1. Exercise 2: Poverty trends Update the Table 1 of “Halving global poverty”. Download from the World Development Indicators database the following data: * Poverty headcount ratio at $1.25 a day (PPP) (% of population) * Population‚ total For the main geographic areas of Table 1‚ and since 1990 2. Calculate the number of poor Geographic Region (developing) | 1990 | 1993 | 1996 | 1999 | 2002 | 2005 | 2008 | Europe & Central Asia | 7‚482‚812 |
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How are the Macro as well Micro economic factors different in the country or origin and the destination country? Macro-economic factors of China: 1. Political factors: Currently China has become the world’s second largest economy. Xi Jinping focuses on pushing China investment abroad and pulling foreign investment to China. For much of the population
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three factors which might limit economic development in the developing countries. Economic development can be defined generally as involving an improvement in economic welfare‚ measured using a variety of indices‚ such as the Human Development Index (HDI). A developing country is described as a nation with a lower standard of living‚ underdeveloped industrial base‚ and a low HDI relative to other countries. There are several factors which may have the effect of limiting economic development in such
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Summarise the Main Development of a Child from the Age range 0-2‚ 3-5‚ 5-8 Years From birth a baby can only lie on its back‚ by the end of 3months they start to lift their heads and kick their feet. At 3-6 months they can hold objects and transfer them from one hand to another. They also start to attempt to put objects in their mouths. At 9-12 months babies usually become more mobile by rolling‚ shuffling‚ or crawling. They can generally sit unaided for a length of time. Between 1-2 yrs
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“Economic Factors in the Decline of the Byzantine Empire” In this article taken from The Journal of Economic History‚ Peter Charanis discusses the factors that economically affected the decline of the Byzantine Empire. His discussion is based on the fact that past scholars‚ such as English historian Edward Gibbon who wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire‚ thought the Byzantine Empire was in a constant state of decline throughout its existence‚ but he disagrees. He says that
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Does Economic Development always lead to Improvements in Livind Standards? Economic growth and economic development are often thought to be synonymous but although the two are closely linked‚ there are crucial differences in their meanings. Economic growth is defined as ’a rise in the total output (goods or services) produced by a country’. It is measured by the percent rate of increase in the gross domestic product (GDP). Economic development as defined by Todaro is "not purely an economic phenomenon
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* Why might a country in an early stage of economic and technical development want to limit importation of goods from more developed countries? They might want to sale the same products that these developed countries already have mastered and marketed well. It might be in there interest to enact protectionist legislation. They want to be able sale as much of their domestic product without competition from dominant developed countries firms. This would increase the market share available to sale
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Sources and institutions of labour law in Kenya. Sources of labour law are both international and national (the latter including the regulations established through the social partners themselves). Employment relations in Kenya are regulated by a number of sources: constitutional rights‚ statutory rights‚ as set out in statutes and regulations; rights set by collective agreements and extension orders of collective agreements; and individual labor contracts. These legal sources are interpreted
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European Explorations European exploration was promoted by factors economic‚ technologic‚ political‚ and religious in different ways. The Treaty of Lodi and the invasion in Italy was a political factor. Portugal’s quest to China and the Spice Islands was an economic factor. New weaponry and sailing aide that was being created was a technological factor. A religious factor was the insistence to Christianize the people. All these factors were promoted from about 1450 to about 1525. The Treaty
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Impact of tourism on Kenya Academic English Impact of Tourism in Kenya Tourism is the phenomenon arising from temporary visits (or stays away from home) outside the normal place of residence or usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business‚ and other purposes. Tourism implies that a person takes a journey‚ which can be of a day or various days‚ and that can be within a national boundary‚ which be classified as a domestic tourist trip or a journey which crosses
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