Image this: One day‚ you wake up and 240‚000 more people are living in your mansion. It is a big mansion with normally ample supplies to sustain your lifestyle. However‚ with 240‚000 more people inhabiting that same area‚ it has become cramped and small. The next day‚ 240‚000 people more come to live with you. This happens everyday for many years‚ soon supplies start to stretch thin and space starts to be a rarity. Unfortunately‚ this is not fiction. It is reality. Everyday‚ 240‚000 babies
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There are approximately 6 billion people on our planet now and by 2050 that number is expected to jump to 9 billion people. (http://www.prb.org/datafind/datafinder5.htm) Picture yourself driving down a crowded street or stuck in a traffic jam‚ have you ever wondered how it is possible for that many people to live all on the same planet. I have had those thoughts several times and believe that overpopulation is one of the biggest problems in the world today. Overpopulation has become a major crisis
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Abstract The demographic questions have occupied for a few years an important place in the great debates of economic policy‚ in France as well as in the principal industrialized countries. In other words‚ all the large industrialized countries will know a considerable ageing of the population during the next decades. In the academic circles and the business press‚ they believe that the ageing of the population will have important effects on the financial markets following the impact awaited on
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The Sociological Imagination - Obesity in United States Obesity has become a large and dark reality in United States. For someone who does not have sociological imagination being overweight is the result of bad personal choices or genetic predisposition. Being overweight might have been the result of past individual struggles that were caused by wrong individual decision-making or behavior. For those who get the interplay of the heart of sociological imagination this is a complex social issue that
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1)Permutation----nPr = n! ---- (n-r)! 2)Combination----nCr = nPr = n! ----- ------- n r! r! (n-r)! 3)Summation-----∑ X i i =1 n 4)Product--------Л Xi i=1 5)Age specific fertility rate(Asfr)=No of
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POPULATION EXPLOSION INTRODUCTION: Population explosion is condition where an organisms numbers exceeds carrying capacity of its habitat.It is a curse and is damaging to the development of the country and its society.The developing countries already facing lack in their resourses‚and with the rapidly increasing population‚the resourses available per person ‚further leading to increased poverty‚malnutrition and other large population related problems. The literal meaning of population is “the
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Population is the major determinant of national affairs. It leverages power and determines public policy and revenue allocation as areas with higher population are entitled to a greater share of the national resources in terms of state creation‚ representation and other national consideration. Moreover‚ politics especially democracy thrives on numbers. So‚ population figures also shapes election result‚ since a more population place will justifiably
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Macro-environmental trends. This portion requires you to discuss and analyse the impact on the industry of the following factors (in case the industry competes in overseas markets‚ your analysis should have a corresponding dimension): · Social‚ cultural‚ demographic and environmental forces; · Political‚ governmental and legal forces; · Technological forces; and · Economic forces. Macro-Environment Definition Major external and uncontrollable factors that
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Young Population Population age structure can have a significant impact on countries’ stability‚ governance‚ economic development and the well-being of its people. Reasons for Young Population: * Recent decades of high fertility (births per woman) e.g. women in sub-Saharan Africa give birth to 5.5 children on average in their lifetimes. Uganda- very high fertility rate (6.7) and a high teenage pregnancy rate (25%) * Teenage girls sell themselves for sex to earn money and end up getting
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Golden City Miniature Golf Case Study The partners must do additional analysis prior to determining if they should invest in a new miniature golf venture in Golden City. Before establishing marketing objectives‚ advertising and promotional programs‚ plans for addressing demand fluctuations and considering alternate locations‚ they must determine if they can generate sufficient sales to fund operations. They have done market research which provides a good baseline for establishing the demand‚
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