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Girls who managed to escape child marriage. The targets and indicators for SDG 5 are extensive and provide equal opportunity for females (women and girls). [7] Targets cover a broad crosscutting gender issues including ending all forms of discrimination against all females everywhere (Target 5.1), violence and exploitation of females (Target 5.2), eliminate practices such as female genital ...
Launched on 21 September 2010, [1] it is a comprehensive economic transformation plan to propel Malaysia's economy into high income economy. The program will lift Malaysia's gross national income (GNI) to US$523 billion by 2020, and raise per capita income from US$6,700 to at least US$15,000, meeting the World Bank's threshold for high income nation. [2]
The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.
The Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development (Malay: Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat; Jawi: كمنترين ڤمباڠونن وانيتا، كلوارڬ دان مشاركت ), abbreviated KPWKM, is a ministry of the Government of Malaysia responsible for social welfare: children, women, family, community, older people, destitute, homeless, disaster victim ...
In May 2020, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced that, for the first time in history, the central government would not set an economic growth target for 2020, with the economy having contracted by 6.8% compared to 2019 and China facing an "unpredictable" time. However, the government also stated an intention to create 9 million new urban jobs ...
USAFacts was founded by former Microsoft CEO and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, [4] Steve Ballmer. [5] [6] Ballmer invested his own money in the project. [7]USAFacts was launched on April 18, 2017 Tax Day, with the goal of making government data about tax revenues, expenditures, and outcomes more accessible and understandable.
The economy of Nigeria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market [27] [28] with expanding manufacturing, financial, service, communications, technology, and entertainment sectors. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] It is ranked as the 53rd-largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP , the fourth largest in Africa and the 27th-largest in terms ...
Female empowerment in Nigeria is an economic process that involves empowering Nigerian women as a poverty reduction measure. [1] [2] Empowerment is the development of women in terms of politics, social and economic strength in nation development. It is also a way of reducing women's vulnerability and dependency in all spheres of life.