Fact: Everyone has heard at least one Salt-N-Pepa song. Now‚ hear me out‚ I know you recognize these lyrics: “Let’s talk about sex‚ baby/let’s talk about you and me/let’s talk about all the good things/and the bad things that may be.” That song is appropriately titled “Let’s Talk About Sex‚” and it is a ballad about safe sex and sexual awareness as a whole. Salt‚ Pepa‚ and DJ Spinderella cried out against the lack of conversation about sex in the ‘90s because they believed in normalizing sex‚ especially
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1018-5895/10 www.palgrave-journals.com/gpp/ Insurance Development and Economic Growth* Liyan Hana‚ Donghui Lib‚ Fariborz Moshirianb and Yanhui Tiana a School of Economics & Management‚ Beihang University‚ Beijing‚ China. School of Banking and Finance‚ The University of New South Wales‚ Sydney‚ Australia. E-mail: donghui@unsw.edu.au b This paper investigates the relationship between insurance development and economic growth by employing GMM models on a dynamic panel data set of 77 economies for
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‘Study of the Effect of Lead (heavy metal) on the Growth of Brasicca juncea’ Neha Haresh Ruchandani and D.Meena.S.Rao* Dept. Of Botany‚ R. K. T. College‚ Ulhasnagar *Dept. Of Botany‚ R. K. T. College‚ Ulhasnagar A major environmental concern due to dispersal of industrial and urban wastes generated by human activities is the contamination of soil. Controlled and uncontrolled disposal of waste‚ accidental and process spillage‚ mining and smelting of metalliferous ores‚ sewage sludge application
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With the abandonment of a hunting-gathering way of life and the rise of permanent settlements and eventually cities‚ the human population has undergone dramatic growth. "It took until after 1800‚ virtually all of human history‚ for our population to reach 1 billion. Yet we reached 2 billion by 1930‚ and 3 billion in just 30 more years‚ in 1960" (Withgott & Brennan‚ 218). Today the world ’s population has grown to an estimated 6.5 billion people. "Increased population intensifies impact on the environment
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Economic Growth Economic growth is the increase in the amount of the goods and services produced by an economy over time. It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product‚ or real GDP. Growth is usually calculated in real terms‚ i.e. inflation-adjusted terms‚ in order to obviate the distorting effect of inflation on the price of the goods produced. Economic growth typically refers to growth of potential output‚ i.e.‚ production at "full employment". It
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and identification of Bacterial isolates An enrichment culture technique was used for the isolation of bacteria responsible for biodegradation of phorate in soil. Screening of these bacterial species for phorate degradation in liquid cultures in our previous study (Jariyal et al.‚ 2014)‚ resulted in identification of bacterial species B. aerophilus strain Imbl 4.1 ‚ Brevibacterium frigoritolerans strain Imbl 2.1 and Pseudomonas fulva strain Imbl 5.1. However‚ these bacterial species‚ causing complete
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version Paper to be presented at IUSSP Conference in Brazil/session-s09 Population Growth and Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Anqing Shi Development Research Group The World Bank Keywords: Population‚ global warming‚ Carbon Dioxide Emissions‚ projections Abstract: Previous studies on the determinants of carbon dioxide emissions have primarily focused on the role of affluence. The impact of population growth on carbon dioxide emissions has received less attention. This paper takes a step forward
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ECONOMIC GROWTH is the long term expansion of a country’s productive potential Short term growth is measured by the annual % change in real national output – this is mainly driven by the level of aggregate demand (C+I+G+X-M) but is also affected by shifts in SRAS Long term growth is shown by the increase in trend or potential GDP and this is illustrated by an outward shift in a country’s long run aggregate supply curve (LRAS) Key drivers of growth There have been numerous research studies in
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population poli~y whose main fo~us was the reduction of the rapid population growth. The main population program was the family planning program aimed at providing contraceptive technology to reduce fertility. The rapid declines in fertility noted in some countries have been attributed in varying extent to the impact of such programs. It was difficult‚ however‚ to assessthe impact such program has had on the population growth since the countries that had achieved the most rapid declines in fertility
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Economic Policy Reforms 2012 Going for Growth © OECD 2012 PART II Chapter 5 Reducing income inequality while boosting economic growth: Can it be done? This chapter identifies inequality patterns across OECD countries and provides new analysis of their policy and non-policy drivers. One key finding is that education and anti-discrimination policies‚ well-designed labour market institutions and large and/or progressive tax and transfer systems can all reduce income inequality. On this basis
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