Risultati ricerca
Includi: tutti i seguenti filtri
Elementi trovati: 3
Abstract/Sommario: The objective of the paper is to provide an overview of the nature and extent of emergency relief efforts undertaken in countries impacted by the 2004 tsunami - particularly in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. These countries together accounted for 99,7% of all deaths caused by the tsunami. The papers seeks to outline the successes, and challenges, and shortcomings specific to these relief efforts (disaster aid distribution, human rights violations, appropriateness of disaste ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Abstract/Sommario: In today's Japan, the set of homeless people include unemployed people, migrants who escaped from the rural society after committing crimes and rural migrants in search of jobs during the agricultural slack seasons but got involved in gambling, construction workers or other manual workers who are unable to pursue physical work after a certain age. Recent labour market changes aggravated the problem of homeless in Japan. As shown by the Ministry of Health and labour data (2003) a very s ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Abstract/Sommario: After India's independence and a long period of planning, the incidence of poverty and livelihood insecurity have remained as grave as ever. All the benefits of the welfare measures have gravitated willi - nilly toward the elite class and such other groups with political visibility. The rural sector of India has remained closed to the subsistence level and sensitive to vagaries of nature-flood, cyclone and drought, etc.: the problem of economic vulnerability among village people is bec ...; [Leggi tutto...]