I N S T I T U T E f o r S T AT I S T I C S GLOBAL EDUCATION DIGEST 2009 Comparing Education Statistics Across the World UNESCO GLOBAL EDUC ATION DIGE S T 2 0 0 9 Comparing Education Statistics Across the World UNESCO The constitution of the United Nations Educational‚ Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was adopted by 20 countries at the London Conference in November 1945 and entered into effect on 4 November 1946. The Organization currently has 193 Member
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instruction (CAI) to schools. CAI was developed to help students acquire basic skills‚ practice them‚ and measure learning gains. With the development and increased availability of lower-cost personal computers‚ the use of technology in schools broadened in the early 1980s to encompass the use of general-purpose tools such as word processors and spreadsheets. Technology that allowed classes to be given by remote teachers via two-way audio and video‚ known as "distance learning‚" also first appeared in
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1 China’s economic growth and poverty reduction (1978-2002) By Hu Angang，Hu Linlin and Chang Zhixiao1 [Abstract] This article has summarized and evaluated the trend of China’s poverty decrease in the period of 1978-2002‚ considering that China has obtained great achievements in the area of poverty decrease sine 1978 and made great contributions to the world; however‚ poverty decrease has not corresponded to the economic growth and it has slowed down the pace since the middle of 1980s; in addition
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Social works confronts firsthand with issues of economic inequality‚ as they work with people who have problems who are challenge each day with socially‚ complicated situations caused by these economic inequalities. Economic Inequality is defined as uneven distribution of wealth and not having equal opportunities to improve situation‚ while poverty means not having access to material resources‚ income or wealth. However‚ socials workers recognized how this system of equal distribution is skewed unfairly
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Income Inequality‚ Economic growth and its effects . Abstract “Some people are of the view that income inequality is a necessary part off the growth process‚ that it is generally unavoidable and that policy should focus on ensuring that everyone is doing better rather than focusing on narrowing the income gap” whilst other agrue that it hinders growth. This assignment was carried out to investigate and debate the theoretical and empirical views of the above statement as well as share my own
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crisis like it from happening again. In order to prevent the economy from becoming worse‚ FDR created Stock Market Reforms and various other organizations to allow the country to rebuild. In the book‚ The Roosevelt’s‚ written by Geoffrey Ward‚ explains how the nation was before FDR came into the presidency. It states‚ “Before Franklin Roosevelt‚ there had been no unemployment compensation or social security; no regulation of the stock market; no federal guarantee of bank deposits‚ no national minimum
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not only to the individuals and families directly affected‚ but also to local and regional economies and the economy as a whole. We can make a distinction between the economic costs arising from people out of work and the social costs that often result. Lost output of goods and services Unemployment causes a waste of scarce economic resources and reduces the long run growth potential of the economy. An economy with high unemployment is producing within its production possibility frontier. The hours
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inhumane treatment of the working poor‚ and people without choice of work and labour conditions. The general consensus of the global community is that sweatshops are unprincipled and unacceptable. An economic analysis of the economics of sweatshops identifies their benefit to the economies of developing nations. Globalization has caused an increase in sweatshop labour‚ which benefits the economies of developing nations and the standard of living of the sweatshop labourers despite some detrimental effects
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of international trade and economic growth. There might be various parameters for the measurement of the connection between globalization‚ international trade and economic growth that is derived from the mobility of investment‚ human capital to communication and transportation that fosters interdependency and other forms of economically beneficial and social relationship between countries. In economy each nation sets policy to manage its resources to maximize the benefits of trade for its people.
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Fill out the tables for each scenario and answer the question that follows. Use $7.25 as the minimum wage and remember that employees in the United States must be paid time-and-a-half (1.5 times the normal hourly rate) for each hour worked over 40 hours per week. Scenario 1. A team of three laborers in Mongolia makes rugs by hand for export to the United States. The team makes 12 rugs per year working 14 hours a day‚ six days a week‚ 50 weeks a year. Each laborer is paid a wage equivalent of
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