GMOS IN PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS POLICY PROBLEM: How to address the GMO (Genetically modified organism) issue‚ specifically in agriculture. POLICY ISSUE: Should the Philippines pursue the promotion of GMOs in agriculture? Ulysses J. Lustria Jr. 2006 1 I. Introduction There is a continuous and heated debate on GMOs especially in the international level. Powerful stakeholders such as Greenpeace and biotech companies are very much involved. Domestically‚ we
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The Victorian Laissez-Faire system of social reform relied on voluntary contribution of the wealthy and the charitable to relieve poverty‚ rather than the now standard system of using money from universal taxes to pay for universal services such as public health and housing. The founding laws of this welfare state we now live in today where known as the liberal reforms‚ a series of legislation that encouraged a far more collectivist attitude to social reform that verged on socialism‚ dreaded by the
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Introduction The existence of a chronic state of “underdevelopment” is not only a question of economics or the simple quantitative measures of income‚ employment and gini-coefficient.Underdevelopment is a real fact of life for two billion people of the world- a state of mind as far as a state of national poverty. Gaulet (1971) poignantly describes under development as a shocking; the squalor‚ disease‚ unnecessary deaths and hopelessness of it all. The condition of underdevelopment in its totality
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ENTERPRISES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Nigeria as a developing economy cannot achieve full development without the contribution of the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). In most developed economies‚ the main stay of their economy has been attributed to the effectiveness of the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) is accepted globally as a tool for empowering the citizenry and economic growth. It has been associated with the rapid economic growth of
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The economic development in India followed socialist-inspired policies for most of its independent history‚ including state-ownership of many sectors; extensive regulation and red tape known as "Licence Raj"; and isolation from the world economy. India’s per capita income increased at only around 1% annualized rate in the three decades after Independence.[1] Since the mid-1980s‚ India has slowly opened up its markets through economic liberalization. After more fundamental reforms since 1991 and their
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factor contributing to the development of early Egyptian civilization. The Nile snakes through a vast desert wasteland with the world’s largest desert‚ the Sahara‚ to the east‚ and several smaller deserts to the west. These deserts are inhospitable to most life forms‚ but the earliest settlers to the region‚ around 6000 BCE‚ were drawn to the banks of the Nile by plentiful fish and abundant fruit trees. (ushistory.org‚ 2014) These settlers figured out‚ over time‚ how to harness the annual rise
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suited‚ among those relative to the city’(433a). For brevity‚ let us refer to this definition of justice as the principle of specialization. Socrates motivates this theory of justice with four clear arguments: (1) The theory fits with their society’s typical ways of thinking about justice: ‘minding one’s own business’(433ab); (2) Due to the fact that the principle of specialization explains the existence of other virtues‚ this definition itself must be an important virtue. Since the other virtues can
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The compelling question: How did slavery help cause the conflicts leading to the Civil War? Slavery caused major conflicts that led to the Civil War. The disputes about slavery split the nation into two parts. The North was more industrialized. Its economy depended on factories and manufactured goods. The South was more dependent on agricultural goods and plantations that depended on slavery. Slavery was a significant factor in the conflicts that led to the Civil War. Some of these conflicts include
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Work specialization and Division of labor Work specialization is the process of focusing one occupational concentration on a specific area of expertise. An increase in job specialization among employees can make them less flexible since it tends to reduce their ability to perform other types of work within the business that fall outside their particular specialty. In work specialization‚ the entire job is broken down into steps‚ each step completed by a separate individual. Individual workers specialize
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Universe and put the Sun at its center instead of Earth‚ was promoted by Copernicus‚ Kepler‚ or Galileo. This cosmological shift undermined entrenched religious and philosophical dogma‚ fostering a more empirical and rational worldview. Methodological developments: The scientific revolution
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