Lending financial aid to poor countries has become a trend of rich countries since the second half of the 20th century. In my opinion‚ it doesn’t matter whether rich countries should lend poor ones financial aid or not but the way poor countries utilize this capital source because financial aid has both pros and cons. For the first reason‚ financial aid is a helpful source to poor countries. It provides huge capital for these nations to develop infrastructure‚ improve education as well as health
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Drama 88 Day 4 The Gap between Developed and Developing Countries The main topic of this week’s reading that stood out to me was The Global Table where Foer shows a glimpse of the status of the all the countries in the world. Foer says that if all the countries were to sit on a table with a seat of nine‚ two would be Chinese‚ two Indians‚ a fifth would be the other countries in Northeast‚ South‚ and Central Asia‚ a sixth would be the nations of Southeast Asia and Oceana‚ a seventh would be sub-Saharan
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Earnings Gap Earnings gap by gender can be explained by several different theories. Varying on the individual views/opinions some theories may make more sense than others. In my opinion the one theory that best explains this gap between genders is the occupational segregation. There are some occupations that are female‚ and others that are male. One of the explanations for this is the discontinuity of the female participation/attachment in labor force. During their labor force participation
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How rich is rich in the Philippines? June 21‚ 2010 http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/socioeconomic-class-philippines-rich/ Who are considered “rich” in the Philippines? For starters‚ you’re “rich” if you belong to the list of the Top 10 Richest Filipinos. However‚ even if your net worth does not run into billions of pesos yet‚ you may still be considered “rich” as per the definition of the National Statical Coordination Board (NSCB). Based on NSCB computations using the Family Income and Expenditure
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INTRO: Money fluctuates within a person’s life time; however‚ money also rules the world. It can control whether or not one is going to be comfortable in life or forced to scrape at the edge with a spoon. It can bring out the worst in someone as well. Oliver Broudy writes an article how money can change a person‚ he says‚ “In fact‚ money can relieve us of even our most deeply held principles with the bored ease of an usher taking a ticket‚” (Broudy). In the world today there are three different
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CSR Gap Analysis of the GAP Gap Inc prefaces their 2004/5 CSR report with the question: what is a company’s role in society? Their answer is that a company ‘only realizes its full potential when it embraces its role as a global citizen’. This raises two interesting points; the first is that the answer to the question ‘what is a company’s role in society?’ will be conditioned by normative assumptions about business/government relations in a firm’s country of incorporation. David Detomasi
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There is a wage gap between men and women that should not be there. According to AAUW.Org “On average‚ women employed full time in the United States lose a combined total of more than $840 billion every year due to the wage gap” Imagine if you had twenty percent more money then you have right now‚ I know I would want the extra twenty percent‚ but as a women that twenty percent is missing from their paychecks. The wage gaps are proving that even today gender equality does not belong‚ but it should
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strain on the poor country. Aid itself is not corruptive‚ however the form of the donation should be heavily reconsidered. Tied aid is a concept that in itself is an oxymoron; the purpose of aid is to provide relief to countries in dire need‚ not to help already prosperous countries earn a profit; for this reason I‚ personally‚ strongly disagree with tied aid. Globalization is quickly beginning to take effect on the world of today‚ forging closer economic‚ social and political links between nations. Trade
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The Gap Inc. business strategy is a combined of cost leader and differentiation. The company provides a highly competitive price with some differentiated fashion features. As a cost leader‚ Gap supplies the similar products at a lower price‚ uses the simple design‚ and applies a tight cost control system to its store space. At the same time‚ Gap also equipped with some unique product features. The company has variety products designed for different group of target customer‚ like GapKids and Banana
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women’s median annual paychecks reflected only 78 cents for every $1.00 earned by men.”( Women Deserve Equal Pay‚ 1) These statistics demonstrate that women earn less than man and there is an injustice wage gap within women and men. Unfortunately‚ this situation does not change in 44 years and wage gap just close 19 cent. Another important reason is that people especially employers argued that for the most jobs‚ masculinity has more prestige than feminity. “Social psychologists have demonstrated repeatedly
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