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Brazil kills more than 150 countries together

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Brazil kills more than 150 countries together

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India - A country of oosing art of Handmade

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India - A country of oosing art of Handmade

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India is loosing its Handmade culture of arts, crafts and clothing to the big giants of retail where one can buy products at cheap rate  and dispose them quickly as the trend goes out of style.  Handmade products like clothing has now no value and handloom artisans are now started to work in mill factories to earn more wages.

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Corruption is a huge challenge in most African countries as it largely impacts on governance and deve

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In China there are so many examples of bad treatment of local environment: land pollution/destructive farming practises, water pollution, air pollution.

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Lack of funding for community projects meaning that the elderly are left lonely and the young are left bored.

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Lack of funding for community projects meaning that the elderly are left lonely and the young are left bored.

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The damage that suffer the ecosystem with large hotel's buildings 

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The damage that suffer the ecosystem with large hotel's buildings 

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In Colombia the tendency of build near the beach is more often. The biggest brands of hotels they don't care about the ecosystem, the photo that I added is an example of how this companies destruct everything around. This ecosystem supposed to be an arm of the river Córdorba that comes from the bahía of Córdoba were their exist the mangrove swamp.

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South Africa- Mossel Bay and other small towns in the world

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South Africa- Mossel Bay and other small towns in the world

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The poor kids in our area are unable to access relevant sports and social environments that are always safe. The only nearby recreational offering is a soccer field. Kids sometimes play cricket on a open stretch of land next to a highway...

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We live in an area that has good soil but rarely do people grow fresh veggies any more. Their diets are mostly canned goods which are cheap but does not help their poor health conditions.

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Lack of trust in each other and generation gap makes it difficult to understand each other and found a common issue that pool all the community members together

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Lack of trust in each other and generation gap makes it difficult to understand each other and found a common issue that pool all the community members together

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This picture shows sandy salt water which is used in traditional Swazi medicine. Due to poverty, poor infrastructure and inadequate funding of health care in the country, this is what many people put their hope in, many times without success. From a British perspective, this is eye-opening!

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Corruption - Money that should be used for health, education and important things being used for personal purposes

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There seems to be more crimes occurring in my hometown of Trujillo Peru.Most of it is gun violence particularly murders .

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Hyper development impacting city health and prosperity

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Hyper development impacting city health and prosperity

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Sydney is experiencing a large amount of development, fed by high property prices. This is leading to an increasing lack of public facilities, particularly public space to cater for a substantially larger population. Public space is being used not to support communities but to sell properties. In addition, there is an increasing privatisation of previously publicly accessible goods such as education and healthcare, which is increasing the extremities between rich and poor and impacting many middle income families as well.

The following link, whilst focused on South Asia, highlights the importance of good city infrastructure such as public space. This and other fundamental infrastructure for a liveable city is currently not being planned to cater for the increasing population

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The benefits of public spaces in the poorest parts of the world

Source: World Bank Staff

We often think of amenities such as quality streets, squares, waterfronts, public buildings, and other well-designed public spaces as luxury amenities for affluent communities. However, research increasingly suggests that they are even more critical to well-being of the poor and the development of their communities, who often do not have spacious homes and gardens to retreat to.

Living in a confined room without adequate space and sunlight increases the likelihood of health problems, restricts interaction and other productive activities. Public spaces are the living rooms, gardens and corridors of urban areas. They serve to extend small living spaces and providing areas for social interaction and economic activities, which improves the development and desirability of a community. This increases productivity and attracts human capital while providing an improved quality of life as highlighted in the upcoming Urbanization in South Asia report.

Despite their importance, public spaces are often poorly integrated or neglected in planning and urban development. However, more and more research suggests that investing in them can create prosperous, livable, and equitable cities in developing countries. UN-Habitat has studied the contribution of streets as public spaces on the prosperity of cities, which finds a correlation between expansive street grids and prosperity as well as developing a public space toolkit.

The lack of provisions for public spaces hampers economic activities, pollutes the environment, and reduces social stability and security. Inexorable'urbanization and population growth further exacerbates this situation as growing pains in cities like Dhaka illustrate. Public spaces should be considered a basic service, with the same priority as transport, water and sanitation which communities often primarily focus their resources on.

Refurbished streets and improved buildings
in the Lahore's Walled City, Pakistan

Public Space as an Instrument of Urban Transformation
We have seen an increase in demand from client cities to enhance urban spaces as a part of their urban projects. Some of these requests have been included as a part of several operations across South Asian countries, and incorporated in recent World Bank projects in cities including Colombo, Kandy and Galle in Sri Lanka as well as Chennai in India. Fortunately, there are notable examples of success from South Asia and beyond. The World Bank-assisted project of the Lahore Walled City restored centuries-old streets and homes within the historic Walled City while improving infrastructure and streets. Families now enjoy a better quality of life, businesses generate increased profits, and the community has a greater sense of participation in improving their lives. Another project under preparation for riverfronts along the Ganga in India will see their revitalization into vibrant public spaces, to improve local economic and cultural development. In Sri Lanka, the Strategic Cities Development Project seeks to make Kandy and Galle more pedestrian-oriented through public spaces after decades of car-oriented planning.

Public spaces - streets, squares, and a public library
in Medellin, Colombia
(Source: Photo from FutureCapeTown)

There are many sound examples outside of South Asia that the region can learn from. In Medellin, Colombia, the city has successfully upgraded the urban environment of poor communities through the creating public spaces and promoting connectivity through the innovative use of cable cars to provide mobility for residents residing in slum areas. In Mostar, Botswana, the city redesigned war-torn urban areas into vibrant public spaces to remind the public of the devastation left by conflict and to promote reconciliation. This can potentially serve as examples for post-conflict environments in South Asia. In Cape Town, South Africa, the government has recently implemented a public space strategy to provide urban public space in and around the city on a larger scale. The bottom-up regeneration of Shanghai's Tianzifang neighborhood has rejuvenated a historic alley, acting as a catalyst for city-wide urban regeneration to transform the city and increase its cultural and economic vibrancy while increasing livability.

Despite the numerous successful examples, the need for public spaces has not been given the attention that it deserves, in terms of policy and action in developing countries. Cities must recognize the role that quality public spaces can play in meeting the challenges of our rapidly urbanizing world.

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Public spaces - not a "nice to have" but a basic need for cities

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The benefits of public spaces in the poorest parts of the world Source: World Bank Staff We often think of amenities such as quality streets, squares, waterfronts, public buildings, and other well-designed public spaces as luxury amenities for affluent communities.

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According to the WHO, 5.9 million children under age 5 died in 2015. A larger portion of this was in Sub Saharan Africa Maternal mortality rates are also the highest in the African continent, when compared globally. 830 women died every day in 2015, of which over 50% were in Sub Saharan Africa. We can come together to improve primary healthcare, and dramatically change these markers.

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Absence of  rule of law and basic accountability prevents  institutions and people from growing as a society to attain sustainable goals for the future. It creates a cycle of continuously leaving people behind 

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Absence of  rule of law and basic accountability prevents  institutions and people from growing as a society to attain sustainable goals for the future. It creates a cycle of continuously leaving people behind 

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Urban Sprawl and the Mega Hospital trend in Windsor, Canada

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Urban Sprawl and the Mega Hospital trend in Windsor, Canada

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Destroying current hospitals inside cities and building a new mega hospital in the outskirt which makes it hard to access them since  there is not public transit system is available and the town centre is hollowing and becoming derelict. Instead new farming lands are targeted and with P3 projects are going to be build and maintained for the next 30 years!!! http://windsormegahospital.weebly.com/what-re-think-means.html

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Poverty & Homelessness in Ireland & Healthcare

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Poverty & Homelessness in Ireland & Healthcare

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Without the social welfare system almost 50 per cent of the Irish population would have been living in poverty in 2014.  Adequate social welfare payments are required to prevent an increase in poverty. Social exclusion is a massive problem in this country.
Hundreds of houses lay empty while stories of corruption are common news with properties being purchased and lying empty, not available to rent. NAMA officials are currently being investigated for loan sales. The country is too small with the same people often involved in investigations into themselves!!
Healthcare services need to drastically improve, especially in the A&E Departments in hospitals where patients wait all night on trolleys regularly.

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The shops in the local area do not last for very long. We are in a deprived area, but we have expensive supermarkets that force cheap and local shops which can provide for our local economy to close. We only have a few shops that are not part of a chain, which for a small town is a big problem. The money that goes to supermarkets, does not go back in to our local economy. New shops do not want to open because they know it will not be a good expense. People do not want to move here because we have little to do, and the area is deprived, because of this we slip further into deprivation

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The number of empty shops blighting our high streets has trebled since the start of the credit crunch, it was revealed yesterday.

A report shows 12.4 per cent of shops in town centres are empty, compared to 4 per cent in the summer of 2007.

In some towns and cities a quarter of shops lie vacant as the recession has exacerbated the effect of other problems, such as rising rents and the growth of out-of-town shopping centres.

Epitomising the trend is Victoria Street in Wolverhampton, with boarded-up shops apparently outnumbering those still open.

The report, from retail research firm the Local Data Company, comes at the same time as shopping experts warned that the high street will never be the same again.

The report names Margate, the seaside town in Kent, as the biggest casualty of the 'ghost town' crisis sweeping the country.

A record 27.2 per cent of shops in the town are empty, which means over a quarter are lying abandoned, an eyesore for residents.

In a row of 13 shopfronts over-looking the town's beach, all but five have ceased to trade.

In Wolverhampton 23.9 per cent of shops are vacant, putting it top of the table for closures in 'large centres'.

Dean Cooper, assistant manager of the Beacon Centre, a charity shop opposite the parade pictured above, said: 'This street was all fashion shops before they started closing down - the area has been really badly hit by the recession.

We are thinking of moving somewhere we can get more custom. Shops closing down has a real knock-on effect on those that are left.

'It is such a shame to see this area go the way it has. It used to be such a vibrant and bustling place.'

Matthew Hopkinson, from the Local Data Company, said the recession is not the main reason why there has been such a huge wave of closures in high streets.

He blamed a toxic combination of 'upward-only' rent reviews, parking restrictions, soaring business rates and out-of-town developments taking customers from town centres.

Another major reason is the internetretailing boom, with millions doing most of their shopping online.

Mr Hopkinson said: 'The recession was just the straw which broke the camel's back.'

A leading retail expert said many empty shops will never re- open. Barry Gilbertson, a partner at accountants Pricewaterhouse Coopers, said: 'Between 18 and 20 per cent of vacant shops will never be a shop again.'

Chains which have collapsed in the downturn include Woolworths, book shop Borders, music store Zavvi and off-licence chain First Quench - which traded as Threshers and Wine Rack.

Others, such as Blacks Leisure, are still trading, but 87 of its stores were closed at the end of last year. Companies continue to join the casualty list, despite the end of the recession, such as the Liverpool-based budget clothing chain Ethel Austin, which went into administration earlier this month.

Many independent family businesses have also failed.

There have been a few winners, such as discount retailer Poundland and the clothing chain Peacocks, which are both opening new stores.

Liz Peace, chief executive of the British Property Federation, said: 'The fact of the matter is that Brits now do a lot more shopping over the web.

'We're seeing a fundamental reshaping of high streets. People must accept that we won't go back to the high streets of yesteryear.'

She is calling for councils to make it easier to convert shops to other uses, such as making them into homes.

Stephen Robertson, director general of the British Retail Consortium, said: 'Many of the problems of town centres have more fundamental causes than simply the economic slowdown,' he added.

'The problems will not disappear just because recovery is under way. Shops are often battling big bills for business rates and rents, parking and access difficulties, as well as failure to manage and invest in the area.'

CRISIS ON THE HIGH STREET

The southern end of Victoria Street, Wolverhampton, pictured, was once a bustling fashion centre. It is now a sorry sight, a parade of boarded-up and abandoned 19th Century buildings.

1 The Meat Shop Wolverhampton: Closed down one year ago. A family butchers which was a feature of the street for more than 50 years

2 Victoria St. Discounts: A cut-price clothes shop which closed down 18 months ago. It was an upmarket fashion store in a previous incarnation

4 Tribe Mensware: Still trading

5 Orbital Computers: A family owned business, which sold and repaired computer equipment, but went bankrupt four years ago. It was attacked by arsonists soon afterwards

6 Marquise Jewellers:Closed down a year ago. This shop was trading for 15 years, selling gold and silver jewellery, until the recession hit

7 AG Security and Fire: Closed three-and-a-half years ago, having opened at the start of the decade. Sold burglar alarms, security equipment and fire alarms. Before that it was a clothes shop

8 Andu Beauty: Shut three years ago, having survived only two years. Before that it was a fashion shop called 'Right Size', selling larger sizes

9 Fashion 4 Less: Closed three years ago having traded on the street for 12 years. Sold high street fashions at cut-down prices

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The number of empty shops blighting our high streets has trebled since the start of the credit crunch, it was revealed yesterday. A report shows 12.4 per cent of shops in town centres are empty, compared to 4 per cent in the summer of 2007.

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Human over-population in many countries and pro-natalist culture.

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Human over-population in many countries and pro-natalist culture.

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A somewhat arrogant belief in the human right to breed at ANY cost to other species, the environment and energy and food resources, etc.

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Ever-increasing Pollution and Garbage in Cities:

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Ever-increasing Pollution and Garbage in Cities:

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Indian cities are the dirtiest and the most polluted in the world!

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There is a lack of appropriate planning and consultation when it comes to social issues. A perfect example of this is rental accommodation, where there is a lack of available affordable accommodation, leading to increased homelessness. The shortage of accommodation leads to families and people with employment income being included amongst the homeless, and needing space in emergency accommodation services. Proper planning would allow those who can afford accommodation to pay for it, and allow for better support for the more disadvantaged.

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Unemployment Insurance Schemes and the Dependency of Welfare

In the Garden of Eden there is no scarcity.Â Food, clothing, and shelter in are abundance.Â Resources merely fall from the heavens upon command.Â It is economic paradise precisely because economics does not exist.Â The universal laws that hold in the world of scarce goods vanquish in the land of the plenty.

The vision of Eden is the politicianâ€™s main source of employment.Â That is, promising to lead the suffering masses toward utopia by government decree makes for great electoral results.Â The voting fodder ignorant of economics falls in line to cast a ballot to grant themselves other people's money.Â But of course many voters donâ€™t see it this way.Â Their vision of the state is that of Eden.Â They see the bureaucrats and enforcers capable of tapping an infinite pot of wealth to pass along prosperity to those subservient enough to put them in office.Â This in turn has lead to the establishment of the welfare state and its plethora of entitlement programs.

For those who see the modern day welfare state as corrosive to the productive capacity of any given country, no where is this theory more evident than the scheme of unemployment insurance.Â In a recent National Post article, the entitlement attitude was on full display:

Jenna Somerton views her layoff from a job at Algonquin College in June of 2010 as a blessing in disguise: She lived on employment insurance benefits for eight months, took stock and decided what she really wanted to do with her life.

Of course, she admits to taking advantage of her EI cheques at the beginning, after hunting for a job with no luck.

â€œI was thinking â€˜Free money, the government owes me, I paid for school â€¦ I deserve this,â€ the 27-year-old Ottawa resident says now.

She soon got serious, using the subsidized income to hatch plans to start her own web development business. Some of her friends, she said, have not been so diligent.

â€œIâ€™ve known lots of people on EI and I know a lot of them just stayed on EI and as soon as it ran out they started freaking out and then they started looking for jobsâ€¦. [The government] makes it so easy.â€

In Ms. Somertonâ€™s view, it is the government that owes her and she is rightly deserving of the â€œfreeâ€ money.Â Her error is unfortunately not unique.Â The notion of the government not restricted by the amount of resources it is able to squander from the private sector is hardly touched on in what passes for informed opinion.Â The reading of the editorial section in todayâ€™s highly regarded newspapers often contains numerous recommendations on what the state can and should provide.Â What is never eluded to is the real cost of government expenditures.Â While it is a simple task to rattle off the dollar cost of a program, to truly gauge the price of the state, one must look at what may have been foregone to provide for the payment of taxes.

The proper understanding of government is that it is parasitical in nature.Â It can only spend what it first forcefully takes.Â Because the political class is beholden to how much theft it can get away with before sparking an enraged uprising, it also invents new schemes to not be reliant on tax collection alone.Â This includes borrowing and accumulating debt; which is nothing more than the promise of future taxes.Â And there is inflation which benefits the first receiver of new money, that is the state, to spend freely before prices adjust economy wide.

Whatever the devious method, each comes at cost to the taxpayer.Â Again, the nominal price of taxation by itself is easy to calculate.Â What is often neglected is what the pilfered funds could have been used for if left in the necessarily more prudent non-public sector.Â It was recently came to light how the great technological innovator Apple Inc. sets up branches in cities with low corporate tax rates in order to lower its tax bill.Â This is of course a great thing as Apple, constrained in income by how much it receives from consumers, is a better steward of scarce resources then the state.Â Appleâ€™s tax avoidance is obvious.Â The further technological innovations financed by money the government bandits donâ€™t help themselves to is not readily apparent.

The general public is blind to this state of affairs.Â Many have been conditioned through years of public schooling to see the state as Eden.Â The short term benefits of government transfer payments override any conceivable long term gains of genuine wealth creation in the private sphere.

Decades of the predominant welfare state have not only created a reliable voting constituency dependent on handouts, it has perpetuated the Santa Clause-like image of the state.Â What isnâ€™t considered is the overall social degeneration that is a byproduct of the so-called â€œsocial safety net.â€Â As noted economist Thomas Sowell explains:

While liberals may think of the 1960s as the beginning of many "progressive" trends in American society, cold hard facts tell a very different story. The 1960s marked the end of many beneficial trends that had been going on for years - and a complete reversal of those trends as programs, policies, and ideologies of the liberals took hold.

Teenage pregnancy had been going down for years. So had venereal disease. Rates of infection for syphilis in 1960 was half of what it had been in 1950. There were similar trends in crime. The total number of murders in the United States in 1960 was lower than in 1950, 1940, or 1930 - even though the population was growing and two new states had been added. The murder rate, in proportion to population, in 1960 was half of what it had been in 1934.

Every one of these beneficial trends sharply reversed after liberal notions gained ascendancy during in the 1960s. By 1974, the murder rate had doubled. Even liberal icon Sargent Shriver, head of the agency directing the "war on poverty," admitted that "venereal disease has skyrocketed" even though "we have had more clinics, more pills, and more sex education than ever in history."

As for black economic advances, the most dramatic reduction in poverty among blacks occurred between 1940 and 1960, when the black poverty rate was cut almost in half, without any major government programs of the Great Society kind that began in the 1960s.

Why be productive and take of yourself when someone else picks up the tab?Â This isnâ€™t a cold hearted question but a basic recognition that in most cases, leisure and immediate pleasure are preferred to delayed satisfaction.

Back to unemployment insurance, no matter how much it is denied by entitlement apologists, there is no escaping the truth that if someone is paid not to work, they will generally not work.Â As Murray Rothbard writes in his magnum opus Man, Economy, and State:

For almost all actors, leisure is a consumerâ€™s good, to be weighed in the balance against the prospect of acquiring other consumerâ€™s goods, including possible satisfaction from the effort itself.

People will always be economizing beings who make choices between how they spend their time and where they dedicate their labor.Â The National Post article makes mention of this consideration among those on the dole as small business ownersâ€¦

have found themselves competing with the EI system for workers who are weighing opportunity costs: Would I toil in a hard labour job for $10 an hour or not go to work for roughly the same amount of cash?

This reluctance to work was documented in a 2009 survey which found many businesses unable to hire those on the unemployment rolls:

A CFIB survey published in September, 2009, found 22% of small businesses owners had trouble hiring people who are on EI, as workers said they would rather continue collecting benefits than work in the more hands-on jobs. Another 16% said that in the past year, they had had an employee ask to be laid off so he or she could collect EI benefits (these rates were higher in Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island).

This is all a consequence of the welfare state which has institutionalized poverty instead of relieving it.Â The real beneficiaries of entitlement programs are not the recipients but those who maintain their positions as gatekeepers to the money.Â The saddening dependency of others and the governmentâ€™s monopoly over coercive tax collection is what provides them a steady stream of income.

As long as the public still operates under the fallacious assumption that the state is costless, they will continue to vote themselves into destitution.Â Living standards will decline as productivity gains begin to taper off.Â A generation of the entitled will soon find themselves deserving of nothing because the real wealth producers will have long since abandoned their efforts to serve others.

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In the Garden of Eden there is no scarcity.Â Food, clothing, and shelter in are abundance.Â Resources merely fall from the heavens upon command.Â It is economic paradise precisely because economics does not exist.Â The universal laws that hold in the world of scarce goods vanquish in the land of the plenty.

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A country endowed yet fail to provide for the well being of its people due to corrupt practices in most sectors of the economy.

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In the UK, east midlands, I believe conditions such ad dementia and Alzheimer's disease go unnoticed or ignored beause not many of us know what the condio

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Big cities in Indonesia has long suffered from chronic traffic congestion. Despite many efforts carried out by various institutions and government, the problem is still there and getting worse.

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Many people seem ignorant of the extent of problems caused by our society and certainly don't realise they can be part of the solution.

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Sanitation is one of the biggest problems in India. It is mostly due to lack of knowledge and access to proper health and hygiene.

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Sanitation is one of the biggest problems in India. It is mostly due to lack of knowledge and access to proper health and hygiene.

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Big traffic jam in Vietnam with growing population and veh

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Big traffic jam in Vietnam with growing population and veh

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Trong 5 năm qua, dân số Hà Nội tăng thêm 1,3 triệu người, riêng khu vực nội thành tăng 1,2 triệu, trong đó phần lớn là người nhập cư.

Ùn tắc cục bộ, ùn ứ giao thông không chỉ diễn ra tại những khu vực có các công trình đang xây dựng có rào chắn mà còn xảy ra ở nhiều tuyến phố khác. Trả lời phỏng vấn của giới truyền thông, không ít người gọi là "chuyên gia" "phán" rằng: Ùn tắc giao thông ở Hà Nội hiện nay là do "yếu kém trong quản lý đô thị", "thiếu các phương tiện giao thông công cộng", "thiếu văn hóa giao thông"... Tóm lại, người ta đổ hết lỗi lên đầu Hà Nội. Thoạt nghe có vẻ "lọt tai" nhưng tìm hiểu kỹ vấn đề thì không phải như vậy, nguyên nhân chính là số dân quá đông, lại tăng quá nhanh.

Có lẽ không tỉnh, thành phố nào trên cả nước có mức tăng dân số tự nhiên và cơ học nhanh như TP Hồ Chí Minh và Hà Nội. Trong báo cáo với Đoàn đại biểu Quốc hội Hà Nội, Chi cục Dân số và Kế hoạch hóa gia đình Hà Nội đã đưa ra số liệu:

Mỗi năm dân số Hà Nội dự kiến tăng thêm khoảng 200.000 người (tương đương dân số một huyện lớn). Trong 5-7 năm vừa qua, số dân thuộc diện hộ khẩu thường trú của phường Thượng Đình (quận Thanh Xuân) đã tăng thêm cả vạn người, nâng tổng số lên 2,61 vạn người với gần 6.700 hộ. Nếu tính cả số lượng căn hộ xây mới của các dự án trên địa bàn phường đang và sẽ đưa vào sử dụng trong thời gian sắp tới thì số dân của phường này sẽ tăng lên tới khoảng 4 vạn người. Còn phường Vĩnh Tuy (quận Hai Bà Trưng) chưa kể dân của các khu đô thị lớn và hàng loạt dự án nhà ở, khu chung cư khác trên địa bàn đang đưa vào sử dụng đã có trên 4 vạn dân. Vì thế, thời gian tới, dân số phường này có thể tăng trên 8 vạn. Trong gần 10 năm qua, dân số của phường Láng Hạ (quận Đống Đa) tăng từ 2,2 vạn lên trên 3,2 vạn người. Đó là chưa kể khoảng 7.000 người tạm trú trên địa bàn gồm: Học sinh, sinh viên, người lao động ngoại tỉnh. Theo quy hoạch các trường đại học trên địa bàn Hà Nội, số lượng sinh viên tại trung tâm Hà Nội đến năm 2020 là khoảng 30 vạn, nhưng đến cuối năm 2014 đã tăng lên 66 vạn.

Trong 5 năm qua, dân số Hà Nội tăng thêm 1,3 triệu người, riêng khu vực nội thành tăng 1,2 triệu, trong đó phần lớn là người nhập cư. Theo Chi cục Dân số và Kế hoạch hóa gia đình Hà Nội, không tính người dân về Hà Nội làm ăn theo mùa vụ và người vãng lai thì mật độ dân số trung bình hiện nay của Hà Nội khoảng 2.100 người/km2, khu vực trung tâm có mật độ cao nhất. So với thủ đô của các nước trong khu vực ASEAN (mật độ trung bình ở mức từ 100 đến 200 người/km2) thì mật độ dân số của Hà Nội là quá cao. Chưa cần phương tiện chỉ cần từng ấy con người đứng cạnh nhau cũng đã là cả vấn đề rồi.

Kèm theo số dân là các phương tiện giao thông cá nhân. Theo thống kê, tính đến tháng 6-2015, số ô tô, xe máy ở Hà Nội là 5,5 triệu xe và trung bình số đăng ký mới hằng tháng là 19.000 xe. Dân số và phương tiện giao thông cá nhân tăng theo "cấp số nhân" trong khi hạ tầng giao thông tăng theo "cấp số cộng" thì tắc và ùn ứ giao thông vào giờ cao điểm là điều dễ hiểu. Và có tài thánh trong quản lý đô thị cũng không thể giảm được ùn tắc. Ai cũng biết, để tránh ùn tắc thì cần phải mở rộng đường, làm đường mới, đầu tư tàu điện ngầm, nhưng vốn ở đâu? Tìm nguồn vốn để phát triển hạ tầng giao thông không chỉ là khó khăn của riêng Hà Nội. Mới đây, Bộ GT-VT đã tổ chức hội thảo lớn về vấn đề này.

Và trước khi hạ tầng đủ đáp ứng cho giao thông thì việc cần làm trước mắt và trung hạn là phải giảm áp lực dân số ở khu vực trung tâm, giảm số dân đổ về Hà Nội. Nhưng Hiến pháp 2013 quy định mọi công dân đều có quyền sinh sống ở bất cứ đâu trên lãnh thổ Việt Nam thì chỉ còn cách thực hiện nghiêm túc việc chuyển trụ sở của các bộ, ngành, các trường đại học, cơ sở y tế (đã được Chính phủ phê duyệt) ra xa khu vực trung tâm. Các tỉnh, thành phố cũng phải tìm mọi cách phát triển kinh tế để tạo nhiều việc làm cho người dân, đồng thời xây dựng những "thị xã, thành phố đáng sống, đáng đến", chỉ có thế mới hạn chế tình trạng ly hương. Bản thân Hà Nội cũng cần thực hiện đúng quy định về tỷ lệ sinh con. Nếu không giảm áp lực dân số thì trước mắt và tương lai, giao thông sẽ còn ùn tắc như sáng 8-10.
Theo Hà Nội mới

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Trong 5 năm qua, dân số Hà Nội tăng thêm 1,3 triệu người, riêng khu vực nội thành tăng 1,2 triệu, trong đó phần lớn là người nhập cư. Ùn tắc cục bộ, ùn ứ giao thông không chỉ diễn ra tại những khu vực có các công trình đang xây dựng có rào chắn mà còn xảy ra ở nhiều tuyến phố khác.

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With the refugee crisis escalating, immigration laws becoming increasingly hostile towards for example families who are separated by arbitrary law, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the public, rather than uniting against manifest racism are reinforcing ideology perpetrated by government and medina. How can we effectively and sustainably stand together against thins to create change

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On a local/borough scale - social and economic divisions are widening based on lack of social housing and unaffordable house, the springing up on new luxurious developments which are snapped up by investors which are then rented off to normal working people at extortionate rates. In time, this will create a division in state education, healthcare and all infrastructures holding up society - keyworkers will leave London along with the massive ramifications that this alludes to

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Some are willing and many are unwilling to accept migrants into their communities. Success of integration can be reached where communities engage locals to work along-side the migrants. The necessary funds and goodwill need to be allocated to this important local cause in Europe.

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Due to administrative problem/ poor management  of resources

poverty

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This is one of the many problems in my local community.

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Used vehicles threatening the environment and helping disease-bearing mosquitoes to thrive.

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Definition of Street Children by UNICEF:

“any girl or boy who has not reached adulthood, for whom the street (in the broadest sense of the word, including unoccupied dwellings, wasteland, etc.) has become her or his habitual abode and/or sources of livelihood, and who is inadequately protected, supervised or directed by responsible adults”

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Digital is a way to alleviate a proportion of social challenges

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Loneliness can lead to depression and low self Esteem

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Loneliness can lead to depression and low self Esteem

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Indonesia seems crazy over things that China made, even fake rice

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Corruption and lack of civil demands. Lack of accountability makes that goverments spend public money and arange private bussines afecting population, using votes and clientelism to win power

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Corruption and lack of civil demands. Lack of accountability makes that goverments spend public money and arange private bussines afecting population, using votes and clientelism to win power

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Immigration in Italy from the Mediterranean Sea

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Immigration in Italy from the Mediterranean Sea

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There is lack of coordination in the immigration system in Italy

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Eleven years after he first arrived in Rome, Elias Abraham sips a beer outside one of countless abandoned buildings occupied by East Africans and considers himself lucky.

Originally from Eritrea, his hands are covered with oil after working at a car shop where he earns 15 euros ($17) per day. It's enough to get by, he says, explaining there are hundreds of people in his building who, despite having legal refugee status, struggle to find work, let alone decent housing.

"In Italy, if you go straight, you die," Abraham said. "You have to go crooked and weave like a snake to survive."

For refugees in Rome, "going crooked" can mean anything from selling prostitution services for as little as five euros a client to pursuing a myriad of criminal activities, all consequences of a broken integration system, according to Italian humanitarian workers who say the problems will only grow as boats continue to arrive from Libya.

Many refugees in Rome live in occupied buildings

So far this year, more than 30,000 asylum-seekers have reached Italy, with 1,800 arriving on Friday alone. As borders controls tighten and economic opportunities remain dismal, many new arrivals will join an estimated 10,000 refugees who currently live outside state institutions.

Such inconsistencies in Italian reception services have been documented in a new report by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), titled "Out of Sight."

"The system isn't working," said Giuseppe De Mola, the lead researcher for the report. "In theory, they are supposed to be in reception centers for 30 days, but for the majority, the process takes a year or a year and a half ... so they escape. They leave the camps."

Of the 154,000 people who migrated to Italy last year, 84,000 applied for asylum, but less than 20,000 were placed in state-run integration programs where they learn basic Italian skills and get assistance with job placement, the report found.

A sign on an occupied office building in central Rome reads, 'We are refugees, not terrorists'

According to De Mola, the problems lie not only with insufficient capacity within reception centers, but also with gaps in administrative procedures that leave refugees confused and without adequate information. Frustrated by the slow progress, many end up leaving the centers to find work or try to leave the country, but often achieve neither.

"[Most of the people in abandoned buildings] are documented, they are refugees in every way," De Mola said. "Italy has a crisis, but we cannot say this to justify everything,"

Out from the start

Migration issues are nothing new in Italy. While conducting his research De Mola interviewed more than 550 people living in "irregular housing" situations and found the average resident had been inside the country for six years. Looking over his data, De Mola noted critical issues with integration start in the first several weeks of a person's arrival and can have long-running repercussions - a problem that has yet to be addressed.

On a weekend night, in an industrial area near the center, Sangar Abdullah, a 27-year-old Afghan, leads two friends who just arrived from his hometown to a couple of tents pitched in a little used alleyway. Volunteers from Baobab, a community collective, are on site to help new arrivals find a place to sleep.

There are only a few available sleeping bags, and one dirty mattress laid bare on moist asphalt, but Abdullah says he brought his friends here because the reception centers are too crowded and they would get robbed elsewhere.

Moulgeta Gaffi, an Ethiopian living in Rome for 14 years, holds his refugee identification card, which he says is worthless

Abdullah himself has been in Italy for 10 months and was just recently granted refugee status. Since coming to Rome, he has been sleeping in a church and working at a car wash. He earns 20 euros a day for 12 hours of work, seven days a week. Visibly tired, but also happy to receive his friends, Abdullah says they made the right decision in coming to Rome.

"Italy allows people to stay," he said in broken Italian. "In Germany, not anymore."

The next day, Abdullah said he would help his friends apply for asylum. Eventually, he hopes to get them housing and work, all responsibilities normally undertaken by immigration authorities.

"This is the welcoming system in Italy," said Roberto Viviani, Baobab volunteer and immigration activist. "It's very hands off. People are on their own."

Standing in the alleyway, in front of the Baobab shelter that was shuttered by police last year, Viviani says asylum-seekers who stay in the state reception system don't have a particular advantage over those who abandon it.

"They put them in these camps for a year and they just stare at a wall," Viviani said. "They could at least teach them something, get them some simple work. The way things are now, we basically force them to become delinquent."

Refuge in Selam Palace

Far from the city center, in a derelict suburban office park between a highway and a shopping plaza, Moulgeta Gaffi pulls out his a refugee card and complains of the few gains he's made since first arriving in Italy 14 years ago.

Selam Palace houses more than 1,000 refugees in a Roman suburb

"They say we have rights, sure, the right to sleep on the street," said Gaffi, an Ethiopian who takes odd jobs whenever possible.

He spoke frankly in front of "Selam Palace," a large office building where more than 1,000 East Africans have taken shelter and which stands as "the beacon of failed integration," as he calls it.

"Why are there no camps?" Gaffi asked. "In Africa, we have camps for refugees. I don't understand why they keep us in these places."

Refugees protest in Lampedusa, causing headaches for locals

Another night, another plaza

Following the funeral on Tuesday, protesters cleaned up the plaza where they had been camping and occupied a different square, easing tensions with locals. As he spread a blanket over cardboard boxes, Yemeni refugee Wael Marsh said, "We don't want to be here, the people don't want us here, so we will protest until they take us off this island."

Author: Diego Cupolo, Lampedusa, Italy

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Eleven years after he first arrived in Rome, Elias Abraham sips a beer outside one of countless abandoned buildings occupied by East Africans and considers himself lucky. Originally from Eritrea, his hands are covered with oil after working at a car shop where he earns 15 euros ($17) per day.

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Indigenous recognition and reconciliation / Climate change vs. Economic development / Homelessness 

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Indigenous recognition and reconciliation / Climate change vs. Economic development / Homelessness 

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People lacking these skills tend to come from poorer areas. Gaining digital skills can help lift people out of poverty.

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I recently watched Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's War on Waste which highlighted the insane regulations on 'less that perfect' veg. We can't afford to keep wasting perfectly good food for no good reason.

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Illegal Immigration is one of the biggest problems at this moment in Italy and Europe. This issue is going to be the crucial test if the idea of an unified Europe can resist. It is also a test , if Europe can successfully avoid that the gap between the rich and the poor keeps widening.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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this is the biggest challenge and evil my country faces

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Here in Brazil, most of the problems are related to poverty and lack of access to something: education, basic health and employment.

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Filth within my community has always been the terror that scares the good health away from many of the people in the community. As many fall  sick with several sicknesses which are mostly attributed to how badly we manage the waste we produce on a daily basis.

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Lack of WASH facilities : sewage system, garbage processing and recycling

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Lack of WASH facilities : sewage system, garbage processing and recycling

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Income gap - growing upper-middle class, and shrinking middle class, growing lower class

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Income gap - growing upper-middle class, and shrinking middle class, growing lower class

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Barriers to education and opportunity for people with learning difficulties particularly if they are from less wealthy backgrounds. This leads to unemployment, crime, mental health issues, substance abuses etc that costs society a lot and excludes people who with some help could be a vital part of their community.

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Barriers to education and opportunity for people with learning difficulties particularly if they are from less wealthy backgrounds. This leads to unemployment, crime, mental health issues, substance abuses etc that costs society a lot and excludes people who with some help could be a vital part of their community.

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Social and economic inequality in Brazil and racism, sexism and transfobia.

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Social and economic inequality in Brazil and racism, sexism and transfobia.

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http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/11/brazil-dilma-rousseff-economy-impeachment/

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Only a miracle can save Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. On April 17, the lower house of Brazil's National Congress voted for her impeachment, stemming from allegations that she tried to camouflage the country's fiscal deficit by borrowing money from state-run banks. Then, on May 9, Waldir Maranhão, the acting speaker of the lower house, abruptly annulled the ongoing impeachment process, claiming there were procedural errors in the April 17 vote. The next day, he suddenly reversed himself, offering no reason. His walk-back came only one day before the upper house, known as the Federal Senate, began deliberating whether Rousseff should face trial for impeachment. Such is the chaos of Brazilian politics these days. With the Supreme Court's rejection of an appeal by the government to try to stop the political trial, Rousseff is now a step closer to leaving office.

In the Senate, 52 out of 81 lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday night in favor of an impeachment trial for Rousseff, more than the simple majority needed to suspend her as president for 180 days while the hearings take place. Vice President Michel Temer, a member of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), would step in during this period and, ultimately, could become president until the next elections in 2018 if Rousseff is impeached. Ironically, the budget deficit threatening to bring her down, equal to about 2.28 percent of GDP, will remain one of the country's biggest economic problems - regardless of her eventual fate - and will continue to be a major headache for Temer.

So far, financial markets have sent Temer encouraging messages. Recently, Brazil's Bovespa stock index, as well as its currency, the real, has risen to its highest levels in months on the prospect of political change. The announcement of Maranhão's now-annulled annulment incited a sell-off in local markets: The Bovespa and the real fell 3.5 and 4.6 percent, respectively, but pared back losses after the Senate asserted that it would continue with its plan to vote on Rousseff's impeachment. Investors, in other words, want the president gone. The market is watching for Rousseff's free fall: Despite the political volatility today, the Bovespa is surging 0.5 percent, and the Brazilian real is appreciating 0.2 percent

But measures to stabilize the economy with or without Rousseff will still be difficult to implement and certainly won't produce immediate results. A Temer-led government will have to contend with long-standing structural weaknesses. Growth could remain elusive, as significant budgetary tightening is required. Because more than 85 percent of federal spending is constitutionally guaranteed, the necessary changes will require amendments passed by Congress. Temer's immediate hurdle, then, will be to gather enough political support from lawmakers who, for months, haven't had the stomach to approve a package of much-needed, broadly unpopular austerity measures.

Brazil's deeper problems, in other words, go far beyond its immediate crisis. The country's fractured political system, rife with corruption, poses a serious challenge to structural reform. With the dramatic impeachment proceedings underway amid the most fragmented Congress in Brazil's history, economic reform will remain out of reach until the country restores political stability.

A new executive branch under Temer will be tested on several fronts. Hit by China's slowdown and the end of the commodity supercycle, Brazil's GDP contracted 3.8 percent in 2015 - the biggest dip in 25 years - and the IMF expects a similar drop this year. The good news? At current rates, growth could level off to zero in 2017. But that's about it. Despite the fact that inflation in March declined the most in a month since 2004, prices are rising 9.28 percent annually, way above the maximum target of 6.5 percent.

Unemployment has more than doubled in the past two years, from 5.1 percent in 2014 to an estimated 11 percent this year. What's more, Brazil carries a heavy overall public sector deficit of 10.8 percent of GDP - an increase on last year's 6.6 percent deficit - and a rising gross government debt of 68 percent. Debt payments are as high as 8 percent, since the relatively high interest rate of 14.25 percent makes the cost of borrowing very expensive.

Although analysts say Brazil has weathered the worst of its economic crisis, the decline in government revenues and surging debt call for a big fiscal adjustment. Brazil's generous pension system, for instance, is one of the many factors imposing a heavy burden on state accounts. Today, expenses for the General Social Security Regime constitute the biggest source of pressure on public spending, according to a report from Bank of America published on April 13.

How heavily does the pension system weigh on Brazil's overall economic health? The 2015 primary deficit - a way of calculating the deficit that does not include interest payments on loans taken out to finance the operation of the government - of 1.9 percent of GDP would have been 0.4 percent without the social security deficit, according to the Bank of America report. The country's social security deficit could reach 13 percent of GDP by 2060 if no measures are taken, the bank alerted. Analysts argue that Temer should raise the minimum age for retirement and separate the pension payment adjustments from increases in the minimum wage.

Fixing the fiscal deficit will also require more budget cuts and tax hikes, a plan that didn't work out very well for ex-Finance Minister Joaquim Levy. His attempts to tighten public spending were scuttled last year when lawmakers blocked most of his reforms. Temer, then, must find a way to build political consensus while avoiding political suicide.

While Rousseff spends what could be her final days in office, she has warned that Temer's plans to cut social programs instituted by her Workers' Party (PT) won't be tolerated. In fact, she's doubling down. On May 1, she increased pressure on the vice president, announcing a slate of tax cuts, expanded public housing, and a 9 percent increase in the monthly stipend of Bolsa Família, the most popular welfare program, further complicating the upcoming budget negotiations.

Investors see Temer as a more market-friendly politician with a more liberal agenda versus Rousseff's state interventionism, but his economic advisors have said he won't make radical changes. Instead, they say, he'll look for gradual improvements on fiscal accounts while maintaining existent welfare programs. It won't be that easy if Temer wants to keep Brazil's public debt from rising further. Hopes now rest on Henrique Meirelles, a former Brazilian Central Bank president, who holds a high level of credibility to lead the new economic team.

The true test of strength for Temer's new cabinet will be its ability to get Congress to approve economic reforms in a historically challenging political environment. The suspension of former lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha, the architect of the impeachment campaign against Rousseff, for money laundering and corruption in connection with the massive Petrobras scandal was only the latest twist in the ongoing political conflagration. Both Cunha's PMDB and Rouseff's PT are entangled in the mess. Indeed, above and beyond the ongoing impeachment, Brazil's chief prosecutor has asked the Supreme Court to authorize an investigation into Rousseff in connection with Petrobras. Rousseff denies any wrongdoing, despite serving as chairwoman of the company's board while the corruption scheme played out.

The removal of Cunha doesn't make life easy for Temer, who's also a member of the PMDB. At the same time, it clears the way for the vice president to have a softer landing in government. But if the Supreme Court decides to slap corruption charges against the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, then Temer will lose his two main allies in Congress.

The potential change in Brazil's government could break the political gridlock that has been in place since at least Rousseff's re-election. But it will not be enough for a fresh start for an eventual new administration, given the grimy political environment. Rousseff's impeachment will ultimately determine whether 13 years of PT government rule ends, though it won't be enough to change the economic front in the near future.

A new cabinet with a strong political willingness might be able to implement fundamental measures to increase the chances for economic reform. But Brazilians will have to wait years to benefit from the results. And there will certainly be some pain they'll be forced to tolerate with the curtailing of welfare programs. In the end, it's not as simple as throwing the bums out. Even a purge of the current political class isn't enough to force Congress to rethink, at least for now, how to mend the ailing economy.

Photo Credit: Mario Tama / Staff

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Brazil's Problems are Much Bigger than Dilma

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I am very blessed and lucky to live in beautiful Manly Beach, Australia - a safe suburb, 20 minutes from central Sydney where jobs, housing, opportunities, social services, public health, education and community is strong and abundant. However, this affluence also breeds complacency: despite living on the stunning Pacific, and the ocean being a source of wealth and employment for the city, the consumption of single use plastic, and subsequent lack of recycling and dumping of single use plastic, means there is a high volume of plastic pollution - from plastic bags, to microbeads to bottles etc. This issue is exacerbated by a high volume of tourists, uneducated about how to dispose of their rubbish. Levels of pollution are now reaching critical - damaging local protected ecosystems which include sharks, turtles, whales, dolphins, and many other endangered species.

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I am very blessed and lucky to live in beautiful Manly Beach, Australia - a safe suburb, 20 minutes from central Sydney where jobs, housing, opportunities, social services, public health, education and community is strong and abundant. However, this affluence also breeds complacency: despite living on the stunning Pacific, and the ocean being a source of wealth and employment for the city, the consumption of single use plastic, and subsequent lack of recycling and dumping of single use plastic, means there is a high volume of plastic pollution - from plastic bags, to microbeads to bottles etc. This issue is exacerbated by a high volume of tourists, uneducated about how to dispose of their rubbish. Levels of pollution are now reaching critical - damaging local protected ecosystems which include sharks, turtles, whales, dolphins, and many other endangered species.

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We believe that food poverty and underemployment is one of the biggest challenges our local community faces. Particularly those who you wouldn't 'think' could be in this position are.

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With thanks to The Post Project for helping us to create this video, the team at Recipe4Change are encouraging you to help us crowdfund and build our next business in the City of Melbourne.

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affordable housing - people cant afford to build or rent leading to over crowding leading to poor health. Poor insulated houses leading to poor health outcomes.

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Poorly built, poorly insulated, over crowding leading to health problems particularly for the young and old

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Health literacy inequality in socially deprived areas - no one has taught the community members about self care & certain unhealthy habits have become part of the culture

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huge inequality in wealth, health, education and housing. over medicalisation of physical and mental reactions to these and blaming victims, scapegoating them as sick rather than the society that is sick.

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huge inequality in wealth, health, education and housing. over medicalisation of physical and mental reactions to these and blaming victims, scapegoating them as sick rather than the society that is sick.

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One in every three people in Jordan is a refugee. 

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One in every three people in Jordan is a refugee. 

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There are many refugees in Jordan including Palestinians, Syrians and Iraqis.

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Refugees are seen at the Zaatari camp in this photo taken earlier this year. The camp, some 90km northeast of Amman, is currently home to 79,253 (File photo)

AMMAN - Although the number of refugees from different nationalities in the Kingdom varies from one estimate to other and is difficult to identify, a World Bank official last week said, in Jordan "one in every three persons [is] being a refugee".

Colin Bruce, senior adviser to the World Bank Group's president, made this statement at a press conference last week to launch a World Bank new report, without elaborating on numbers of refugees or their nationalities.

The government did not reject or confirm this percentage but noted that figures are difficult to estimate.

Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Mohammad Momani, who is also government's spokesperson, told The Jordan Times it is difficult to identify the total number of refugees in the country, "especially if we want to include Palestinians in these estimates".

According to UNHCR, Jordan is the second largest host of refugees per capita in the world following Pakistan.

Still, the agency has only some 700,000 persons from 41 nationalities registered as refugees in the Kingdom, said Mohammad Hawari, senior mass information and communication associate at UNHCR.

Hawari, however, added that the number differs when adding number of Palestinians who are registered with UNRWA.

An infograph that was recently published on the World Bank Twitter account states that there are 2.7 million registered refugees in Jordan, which stands for 41.2 per cent of the total population.

Data included in the infograph will be published in the World Bank's migration and remittances report for the year 2015 and is based on figures from both UNHCR and UNRWA.

According to the UNRWA website, there are 2.1 million Palestinian refugees in Jordan; with only 140,000 of whom non-holders of Jordanian nationality.

As for refugees from other nations, Syrians come on top, with more than 600,000 registered with the UNHCR. However, the government says there are 1.5 million Syrians in Jordan, stressing that more than 80 per cent of Syrian refugees dwell in host communities rather than in designated camps.

Iraqis come second with more than 30,000 registered refugees in Jordan.

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Refugees constitute third of Jordan population - World Bank official

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AMMAN - Although the number of refugees from different nationalities in the Kingdom varies from one estimate to other and is difficult to identify, a World Bank official last week said, in Jordan "one in every three persons [is] being a refugee".

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Life aspirations and family support/boundaries at home.

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London is an extreme place - with wide variances between the rich and the poor: jobs, education, healthcare, crime, access to opportunity.

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Growing inequality; between native and immigrant citizens, between higher educated and lower educated citizens, between citizens with higher incomes and citizens with lower incomes, between older and younger citizens; reflected in an increasing polarized (political) climate with less and less common understanding and tolerance for each other. 

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Growing inequality; between native and immigrant citizens, between higher educated and lower educated citizens, between citizens with higher incomes and citizens with lower incomes, between older and younger citizens; reflected in an increasing polarized (political) climate with less and less common understanding and tolerance for each other. 

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Fear, misunderstanding, rejection of the "otherS"

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Fear, misunderstanding, rejection of the "others"

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In my place the Lack of Education affects a large number of people

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One of the biggest problems in my country is the fact that many retired people, despite of having worked all their lives, get very low pensions which in many cases are not enough to have a decent life. 

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One of the biggest problems in my country is the fact that many retired people, despite of having worked all their lives, get very low pensions which in many cases are not enough to have a decent life. 

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Death, crimes of the politicians, orphans, violence, cripples, refugees .

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for disadvantaged groups, and to integrate social groups rather than identifying them as a different category - we are all human.

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Ignorance, apathy an bigotry in areas with the most deprived people - fuelled by stuff like this!

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Hi unemployment, transient community with low bonding social capital and high levels of mental illness.

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In my local place the most important problem it is low employment in winter time. We have to much work at the summer time but later go down.

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unfortunately opportunities are just not there for everyone, depending on your social-economic background some are more likely to successfully go through life then others.

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We've seen the warnings, and survival stories, about illnesses brought on by cold, damp, mouldy homes. But not every child who falls sick from the likes of rheumatic fever comes out okay.

"A number of children die each year from what we call housing-related hospitalisations," says professor of public health at the University of Otago Philippa Howden-Chapman.

They also include pneumonia, asthma and other respiratory conditions in this category. In fact, Prof Howden-Chapman estimates badly insulated homes send as many as 50,000 children to hospital every year.

She says Housing New Zealand is attempting to do a good job, but attention also needs to be placed on private rentals.

"Over a quarter of a million of the children who are in households that are in poverty live in private rental housing. And there are basically no standards there. You're not required to have a heater; it's not required to be insulated. And that seems to me completely unacceptable. "

On Friday, Newshub showed other victims of the housing crisis -- families being forced to live in their cars -- and yesterday we revealed some tenants are paying almost $400 a week for a garage roof over their head.

Prime Minister John Key says the passing of the Residential Tenancies Bill will demand better levels of insulation and other provisions.

"The challenge here of course is if we push too hard on the landlords and demand heating devices and that the heating is actually turned on and all those things, that inevitably has to flow through to rents."

For Prof Howden-Chapman though, the investment in children is something you can't put a price on.

"The greatest social investment that we can make is the health of our children. We know that houses are making children, particularly children in very low-income households, very sick."

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Damp, cold and mouldy: The other housing crisis

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We've seen the warnings, and survival stories, about illnesses brought on by cold, damp, mouldy homes. But not every child who falls sick from the likes of rheumatic fever comes out okay. "A number of children die each year from what we call housing-related hospitalisations," says professor of public health at the University of Otago Philippa Howden-Chapman.

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The Child Poverty Monitor uses a variety of measures to paint a picture of how kiwi children are doing. The income poverty measure shows how many children are living in low income households, material hardship measures tell us how many children are missing out on essentials and severe poverty shows how many children are living in households with both low income and material hardship.

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Domestic violence

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Cold, damp homes, making people sick

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In places where there is a shortage of food and unrest digital inclusion can seem a luxury. But is it a luxury when your government services move online and the only way to receive benefits or access important information is if you are digitally included?

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Young people are being raised with intense expectations of what their place is in this world. There is a demand for doing, rather than being. Relationships with people is irrelevant in the race for money and 'success'.

Young people are growing up in a cold, empty, hopeless and lifeless world causing devastating consequences on their health and place in society.

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Power supply has really been a determining factor as to how productivity and development can thrive and survive in my locality.. It has been a major problem and still is......

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air pollution

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air pollution

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