South Africa battles huge housing backlog | African news, analysis and opinion – The Africa Report.com. Devastated by 10 years of rebellion in which 60% of jobs were lost, the former industrial hub is restoring its infrastructure and trying to attract investment. Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire's second-largest city, is getting back on its feet after almost a decade of rule by the Forces Nouvelles rebels. Security has improved and rehabilitation works have begun. But economic recovery has been slower in this former industrial hub in the centre of the country.
Under the rebels, there has been no development progress In Bouaké, Jacques N'Goran is a happy taxman. Over the past three years, the tax revenues his department has collected have grown sixfold. "We've been raising a lot of public awareness," says N'Goran, regional director for Bouaké's tax administration. "We're trying to make people pay taxes again. " "At that time, we had no revenue target. In 2013, Bouaké's regional tax office collected about 4bn CFA francs ($8.2m), a recovery rate of only 40%. Rising from the ashes Silence of the looms. Research at Stellenbosch University - The vicious cycle of poverty: Weak education and weak labour market performance. Poverty eradication. We have moved our website, in 5 seconds you will be redirected automatically. If you are not redirected please click here to visit our new site. Thank you for visiting. The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is celebrated every year on October 17 throughout the world.
We have moved our website, in 5 seconds you will be redirected automatically. If you are not redirected please click here to visit our new site. Thank you for visiting. Poverty Quotations: Quotes About the Poor. Quotations on Poverty – Quotes on the Poor “Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket” — Arthur M. Okun “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor” — Voltaire “We need to make a game out of earning money. “One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like” — Muhammad Yunus “Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities” — Samuel Johnson “Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less.
“To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself” — Samuel Johnson “The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time” — Willem de Kooning “He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.” — Samuel Johnson A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization– Samuel Johnson — Nelson Mandela.