Gevelekian 1 Tatiana Gevelekian Professor Lai AAS 9 November 2013 The Effects of Public Policy Public policies have played a large role in creating the suburbs and contributing to segregation in Los Angeles. The 1956 Interstate Defense Highway Act helped create and sustain suburbs but the process maintained segregation against those of low income. After the streetcar system government organizations built freeways in areas of low income‚ leaving residents with no choice but to evacuate
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During the 1970s‚ an increased demand for copper and cobalt attracted Japanese investments in the mineral rich southeastern region of Katanga Province. Over a 10-year period‚ more than 1‚000 Japanese miners relocated to the region‚ confined to a strictly male-only camp. Arriving without family or spouses‚ the men often sought social interaction outside the confounds of their camps. In search of intimacy with the opposite sex‚ sometimes resulting in cohabitation‚ the men openly engaged in interracial
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THE MACRO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF MICRO-ECONOMIC MARKET FAILURES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS – THE CASE OF SA. Nicola Theron ECONEX www.econex.co.za Department of Economics University of Stellenbosch nmb@sun.ac.za 1. INTRODUCTION This paper will examine the micro-economic market failures and the rationale for regulation in the South African telecommunications sector. The role of telecommunications in economic growth will be emphasized by analysing the effect that the micro-economic market failures
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Stock Market and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis for Germany Adamopoulos Antonios Department of Applied Informatics‚ University of Macedonia‚ Thessaloniki‚ Macedonia‚ Greece Correspondence to: Adamopoulos Antonios‚ adamant@uom.gr Published online: April 15‚ 2010 Abstract This paper investigates the causal relationship between stock market development and economic growth for Germany for the period 1965-2007 using a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). The purpose of this paper was to
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Women of the Asian Culture Shavon Schultze ANT 101 Keith Nesto September 27‚ 2009 Women of the Asian Culture Women of Asian culture should be given equal opportunity of human rights in regards to politics‚ employment‚ economics‚ and family life. Because of religious beliefs‚ and tradition‚ women of the Asian culture are accustomed to the burden of being house wives‚ stay at home mothers‚ and homemakers. Society in Asia feels that women should not be working in the workforce; it is said that
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Asian Philosophy and Literature Paper Sonya Dowell ENG/301 August 13‚ 2012 Marc Bonnani INTRODUCTION The Asian Culture has faith in that there are a series of beliefs and principled forms in the Asian literature that follows in the ethnic steadiness and a thoughtful of collaboration that resulted in the mutual understanding of Asian literature development‚ but the Asian literature views comes from a diverse ethnic upbringings‚ no single meaning of the word exists‚ but characteristically
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Eini Laaksonen Political risks of foreign direct investment in the Russian gas industry – The Shtokman gas field project in the Arctic Ocean Electronic Publications of Pan-European Institute 14/2010 ISSN 1795 - 5076 Political risks of foreign direct investment in the Russian gas industry – The Shtokman gas field project in the Arctic Ocean Eini Laaksonen1 14/2010 Electronic Publications of Pan-European Institute www.tse.fi/pei 1 Eini Laaksonen is Research Associate at the Pan-European
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Stock market development and economic growth Executive summery This paper examined the relationship between stock market development and economic growth of two Asian developing countries‚ that is‚ Pakistan and Bangladesh‚ after the liberalization period of 1990s. The relationship measured were in terms of size (market capitalization)‚ liquidity (total value of stocks traded and stock turnover ratio) and volume (total number of companies listed in the stock exchange of each of the country). The
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including the IMF and World Bank‚ and was known as part of the "Asian economic miracle". In 1994‚ noted economist Paul Krugman published an article attacking the idea of an "Asian economic miracle".[4] He argued that East Asia’s economic growth had historically been the result of increasing capital investment. However‚ total factor productivity had increased only marginally or not at all. Krugman argued that only growth in total factor productivity‚ and not capital investment‚ could lead to long-term
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Authorized Institution – Restriction by Type | |Banks (LB 133) |Restricted Licensed |Deposit-taking | | | |Banks (RLB 46) |Company (DTC 45) | |Min. Deposit Amount (or equiv |No Restriction |HKD $500‚000 |HKD
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