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The quality of the curriculum in Honduran public schools is poor, evidenced by the fact that for much of the last century, Honduran students were required to memorize useless or impractical data at the expense of sharpening their reasoning powers and critical thinking skills. Teachers are paid low wages, they do not have access to effective ...
Honduras on a map. Honduras flag. Honduras is in the heart of Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. It has an agriculture-based economy, focused on bananas, coffee, and palm oil, faces high poverty and inequality, with growth obstructed by external factors and internal corruption.
Honduras' goal was to reduce the rate of poverty in the nation from 70 percent to 40 percent by 2015. The PRS was a continuation of the "Master Plan for Reconstruction and National Transformation." [ 3 ] The PRS had an annual budget of 4.4 million Honduran lempiras which was distributed in about 300 million lempira lots to each of 18 of the ...
Sanitation coverage in Honduras is improving, reaching 68% of the total population but only 50% of the rural populace [4] In addition, this area suffers from extensive deforestation, which reduces the soil's water retention rate which in turn leads to poor returns on crop cultivation, health issues and poverty. The lack of infrastructure and ...
Education in Honduras is free for seven years. [8] In 1999, the gross primary enrollment rate was 97.3 percent and the net primary enrollment rate was 85.7 percent. [ 8 ] Among working children, an estimated 34 percent complete primary school. [ 8 ]
At just 14 years old, Paola Mejía, better known as La Chiki 504 has become a viral video blogger thanks to her lighthearted 'how to be poor' videos. Mejía lives in San Pedro Sula, Honduras ...
For years, multiple U.S. administrations have poured billions of dollars into Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala—the so-called Northern Triangle region—to battle corruption, improve law and ...
The US is Honduras's primary trading partner and the source of about two-thirds of the country's foreign direct investment. US multinationals Dole Food Company and Chiquita control a large portion of Honduras's agricultural exports. Presently, Honduras participates alongside the Rainforest Alliance for the exporting of agricultural goods to the US.