local substitutes rather than imported resources‚ and is aimed at improving technologies that already exist in the Third World. By making small adjustments to existing technologies the developing countries only has to create variations of technologies they are familiar with. This ensures that developing countries work within their capabilities. Appropriate technology is the idea that lower level technologies‚ using local resources are more appropriate than higher level technologies that require
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Could developing countries take the benefit of globalisation? Rusdy Hartungi Atma Jaya University‚ Makassar‚ Indonesia Abstract Purpose – To provide philosophical discussions of various works‚ thinking of globalisations and new thoughts on how the developing countries might take benefit of globalisation. Design/methodology/approach – A wide range of published works‚ which contain the recent thoughts and debates of the globalisation to developing nations are reviewed‚ analysed and then critiqued
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AMOUNTS OF MONEY STUDENT SPEND ON DRINKS PER WEEK DETERMINANTS OF STUDENTS’ BEVERAGE SPENDING USING AN ECONOMETRICS MODEL ABSTRACT The objective of the present study was to investigate how beverage consumption among UUM students is different in some respects (e.g.‚ age‚ gender‚ status‚ preference). In total‚ 59 university undergraduates were studied. The study is conducted in UUM (Northern University of Malaysia) at Kedah‚ Malaysia. By using econometrics model‚ factors that influence the amount
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global economic affairs. Yet it seems that the lesser developed countries (LDCs) continue to suffer from economic hardship raising the questions whether overseas aid is worthwhile and effective approach to boosting growth and development in recipient economies. Research on the subject has attempted to draw experimental connection between overseas aid and economic growth in particular and development in general. Despite these research efforts‚ however there is no concrete agreement among scholars
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Today’s world is divided into developed and developing countries. The developed countries are those that have achieved the process of development and developing countries are those which are in the process of development. Often‚ it happens so that developing nations do not have enough money in order to develop themselves. The money they would require could be for any major developmental project in that country. These developing countries ask for international aid in order to facilitate the implementation
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HYBRID DUG WELL TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BY SHEHU M.A.‚ SHAIBU-IMODAGBE E.M. and U.D IDRIS Samaru College of Agriculture‚ Division of Agricultural Colleges‚ Ahmadu Bello University Zaria According to the most recent Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP 2012) statistics‚ 2.3 billion people (one third of the global population) obtain their drinking water directly from groundwater and it is reasonable to assume that at least another 1.7 billion people (one quarter of the world’s
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"Oh my God look at this rich countries just sitting there and watching the poor countries suffer."Don’t you think that this rich countries should wake up and start doing something to help these poor countries such as Haiti due to the Earthquake it went through and also many other countries. One reason rich countries should help these poor countries is because if you take Haiti for example after the earthquake they had in 2010 there were many damages done to people and land because Many buildings
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Journal of Education for International Development 4:2 December 2009 The Role of ICT in Enhancing Education in Developing Countries: Findings from an Evaluation of The Intel Teach Essentials Course in India‚ Turkey‚ and Chile Daniel Light Education Development Center This paper presents findings from case studies of the introduction of the Intel® Teach Essentials Course—a professional development program focused on integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into project-based
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say the least‚ the economic history of the human kind can conveniently be divided into pre WTO era and post WTO era. While the WTO regime is compelling every country in the world to readjust‚ reformat‚ redesign their economic system to synchronise with WTO regime. Those countries are also doing considerable amount of research for developing propositions‚ positions and formulations to develop appropriate strategies to meet the challenges of WTO regime and to assure fair share of benefits arising out
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I have mixed feelings about whether rich countries should help poor countries or not. There are different reasons why I believe that they should‚ and different reasons why I believe that they should not help. Rich countries should help poor countries because if things were reversed they would want help. Opening up trade barriers so that poor countries can sell their goods is another good way to help. Rich countries could also send money to help pay off debt. People have no idea how lucky they
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