much of the humanitarian work done in Sudan recently has aimed at treating the symptoms of Africa’s longest and most intractable conflict. Medical supplies‚ feeding schemes‚ education assistance and refugee housing are the most common sorts. The root causes‚ often obscure and always complex‚ remain to be addressed at some future date. Dr. Baker mentioned that one new factor in the second civil war was the discovery of oil in Southern Sudan after the 1972 Addis Ababa agreements had been signed. Whereby
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According to Hewitt (2011) “the European Union’s finest hour was when it stood as a beacon for democracy‚ the rule of law and a civil society and enticed the peoples of Eastern Europe to embrace freedom.” Despite such a rich tradition of democracy‚ the burning question which has been recurrently on the lips of renowned academics and political thinkers/actors is whether or not Britain is facing a crisis in democracy‚ with some responding to this question in the affirmative. It has therefore been argued
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In response‚ to the article of Henri Bourassa’s; "Win the War and Lose Canada"‚ produced at a time in February 1917‚ I hope to say that‚ I certainly agree with Bourassa on this primary concern. The conscription Crisis was a main issue which occurred to the lack of the soldiers to take part in World War I. Therefore‚ Canada experienced complexity in attracting sufficient numbers of new soldiers to maintain their defense force‚ and they were coming difficult to find. Due to the prime minister Robert
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The Greek crisis: opportunity for Greek to rebirth The dubious distinction of history’s first recorded sovereign default belongs to Greece—the same nation at the forefront of the world’s second major financial crisis in five years. The crisis raised a question: Whether the crisis is a tragedy or opportunity for Greek? I believe even Greek have taken measures to reform‚ this crisis would continue until Greek government come up with solutions which are not created by other countries and international
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CNG crisis in Pakistan Pakistani Government receives commission on buying petrol. Therefore‚ it creates an artificial CNG crisis to increase petrol consumption‚ which consequently results in increase of commission. Most vehicles in Pakistan run on CNG nowadays. Pakistan has the greatest number of CNG refill stations and CNG vehicles. But today‚ Pakistan is facing CNG crisis. In Pakistan‚ the greatest amount of CNG is used in the Punjab province‚ which is the country’s largest province with respect
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Environmental Crisis "We Have An Environmental Crisis Because We Have A People Crisis - A Crisis of Population Growth‚ of Wasteful Consumption of Resources‚ and A Crisis of Apathy and Inaction." An environmental crisis is an emergency concerned with the place in which every human lives - the environment. A people crisis is an emergency with the community that inhabits the world environment. A crisis of population growth is a turning point where the environment can no longer sustain the amounts
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Pre-September 2008: The AIG Crisis Over the years‚ AIG built upon its premier global franchises in life and general insurance by expanding into a range of financial services businesses. One of these‚ created in 1987‚ was AIG Financial Products Corp. (AIGFP)‚ a company that engaged as principal in a wide variety of financial transactions for a global client base. In 1998‚ AIGFP began to sell credit default swaps to other financial institutions to protect against the default of certain securities
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Moderation (reproduced by permission for Capella University‚ 2011). The case explores whether or not the Great Moderation‚ defined by investopedia.com as “the period of decreased macroeconomic volatility experienced in the United States since the 1980’s [during which] the standard deviation of quarterly real GDP declined by half‚ and the standard deviation of inflation declined by two-thirds (para. 1)” is still in effect. This paper will use evidence from research in a draft by Pancrazi and Vukotic
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The Inside Job - Sub Prime Crisis Sub Prime Crisis was the financial crisis which hit the global markets in 2008. This was caused in general because of subprime loans being given out by banks w/o working out the due diligence required to check the credibility of the borrowers. The key cause of the subprime crisis was the instability of the derivatives market. Prior to the housing bubble‚ there was widespread initiative to regulate the derivatives market so as to bring the stability necessary
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Name: Alicia Torres The Crisis in Venezuela p.16 What’s the Big Idea? After reading “The Crisis in Venezuela‚” use the graphic organizer below to record the article’s central ideas. Use the topics in the column on the left as a guide. TOPIC STATE THE CENTRAL IDEA RELATED TO THIS TOPIC ECONOMY Shortages of basic goods UNREST Lost in oil South America facing crisis GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO UNREST Insisting to changing to a dictatorship RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S. U.S buys oil from
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