PPT-Urbanization and Poverty Reduction

Peter Hazell Introduction In 2008 the World Bank published its World Development Report 2008 Agriculture for Development in which it argued that agricultural development is the key to propoor growth . 2 POVERTY REDUCTION AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT (PREM) NETWORKwww.worldbank.org/economicpremiseest International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) esti Celine Tan. Birmingham Law School. University of Birmingham. ‘Poverty Reduction as Development Morality: Theory and Practice’. Development Studies Association Annual Conference. 5 November 2010, London. h. idden urbanization of Acadians. Yves Bourgeois, . PhD. Director. , . Urban. and . community. . studies. . institute. University. of New Brunswick. Urbanization. in Atlantic Canada . colloqium. Urbanization. Creation and growth of urban and . . suburban areas. 52% of people live in such areas. Urban growth . Rate of increase of urban populations. Immigration from rural areas. Pushed from rural areas to urban areas. North and South Take Different Paths. Words. Industrial Revolution. Factory system. Capitalist. Mass Production. Interchangeable parts. Urbanization. Famine. Discrimination. 1. .. Industrial Revolution. preliminary findings. . “. commissioned by the European Forest Institute’s EU FLEGT Facility . - funded . by the European Union, the Governments of Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and EFI.” . Environment and Urbanization,Vol. 7, No. 1, April 1995Poverty refers to lack of physical necessities, assets and in-come. It includes, but is more than, being income-poor. Pov-Sustainable livelihood UK – . A national perspective. Tom Papworth. Associate Director – Economic Policy. CentreForum. “The belief that poverty has been virtually eliminated in Britain is commonly held” . – . David K. Jesuit* Vincent A. Mahler . Central Michigan University Loyola University. . Chicago . Paper prepared for delivery at the First Annual LIS/LWS Users Conference, University of Luxembourg, . This is the Irish Government's definition of poverty in its . National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 2007-2016. . . What it means is that people are living in poverty if they do not have enough money to do the things that most people in Ireland take for granted. Poverty can mean not having the money to buy enough food for your family, not being able to afford to heat your home in winter or having to buy second-hand clothes because you can't afford new ones. . Nicholas Kacher and Stephan Weiler. Research Question, Broadly. Do entrepreneurial projects . have . tangible benefits in terms of the growth they create?. Economy-wide, small young firms drive . job creation . POVERTY….. BY ST.VINCENTS HIGH SCHOOL. POVERTY IN INDIA…. DEFINATION OF POVERTY… Poverty in India can be defined as a situation when a certain section of people are unable to fulfill their basic needs. India has the world's largest number of poor people living in a single country. Extreme poverty, lack of opportunity for gainful employment and intermittency of income and low standards of living are the main reasons for the wide prevalence of child labour. Though it is possible to identify child labour in the organized sector, which form a minuscule of the total child labour, the problem relates mainly to the unorganized sector where utmost attention needs to be paid. The problem is universal but in our case it is more crucial.  2. 1 . in 9 people in the world regularly go hungry. . . (1). 1 in 9 people in the world don’t have clean water to drink. . . (2). 24% of the wealth in the UK is possessed by the richest 1% of people. Recap and Conclusions. Martin . Ravallion. Georgetown University. (Reading: EOP Conclusions). Recap. The course has introduce you to the main past and present . debates about poverty and inequality in the world. .