After decades of conflict, the GoSS faces a massive task in leading recovery and development efforts, and the challenges of policy-making and implementation in Southern Sudan cannot be overstated. This chapter examines the key policy frameworks guiding government efforts to support long-term recovery and development, focusing on the over-arching vision of ‘taking towns to the people’, expenditure priorities and strategies for economic growth and governance. These policy areas are relevant to urbanisation
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“There Is No Such Thing” Sumie Bodden Prof. Stacy Kelly Sociology 100 June 3rd, 2012 African American life in the United States has been framed by migrations, forced and free. A forced migration from Africa the transatlantic slave trade carried black people to the Americas. A second forced migration was the internal slave trade that transported them from the Atlantic coast to the interior of the American South. Then people of all parts of the world entered into the United States, which included
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Website Migration – Tony’s Chips Website Migration – Tony’s Chips With Tony's Chips being purchased by the Acme Company, they would like a new change the way the website is used for the business. The old method was an externally hosted site with no online ordering options. The new website plan is for it to be redesigned to allow for online ordering, onsite web hosting, and site redundancy to allow for maximum uptime. What they are asking for is called the system development life cycle (SDLC)
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and the depletion of the natural environment has meant increased economic problems even loss of paid labour and unemployment (FAO, 1996). May (2002) states the effects of migration on house hold structures in rural areas of today has been theorised to be influenced by a complex set of conditions that developed since migration has been a growing dependence of the households on migrant remittances to survive as consumer communities. Rural households face a number of challenges including micro economic
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The global overview of China China (PRC) is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the biggest population in the world where as much as 3 billion people are living. China has turned into the fastest growing major economies, since its economy reform in 1978. It is seen as a second – largest economy according to GDP and PPP, and China is the both the largest exporter and importer across the world. Also, China is seen a nuclear weapons state and has the world’s largest standing army in the
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resulting in real and perceived inequities Thus making growth more inclusive and addressing widespread poverty is a challenge for India which requires sustained investment in people, starting from health and education but also transport and energy infrastructure, review of the poverty reduction programmes, their targeting and efficiency. Sustaining High and inclusive growth Growth Potential in India India’s potential for sustained growth is high with the demographic dividend playing in its favor.
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Irish women in nineteenth century Ireland faced a number of challenging circumstances in the period, the Great Famine forced thousands of Irish women to emigrate to the United States. The factors that contributed to Irish women emigrating are slightly more complex in comparison to the reasons why men emigrated from Ireland. Women who emigrated left behind poor social conditions that were showing no signs of improvement, the United States promised a new way of life in all forms. It has been debated
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A case study of a youthful population UGANDA Uganda’s age-sex structure: [pic] [pic] The reproductive behaviour of individual families influences the nations population as a whole and the impact of population size, growth and structure is felt in the level of welfare of individuals and the family. To a great extent what families do is determined by their income earning and knowledge, factors that are not necessarily completely in their control. The high fertility rate
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Volume 11 Issue 1 2009 Contents Editorial New century, old story! Race, religion, bureaucrats, and the Australian Lebanese story Anne Monsour The Transnational Imagination: XXth century networks and institutions of the Mashreqi migration to Mexico Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos Balad Niswen – Hukum Niswen: The Perception of Gender Inversions Between Lebanon and Australia Nelia Hyndman-Rizik Diaspora and e-Commerce: The Globalization of Lebanese Baklava Guita Hourani Lebanese-Americans’
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Keywords: smart card, transportation, payment system, technology diffusion, Octopus, Hong Kong A b s t r a c t Although debit/cash cards based on smart card technology promised to bring forth the end of loose change, very few managed to gain critical mass or come close to totally eliminating coins including those supported by major credit card operators (e.g., Visa Cash and Mondex). In this paper, we discuss a specific system – Octopus – which not only gained momentum
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