towards concepts of sustainable development and the acquisition of progressively higher standards of living .Growth without development is being criticised as being an ephemeral and increasingly deceptive indicator of the actual state of the economy .Concepts like population growth which erode economic growth and education and health which enhance human capital accumulation are gaining a lot of importance and are being touted as being as essential to the development of an economy as the growth rate
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acceleration of economic growth produced environmental deterioration in China? China is one of the world’s economic powerhouses as it became large enough to influence the world market‚ dynamic enough to contribute to the world’s economy and sufficiently open to trade and capital flows to have a major impact on other countries. With the world’s largest current account surpluses and foreign exchange reserves and economic growth that have averaged at 10% the past thirty years‚ China’s economic growth developed
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All economic activities affect the environment in some way whether it is done intentionally or unintentionally. These could be positive or negative effects. Most of the time‚ they are negative. Most activities usually end up harming ecosystems or just polluting the environment. Economic activities can range from mining all the way to farming. This essay will discuss different types of economic activities and how they effect the environment. The first effect on the environment is the over harvesting
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PROTECTIP‚ which is itself short for Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property. The PROTECT IP Act is aproposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods"‚ especially those registered outside the U.S. The full title of bill is “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011”. And
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Economic Effect of 2013 Election Manila‚ Philippines - Election spending is going to be one of the biggest contributors to economic growth this 2012 and 2013‚ giving the government confidence that it may exceed existing growth targets. The official economic growth targets are set at 5% to 6% in 2012 and 6% to 7% target in 2013. In an interview on Monday‚ October 1‚ Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad said with the 2013 mid-term polls just around the corner‚ the country may already see some election
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viernes‚ 31 de agosto de 2012 Economic effects of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki The morning of 6 of August 1945 a single atomic bomb called “Little Boy” exploded over the city of Hiroshima at 8:15‚ devastating almost the entire metropolis. “Little Boy” was 10 feet long‚ weighted 9‚000 pounds‚ and was dropped from a height of 31‚600 feet‚ exploding at 2‚000 above Hiroshima with the force of 20K tons of TNT. A conventional bomb would have destroyed only the wooden structures within
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private sector in terms of credit extension‚ weak capacity of the banks to fund the real sector‚ low-level activities of banks‚ and illiquidity still lingers. This study therefore‚ examines empirically the impact of financial intermediation on the development of the Nigerian economy with the aim of determining the importance of financial intermediaries and its influence. This study found out that the financial intermediaries (banks) in Nigeria exhibit inefficiency and weak capacity in the allocation
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Competence Diploma Certificate In Offshore and Onshore Industrial Rigging • Offshore Operations and Safety • Industrial Rigging and Safety • Banksman Hand Signal • Merit Certificate Millennium Development goals (MDGs) • Advanced Diploma Microsoft Certified Technologist Specialist(MCTS) in Data Processing QHSE • First Aid & Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) • General Fire Fighting
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before the United States faced the economic bubble in 2006 that has affected many parts of the United States housing market‚ the Japan already undergone such situation and they manage to overcome it although it went on for so many years. During the 1990s and into the early years of the 21st century‚ Japan experienced prolonged recessionary economic conditions triggered by the bursting of a bubble in its equity and real estate markets and an ensuing banking crisis. (Nanto‚ 2009) Japan experience now
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Effects of Sugar Revolution - Economic During the seventeenth century the pattern of the Landownership changed from small planters to wealthy individuals and the price of land became extremely high as sugar became more profitable in the Caribbean. Previously tobacco and the other cash crops such as corn were produced by small planters on relatively small plots of land between five and thirty acres. In the year 1645 there were approximately 5000 smallholdings in Barbados that mainly
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