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Assessing Philosophical Approaches to Combating International Poverty
This paper will examine several philosophical approaches to poverty, and attempt to find the one among them that will be most effective in the fight against international poverty. The four major approaches that will be ...
Gender Inequality in African Education: How Can the Lessons of South Africa Apply to the Rest of the Continent?
The worldwide problem of unequal female education cannot be solved by domestic policies alone, and the global institutional order must bend to the necessity of human rights and equality. Promoting growth is not a sufficient ...
International Measurements of Womens Poverty and Capability Approach
This paper attempts to evaluate international poverty measurements using the capability approach developed by Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Capabilities measurements of poverty are better suited ...
The Millennium Development Goals: Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality in Afghanistan
. . . While the UN claims that the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) have been the most successful anti-poverty push in the history, I argue that MDG did not achieve its stated goals, it also did not set effective goals ...
Inaccessible Unemployment Insurance: The Unsupported Reality of Low-Income Single Mothers
In 1998, single mother headed 25 percent of all families with children in the United States. In the six year span between 1993 and 1999, the families maintained by working single mothers jumped from 6.4 to 7.6 million, ...
The GED Program & Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students
The GED certification program started as an alternative education route for war veterans. It has greatly expanded to serve individuals of all ages and backgrounds who lack a high school diploma. Over one-half million ...
Employment Barriers Facing Women of Color Upon Re-Entry from Incarceration
This paper will explore the plight of low-income women of color reentering society from incarceration and the barriers that they face. By looking at the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act ...