Yuching Lin ECON 395 The Affirmative Action Debate Affirmative Action has recently become the center of a major public debate in the United States‚ which has led to the emergence of numerous studies on its efficiency‚ costs‚ and benefits. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ended wage and employment discrimination based on gender and race‚ significantly decreasing the gap between minorities and non-minorities. Minorities made major progress from the 1960s
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TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA --- Atul Sinha * Tourism development in India has passed through many phases. At Government level the development of tourist facilities was taken up in a planned manner in 1956 coinciding with the Second Five Year Plan. The approach has evolved from isolated planning of single unit facilities in the Second and Third Five Year Plans. The Sixth Plan marked the beginning of a new era when tourism began to be considered a major instrument for social integration and
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A GDP comparison of India and China China and India are the two giant’s economies of Asia‚ which are now regarded as the “success stories” for their massive economic development for the past two decades. On their way to economic growth they have more dissimilarities than similarities. The most common things among them are their ancient civilizations‚ population‚ covering substantial geographical areas and developing economies of the world. They both apparently benefited from globalization as well
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Exchange Rate of the Rupee and Purchasing Power Parity Author(s): Ashok K. Nag and Amit Mitra Reviewed work(s): Source: Economic and Political Weekly‚ Vol. 33‚ No. 25 (Jun. 20-26‚ 1998)‚ pp. 1525-1532 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4406906 . Accessed: 02/01/2013 03:20 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a
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The Development of Business Ethics in Russia The word “ethics” (the Greek ethika‚ from ethos - custom‚ disposition) is usually used in two senses. On the one hand‚ the ethics - an area of knowledge‚ scientific discipline studying morality‚ morals‚ their origin‚ dynamics‚ factors and developments. On the other hand‚ ethics is defined by a set of moral rules in any sphere of human behavior or the organization. There are two main viewpoints on the relationship of universal ethical principles and
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Charles 1. Human resources development is good in theory but bad in practice 2. Even for large corporations‚ human resource development programs take 3-5 years to develop and only large corporations have the theoretical financial resources and acumen to invest in HRD. This excludes most business in Australia as: a) 96 per cent of Australian companies are small business b) Most business go bust in the first 3-5 years c) Thus Even assuming that there may be a small chance for human resource development
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Introduction to Economic Growth In this report‚ the economic growth of Australia‚ USA and India is discussed. Economic growth is key factor to economic development. People of the nation are benefited when national income grows. The is no any scientific method of formula to measure the economic growth whereas the data‚ charts and other information can be helpful for strategy-makers to understand the countries’ economic positions and design a framework to guide for an effort toward development. Data are
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Long Human Capital affects our everyday life. It does not discriminate against anyone no matter what race or part of the world you are in. People blinded by human capital can have a mislead future. David Brook states: “But skills and knowledge-the stuff you can measure with tests-is only the most superficial component of human capital. U.S. education reforms have generally failed because they try to improve the skills of students without addressing the underlying components of human capital”
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HEALTH INDICATORS OF JAMMU & KASHMIR The Total Fertility Rate of the State is 2.2. The Infant Mortality Rate is 49 and Maternal Mortality Ratio is NA (SRS 2004 - 2006). The Sex Ratio in the State is 892 (as compared to 933 for the country). Comparative figures of major health and demographic indicators are as follows : Table I: Demographic‚ Socio-economic and Health profile of Jammu & Kashmir State as compared to India figures S. No. | Item | J&K | India | 1 | Total population
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RELIGIONS IN CHINA AND INDIA There are many different religions in both China and India. The most popular religions in China are ancient Confucianism and Taoism‚ Buddhism‚ Islam‚ Protestant‚ Catholic‚ and a new form of religion Falun Gong. India has many religions that are different or the same as the Chinese. Indian religions include: Hinduism‚ Islam‚ Christianity‚ Sikhism‚ Buddhism‚ and Jainism. There are also many people from China that do not follow a religion because of its communist
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