INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND GLOBAL SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS. Global environmental problems involve one or more of the following: 1. Deforestation 2. Desertification 3. Rapid Population Growth 4. Food Production and Equitable Distribution 5. Global Warming 6. Depletion of the Atmospheric Ozone 7. Acid Precipitation and Air Pollution 8. Ocean Pollution Characteristics of International Environmental Problems: 1. Many of the international problems involve the
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Basic Psychological Problems: Importance of Mental Health Dr. Amit Abraham Associate Professor & Head Post Graduate Department of Psychology St. John’s College Agra – 282 002 Importance of Mental Health If you want to develop into a healthy individual‚ it is very important to have a good mental health. Mental health can be broadly defined as a psychological state of well-being‚ characterized by continuing personal growth‚ a sense of purpose in life‚ self-acceptance‚ and positive relations
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Foreign Exchange in International Trade Article: Ups and downs of forex trading (Straits Times‚ 5 Jun 2011 ) Ups and downs of forex trading Lorna Tan‚ Senior Correspondent 1704 words 5 June 2011 Straits Times STIMES English (c) 2011 Singapore Press Holdings Limited There is plenty of potential in the market but be aware of the pitfalls The pursuit of financial freedom has led many retail investors to consider foreign exchange trading. Online forex trading has seen a tremendous
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WHAT IS SME? “SME is an industrial undertaking with fixed investment up to 20 million excluding the cost of land and no limit of people employed.” SME sector in Pakistan comprises mostly of those owner/entrepreneurs who are less literate‚ knowledgeable‚ and ignorant of legal systems‚ taxation and labor laws. POTENTIAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH SME Problems associated with SME sector are very much originated from the problems of owners/entrepreneurs. However SME sector
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state the legal consequences of their contractual activities for example the right‚ obligation‚ and remedies for involve parties‚ and they can choose the law of particular country or international law to govern their contract. International trade law (CISG) includes the appropriate rules and customs for handling trade between states and it forms part of domestic law if the involve parties are from the contracting state of CISG. With assistance from Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) for filling
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PROBLEMS 1. Mississippi Mud Pies‚ Inc. needs to buy 1‚000‚000 Swiss francs (CHF) to pay its Swiss chocolate supplier. Its banker quotes bid–ask rates of CHF1.3990–1.4000/USD. What will be the dollar cost of the CHF1‚000‚000? Answer: The bank’s bid rate is CHF1.3990/$. That is the price at which the bank is willing to buy $1 in return for CHF1.3990. The bank sells dollars at its ask price CHF1.4000/$. Mississippi Mud Pies must sell dollars to the bank to buy CHF. Therefore Mississippi Mud Pies
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The high cost of housing in Hong Kong recently has attracted international attention once again. Not long after a report in the Economist that suggested Hong Kong was second only to Australia in terms of the extent to which housing is overpriced‚ a CNN video story‚ "Feeling Hong Kong’s Property Boom‚" cited record low interest rates‚ lack of buildable land in a city of 7 million population‚ and hot money from the Chinese mainland‚ as driving forces behind the local housing boom. Regrettably‚ the
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction "... Every single one of you has something that you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide."- US President Barack Obama Education is a fundamental need of an individual to cope with life. And it is a basic but a very important matter that each and everyone should have. Education makes a man complete. In
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12 Globalization and International Trade “Globalization” refers to the growing interdependence of countries resulting from the increasing integration of trade‚ finance‚ people‚ and ideas in one global marketplace. International trade and cross-border investment flows are the main elements of this integration. Globalization started after World War II but has accelerated considerably since the mid-1980s‚ driven by two main factors. One involves technological advances that have lowered the costs
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What is a social problem? A social problem is a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. Everyone would agree about some social problems‚ such as murders and DWI traffic deaths. Other social problems may be viewed as such by certain groups of people. Teenagers who play loud music in a public park obviously do not view it as a problem‚ but some other people may consider it an undesirable social condition. Some nonsmokers view smoking as an undesirable social
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