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Karger's Anti-Poverty Programs

amount of the credit line, usually a minimum of $200 to $5,000 (Karger, p. 131). The funds in the account cannot be accessed by th...

Response to Peter Singer's Article 'The Singer Solution to World Poverty'

Peter to pay Paul" agenda that will thrust one global population into poverty under the guise of helping another out of poverty. ...

Data on U.S. Poverty

1970, 20.5 percent of poor Americans lived in the suburbs, in 2000, that had expanded to 35.9 percent and in 2004, the ratio incre...

Living Within the US Poverty Standard

the country. There is not a great deal of industry in the area; housing is relatively inexpensive. The Tennessee participant pay...

Civil War in El Salvador

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

Four Questions on Africa

according to lines drawn in Europe rather than on African realities (Edge 7). In reference to current unrest, Carlene Edie questio...

America's Most Serious Social Problem

the direction in which America is headed. What has gone wrong? The top Americans arent getting richer by accident; government pol...

Case Study Analysis (Tuberculosis)

Also, the kind of level or evidence presented by the quote is limited. There are merely charges shown, but no proof or evidence is...

UK Poverty

income is related to consumption and lifestyle or other factors that are related to deprivation (2000). In measuring poverty, the ...

Jonathan Kozol and Gregory Baum on Blindness and Sin

reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are so...

Crime, Drug Use, and Their Contextual Relationships

defend" (Anonymous, 1998, p. 26A) brings to light yet another detrimental impact of teenage drug use. The 1990s heralded in...

Jewish Law, Dehydration Death, and Poverty

into a selfish, egotistical and myopic entity; no longer are people more concerned with others than they are with themselves. The...

The Working Poor Invisible in America by David Shipler

hes already delivered powerful works on the Middle East (Arab and Jew) and race (A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in Amer...

African American Poverty Causes

"blacks are significantly more structuralist that whites in their thinking about poverty" (they see the system rather than the ind...

Catholicism and the Poor by Dorothy Day

poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

Administration of George W. Bush and Poverty

and around $1,200 in subsidized school meals for both children (Besharov 35). After taxes, this comes to around $21,000 per year. ...

Nineteenth Century Potato Famine of Ireland

also examines some possible solutions. Clarkson points out that other writers, in addition to Grada, have been appalled at the fac...

Canadian Children and Poverty

only is "the rate of child poverty ... growing" particularly among recent immigrants and native peoples, but the widening gap betw...

Poverty Articles by Paul Collier and David Dollar and David Slater and Morag Bell Reviewed

if we look at where the aid is going is currently giving the greatest poverty relief to the South East Asian area and the least to...

Annotated Bibliography on Global Poverty

would include social exclusion, social dependency, and the ability to live a normal life according to societys standards, are also...

Poverty Causes

higher median income than native-born citizens" (Young, 2005). Young does admit that most people, if born into the culture of pov...

MDGs and Development Promotion Commitment

the MDGs which are the cornerstone of the Millennium Declaration can be driven forward (Banuri, 2005). The UN appear to believe ...

Poverty and the Importance of Good Childhood Nutrition

feeds her child. Human milk is far superior to meeting the needs of human infants than is any other type of milk. While animal m...

Taking Control of Poverty

This paper contends that the disintegration of the nuclear family and traditional lifeways have combined with a change in mindset ...

Educational Alternatives for Poverty-Stricken Children

that schools located in working-class neighborhoods tend to be more regimented than schools located in suburban neighborhoods wher...

Addressing Poverty And Disease (HIV/AIDS) Problems In South Africa

importance in the fight against AIDS/HIV by utilizing the force inherent to their extended reach into the population. "Journalist...

Two Views on Development and World Poverty

to oil is erroneous and how one looks on oil is all a matter of perspective. At one time, i.e., prior to when science discovered t...

Reflections of Poverty In Film

This paper examines Oscar Lewis' film, The Children of Sanchez, as well as Luis Bunnel's work, Los Olvidados. This four page pape...

GLOBALIZATION AND IMPACT ON CULTURE AND POVERTY

This 7-page paper examines globalization's impact on the income and culture of poorer nations. Bibliopgrahy lists 4 sources....