Can communication satellites overcome crippling educational deficits in the poorest nations?

doi:10.1098/rspa.1975.0161

Can communication satellites overcome crippling educational deficits in the poorest nations?

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A - Mathematical and Physical Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspa.1975.0161 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 345 (1643) ◽

pp. 591-600

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Educational Software ◽

Low Cost ◽

Learning Opportunities ◽

Practical Reasons ◽

Learning Needs ◽

The World Bank ◽

The World ◽

Great Solution

The world’s most massive and urgent educational needs today-not simply for schools but for many other kinds of learning opportunities, for children and adults alike - centre in the rural areas of poorer nations. To meet these basic rural learning needs will certainly require, among other things, far more extensive use of low cost mass media and much greater investment in relevant, dynamic and effective educational software. It is tempting, therefore, to hail communication satellites as the ‘great solution’. But unfortunately, for a variety of practical reasons which will be explained in the paper, satellite delivery systems are unlikely to be able over the next 10 to 20 years to contribute more than marginally to meeting these massive and highly diverse rural learning needs. This conclusion is arrived at reluctantly on the basis of recent I.C.E.D. studies of education for rural development commissioned by the World Bank of U.N.I.C.E.F.

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The Role of Small Scale Enterprises in Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Sokoto State

International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences ◽

10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.32.197 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 197-203

Author(s):

Sirajo Abubakar Ibrahim ◽

Zayyanu Ladan

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Poverty Line ◽

Small Scale ◽

National Bureau ◽

Absolute Poverty ◽

The World Bank ◽

The World

Poverty reduction is a major goal and issue for many international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank. The World Bank estimated 1.29 billion people were living in absolute poverty in 2008. This is more obvious with the regard to Nigeria where it was estimated about 70 % (2010) of the population are living below poverty line. Similarly, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently released the figure in 2013., which indicate Sokoto state as having highest incidence of poverty, with 81.2 % poverty rate. The pressure of poverty and the absence of any other income earning activity during the dry season force the people in these area of the North Western part of Sokoto on Migration after every raining season across the country, in order to sustain their livelihood. This paper is of the opinion that rural dwellers can be self reliant within their locality by utilizing the available resources as well as establishing some new business ideas for small scale business as a strategy in poverty reduction and controlling high migration rate. Similarly the paper recommend among others, the effective enlightenment awareness and motivation on the role of boosting the economic development of the rural areas.

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Working Poor in Modern Russia

Историко-экономические исследования ◽

10.17150/2308-2588.2018.19(4).556-570 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 556-570 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Igor Ashmarov

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Working Poor ◽

Wide Spread ◽

The World Bank ◽

National Characteristics ◽

The World ◽

Work Functions ◽

Urban And Rural Areas ◽

Poor Population

The problem considered in the article is the problem of poverty, as well as the problem of citizens who are called the new poor or the working poor in Russia today. Unfortunately, there are no statistics on the working poor, in our country but we believe that this is a very large part of the population of modern Russia. The article reveals in detail the concept of poverty, considers the phenomenon of poverty in Russia, as well as the national traits of poverty in our country and shows its national characteristics. We attributed to them such traits as wide spread of poverty in Russia, both in urban and rural areas; also, women are referred to the poor population most frequently, the ones who are left with their children without any financial support on the part of their spouses. Russias economy has faced a unique phenomenon of the working poor. The employees who perform their work functions in their workplaces get so low payment for their work that they can be regarded as the working poor. The article brings forth international statistics on poverty in Russia, the source of which being objective information of the World Bank as a UN institution. On this basis, it keeps track of the dynamics of poverty in Russia and draws the corresponding findings and the conclusion.

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