last few years. Obesity has a lot of other potential health risks or problems that have a great economic impact on the health care system today. The diseases that are associated with obesity are high blood pressure‚ strokes‚ heart attacks‚ diabetes‚ and arthritis. Obese patients’ health care cost and out of pocket spending is expected to increase with the rise of obesity. According to a study of national costs attributed to both overweight (BMI 25–29.9) and obesity (BMI greater than 30)‚ medical expenses
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development A Commentary on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (ed. Wim Naudé) Robert J. Strom Interest in the study of entrepreneurship has flourished among scholars in recent years. This research has brought to light‚ among other things‚ the important role of entrepreneurship and innovation in economic growth. We know that innovative entrepreneurs—those who bring new products and processes to the market—are disproportionately responsible for the breakthrough
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THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT* Josua Cavalevu Secretary‚ Prime Minister’s Hurricane Relief Committee‚ Fiji. INTRODUCTION I present these thoughts as a private citizen of Fiji‚ as one who has some concern for this issue; so in sharing these thoughts with you I admit that I am not an educationist‚ and really do not have any professional justification for speaking on this subject. All I can claim for myself‚ however‚ is an interest in the subject of education in the broadest sense
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itself in 2020. The Butler’s Life Cycle model and what are the economic impacts on tourism have also been explained. This report contains Singapore as its main example to prove that tourism does have an impact on the economy. The author has given facts and figures to prove that Singapore economy has very high relevance to tourism‚ Singapore has also been put on the life cycle and explained. Thus concluding that Singapore’s tourism does impact the economy. Content Tourism may be defined as the processes
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The economic development in India followed socialist-inspired policies for most of its independent history‚ including state-ownership of many sectors; extensive regulation and red tape known as "Licence Raj"; and isolation from the world economy. India’s per capita income increased at only around 1% annualized rate in the three decades after Independence.[1] Since the mid-1980s‚ India has slowly opened up its markets through economic liberalization. After more fundamental reforms since 1991 and their
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To eradicate corruption we require individuals who are incorruptible and‚ undoubtedly‚ what produces such individuals is spirituality. There is a saying that violence begins in the mind. This is true also of corruption: corruption begins in the mind. If we can alter our thinking‚ we can safely say that we shall have eradicated corruption by at least 50 per cent. What changes the heart and mind for the better is spirituality. When an airplane takes off‚ it leaves behind everything and reaches a higher
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upon conditions outside human control such as the weather‚ as well as more efficient division of labor and economic growth. Industrialization is most commonly associated with the European Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The onset of the second World War also led to a great deal of industrialization which resulted in the growth and development of large urban centers and as well as suburbs. Industrialization is an outgrowth of capitalism. The full
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What will India be like in future? 1. Introduction 2. Indian history 3. Development of Economy and Businesses in India Development of the rural sector Domestic policy India and the rest of the world 4. India and its future 5. Conclusion 6. Bibliography 1. Introduction In todays world there is an enormous interest in why economies and countries grew in the way they did and how these developments could be transferred to huge companies or other countries. Because India was and
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Benefits of National Parks "More than 305 million people visited national parks in 2015‚ eclipsing the all-time visitation record that the National Park Service saw in the previous year." (United States National Park Service). More and more people are becoming interested in seeing the natural beauties of the world‚ proving the benefits of national parks far outweigh the cost. The government should continue to fund and support national parks‚ such as the Grand Canyon‚ because of the benefits they
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this stimulates the development of China‚ causing a rapid economic development and modernization to occur. So I absolutely agree that modernization and economic development has had only brought positive effect to China and China’s people. According to “ The Telegraph” published on 1st of June in 2013‚ America ranked 1st and China ranked 2nd in the world’s most powerful economy. In these few years‚ China’s economic development had expanded rapidly‚ causing
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