... Product (GDP) growth rates have been high (7.7 per cent in 2011), India also exhibits the paradox of high growth rates and high levels of poverty. Approximately 32 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line. Among the poor in India, certain socially excluded groups experience greater challenges in accessing rights, entitlements and opportunities, and in moving out of ... poverty. Disparities in India take on various hues – there are disparities across geographical regions (States, districts, rural-urban), disparities along gender lines with women ... necessarily the best...

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... , and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language. Economically, India is doing very well. According to an on-line resource, "India has the eighth largest economy, and is considered one of the ten most industrialized countries in the world."1 Economic growth in India has been at an average rate ... of 5%-7% over the past 10 years. Any serious attempt at reducing India's greatest challenge of poverty requires sustained economic growth in order to increase productivity and income. I argue that ensuring econ...

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... , and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language. Economically, India is doing very well. According to an on-line resource, "India has the eighth largest economy, and is considered one of the ten most industrialized countries in the world."1 Economic growth in India has been at an average rate ... of 5%-7% over the past 10 years. Any serious attempt at reducing India's greatest challenge of poverty requires sustained economic growth in order to increase productivity and income. I argue that ensuring econ...

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... India has allocated 3.3% of its GDP to education (UNICEF, 2014a), the percentage of child labour rate stands at 12% and approximately 30% of the population are currently living below the poverty line. Primary education is the foundation on which the intellectual capital of a country is built which is why this essay will now look at goal 2 which is, "Ensuring that by ... educated better in schools, it raises their political awareness, they move forward from traditional notions and there is an overall increase in gender equality (IPCD, 2014). However, factors such as poverty, poor health ...

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... & inheritance of land. In an agrarian economy like India where there is both scarcity and an unequal distribution of land, coupled with a large mass of rural population reeling with abject poverty, there is a compelling political and economic argument for land reforms. It has received top priority on the policy agenda since the time of independence. In the subsequent decades since the ... a substantial amount of land reforms legislations. The basic logic for land reforms in a country like India is equity. In a land scarce country with a sizable section of rural population surviving belo...

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... were subjected to under British social and political rule. For instance, all economic matters were controlled by the Europeans who profited off Indian resources while the workers lived in extreme poverty and barely had enough to survive. The English regarded them as passive, illiterate and underdeveloped (Clement 17). Socially the British had no interaction with the local people, who were not ... against unjust living conditions imposed by the British and attempting to unite all Indians. When Gandhi returned to India after a twenty-one year absence, he was faced with the undeniable pove...

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... began his journey to India from a new space in the Pakistani consciousness and one that is growing. Fazlur Rehman, said that he has no objection to the conversion of the Line of Control (LoC) into the International border provided it is accepted by both India and Pakistan and by the people of Kashmir. Asserting that dialogue was the only way to ... having a good economical status at least after a decade. We should not forget the fact that 38% of the Pakistan's population, which is almost five times that of Kashmir, is below poverty line and they will be benefited. Despite the fact that ...

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... has done in undertaking CSR have been presented. 1.0 Introduction In a company or any other business, there are various legislations which govern it operations. Some requirement in a company are not in line to make profits but just to benefit the society around the company. Those kind of activities are what are collectively referred to as Social Corporate Responsibility. This paper is going ... raised funds were to be given to humanitarian organizations aiding the thousands of refugees that have of recent astounded the European countries. The refugees flee their countries due to war, po...

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... TB Control Programme implemented by Central TB Division runs the WHO recommended DOTS strategy (2). The DOTS strategy involves the treatment of TB patients for the first 2 months with the first-line drugs of chemotherapy [7]. It had been recorded that the implementation of DOTS has a success rate exceeding 95% and that it prevented the emergence of further MDR-TB strains[8].Recent work ... doctors, caregivers, and clinics treating a TB patient had to report every case of TB to the government (6). Most analyses of data have confirmed the positive association between household and area po...

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... devote their life to God. Before Christ came about people were living a Monastic, which are monks, were the earliest monks formulated in the deserts of Egypt. Monks lived a secular life, poverty; fasting and celibacy were rituals which were taught by the Greek bishop Saint Basil. Woman could not become monks or hold positions in the church because they were viewed as ... music was the music of the Mass, which was the celebration of the sacrifice of Christ. The Gregorian chant is still used today. It is a style of music of single line melody sung without instruments and is performed by t...

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