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Direct linkKimani, Elishiba Njambi; Kombo, Donald Kisilu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
Poverty is a dehumanising condition for every one. It erodes human rights of the affected whether women or men. Poverty subjects an individual to a state of powerlessness, hopelessness, and lack of self-esteem, confidence, and integrity, leading to a situation of multidimensional vulnerability. Poverty has a gender dimension since women and men…
Descriptors: Poverty, Gender Differences, Safety, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textPresident's Task Force on Rural Development, Washington, DC. – 1970
The President's Task Force on Rural Development (established in September of 1969) reviewed the effectiveness of rural assistance programs and made recommendations as to what might be done in the private and public sectors to stimulate rural development. Included are recommendations for streamlining Federal programs, strengthening state and local…
Descriptors: Community Planning, Education, Employment, Government Role
National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, Washington, DC. – 1967
On September 27, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty. To this commission, he delegated the responsibility of making a comprehensive study and appraisal of the current economic situations and trends in American life. In fulfilling this responsibility, the National Advisory Commission on…
Descriptors: Community, Employment, Family Planning, Government Role
Booz Allen and Hamilton, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
To assure that development of coal utilization facilities in the sparsely populated Old West Region of Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming will proceed in an orderly manner with a minimum of socioeconomic disruption or fiscal inequality, impact studies must be prepared for each of the 100 potential sites to be affected.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Costs, Economic Development, Employment
Parks, Gail Armstrong – 1980
Despite the current attention directed at rural education, rural minority youth may be in some danger of becoming invisible. A lack of specific and detailed knowledge of minority conditions and potential opportunities at regional, sub-regional, state, and local levels has inhibited the development of sound programs and policies for the redress of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Differences, Disadvantaged, Educational Policy
Rural American Women, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
At the White House Consultation with Rural Women held in June 1980, over 250 women from all walks of rural life and from 12 other nations responded to the Carter Administration's rural policy on small farms, health, employment, communications, education, housing, food, agriculture, and land and energy issues and made recommendations for action for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agriculture, Communications, Community Involvement
National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, Washington, DC. – 1967
On September 27, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty. To this commission, he delegated the responsibility of making a comprehensive study and appraisal of the current economic situations and trends in American rural life. In fulfilling this responsibility, the National Advisory Commission…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Community, Employment, Family Planning
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1979
Delegates from six countries (Bangladesh, Korea, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines) met in the Philippines in May-June 1979 at a UNESCO-sponsored conference to discuss development of productive skills through nonformal and alternative structures in education. The main part of the meeting was a series of reports of the nonformal…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Economic Development, Educational Administration
National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, Washington, DC. – 1967
On September 27, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty. To this commission, he delegated the responsibility of making a comprehensive study and appraisal of the current economic situations and trends in American rural life. In fulfilling this responsibility, the National Advisory Commission…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, American Indians, Community, Employment
BREATHITT, EDWARD T. – 1967
OUR NATION IS PLAGUED WITH RURAL POVERTY EXTENDING THROUGH MOST AREAS OF OUR COUNTRY AND ENCOMPASSING SOME 14 MILLION RURAL PERSONS. THIS TOTAL NUMBER WOULD BE EVEN LARGER IF SO MANY RURAL PERSONS HAD NOT MIGRATED INTO THE URBAN AREAS OF OUR COUNTRY. THE RURAL POOR POPULATION IS CHARACTERIZED BY--LOW INCOME, A HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (4 PERCENT…
Descriptors: Community, Community Development, Development, Economically Disadvantaged
