecting the implementation of better economic policies and structural reforms. |
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A new financial architecture for expanding sustainable energy and agribusiness
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| Many of the impacts unavoidably to come over us in the next decades until stabilized, will fall most heavily on the poorest and most vulnerable communities in developing Countries with the least ability to adapt. Technical and financial assistance will be needed by particularly vulnerable, low-income developing countries to meet their mounting adaption needsKyoto protocol, the declarations as contained in the Millennium Promise (Millennium Development Goals) of the United Nations, the G 8, G 20 and so on have admittedly increased the awareness of politicians that our planet is in danger by Climate Change, Global Economic Crises and political instability. However the practical results were up to date more than poor. We are today from the Millennium Promises more miles away than five or six years ago, and the economic crisis of 2008 is |
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Virtual world calls for virtual money
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| Money - or lack of it - causes the most stress for individuals and family problems. But since we're now dealing in a near virtual world let's simply go to mobile device money and do away with the billfold that's either half full or half empty.
Ironically, people in third-world countries have been faster to convert to mobile money than those in industrial countries. The challenges? Infrastructure and security. Someone always wants to spoil the party but the transition is underway.
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