imperative. It also has enormous socio-economic ramifications-and is a crucial international priority. Both the international conference on Population and Development and Millennium Development Goals call for a 75 percent reduction in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015. This three prolonged strategy is key to the accomplishment of the goal: -All women have access to contraception to avoid unintended pregnancies. -All pregnant women have access to skilled care at the time of birth. -All those
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private-sector effort to improve the health of woman and children in developing countries. It’s an initiative which supports the United Nations’ April 2010 call for a renewed effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of reducing morality in woman and children by 2015. There are four main programs to achieve the goal, which are mobile health for mothers, intestinal worms in children, R&D innovations, and Safe Birth Programs. "Every Woman, Every Child has shown what can be achieved through close cooperation
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December 2002. Since then an estimated 1.5 million children who were previously out of school have turned up to attend classes. Though education is normally considered the responsibility of the state, the community should also realize their role in development of education (sifuna 1999).This section of the chapter aims to introduce the topic under study in an explicit manner. To achieve this, it has been divided into the following sections: background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives
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STRATEGY. SUGGEST WAYS OF INCREASING ITS EFFECTIVENESS. A Schools Health Program is an integrated set of planned, sequential, school affiliated strategies, activities and services designed to promote the optimal physical, emotional and education development of students. The program involves and is supportive of families and is determined by the local community based on community needs, resources, standards and requirements. It is coordinated by a multidisplinary team and accountable to the community
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LG electronics is a part of LG corportation. LG electronics which is called GoldStar at that time was founded by KOO IN-HWOI who was founder of LG corporation in 1st Oct 1958 at KOREA. At that time, radios were attracting interests as embodiments of civilization, bringing news of the world to their listeners. Mr. Koo thought, ‘we could make a radio by ourselves likes TOSHIBA, NATIONAL.’ So, he founded GoldStar. And finally, at 15th Nov 1959 they made the first Korean radio which is including more
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Indonesia as the development country has to facing so many challenges and obstacles in order to achieve the goals of the country. From the very beginning the economic system in Indonesia is followed the Pancasila economic system. But, at the time before the new order, the economic system in Indonesia are liberal and statism that is not suitable for the citizen in the early of 50’s to 60’s. Before that time there are many program that already made by the government about the development of Indonesian
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Positive and strong interventions on women’s development can obviously reduce the gender gap and acknowledge the role of women in the society as well as in the countries economy. Bangladesh a poor developing nation with a huge population of around 140 million (July 2011 EST.). Although women in Bangladesh make a direct and equal contribution to that of men in economical contributions, their productive worth is not acknowledged by this male dominated society. Lack of education remains as one of the
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Case Study Related to Business Malaysia Airlines (MAS)Facing Challenges in the New Millennium M. Sadiq Sohail, Ph. D• King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals College of Industrial Management Department of Management & Marketing P.O. Box 210, Dhahran-31261 Saudi Arabia E- mail: ssohail@kfupm.edu.sa sadiqsohail@hotmail.com Tel: + 966 3 8601764 Fax: + 9663 8602544 • 1. Formerly at Monash University Malaysia. The author is thankful to Ms. Marianne Visvalingam and Ridhi Jain, both undergraduate
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tax evasion are powerful examples of how criminal activities can potentially have tremendous negative effects on economic development. Also, ill-gotten money is not spent on productive investments that can have a multiplier effect on an economy and benefit the significant majority of a population, rather than just a select few. We, policymakers in governments and development institutions such as the World Bank, cannot afford to ignore issues that stand in the way of achieving economic progress, because
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What is Social Stratification? Social Stratification Is a sociological term for the hierarchical arrangement of social classes, castes, and strata within a society. It refers to differential access to resources, power, autonomy, and status across social groups. Social stratification implies social inequality; if some groups have access to more resources than other; the distribution of those resources is inherently unequal. Societies can be stratified on any number of dimensions. In the United
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