yardstick for measuring the worth of properties and other similar commodities. Environmental characteristics which are manifested in the form of pull and push effect of the neighbourhood‚ have the push effects characterized by proliferation of squatter settlements‚ air and water pollution‚ squalid condition of environmental sanitation‚ and breakdown of waste disposal arrangement while the pull effect could be good roads‚ schools etc. When properties are in close proximity to environmental factors
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Another method that would have been helpful to neutralizing the tendency of humanitarian programs to worsen pre-existing inequalities is delivering aid to individual families that went to the countryside after Port-au-Prince crumbled (instead of squatter camps) because thousands flocked to Port-au-Prince when they heard aid was there. This method would have helped disperse the population to help prevent disease from spreading and camps from becoming permanent. In addition‚
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Rank | Name | Net Worth | Age | Source | Country of Citizenship | 1 | Carlos Slim Helu & family | $69 B | 72 | telecom | Mexico | 2 | Bill Gates | $61 B | 57 | Microsoft | United States | 3 | Warren Buffett | $44 B | 82 | Berkshire Hathaway | United States | 4 | Bernard Arnault | $41 B | 63 | LVMH | France | 5 | Amancio Ortega | $37.5 B | 76 | Zara | Spain | 6 | Larry Ellison | $36 B | 68 | Oracle | United States | 7 | Eike Batista | $30 B | 55 | mining‚ oil | Brazil | 8 | Stefan
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SHAKY START Left to himself‚ Ratan Tata would probably have stayed on in the United States after training as an architect at Cornell University. But the son of deputy group chairman Naval Tata and the nephew of JRD Tata couldn’t be allowed to work outside the group (he had an offer from IBM). In 1962‚ Ratan joined the family business‚ working on the Tata Steel shopfloor at Jamshedpur‚ just one of several thousand employees. He got his first independent assignment less than a decade later --
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Occasional Paper #1 Historical Biographical Analysis on “Another Invitation to the Pope to Visit Tondo” Emmanuel Torres is a poet‚ art critic‚ professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Ateneo de Manila and curator of its art museum who was born on April 29‚ 1932 in Manila. He was born on the Third Republic of the Philippines when the country was already considered independent. He witnessed the administration of Manuel Roxas‚ Elpidio Quirino‚ Ramon Magsaysay‚ Carlos P. Garcia
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Education: British: • intent of providing for education • neglect or freedom of choice (irony…) • effect of varying education systems • 19th century‚ few education institutions provided by British • 20th century‚ increase in demand for English-trained people • provided grants to set up schools‚ Singapore Institution(RI- 1868) • established Queen’s scholarship to further studies • Medical schools built by Asian leaders • More money to English and Malay Schools (Chinese schools received
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Depending on who you ask‚ the ‘settlement’ of Australia was actually nothing more than an invasion. The Europeans had good intent when they came to Australia‚ but they affected the Indigenous people‚ sometimes unintentionally. Violence and conflict was common between the Aboriginals and the Europeans. It is clear that it was an invasion. The first settlers of Australia wanted to reap the benefits and resources of the prosperous Australian land. The opportunities offered here were greater than those
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The conclusion of the Mexican-American War by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 signaled the start of a new era for the United States‚ a period of crisis and growing division between the North and the South. The failure of the Wilmot Proviso provoked tensions between Northerners and Southerners within the Democratic party‚ division which in turn influenced the creation of the Free-Soil party. United under a bipartisan platform centered on the containment of the “peculiar institution” of slavery
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THE IMPACT OF RAPID URBANIZATION ON HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA FROM 1950 -2010 (Focus on urban developments and housing problems case study: Lagos) Urbanization according to Aluko O.E is rather subjective and can be given various interpretations. However in this concept it can be defined as the expansion of the number of people living in an urban area that depicts the rate at which people move from rural areas and populate the urban areas. Reports however‚ from the united nation show that the
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URBAN GEOGRAPHY TERMS Action space—The geographical area that contains the space an indivdual interacts with on a daily basis. Annexation—the process of legally adding land area to a city. Beaux arts—This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older‚ classical forms with newer‚ industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period include wide thoroughfares‚ spacious parks‚ and civic monuments that stressed progress‚ freedom‚ and national unity. City
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