Throughout 1992, 10 million Americans were unemployed, the poverty rate hit 15.1%, and inflation was still impacting family income. As a response, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore launched an economic strategy that slowly began to shift the economy forward. This strategy involved...
“The state has to intervene in those areas.” They were limited by essential interventions that were required especially in education and healthcare. There were about 7 million people suffering in poverty based on the latest surveys, he said. Sri Lanka’s poverty has risen sharply ...
The Role of Assets in the Enhancement of Households' Income: A Study of Poverty Alleviation among Rural Communities of Kelantan and Terengganu. This paper aims to examine the role of assets and entitlements on the enhancement of farmers' income. Using a structured socio-economic questionnaire, 302...
Living standards were improved.Personal per capita disposable income increased by 6.3 percent in real terms.The number of people living in poverty in rural areas was reduced by 12.4 million, including more than 2.4 million people relocated from inhospitable areas.More than 6 million homes in rundow...
Nestle spokesman Francois Perroud in Geneva stressed that Nestle abides by WHO code and by additional national guidelines and laws. “Our policy is clear. We are willing to give free supplies where products can be helpful. But . . . because we are fundamentally committed to breast-feeding, we...
“People are desperate and scared about today, but even more so about tomorrow,” said Arthur Kropp, president of People for the American Way. “There is a sense of loss in the country’s values and morals. There is violence, sex, poverty. The religious right takes advantage of those fea...