Essays about: "RURAL MDG"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words RURAL MDG.
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1. Real learning or just school for all? : Discrepancies between enrolment numbers and learning results in India
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS); Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Abstract : As the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, are coming closer to the target year of 2015, this study joins the ongoing debate about the achieved results with a focus on India. While India has seen great improvements concerning the second MDG, which is for all children to enrol and complete primary education, the country has for the past years been facing a challenge of decreasing learning results. READ MORE
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2. The Grameen Bank and Beyond the Millennium Development Goals : Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : Inspired by the precedence of eradicating worldwide poverty and the unresolved discussion how to solve this problem, this paper attempts to illustrate how microfinance by the Grameen Bank can alleviate poverty beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). These goals are arguably limited by the use of poverty lines and may not reflect the true level of poverty beyond quantifications. READ MORE
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3. A Study of Whenci Woreda in West Showa Zone Ethiopia
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : Even though access to water has been recognized as a human right and is important for human development, still in the year 2008 about 884 million people lacked access to improved water sources. Most of these people live in the developing regions of the world. This study will be focusing on an area in west Showa zone in Ethiopia. READ MORE
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4. Why grow lettuce? : agricultural production policies being implemented in Koinadugu District, West Africa
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : "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
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5. Determinants of Childhood Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh : How Health Intervention Programmes Can Bring Success
University essay from Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Given the question of how to further decrease childhood mortality and attain the fourth MDG in Bangladesh, the determinants of childhood mortality and successful health intervention programmes in a rural area of Bangladesh are examined in this paper. The binominal logit regression analysis, on Matlab HDSS data from 2001 to 2005, indicates that the child’s birth order, outcome of mother’s previous pregnancy, mother’s age, mother’s education, economic condition of the household, immunization, and place of delivery are important determining factors of childhood mortality. READ MORE
