The 4 Traps: 1. Conflict Causes Low income Slow growth‚ stagnation‚ or even decline Dependence on primary commodity exports (oil‚ diamonds) Geography (huge with dispersed population‚ mountainous‚ Nepal is a good example) Prior history Costs/Consequences Lasts more than 5 years‚ on average 15% poorer Military spending - $64 billion Social costs: Deaths Diseases Deterioration in political rights Legacy of organized killing - cheap guns‚ number of homicides Refugees → costs beyond frontiers (epidemics
Premium Poverty Microfinance Economics
Unit 3 Assignment: Problem 1 and 2 Name: David Cortese Course Number: - Section Number: - Unit Number: - 3 Date: September 2‚ 2013 Problem 1: Suppose that the supply schedule of Belgium Cocoa beans is as follows: Suppose that Belgium cocoa beans can be sold only in Europe. The European demand schedule for Belgium cocoa beans is as follows: |Price of Belgium cocoa beans |European Quantity of Belgium cocoa beans demanded | |(per
Premium
ECON *120: Principles of Microeconomics Spring 2010 I. FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMICS A. Scarcity‚ Production Possibilities‚ Efficiency and Exchange Section I.A Learning Objectives: • Define or explain a number of basic economic terms and concepts. • Explain‚ illustrate‚ and apply marginal analysis. • Explain‚ illustrate‚ and apply the production possibilities model. • Explain‚ illustrate‚ and apply the law of comparative advantage. 1. “Life is Economics” Q: Is this statement true or false? Why? 2. Economic
Premium Supply and demand Economics
Solar Tracker Bill Lane* Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cleveland State University Cleveland‚ Ohio 44115 EEC 517 April 30‚ 2008 * welane3@hotmail.com or wlane@republicengineered.com Abstract Solar energy is rapidly gaining notoriety as an important means of expanding renewable energy resources. As such‚ it is vital that those in engineering fields understand the technologies associated with this area. My project will include the design and construction of a microcontroller-based
Premium Electric motor
is nothing that young people can teach older people Needless to say‚ we have to respect and obey older people‚ partly because they have more experience and knowledge than us‚ so what they say is almost true. However‚ that doesn’t mean they know everything and young people have nothing to teach them. In the following part of the essay‚ I will support the idea that there are some things we know but they haven’t known and they can learn from us. Young people can teach the elderly anything they may learn
Premium Technology Youth Old age
op Ten Ways to Teach Values to Your Kids In a consumer-driven society that broadcasts values that don’t reflect what you believe‚ how can we teach values to their kids? Here are ten ideas to help you: 1. Tell them your life stories and teach through your stories Kids love to hear stories about your childhood. Weave in some moral dilemmas and you’ve got great opportunities to teach values to them. It certainly beats lecturing your kids! 2. Live your own life according to
Premium Integrity
The main goal of Social Work practice is the psychosocial improvement of the individuals within a system and the system where they operate. Social Work has three different concentrations‚ Micro practice‚ Mezzo practice and Macro practice. Micro practice focuses in individual and small groups such as couples‚ families and groups. This practice is more direct or face to face intervention. Mezzo practice focuses in medium communities‚ it can be face to face or indirect practice. And Macro practice
Premium Sociology Social work Psychology
MACRO AND MICRO FACTORS AFFECTING THE STEEL INDUSTRY (TATA STEEL) The world GDP‚ as reported by International Monetary Fund‚ was on an upturn‚ growing by 5% in 2010 as compared to a negative growth of 0.5% in 2009. While the growth in the advanced economies was 3.0% in 2010‚in contrast to -3.4% in 2009‚ the emerging and developing economies grew by 7.3% in 2010 when compared to the growth of 2.7% in 2009. The growth in the developing and emerging economies slowed down during the end of 2010
Premium Corus Group Steel Coal
All books have themes and lessons in them that teach us something important after reading them. Sometimes these lessons are learned from the characters of the books. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby teaches us lessons about success‚ hope‚ and ethics or morals. Many of the characters in The Great Gatsby are used to construct different themes and teach us moral lessons. Gatsby has been in love with daisy for many years. Gatsby uses illegal and unethical ways to acquire wealth that he thinks he needs
Premium The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby
Name: Phan Thuy An ID number: 1157060004 Class: Writing D YOUNG PEOPLE CANNOT TEACH OLD GENERATION ANYTHING. V.I.Lenin said that “Learn‚ learn more and more”. It means that people should study incessantly in spire of their age. Therefore‚ old people also need to learn more knowledge. They can learn from books‚ their predecessor‚ or even from their offsprings. However‚ there is a statement that only old people teach the young and there is no the opposite direction. In my opinion‚ it is a bad attitude
Premium Ho Chi Minh Sociology Ho Chi Minh City