grade inflation is spreading rampant like an unforgiving plague‚ effecting students of community institutions as well as the big dogs of elite‚ IVY league schools. Writer Brent Staples‚ a member of the New York Times editorial board‚ explains in his essay‚ Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s‚ why so many colleges are “simply issuing more and more A’s‚ stoking grade inflation and devaluing degrees.” With every example of disastrous situations Staples gives as to why grade inflation is rapidly
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Nigeria can not be over emphasized. This research work examines the growth of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) ; the hub of the Nigerian capital market and it effect on the economic development of Nigeria using time series data from 1995 to 2005. Studies reveal that there have been a remarkable growth in the capital market during the period under study like non-other as far as security issue is concerned in Nigerian. The research findings‚ found a positive and significant relationship between the
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INFLATION: In the 1970s the prices of most things Americans buy more than doubled. Such a general increase in prices is called inflation. Prices of selected goods may increase for reasons unrelated to inflation: the price of fresh lettuce may rise because unseasonably heavy rainfall in California has ruined the lettuce crop‚ or the price of gasoline may rise if the oil-producing countries set a higher price for oil. During inflation‚ however‚ all prices tend to rise. Over the last 400 years
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Unemployment and inflation are two intricately linked economic concepts. Over the years there have been a number of economists trying to interpret the relationship between the concepts of inflation and unemployment. There are two possible explanations of this relationship – one in the short term and another in the long term. In the short term there is an inverse correlation between the two. As per this relation‚ when the unemployment is on the higher side‚ inflation is on the lower side and the inverse
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though oil is so profitable‚ over half of Nigeria’s population lives below the poverty line.The extraction and demand for oil makes the government reckless in their pursuit for money‚ making Nigerian government corrupt. The population living below the poverty line live on two dollars day. 2. What can the Nigerian government‚ oil companies‚ and the international communities do to ensure more transparency of oil revenues and more wealth distribution of oil profits? a. the Nigeria Extractive Industries
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’THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH’: How Nigerian Folk Poem‚ ’Hunger’ reflects the Nigerians’ Life By : Asvergi Varativoni 112011033 Nigerian folk poem‚ hunger‚ reflected a socio-cultural issue of how Nigerians live their life in poverty. It could be seen clearly in every single line of the poem. Let’s take a closer look to the lines. The title‚ ’hunger’ itself could mean two things. Literary hungry‚ a feeling that you need food to fill in your stomach; and it could also mean a desire to get something
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so will poverty. Being a developing country‚ the increasing growth rate is dragging India into a vicious cycle of population and poverty‚ which leads to a development trap. This further increases other problems like illiteracy‚ unemployment and inflation. Eradication of poverty is a very long-term goal in India. But poverty alleviation is expected to make better progress in the next fifty years than it did in the past. An increasing stress on education‚ the increasing empowerment of women and the
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"Unemployment and Inflation" Please respond to the following: • Predict whether the years following the next presidential election will bring us inflation‚ deflation‚ or relatively stable prices. Provide support for your response. I believe the prices will relatively remain stable‚ but overtime there will be inflation‚ and this is to pay for government funded programs and to pay for the offset costs associated with new laws and regulations governing healthcare. With the current fiscal cliff
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reduced. population growth rate permanently increased due to increased immigration Immigration raises n from n1 to n2. The rise in n lowers steady-state k‚ leading to a lower steady-state consumption per worker. c. A temporary rise in s has no effect on the steady-state equilibrium. d. The increase in the labor force participation rate does not affect the growth rate of the labor force‚ so there is no impact on the steady-state capital-labor ratio or on consumption per worker. However‚ because
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IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON NIGERIAN CULTURE: The African perspective * Course/code: Trends in globalization * Submitted to: Prof. Dr.Çelik Arouba * Written by: Benedict ‚ Okon Solomon * Student Number: 20112501 * Department: Economics * Date of submission: 16th‚ Dec2011 Contents * Abstract * Introduction * The concept of globalization * The concept of culture * The impact of globalization on the Nigerian culture * Suggestions and
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