Obesity is commonly defined as having abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that causes a risk to health‚ such as cardiovascular disease‚ type 2 diabetes‚ osteoarthritis and some cancers. Without treatment‚ obesity can become a serious‚ long-term disease. Understanding the concept of obesity is important because it is a complex medical condition which is hard to treat. Obesity is caused when extra calories are stored in the body as fat. If you take in more calories than you burn and do not use
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Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University City of San Fernando La Union Graduate College Country: Philippines Title: Long-Term Higher Education Development Plan (1996-2005) Institution: Commission on Higher Education Descriptors: Higher education; Educational objectives. Full text: GOAL 2 - RELEVANCE AND RESPONSIVENESS Generation and diffusion of knowledge in the broad range of disciplines relevant and responsive to the dynamically changing
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NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 5 NO 2‚ DECEMBER‚ 2007FISCAL POLICY AND NIGERIAN ECONOMIC GROWTHOmitogun Olawunmi and Ayinla‚ Tajudeen A. Department of Economics Olabisi Onabanjo University‚ Ago-Iwoye Abstract This paper has examined empirically the contribution of fiscal policy in the achievement of sustainable economic growth in Nigeria. Using the Solow growth model estimated with the use of Ordinary Least Square method‚ it was found that fiscal policy has not been effective in the area of promoting sustainable
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use Monetery and Fiscal Policies to Benefit the Economy? Our governments roll in the American economy extends far beyond its activities as a regulator of specific industries. The government also manages the overall pace of economic activity‚ seeking to maintain high levels of employment and stable prices. The government has two main tools for achieving these objectives: fiscal policies‚ through which it determines the appropriate level of taxes and spending; and monetary policies‚ through which it
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Summary on the Impact of fiscal and monetary policy on business organizations and their activities. Fiscal policy Government influence the economy by changing the level and types of taxes‚ the extent and composition of spending‚ and degree and form of borrowing. Lower taxes mean more disposable income for consumers and more cash for businesses to invest in jobs and equipment. Stimulus-spending programs‚ which are short-term in nature and often involve infrastructure projects‚ can also help drive
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1. What is the Solow (or long-run) growth curve‚ why is it vertical‚ and what causes it to shift? Solow growth curve is a production function that expresses the relationship between output and the factors of production. the formula is Y = F(A‚K‚eL) where A= ideas‚ K = physical captial‚ L = Labor‚ and e = natural resources. The Solow growth curve is represented by a vertical line at the Solow growth rate because: I. it does not depend on the rate of inflation. II. there is an underlying assumption
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FISCAL MANAGEMENT By: Ruth Ann L. Musngi When I first came across the topic of Fiscal Management and read the outline of the course‚ I realized that effective and efficient fiscal management is tantamount to good economic governance. Good governance is considered to synonymous with sound development management (Bertucci‚ 2000). As discussed‚ an effective and efficient financial management would include thorough and advance planning in order to develop budgets and to guide expenditures
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iThe Congress of Vienna in 1814 was created to develop an atmosphere of peace in Europe that would last 100 years. Over time‚ militarism was starting to set an aggressive atmosphere in Europe. Alliances were beginning to cause a “ripple effect” between the Great Powers‚ and imperialism increased tension and competition. Militarism‚ alliances‚ and imperialism are the three main causes of the first world war. Rising tension among the Great powers had created competition that required only the slightest
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World War. The causes are much more complex than those of the Second World War and include short‚ intermediate and long term factors that all ended to cause the July Days in 1914. These factors include militarism‚ nationalism‚ imperialism‚ the alliance system‚ and industrialization as the long term causes. The intermediate causes included the crises in the Balkans and the short-term trigger for the war was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the Sarajevo‚ the heir to the throne of
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This paper is on the The Long Term Causes of the French Revolution. It will explain events that leaded up to the revolution and how they occured and caused the great revolution to happen. Louis XVI‚ who was of the royal house of Bourban‚ became the absolute monarch of France when his grand father Louis XV died. When Louis the XVI became king‚ France was having a lot of problems‚ and was changing very fast. So France needed a strong leader to make wise decisons and to deal with problems with
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