OBJECTIVE Previous research on the health transition and nutrition security in black South African households revealed the need for further research among farm workers who belong to the poorest population categories. This article gives an overview of the link between nutrition security, livelihoods and HIV/AIDS in South Africa, drawing conclusions for research among farm worker households. DE...

This paper explores how professionals’ universal, reductionist and standardized views of poverty differ from those of the poor themselves. Poverty line thinking concerned with income-poverty and employment thinking concerned with jobs, project Northern concerns on the South, where the realities of the poor are local, diverse, often complex and dynamic. Examples illustrate how poor people’s crit...

Background and aims: Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be defined in both economic and social terms. The paper attempts to review the existing evidence to understand the relation between poverty and ill health in the context of the limited conceptual and operational definitions of these terms. The paper uses two of Hills criteria- reversibility and dose response relationship to ...

the article, at first, deals with eliade’s phenomenology that is in contrast with reductionist methods. then, it explains the key concept in eliade work, namly, sacred. in relation to this, author concentrates on concepts of time and place in archaic religion. he says that archaic people with their belief in sacred place imitate works of gods and regulate the world. then, it deals with ontology...

government, now, more than the fist half of 20th century, have accepted. reducing poverty as an inevitably and necessary object. implementing poverty reduction programs would not he as succesful as, without paying enought attention to the dimentions of poverty. in this way estimating poverty line and percent ofpoor people are of the most favorable measures. also we would he enable to make more ...

mahmoud sami al-barodi is one of pioneers of modern arabic poetry and one of leaders of literary movement that his purpose was to revive the old poetical inheritance and to return the literature to its e honorable past. it was the school converting to prominent and unique one ,later. he attempted to compose wishes and to show the realities of society in his poetry. he must really be considered ...