(d) Promoting employment and income generating opportunities for women.

In cash management, there were opportunities for increasing the interest income.

(a) Can South South cooperation generate income and employment opportunities for the rural and urban poor?

Women residing in the shelters have been offered income generating opportunities following educational and professional training.

Hence, it can reduce inequalities by strengthening the opportunities for the poor to increase their income.

Oil production and exports have increased along with the number of employment opportunities, income and trade exchange for Iraqis.

(b) Increase in Member States' national capacity to formulate, execute and evaluate appropriate schemes for alternative income generating opportunities

Ongoing rehabilitation activities at ARCVI included vocational training, income generation opportunities, Braille courses, home outreach services and recreational activities.

Contributing to increased social equity by improving indigenous peoples' income levels and employment opportunities in the wider Australian employment market

The new Income and Employment Supports Act (IESA), implemented in 2004, enhances training opportunities for low income and vulnerable client groups, and expands benefits for clients moving into employment or training.

There is a strong trend towards ownership of forests by local communities, which has provided low income producers with new opportunities.

Growth with equity had always been the thrust of Malaysia's development planning, with emphasis on efforts to enhance income generating opportunities.

High post harvest losses and low value added result in limited competitiveness and missed opportunities for employment creation and income generation.

In Kyrgyzstan, efforts are under way through a similar project to reduce outmigration from mountain areas by creating new income opportunities.

Ongoing rehabilitation activities at the RCVI included vocational training, income generation opportunities, Braille courses, a home outreach service and recreational activities.

Such programmes also provide income generating opportunities and relate to coping strategies in relation with population pressure, water scarcity, poverty and migration.

It is only partially compensated for by opportunities for earning extra income by undertaking non obligatory tasks and teaching paid for courses.

Negative income distribution is one of the forms taken by the lack of equal opportunities, both internationally and nationally quot (para. 34).

The nature and extent of older persons participation, income security and health depends largely on the opportunities and experiences of their earlier years.

In these countries, informal sector enterprises are an important provider of employment and income opportunities not only in rural but also in urban areas.

The new Palestinian development plan was geared towards the creation of new job opportunities, ending the decline of national income and encouraging private investment.

The World Bank Group apparently applies this concept to its corporate procurement operations with a view to increasing job creation opportunities, increasing income for minority groups, building capacity in all categories of expenditure, advancing economic opportunities and development.

It acknowledged that policies to eradicate poverty must work in parallel on the one hand to increase opportunities and access to resources and on the other to reduce inequalities in the distribution of assets, wealth, opportunities, income and services.

For example, countries with a small population or a low per capita income would provide different sets of obstacles and opportunities for traders than would a country with a large population or a much higher per capita income.

Mr. Sunaga (Japan) said that promoting trade and investment was the key to achieving sustainable growth because it created job opportunities and sources of income.

Improved profitability at the micro level will be reflected in higher national income, improved foreign exchange earnings and more employment opportunities at the national level.

Special emphasis is placed on the structural aspects of income distribution, the composition of employment and the transmission between generations of educational and labour opportunities.

The negative effects of globalization had continued to widen the economic and social gap between the developed and developing countries, increasing inequality of income and opportunities.

The African Housing Fund continues to mobilize and assist poor communities in several countries in Africa to improve shelter and services and create income generating opportunities.

Overall socio economic conditions, income uncertainty, women apos s health and education, schooling opportunities and the size of households all have an impact on child labour.

For policy makers, the poverty of choices and opportunities is often more relevant than the poverty of income, for it focuses on the causes of poverty and leads directly to strategies of empowerment and other actions to enhance opportunities for everyone.5

The Government of Dominica placed housing and education at the top of its agenda and provided low income persons with opportunities for purchasing or rehabilitating their homes.

The primary social benefit of the scheme is that it sought to provide equal opportunities of education to all persons, irrespective of income level and social standing.

The object of this first report, presented in August 1995, was to analyse the relationship between economic, social and cultural rights, income distribution, and equality of opportunities.

Income growth for the middle class in most advanced countries has been stagnant, and employment opportunities have been declining, especially in the tradable part of the economy. The share of income going to capital has been rising, at the expense of labor.

Villagers have been mobilized in the project townships to form interest groups concerned with income improvement the groups identify their strengths and opportunities for developing income, then participate in intensive HDI E training programmes through which they also receive credit in kind.

53. Affirming the ultimate societal goal of full employment so as to ensure that equal opportunities are available to young women and young men for income earning work

The Israel disengagement plan, aimed at reducing the number of Palestinian workers in Israel to zero by 2008, could severely restrict income opportunities and the prospects of poverty alleviation.

(d) Social equity To promote the widespread distribution of economic and social benefits from tourism throughout host communities, including improvement of opportunities, income and services available to the poor

Mongolia had also created a development fund for women with an initial contribution of 800,000 from UNDP to promote employment opportunities and income generation for women living in poverty.

Given the situation of widespread open and disguised unemployment as well as increasing inequality in income in most regions, creation of employment opportunities should be a primary means of progressing towards more equality in terms of income distribution and the eradication of extreme poverty.

Miscellaneous income interest income

Self generated income Total income Income per 100 people Percentages

Opportunities

An intra government partnership between two branches of the Yukon Government was established in 2002 to provide both on the job training and classroom opportunities for those receiving income assistance.