A GLOBAL PROBLEM: POVERTY Poverty is one of the biggest problems of the world. It can be seen that poverty is almost everywhere. So we can see poverty even in rich countries. A research‚ which carried out at Oxford University in 2004‚ shows that %12 of the total population of the world earn 25‚000$-50.000$ per year and this group of people called high-income group. 30% of the total population of the world earn 5‚000$-10‚000$ per year and this group called average-income group. Lastly‚ 58%
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CHAPTER 32 Crisis‚ Realignment‚ and the Dawn of the Post–Cold War World‚ 1975–1991 A. Postcolonial Crises and Asian Economic Expansion‚ 1975–1990 I. Revolutions‚ Depressions‚ and Democratic Reform in Latin America 1. The success of the Cuban Revolution both energized the revolutionary left throughout Latin America and led the United States to organize its political and military allies in Latin America in a struggle to defeat communism. 2. In Brazil a coup in 1964 brought in a military government
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Nowadays‚ some undeveloped countries and traditional regions try to find the most appropriate way to accelerate the growth of domestic development. While some people agree that these areas should take advantage of appropriate technology with the guidance of traditional ideas‚ others disagree and argue that more modern ideas and advanced technologies can stimulate greater improvement of regional development. In my opinion‚ I agree that adopting more modern ideas‚ values and technologies are the best
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POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OF FDI‚ BASED ON STARBUCKS CASE STUDY As we have seen from the case study‚ Starbucks prefers not to just franchise and license its format when it tries to expand overseas‚ but as in the case of Japan and China‚ the firm prefers utilising joint-venture arrangements‚ mergers and acquisitions and horizontal FDI to exercise control and ensure standards are at a certain level for all foreign stores (they trained the local workers to emulate the original standards set in the US).
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Discuss the view that urbanisation in both the developed and the developing world is unsustainable (40marks) Urbanisation is the process in which people move from a rural area to an urban area. Levels of urbanisation are determined by looking at both the population of rural and urban areas. For the first time ever in history more people live in urban areas than in rural areas. This movement shows no sign of stopping with a predicted 1.84% increase in people living in urban areas expected between
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Introduction At the present time‚ people are living in a world where they have Google to answer all their questions‚ Facebook and IMs to connect with their networks‚ YouTube to watch things happen all over the globe‚ cellphones and laptops to makes their lives easier. However‚ there are still people out there that don’t have the capacity to have these privileges. Thus‚ building the Digital Divide: a gap that separates the rich and the poor‚ a gap that is still widening up to this day and a gap that
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Western nations should not impose their standards on developing countries If we think about what is the West‚ what answers do we get? The West is the sunset‚ all that were born in the East is died in the West‚ the West is the darkness and the East is the light. And the paradox is that despite of all for historical reasons humanity used to think in terms of the West‚ takes cue from the West. What are the causes of Western predominance‚ what allows the West to dictate one’s terms to the rest of
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INTRODUCTION AND ARGUMENT SPEECH Good afternoon‚ Madame Speaker‚ patient time keeper‚ worthy opponents‚ interested onlookers and my most esteemed colleague. Today my partner and I are here to debate on the topic ‘Be it resolved that countries who supply foreign aid should reallocate their resources to development at “home”. In this case‚ we define “home” as the countries that supply foreign aid to others‚ countries that instead could be investing their money into themselves and improving upon their
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Today’s world portrays vast communication and exchange across geographical borders‚ due to centuries of technological innovations causing places to “move” closer together. People can themselves physically move around the planet far quicker‚ by means of modern transport innovations. People can also communicate across ever increasing distances‚ due to modern media and ICT innovations. Although there has been a long history of human movement and communications spanning the world‚ it is in the last
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developed country A developed country‚ industrialized country‚ or "more developed country" (MDC)‚ is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations. Most commonly‚ the criteria for evaluating the degree of economic development are gross domestic product (GDP)‚ the per capita income‚ level of industrialization‚ amount of widespread infrastructure and general standard of living.[1] Which criteria are to
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