INSTITUTIONS AS A FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF LONG-RUN GROWTH DARON ACEMOGLU 1 ‚ Department of Economics‚ MIT‚ 50 Memorial Drive E52-3806‚ Cambridge‚ MA 02142 e-mail: damn@mit.edu SIMON JOHNSON Sloan School o f h f a ~ g e m e n t ‚ MIT‚ 50 Memorial Drive‚ Cambridge‚ MA 02142 e-mail: sjohnson@mit.edu JAMES A. ROBINSON Deparhnent of Government‚ WCFIA‚ Harvard University‚ 1033 Massachusetts Avenue‚ Cambridge‚ MA 02138 e-mail: jmbinson@gov.harvard.edu Contents Abstract Keywords 1. Introduction
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you answer all parts of the question in order to obtain full credit. You should have an introduction‚ body paragraphs‚ and a conclusion. DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PAPER. Explain how the Industrial Revolution caused urbanization. What technological developments caused it to occur? Also‚ how did industrialization create problems during the Industrial Revolution? What problems did it create? Be specific. Industrial Revolution Short Writing Questions Which
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are additional resources for higher classes. In the name of development‚ we remove trees and vegetation‚ change how we use land‚ and keep expanding paved areas. All these not only affect the soil ecology‚ but also the water balances. Increased urbanization also requires more water to feed the city’s population and industry‚ often requiring deeper and deeper wells to be drilled or water to be moved from even more distant locations. Increase of pavement area not lonely lessens the amount of water
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As per U.S. EPA estimates‚ every year in the U.S‚ 1.2 trillion gallons of sewage from households‚ industries‚ and restaurants is dumped into U.S. waterways. Urbanization‚ agriculture‚ and sewage discharge are major contributors in the loss and degradation of North American wetlands‚ resulting in an increasing amount of pollutants in the waterways. A wetland is an area of land where the surface is partially or entirely covered by water‚ and is especially important in maintaining an ecological balance
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For Europe the 19th century was a rise of industrialism‚ it brought about new technology and transportation that led to a shift towards industry. Industrialization and increased urbanization lead to changes in social classes. Although industrialization was exciting‚ there were environmental‚ social‚ economic‚ and cultural consequences. The western part of the world was able to industrialize first due to the growth of commerce. The growth of commerce had people making more goods and selling them
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century‚ hundreds of thousands of people moved to the United States. A large chunk of these people came from Ireland. The biggest motivations for the Irish people to immigrate were a major food shortage in Ireland‚ railroad advertisements‚ and urbanization in the U.S. In Ireland‚ the primary food source was the potato. Conveniently‚ a disease started to spread around Ireland that killed most of their potatoes. This disease caused a huge famine that killed a large amount of the Irish population.
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The sooner these issues are dealt with‚ the more equipped decision makers will be at solving future crises. Other future concerns pertaining to the increase of urbanization around the lakes‚ primarily Lake Ontario‚ will be another negative environmental factor needing monitoring and acknowledgement of ecosystem change. With urbanization it is expected that natural vegetation will be removed and replaced with impermeable concrete surfaces which allow water to flow directly into river channels‚ increasing
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problem that needs to be advertised Deforestation‚ culture‚ economy‚ climate change‚ selection‚ etc Domino effect- less diversity = less ecosystems Urbanization in Canada is taking away habitats therefore decreases the species in those habitats and disrupting ecosystems Pollution‚ addition‚ Could focus on just ONE ex; deforestation due to urbanization in Canadian cities 2. Artificial Selection causing loss of gene pool and in turn loss of biodiversity. Very interesting topic to talk about Goes
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conditions were unhealthy and it brought a negative impact on culture‚ values‚ and morality of mankind. Outline I. Major Aspects of industrialization between 1865 and 1920: a) Industrialization caused many changes in people’s daily lives b) Urbanization caused crowed cities and unsanitary living
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undertake an assessment on transportation and territorial development in Singapore EMR. The analysis mainly underlines the role of Singapore as a regional transhipment centre and its maritime / land interface function. Key Words: Transportation‚ Urbanization‚ Extended Metropolitan Regions (EMR)‚ Singapore. Published as (1994) "Transportation and Territorial Development in the Singapore Extended Metropolitan Region"‚ Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography‚ Vol. 15‚ No. 1‚ pp. 56-74. 1 This
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