Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

Can microfinance aid poverty reduction? This question has been asked so many times on different occasions. You might wonder what more is there to say. However, the fact is, after decades of debate, experiment and research, experts still have not reached a conclusion on this topic. At the beginning of December, 500 microfinance practitioners, regulators, associations, scholars and journalists from eight different countries gathered in Beijing, China, to discuss the prospect of microfinance in the…

Most African Americans are not aware of their history. Rarely, do they recognize or honor figures before their time that helped make a change for the future. Mary McLeod Bethune, a woman from poverty, becomes one of the nation’s African American leaders of her time. Bethune’s life consisted of three different careers: an educator, an essential figure to the creation of Bethune-Cook Man College in Dayton Beach, Florida; along with founder and president of the National Council of Negro Women. She…

impaired driving. The goal of this paper is to give ways of how to improve the system of prisons in California and reduce the overpopulation in it. This new policy will help reduce problems like mental health, anger issues which are hard to address by the staffs because of the high population. Another problem which is supposed to be addressed is the understaffing in the prisons which leaves few staffs to handle the prisoners. The policy will also lead to reduction of jail terms to minimum…

for a home. This paper investigates the states of mind and opinions of utilized inhabitants of the public housing established from the past 5, 10 and 15 years. This aims to explore approaches and views of housing development residents through examining past and recent housing strategies for both local and foreign. In the course of recent decades, the national government has utilized numerous ways to deal with housing policy in the national effort to lighten poverty. Strategies have…

nature and source of power? How is the tension between the pursuit of FL and the socio-economic effects of crises resolved?This paper will argue that FL is present in the PWCR despite the controversies because the power lies with the IMF which is heavily influenced by the Wall St Treasury Complex (WSTC) and lastly because it ensures the relevancy of the IMF. This paper will first define what a regime is and then show how materiality and ideas lead to the PWCR. Next I will discuss what FL is and…

place for its citizens before taking initiative to better this situation. Since health is a component of human capital, it is often considered a factor of wealth as well. The close connection between health and wealth has been emphasized in a recent paper by Pritchett and Summers (1996) who studied a…

threats of food security, including Vision 2021. The negative impacts of climate change hindered crop production to achieve the targets of Vision 2021. In 2009, assigning climate change to topmost concentration, Bangladesh has developed Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP). They determined six thematic areas among them food security, social protection and health ranked top, which indicates that the country needs to be not only self-sufficient in terms of food production but also…

media has on the public (it is written, published, recorded, reported, and televised). Almost the entire world is exposed to the media and it has led many people to believe that global warming is influenced by liberals that control the media to sell papers and fund environmentalists. The topic of global warming is an on going battle between liberals and conservatives.…

Education can be defined as the wise, hopeful and respectful cultivation of learning undertaken in the belief that all should have the chance to share in life (Smith 2015). Many individuals have various outlooks on what they think education really is. Often it is confused among the act of learning skills, schooling, ability to find work, and primary, secondary or university level education. “Students in the having mode must have but one aim; to hold onto what they have learned either by…

government to achieve the anti-child poverty strategy announced in 1999. However, he also argued that this strategy is proposed before the economic recession and the programs to end child poverty need huge investment. With the pressure of economy recession, there will be more reasonable alternatives to instead of these measures. Furthermore, DWP (2002) also claimed that the good child poverty indicator should be timely, open and robust to statistical…