Poverty can mean different things But there is a difference between poverty and extreme poverty. But UN:s definition of poverty is to try to survive on less than 2 dollars a day, UN:s definition of extreme poverty is to try to survive on less than 1.25 dollars a day. POVERTY IN THE US The number of poor in the United States rose slightly last year, to 46.5 million from 46.2 million in 2011. The proportion of those living below the poverty line, however, was unchanged at 15 percent of the population, according to new statistics. The figures show that the economic recovery which led to stock market rally has not yet found its way to ordinary wage earners.
In 1917, Puerto Ricans became United States citizens and in 1952, the United States Congress approved a constitution for Puerto Rico conferring a right of internal self-government. The United States retains control of foreign affairs, defense and immigration and United States laws apply in Puerto Rico unless Puerto Rico is specifically
It is a constitutional democracy which prioritizes consensus and the authority of their citizens (Mengenal Sistem Demokrasi Indonesia). One of the most significant and brilliant periods of Indonesia’s democracy was the democracy under the rule of Suharto, called the “New Order”. The history of New Order consisted of the development of Indonesia under Soekarno, the milestone of New Order, policy of Indonesia under New Order, highlight of New Order, weakness of New Order, the dictatorship of New Order, and the collapse of New Order. The development of Indonesia under
SECTION 7 – GROWTH RATES Item Current Year Previous Year Growth Rate Sales 98.61 % 98.38 % .2 % Net Income 1.86 % 13.44 % -86 % Total Assets 48,455 26,353 83.8 % Total Liabilities 42112 21041 100 % Total Equity 6342 5312 19.39 % Comments on growth rates: Sales has increased from last year by 0.2 %, Net income decreased from last year by 86 %. This might be a warning sign for the business. VRX Assets have almost doubled from previous year. Total liabilities are the liabilities that the company has to pay others. It is a part of the balance sheet of a company that shareholders do not own, and would be obligated to pay back if the company liquidated.
It accelerated to 2.18 percentage points per year during the 7 years period 2004-05 to 2011-12. Therefore, it can be concluded that the rate of decline in the poverty ratio during the most recent 7-year period 2004-05 to 2011-12 was about three times of that experienced in the 11-year period 1993-94 to 2004-05. 2.1.4 Urban Growth & Poverty Urban poverty in India is becoming more important relative to rural poverty for two reasons. First, India’s urban population is on the increase, especially since 1990. In the 40 years after 1950 the urban sector’s share of India’s population only rose from 17 percent to 26 percent, but in the 15 years after 1990 it is projected to have risen to 29 percent.
By the end of January, Rupiah drops to 17,000 to US dollar. This is the lowest point reached by the Rupiah against the USD. Effect of the crisis The most immediate effects that affected Indonesia were the inflation rate. It went from 2.6%up to 11% percent. This caused hyperinflation in the end of January 1998 with 20% inflation.
Impressive second quarter, 2015… Operating revenue for the quarter increased to $1.6 billion compared to $1.4 billion for the same quarter last year. Revenue passenger miles for the quarter increased to 8.7% to $10.5 billion on a capacity of 7.5%, resulting in a second quarter load factor of 85.6%, an increase of 1.0 points year over year. Additionally, operating expenses decreased to $1.3 billion from $1.4 billion for the previous year’s same quarter. The airline fuel cost per gallon decreased by 31% year-over-year to $2.13, as compared with $3.09 in second quarter, 2014. . Lower fuel costs helped the unit operating expenses to fall by 8.7% year-over-year.
But, less than 20 per cent of the male workers in this year are employed in higher end tertiary sector (based on Mahadevia 2005), indicating a predominance of low-end jobs in the tertiary sector in the city, indicating poor income levels. BMC area is divided into two major geographic
It is the largest land line telephone provider with 60% market share and the sixth largest mobile service provider and it has 93.29 million customers as of June 2015. 2.2.7 SWOT analysis of Bharti Airtel Strengths 1. Airtel is the largest cellular service provider in India, 2. IT is the largest Telecom operator in the world. 3.
The micro and macro measures have shown a medium effect towards the growth of the indebtedness to the household. Based from the statistics from Asia-Pacific Banks Charts of the Month, it stated that last year’s household debt is at a high level where the indebtedness is 88 percent from the GDP in Malaysia itself. In the words of an economist named Dr Muhammad Abdul Khalid, 90 percent of Malaysians do not have proper savings and based from that number, 70 percent from that only have RM500 in their accounts. He also stated that 50 percent of the income of the Malaysian is used to pay the household