HelpAge said more countries needed to introduce pension schemes to ensure economic independence and reduce poverty in old age.
The call was for better signposting to sexual and reproductive health services, for girls-only spaces, for health education and promotion programs to counter myths and misinformation, for confidence and self-esteem building initiatives, and for vocational training to foster economic independence.
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The reality is that the multitude of self-monetizors is only going to get bigger, and with the rise of international platforms supporting people in their quest to gain economic and personal independence, everyone needs to be little less concerned with trying to define Micro Entrepreneurship and more focused on engaging with it.
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It could be an enormous opportunity to cement independence, to accelerate economic development and to build new inter-regional ties.
The impulse to give the freedmen confiscated plantation land so that they could establish economic independence to match their new liberty never got traction.
Furthermore, the foreign policy of this new alliance is to achieve not only economic independence from the United States but also remove American influence from the region.
It's also a terrible thing to do when we are trying to build, in this country, industries that will be vital to economic growth and energy independence in the 21st century.
He will now have to face opposition to independence from Madrid and to his economic policies from the ERC at home.
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney said such a system would let an independent Scotland "use the vital tax and other economic powers of independence to create jobs, grow the economy and build a fairer country".
Robert Friedman: I am generally optimistic, but I would probably have to admit that we will probably not have reached our goal of insuring that every American have a reasonable opportunity (and a few hundred or thousand dollars in savings) to unlock the American Dream of economic independence by then.
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When women began to understand that cultural biases were preventing them from financial independence and economic security, they picked themselves up and went to law school and became lawyers and endured the ridicule of the male establishment to do so.
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The politician, who is also Scotland's deputy first minister, believed that key to winning the independence debate was "economic confidence".
The move marks the determination of President Marc Ravalomanana's government to underscore the island nation's economic independence 43 years after it broke free from French colonial rule.
The use of a populace referendum in which the people of Germany have the choice, will eliminate the need for Merkel to take a stand and a referendum will result in the deal being struck down by the populace since very few German citizens would willfully give up their sovereign independence and economic freedom to save the European Union.
The electorate is choosing to either extend the National Front coalition's uninterrupted rule since independence from Britain in 1957 amid strong economic growth or to give the opposition a chance to make good on its pledges to root out corruption and boost wages and living conditions.
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There are equally false expectations that independence will quickly bring prosperity to this economic basket-case.
The Scottish Affairs Committee (at 2.30pm) opens a new front in its scrutiny of the implications of Scottish independence...turning to the economic aspects, including the impact on public pensions.
This anti-industrialization theme reaches back to Gandhi's push for political as well as economic independence from Britain.
Nothing lasts forever, though, and now a combination of energy independence and economic necessity may lead Washington to become more insular in its outlook, the same way London did after the war.
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Mobility upwards through socioeconomic classes is not as simple was holding down a good job for a lifetime, it requires education, ingenuity, and the ability to break generational economic cycles that keep families from achieving financial independence over the long-term.
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The island's voters, who are increasingly satisfied with their economic lot, have been showing little inclination to plump for formal independence.
But Scottish Labour MP Mr Darling, who is head of the cross-party campaign to keep the UK together, has insisted that independence comes with economic risks.
Nationalists will assuage, will talk of independence as Scotland's manifest destiny, will seek to counter economic concerns.
Mr. Capitalism ought to realize that the case for free trade does not end when BTUs enter into the conversation and that energy independence provides few economic or foreign policy advantages despite widespread belief to the contrary.
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Set up in March 2012, it was "to provide impartial technical advice on economic choices, challenges and opportunities for Scotland post-independence".
It is as committed to public service as it was when Jamsetji Tata was laying the economic foundations of Indian independence.
The great believers in command economics, who led much of Africa to independence, would have been dumbfounded at a recent gathering, organised by the World Economic Forum, of southern African leaders in Harare.
Speaking on the Business Scotland programme on BBC Radio Scotland, Mr Naish - who is also a head of real estate at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership in Edinburgh - stressed that the SPF was not against or for independence, but that political and economic uncertainty increases investment risk, and that equates to cost.
Speaking at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, McCain urged his fellow lawmakers to follow that example when they considered the economic rescue bill.
The vote -- the latest in a series of actions pushing self-determination -- comes during a tumultuous period in Catalan and Spanish politics, in the midst of Spain's deep economic crisis, which some analysts say is what has brought the long-simmering independence issue to the forefront.
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