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MULTI DIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN INDIA Poverty and social exclusion are one of the basic and deep rooted problems of our country. Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials to enjoy a minimum standard of life and well-being that's considered acceptable in society. There are two different approaches to poverty: absolute poverty and relative poverty. The concept of absolute poverty is grounded in the…

South Asia, is home to over one fifth of the world’s population and is known to be the most disaster prone region in the world. It is also home to a majority of the world’s poor. According to FAO (2009), 1.02 billion people are undernourished worldwide in 2009. About 456 million people in South Asia are estimated to be undernourished. In the recent past, climate change emerged as the single most pressing issue facing society on a global basis, with serious implications for the food security of…

The worst development outcomes are found in the countries with the majority of natural resource endowments. “There are twenty-three countries in the world that derive at least sixty percent of their exports from oil and gas and not a single one is a real democracy” (Patrick). In developing countries, an increasingly important part of economic growth is the management of natural resources. This allows governments to deliver services to their citizens and it also creates jobs (“Creating Jobs”).…

In developing countries there are more and more multinational companies which tried to develop their business, but this situation that would had influence to personal, local companies and living, even government, political or society environment (BBC). For granted the positive and negative of impact are simultaneously, the positive that the multinational companies improved the country economics and increased freedom on marketing. In contrast, there are negative effect to society such as a…

In my elementary school, I have seen only a select few kids receive free or reduced lunch. The students who did receive this were the kids who you could clearly tell were on the poverty-stricken side. It was noticeable because these particular kids would be wearing the same clothes multiple days in a row, come to school dirty, and would even show behavioral issues. Personally, in my school, it was very popular to bring a cold lunch to school. My friends and I would be trading our fruit snacks…

Africa, the poor are getting poorer and poverty is increasing (Costello, 2001). These countries don’t have the resources, information and capabilities to join the global network, therefore are falling further and further behind as the rest of the world advances (Weinstein, 2005). Consumer demand is constantly changing. One week everybody wants the new iPhone 7 that’s just been released, and next week everybody’s dropped the new iPhone for the new Samsung with better features. Because of social…

Introduction: Globalization is the process of global economic and political integration which connects countries with the facilitation of global communications. As technology rapidly developed in the past centuries, trade globalization accelerated. Global trade becomes economically and politically important to all countries. As more and more developing and low-income countries enter into the global integration, there is always an ongoing debate on the relationship between globalization and…

When was the last time you bought an article of clothing? When was the last time you wore it? The industry of fashion has a more sinister story behind it than most people may realise, but the mistreatment and abuse of fashion industry workers cannot be heard. Asking the question of how our clothes are made and who makes it is simple enough, but would we as a society ever have thought that the people that make them for us live in extremely poor conditions? Children and Developing Countries are…

Midterm Essay Structural violence occurs when social forces harm or create a disadvantage for people. Neoliberalism is a key part of causing structural violence. In Haiti, this concept causes the impoverished communities to lack in agency, resort to risky behaviours, and endure the tyranny of the powerful military men. The result of structural violence is an increase in health disparities and untimely deaths among Haitians. In Paul Farmer’s Pathologies of Power, Acephie Joseph and Chouchou Louis…

inevitable and mainly positive, whereas other critics seem to have slightly different views. As YaleGlobal Online describes globalization is “propelled by the desire to improve one’s life and helped along by technology… this increasing integration of the world has enriched life but also created new problems.” As one can see, globalization is highly contested, but there are undeniable good results and bad results, depending on which aspect one is looking at. In order to understand globalization…