Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

IS THE CASH TRANSFER A SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION? - A CASE STUDY OF LEAP PROGRAMME IN GHANA. THESIS SUBMITTED TO BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEGREE OF INTERNATIONAL MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTARTION BY KEVIN ELIKEM KOFIGAH SUPERVISOR: - PROFESSOR TU QIN 10TH JULY 2015 ABSTRACT Developing countries in their quest to lessen the harsh realities and incidence of poverty amongst its people and economies continually adopt series of programmes and policies geared towards combating the menace and breaking its vicious cycle. Poverty alleviation policies and cash transfer programmes have thus become very popular and widely accepted by many countries in order to reduce the effects of poverty. The Government of Ghana (GoG) with the help of its development partners has over the years rolled out strategies to…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), implemented in September 2000 under the cooperation of all 191 United Nations member states are rooted in the concept of the eradication of poverty, and sustainable development. “The target of reducing extreme poverty by half has been reached five years ahead of the 2015 deadline” formally proclaimed Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of United Nations. However, a number of countries are shown to have not met their goals by the deadline due to high levels of…

youth as a clear opportunity to shape the country’s future. The youth were a “paramount human resources for development and important factor for social change, economic development and progress”, possessing a strong potential that it would be senseless to ignore. The country admitted a strong will to offer responsibilities to the youth by integrating them and therefore creating “common objectives” that would drive the country. In terms of its economy, Rwandan living below the poverty line are…

dangerous impacts of climate change, many industries have started to prepare for a carbon-constrained world. However, this response is far from being uniform. Often action is predicated on economic, technological, organizational and institutional drivers and barriers, which vary between countries and across industrial sectors. In order to understand the effectiveness of industry response, it is therefore important to analyze corporate response across different sectors in different countries.…

Due to poverty, many children are forced to work to help support their family. I learned in chapter nine that their childhoods are marked with hunger, life-threatening illnesses, and a limited future. My childhood was one of having three meals each day, wide possibilities, and access to medicine. Children in the United States go to school, but in many other countries, children only attend school for about eight years. I was taken aback to learn that if I was a child in a low-income nation the…

Give a man a fish, he eats for the night, teach a man how to fish and he eats forever. Earth is home to 7.4 billion people -- of those 7.4 billion people more than 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day (UNDP). More than 1.3 billion people live on $1.25 a day; or in other words, extreme poverty (UNDP). Poverty is a worldwide hurdle that nobody has yet to knockdown. Poverty, Inc. is a film that shows the untold impacts of foreign aid; moreover, how America, NGO’s (non-governmental…

children receiving CCTs. As, school combined with the the added dimension of work, often coupled with inadequate nutrition is a huge level of commitment for children. In order to reduce the high incidence of child labour in Brazil, the government introduced an after school programme in 2006: Program de Erradicacao do Trabalho Infantil (hereby referred to as PETI) (Hall: 2008). PETI is focused largely in rural (Northeast) Brazil where the highest incidence of child labour is concentrated (Yapa et…

India is the one of country that working towards Corporate Social responsibility under the mandatory Companies Act, 2013 of India. Universal Primary Education is the most important Millennium Development Goals goal set by United Nation and India is contributing towards these goals. The aim of this paper is to identify the current status and public perception of a situation of CSR within India by seeking answers of the following questions:- • Find out investment options to promote CSR. • Business…

1. Summarize the problem/challenge of poverty in Saskatchewan. (300 words) In 2014, 14.8 percent of the population of Saskatchewan, i.e. 160,000 people, lived in poverty.[1] In 2010 only, poverty cost the province $3.8 billion in heightened service use and missing opportunities for contributions to the GDP and taxes.[2] Poverty is the lack of income and productive resources sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihoods. In the long run, living in poverty prevents people from taking advantage of…

important problems is poverty; According to Nathaniel O. Agola in Poverty: Environmental link, more than half of its citizens are under the poverty line, living on 3 Dollars daily (Agola, 2014). Therefore, the poverty in Kenya is of great disturbance and requires special review, even on academic levels. The focus of my paper will be on the consequence of the British colonialism that lead to poverty in Kenya. I will be discussing some causes of poverty in Kenya, such as living in a harmful…