Essay “So many countries‚ so many customs” There are many countries and nations in the world‚ and each of them is characterized by its own customs. In modern society we strive for integration‚ for cross-cultural communication‚ but very often different customs‚ different mentality makes obstacles for achieving results. For example‚ one Russian company carries on negations with some Japanese company. The Japanese do not say directly “Yes” or “No”‚ they think a lot. Russian vice verse do all of a
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holding back countries growth‚ and evaluate the measures used to aid growth in the future There are many factors that prevent countries from growing; these are often called ‘traps’. There are four different traps; the conflict trap‚ the natural resource trap‚ the landlocked trap and the bad governance trap. Countries that fall into these traps are generally the poorer countries‚ called the bottom billion as there are around one billion people trapped in poverty. Often these countries fall into one
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production base. First of all we must remember that the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is part of a larger plan for the ASEAN Community which involves three pillars of ASEAN. security‚ socio-cultural cooperation and economic Three crucial components for economic integration are: free trade in goods‚ free trade in services‚ and mobility of skilled labor In 2012‚ ASEAN member countries approved the Agreement on the Movement of Natural Persons (MNP).The member nations are going to increase
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UK AND A COUNTRY OF YOUR CHOICE‚ DISCUSS THE LIMITATIONS OF ‘GDP PER CAPITA’ AS A BASIS FOR COMPARING LIVING STANDARDS BETWEEN COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME’’ • INTRODUCTION From the late ‘40s a lot of countries started to develop very quickly‚ despite the wars. Every country realised its strong points of growing economically‚ and this was their resources. Some countries have more land‚ some countries have more water‚ some have more oil and some have more gold. Knowing this every country started
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Why is GDP per capita useful as a measure of living standards? What are the limitations of GDP per capita as a comparable measure of living standards? Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the monetary value of final goods and services produced in a given year by factors of production within a country. GDP reports are released on the last day of each quarter‚ reflecting the previous quarter. Therefore‚ it is measured on a quarterly basis and measures the level of economic growth in different countries
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GDP growth in China 1952-2009 Sharp increase in GDP during the reform period GDP has risen from Rmb362.4 billion in 1978‚ at the start of the reform period‚ to Rmb30 trillion in 2008 (both figures at current prices). Structural change in the Chinese economy during the reform period The share of primary industry in GDP has fallen from 28% in 1978‚ at the beginning of the reform period‚ to 11% in 2008. This fall occurred because agricultural output grew more slowly than output of other
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Why are some countries called developing countries‚ and some developed countries? Why are some countries called developing countries‚ and some developed countries? In this essay I’m going to talk about this question. Since this is a very wide subject I could talk about only a single country or a single issue‚ but I will try to discuss about the whole aggregate. Some of the main points are starvation‚ education‚ child labor‚ safety and human rights. These issues are very different in developed and
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Allen Professor of Economic History Oxford University Graham Lecture‚ 2008 Why are some countries rich and others poor? Since 1500‚ incomes have risen in most of the world‚ however: • Incomes have risen fastest in the countries that were richer in 1500 • Consequently‚ world inequality is much greater today than in 1500 • In 1500‚ average income in the UK was only 30% higher than in India • Today‚ the average UK income is ten times that in India. The graph shows when the West got rich.
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I was just thinking the other day: Everyone I know in the country is weird. At least for my town‚ which has no stoplights and one main intersection‚ we are a little strange‚ I think. We don’t get out much. We think running across the freeway is a thrill. I grew up playing in mud with frogs and snakes. Is that weird? I feel like my friends and I have had a somewhat difficult time in mixing with others. I almost feel like if I had lived in the city‚ I might understand more about other types of people
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BRIC COUNTRIES The BRIC Countries label refers to a select group of four countries(Brazil‚ Russia‚ India and China). The four original BRIC Countries comprise more than 2.8 billion people or 40 percent of the world‘s population‚ cover more than a quarter of the world’s land area over three continents‚ and account for more than 25 percent of global GDP Building Better Global Economic BRICs In 2001 and 2002‚ real GDP growth in large emerging market economies will exceed that of the G7. At end-2000
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