Community-based programs are critical to operating an efficient welfare system, but there is not enough information on the adequacy of community-based services. ... In this article, Coulton concludes that "such information [on community-based services] is vital to ensure that responsibilities at the community level are met and that no child or family slips through cracks in the system" (2). ... The need for further study is required to appropriately reform community-based systems. ... Elan Melmid and Gabriel Brodbar of the Child Welfare League of America writes, "Low income groups are the ...

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The new program was intended to encourage self-sufficiency and reduce dependency on government assistance. ... A federal cash assistance block grant of $16.5 billion a year, is divided between states based on their past need for welfare assistance (Comparison of 1). ... Imagine how hard it must be for single mothers, who have no choice but to leave their child in a daycare center, provided by the government and to return to a job, which she knows will not provide adequately for her family. ... The governments only concern was, "How do we get poor people off welfare and into the workforce, so t...

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The governments of poor societies and their citizens are often powerless and poor. ... Social-structural explanations of gender-based violence are factors such as low income, bad housing, poor education, and unemployment. ... International organizations regard gender based violence as a threat to health or a violation of human rights (Pahl, 2005). ... Many governments in the world focus on preventing new infections. Non-Governmental Organizations are also fighting HIV actively. ...

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Factors that contribute to this poverty and by extension access to healthcare is gender-based biases, exposure to harmful practices like female genital mutilation, political and policy changes. Government agencies and the structural changes they make, play a part in women not having access to proper healthcare. ... Williams also writes, "Cuts in government spending which are part and parcel of SAPs usually have their most dramatic effect on social services." ... The organization did projects based on economic rights to a life without violence, human rights, political rights, and sexual and re...

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Sri Lanka's multi-party political system with regular elections and periodic changes of the government had continued in downfall. ... The Rajapakse government is committed to the unitary state. ... The Free Trade also based on women's work, were established. ... The most recent computation of poverty, the government of Sri Lanka now claims that the poverty has decreased further to 8.9 percent of the population in 2010 based upon an official poverty line of LKR 3,028 per person per month. ... The current Sri Lanka government would prefer describing their policies based upon the paradi...

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I have researched both sides in an unbiased fashion, and come to the conclusion that yes, from one perspective poverty is an individual problem based mainly on poor choices one might make in life. ... One must make choices based on their responsibilities, and then, in return, be willing to accept the consequences of their choices. ... On the other hand, there's society and the government. ... Individuals are well aware of the fact that social-welfare will continue to be provided by the government as long as it is needed and the person in need fully qualifies. ... Higher rates of progr...

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When she knows Aisha death for gets water, she feels guilty and anger about government. ... Here, the storm is compared to government; it is shown the government never takes action to deal with the problem for people. ... Here, it is clear to know that the government never putting people first, and focusing on their benefits, also people cannot rely on their government. All three examples show how venal does government is. ... To sum up, based on what has been discussed in the above paragraphs, it is clear to know that water has significant impact upon our life. ...

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All of these factors are important when looking at the malnutrition crisis because based on rising prices, poor cultivation methods, and higher demands of these foods in developed countries, many locals have had to switch to a cheaper, yet lower nutritionally dense diet. ... Now, because these items are just too expensive to buy, many locals would rather eat processed flour based products; which are easier to prepare and cheaper. ... One of the priorities of his government has been poverty reduction. Malnutrition is now one of the major concerns of the president and subsequently the governme...

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The Australia government gives foreign aid to several countries that have lower living standards than Australia. ... Infrastructure plays a key role in broad based economic and social development, poverty alleviation and access to services. ... Australian assistance to PNG in the education sector supports stability and government legitimacy through improved delivery of basic services. ... The Australian Government always strives to deliver assistance rapidly to those most in need. ... In 2000, the Government donated $7.4 million for drought relief activities in the Horn and East Africa, as wel...

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Based on the data that I find from World Bank, remittances are steadily increased from 2000 to 2008. ... However, Vietnam government still has a lot of work to do to eliminate poverty. Based on the new poverty line that post on World Bank, Vietnam is VN 653,000/person/month or $2.25/person/day, which is significantly lower than the U.S. $11,490/person/year or $31.49/person/day standard, but higher than among of other countries in the region. ... Vietnam's government has been relatively successful in providing for its people; however this process had uneven benefits. ... According to Glob...

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From wherever source these words came from, either from sociologists, government leaders, religious groups, masses, politicians or change agents, a deeper understanding of these thoughts and beliefs (just to sample some of them) needs to be had before any significant change can happen. ... It is implied in this statement that social stratification has a function or purpose that is why poverty, an indication of the lower strata, can never be removed no matter what programs of government or of any conscience-group is done. ... One initiative that I have noted is the fast growing movement being d...

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It has been developed in partnership with the Planning Commission as the nodal partner from the Government of India (GoI); prepared in collaboration with government agencies, civil society, donors and other key development partners. ... The UNDAF will work towards the achievement of six outcomes which are as follows: Outcome 1 Inclusive Growth Inclusive and equitable growth policies and poverty reduction strategies of the government strengthened to ensure that most vulnerable and marginalized people in rural and urban areas have greater access to decent employment, skills development, social...

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During the 1980s, cutbacks in government benefits attached with rapidly increasing rents and a scarcity of low-income housing jeopardized the stability of all people on reduced or fixed incomes. ... Job training, education, trade schools, and other systemic economic incentives and welfare disincentives should be applied with whatever funds are available from foundation or government sources. ... Even though documenting peoples" lives in detail verges on an invasion of privacy, we feel if the US taxpayers need to foot the bill, which they ultimately do, there is no alternative but to build an e...

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In order to do this, it became necessary for the government to start pushing the land with all its might so that they might be able to create enough food to feed the ever-growing masses of emaciated thousands. ... Additionally, there was a large potato famine that wiped out most of the economy which was so heavily based on agriculture, leaving the country poor and starving. ...

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Government legislation occurred in a more reactive than a pro-active manner. It was said that the government suppressed the vagrant more than the poor and done very little until the late 16th century in relieving both poverty and vagrancy. ... The larger town, particularly London and Norwich, anticipated government legislation in almost every respect, and provided visible evidence of the success of more humane methods of poor relief. ... It was wealthy from land and property income, it had staffs of monks whom each had a responsibility for the running of the monastery and it had the instit...

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There are two individual yet tied causes acknowledged as economic and social change together with inadequate government policy's, working practices and poor interdepartmental communication. ... The needs of future industries will be based on greater technical skills and qualifications with greater adaptability of the individual. ... Social exclusion can occur under many different circumstances such as the failure of governmental departments to take responsibility for an individual. This arises through a lack of communication between departments i.e. if a youth is still at school, is a tru...

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Karoly and Gonzalez summarize this by economic and sociodemographic elements such as language, cultural preferences, bureaucratic complexity, and distrust in government. ... This report outlines that for the cohort that entered kindergarten in 1990-99, children of immigrant mothers were less likely to be enrolled in center or school-based preschool programs than other children in the year before they entered kindergarten. ... As expected, any center based care is higher for children within each of the subgroups. This shows that, for example, immigrant children, above the poverty line, are mor...

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How do the American government and the wealthy of America profit from the country's evident financial inequality gap? ... The U.S. government should be present throughout all of this commotion; not only are the wealthy taking advantage of the lower and middle class but the government is not doing anything to fix this issue, yet there using tax payers money for social purposes. ... This quote illustrates how the U.S government is over abusing their power towards their own citizens simply to become wealthier and re invest the tax papers money in industries the government sees as profitable ...

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It also follows a Liberalism view because the government provides opportunities to people that are not given a chance. ... For this to be possible, the government would have to tax rich people a lot for the sake of social programs so the people under the poverty line could do better. ... However, this is only possible through the help of government programs, grants and loans because corporations demand highly educated workers and to attain that education you need money. The government provides services like OSAP to help students pay for their education and allows them to repay their loan when ...

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The United States government reports on human trafficking every year and government responses to this issue. Countries in this report are rated in 4 tiers based upon the efforts of their government to prevent trafficking. ... This can be attributed to the effort the countries government makes to prevent the problem. ... Making this continent stand out as an area with little government effort to prevent the trade of humans. ... In these areas governments are actively working to prevent human trafficking (see appendix A). ...

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They can provide care that is based on the needs of the patient and the best course of action instead of providing care based on discounted resources and charitable donations. ... If an individual is eligible for Medicaid, they will be nearly fully covered by the federal government, and the state in turn will be saving money by not having to spend money on state funded healthcare. ... Another 14 million Americans who are currently uninsured will be able to receive government financial assistance when they buy coverage through their state's health insurance exchange. ... In an effo...

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This common goal has caused the creation of the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, aid agencies in the governments of the most prosperous economies, and countless non-governmental organizations (World Politics, pg. 41). ... One reason they are at a disadvantage is because water-based transportation is much more affordable than overland transportation. ... It is not clear that this kind of improvement should be a priority for the Kenyan government or, if any improvements are made, the railway will be sufficient enough to...

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First, even though I am more of a laissez fair capitalism form of market person, I believe that an increase in minimum wage by the state government would help the problem. ... This person may only be making minimum wage that just gives his or her household just enough money to get by, so if he or she gets laid off, they may discover that they're able to get by off government programs. ... Working on a low minimum wage all the time to just barely get by seems worthless or pointless when you could get government aid to help you get by. ... Another thing that could be done is for the state g...

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The challenge facing the government which assumed power in October 1999 as to put the economy back to its pre 1990 track. ... Accordingly, at the request of the Caretaker Government, the SBP prepared in August 1993 a confidential paper containing proposals to give autonomy to it and to separate monetary policy from fiscal policy of the government. ... Notwithstanding the bureaucratic inertia, it was decided by the Caretaker Government to go ahead with the proposed reforms. ... The SBP was aware that the Caretaker Government was there only for three months, that there was a reluctance on the p...

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In her book "Dead Aid," Moyo describes Africa's aid dependency suggesting the use of raising government bonds to raise funds rather than borrowing from World Bank or governments giving the example of Nigeria, which has already been successful. ... Donors often providing constrained aid impose conditionality with imperfect knowledge of the environment causing more harm than good (Bourguignon & Sundberg 2007) and thus the governments are better off raising funds themselves. Raising capital that governments are accountable to have produced stellar outcome sin Nigeria and Zambia making the ap...

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