Essays about: "MDG in africa"

Found 3 essays containing the words MDG in africa.

  1. 1. Why grow lettuce? : agricultural production policies being implemented in Koinadugu District, West Africa

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Florence Conteh; [2011]
    Keywords : agriculture production; food security; policy;

    Abstract : "Continued failure to effectively implement policy wastes increasingly scares resources and undermines the prospects of sustainable development" (Brinkerhoff,1395)After a decade long civil war ravaged the country, Sierra Leone faced the challenge of rebuilding its broken infrastructure, social disconnect and food and health inadequacies. With approximately two thirds of the population residing in rural areas and engaged in subsistence level agricultural activity it is estimated that 70% of the total population lives below the poverty line. READ MORE

  3. 2. Aid required to halving poverty in Tanzania until 2015

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, statistik och informatik

    Author : Anders Johansson; Joakim Lindberg; [2007]
    Keywords : growth; poverty; Tanzania; elasticity; growth-poverty elasticity; Millenium Development Goals; savings; investment; aid; Africa; crowding-out; Tanzania; fattigdom; tillväxt; bistånd; elasticitet; investeringar; sparande; Afrika;

    Abstract : Halving poverty until 2015 is something that all member states of United Nation have agreed up on by adopting the Millennium Development Goals MDG in 1991. The question asked in this paper is how much aid is needed in Tanzania, to reduce poverty by half. READ MORE

  4. 3. Microcredit - A Way to Overcome Problems of Financial Markets in Developing Countries?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Sofia Hercules; [2006]
    Keywords : poverty; Ghana; Microcredit; Grameen Bank; Economics; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Fighting poverty is the overall goal of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Africa has highest percent of poor people in the world and in order to achieve the MDGs poverty and development trends must take a new turn in almost all African countries. READ MORE