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    Food Prices and Supply Kirk Condyles for The New York Times Updated: July 26‚ 2012 In the summer of 2012‚ scorching heat and the worst drought in nearly a half-century sent food prices up‚ spooking consumers and leading to worries about global food costs. On July 25‚ the United States government said it expected the record-breaking weather to drive up the price for groceries in 2013‚ including milk‚ beef‚ chicken and pork. The drought has affected 88 percent of the corn crop‚ a staple of processed

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    The Population Growth Rate in India For many years concern has been voiced over the seemingly unchecked rate of population growth in India‚ but the most recent indications are that some success is being achieved in slowing the rate of population growth. The progress which has been achieved to date is still only of a modest nature and should not serve as premature cause for complacency. Moreover‚ a slowing of the rate of population growth is not incompatible with a dangerous population increase

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    1.1: Study Background The population aging‚ in other words‚ the greying of the population is major concern all over the world. Many factors are leading to population aging‚ namely‚ unwillingness to marry‚ late marriage‚ fertility control‚ low birth rate and longer life span. All these factors are also related to developing status of the country. The more the country is developing‚ the more the factors have stronger effect on aging population and the age population problems of the country is more

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    Poverty and rapid population growth Is rapid population growth a cause of poverty or is poverty a cause of rapid population growth? It is a life long argument as to whether rapid population growth is caused by poverty of if poverty is caused by rapid population growth. In this essay I will try to analyse both sides of the argument and form a conclusion. Many people think that poverty is the cause of rapid population growth‚ there are many reasons for this. Firstly lack of education is a huge

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    There are many impacts of a youthful population and the effects are shown in Uganda. Due to many young people unemployment is common as there aren’t enough jobs for young people when they grow up. More unemployment means more people are dependent on government support as shown by 22% of Uganda’s youth is unemployed. Increased poverty is an impact as more young people are born into families that are already poor‚ so there are more people in poverty. Some children may have to work to help support

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    The Environment and Us My fellow congressmen and congresswomen welcome and thank you for joining me today for this special session of Congress. I am here to address to you today‚ on a major crisis that is happening to us and our world. It is simple; the worldwide dilemma of human arrogance to nature. In the 1700’s humans sought the four corners of the world and conquered it. And so with these new land and foods‚ we have simply multiplied. Then‚ we sought to make our lives simple‚ so ideas were

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    A REPORT ON ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ENVIRONMENT The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species. Environment literally means surrounding and everything that affect an organism during its lifetime is collectively known as its environment. In another words “Environment is sum total of water‚ air and land interrelationships among themselves

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    Discuss the benefits of Economic growth. Economic growth can be defined as a long-term expansion of the productive potential of the economy. Sustained economic growth should lead to higher real living standards and rising employment. Governments aim to achieve economic growth as it has many advantages; including higher employment levels. As Aggregate demand increases‚ more factors of production‚ most notably labour are needed to produce goods and services for the economy. When this occurs

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    Control of Population Growth by the Government Population growth is the increase in the number of people who live in a specific area. Population growth has a huge impact of economies‚ education‚ etc.‚ therefore the levels of population growth is a huge concern around the world. There have been a number of countries that have been encouraging the population to produce more offspring‚ such as Shanghai. However‚ these policies are just to motivate the population to have more babies and there are always

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    Why I am saying this it may look weird or stupid to you‚ but it’s real. El Salvador is the most populated country on Central America‚ but it’s also the country that has the most economical growth in Central America. Now Nicaragua the least populated country in Central America‚ has the less economical growth in Central America. A simple way of explaining this is you have ten people and those ten people needs jobs. A normal thinker will say that they are just mouths to feed like in the quote. But

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