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It is an “ instrument of wholesale destruction, dependency and systematic exploitation producing distorted economies, socio-psychological disorientation, massive poverty and neocolonial dependency .” According to some Marxist historians, in all of the colonial countries ruled by Western European countries “ the natives were robbed of more than half their natural span of life by undernourishment ”.
Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, sexuality, poverty, class divisions, violence against women and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena.
Economists refer to the coexistence of vast wealth in natural resources and extreme personal poverty in developing countries like Nigeria as the " resource curse ".
And plants here bloom more luxuriantly and more perfectly with a natural vigour that knows no exhaustion and fears no poverty, a vigour that has disappeared from our continent.
What they read into the theory was then read out by Social Darwinians as scientific justification for their social and economic views ( such as poverty being a natural condition and social reform an unnatural meddling ).
The aim is to help African scientists, technologists and institutions acquire capabilities to generate, adapt and apply knowledge and technology to promote the more efficient utilization of natural resources for self-reliant development, and thus contribute to eradicating rural poverty and improving food security.
After independence, the new state endured famine, natural disasters and widespread poverty, as well as political turmoil and military coups.
The theory suggests that linguistic ability manifests itself without being taught ( see poverty of the stimulus ), and that there are properties that all natural human languages share.
He led one of the most enduring dictatorial regimes in Africa and amassed a personal fortune estimated to be over US $ 5 billion by selling his nation's rich natural resources while his nation's people lived in poverty.
Many individuals who consent to being smuggled are escaping poverty, seeking opportunities abroad, or escaping natural disaster, conflict, or persecution.
The foundation says, " We believe that promoting greater access among the poor to natural resources is critical to achieving two interrelated goals: reducing global poverty and sustaining the quality of our environment.
Economic neo-colonialism extracts the human and the natural resources of a peripheral ( poor ) country to flow to the economies of the wealthy countries at the center of the global economic system ; hence, the poverty of the peripheral countries is the result of the how they are integrated to the global economic system.
Risks like sickness and natural disasters are a critical dimension of poverty and poor people rely heavily on informal savings to manage these risks.
Thus, world conscience is a concept that overlaps with the Gaia hypothesis in advocating a balance of moral, legal, scientific and economic solutions to modern transnational problems such as global poverty and climate change, through strategies such as environmental ethics, climate ethics, natural conservation, ecology, cosmopolitanism, sustainability and sustainable development, biosequestration and legal protection of the biosphere and biodiversity.
" " Like his radical bourgeois counterparts in England, Taylor would not concede that great extremes of wealth and poverty were natural outcomes of differences in talent ; on the contrary they were invariably the result of extra-economic coercion and deceit.
The report concluded that the existing Poor Laws undermined the prosperity of the country by interfering with the natural laws of " supply and demand ", that the existing means of poor relief allowed employers to force down wages, and, that poverty itself was inevitable.
In the past, times of poverty and natural disasters were taken as signs that heaven considered the incumbent ruler unjust and thus in need of replacement.
CGIAR research is dedicated to reducing rural poverty, increasing food security, improving human health and nutrition, and ensuring more sustainable management of natural resources.
Hence anything that interfered with the ' natural ' relationship of conduct and consequence was to be resisted and this included the use of the coercive power of the state to relieve poverty, to provide public education, or to require compulsory vaccination.
Perhaps most importantly to the problem of poverty, private property in land violates people's rights to liberty — the pre-existing, natural liberty to use the opportunities nature provided.
The bulk of the world ’ s food aid is given to people in areas where poverty is endemic ; or to people who has suffered due to a natural disaster other than famine ( such as the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami ), or have lost their crops due to conflicts ( such as in the Darfur region of Sudan ).
The extensive human migration and degradation of natural resources within the Volta-basin area, are the products of poverty in conjunction with population pressure.
Achieving ZPG is difficult because a country's population growth is often determined by economic factors, incidence of poverty, natural disasters, disease, etc.
The stated purpose of this program was to reduce the considerable poverty and overpopulation on Java, to provide opportunities for hard-working poor people, and to provide a workforce to better utilize the natural resources of the outer islands.

poverty and resources
The stated purpose of this program was to reduce the considerable poverty and overpopulation on Java, to provide opportunities for hard-working poor people, and to provide a workforce to better utilise the resources of the outer islands.
The IMF describes itself as “ an organization of 188 countries ( as of April 2012 ), working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty .” The organization's stated objectives are to promote international economic cooperation, international trade, employment, and exchange rate stability, including by making financial resources available to member countries to meet balance of payments needs.
" The wisdom of these rulers will supposedly eliminate poverty and deprivation through fairly distributed resources, though the details on how to do this are unclear.
At present, despite possessing significant oil and gas resources and a considerable amount of agriculturally productive land, Yemen remains one of the poorest of the world ’ s low-income countries ; more than 45 percent of the population lives in poverty.
Both were Democratic, both were sympathetic to labor and immigrants ( a sharp contrast to publishers like the New York Tribune's Whitelaw Reid, who blamed their poverty on moral defects ), and both invested enormous resources in their Sunday publications, which functioned like weekly magazines, going beyond the normal scope of daily journalism.
The IFC's stated aim is to create opportunities for people to escape poverty and achieve better living standards by mobilizing financial resources for private enterprise, promoting accessible and competitive markets, supporting businesses and other private sector entities, and creating jobs and delivering necessary services to those who are poverty-stricken or otherwise vulnerable.
Because African countries face some of the most severe poverty and underdevelopment, and because 39 of those countries are the IDA's poorest member states, the association allocates approximately half of the IDA's resources toward financing projects in those countries.
However, even Becky, who is amoral and cunning, is thrown on her own resources by poverty and its stigma.
The reduction should free additional resources for poverty reduction and public investment although many argue that all Sao Tomean government debt should be waived to alleviate poverty.
Now, the World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than US $ 1. 25 ( PPP ) per day, and moderate poverty as less than $ 2 or $ 5 a day ( but note that a person or family with access to subsistence resources, e. g. subsistence farmers, may have a low cash income without a correspondingly low standard of living – they are not living " on " their cash income but using it as a top up ).
René's captivity, and the poverty of the Angevin resources due to his ransom, enabled Alfonso V of Aragon, who had been first adopted and then repudiated by Joanna II, to make some headway in the kingdom of Naples, especially as he was already in possession of the island of Sicily.
In some countries, privatization of national resources, while initially leading to immediate large scale influx of investment capital, is often followed by dramatic increases in the rate of unemployment, poverty, and a decline in per-capita income.
Determining the poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year.
Absolute poverty is the absence of enough resources ( such as money ) to secure basic life necessities.
The three conditions exist here as well: lack of resources ( poverty ); crime and theft have a high rewards compared to the alternatives ( few ); and law enforcement is generally lax or corrupt.
Families with the financial resources to escape extreme poverty rarely suffer from chronic hunger, while poor families not only suffer the most from chronic hunger, but are also the segment of the population most at risk during food shortages and famines.
In the United States, 27 % of single mothers live below the poverty line, as they lack the financial resources to support their children when the birth father is unresponsive.

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