... such as the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh with more than 630,000 small-scale enterprise borrowers, are thought to reach only a small fraction of potential beneficiaries. Lack of social infrastructure facilities like education and healthcare-There is an enormous shortfall in rural education in most areas, which hampers further expansion of the non-farm sector, particularly a skill- ... cent while that of hotels and restaurants was only 4 per cent. In the case of community and personal services, there was a decline in employment while the employment of social services (education and health) i...

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... in marriage, was the beginning of governmental efforts to pacify women, with no real social effect. Communist China needed to address the "woman question". Since women wanted more equality, and equality is doled out from the hands of those in power,capitalism was examined. The economic issues of repressed Chinese women were focused on the Land Act and the Marriage Act of ... participation of women was not only an ideological imperative but a pragmatic one. Third, the All-China Women's Federation (W.F.) was established by the CCP to mobilize women for economic development and social refo...

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... this region. These goals were set to stop debt crisis, help with Central American conflicts, improve inflation levels, stop the decline of the gross domestic product per capita, and improve social and physical infrastructures. Since these programs were implemented there have been improvements in high standards of living, economic growth rates, and macro-economic reforms. There has also been a noticeable shift ... economies. One of USAID's main goals in this region is helping these nations in transition. To accomplish this USAID implements programs to improve freedom, security, open mark...

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