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rebuild to historical population levels (The Economist, 1998). Our oceans are fascinating testaments to the complexity and ...

these nations, in which children tended to be sold at an early age to bring much-needed resources into the family. The pur...

ones self-esteem is constantly defined by the opinions of others, and confined to the very narrow parameters of whether or not one...

Lebanon we can appreciate the conflict. In 1920 the San Remo Conference saw a total collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The oi...

of high return-on-income investments over a period of 5-7 years. Most of these investors, in fact, assume that in the early going,...

end to the long bloody affair and to consequently save countless US and Japanese lives that would have been lost if the war had of...

After the Civil War, slavery was over, though of course prejudice against African-Americans remains to this day. The historical i...

mature with many sectors. Tourism is one of the areas where developing countries have continually had a trade surplus, in 1...

information technology is the way in which economic development occurs. This has worked well for countries such as India, which pr...

the population that will enable the increased provision of a better standard of living. This means that government need to create ...

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

lowest possible cost. Garret (2004) points out that while we might try to explain away...

majorities in terms of the Senate and the intermittent control of the White House, change was not significant (2000). The desire t...

there are very clearly defined social classes. These social classes demand that people remain in the class they were born into, an...

the free market model (The Economist, 1991). Hong Kong did follow a free market model, but as the islands were under lease to the ...

result, the political and economic structures develop in ways that serve to accommodate the needs of so-called "business" concerns...

place China as the third largest economy in the world, the United States and Japan hold the first two places (Cheng, 2003). To be...

to a more open trading environment. The government made the transition from a communist centralized power following the Russian mo...

with the political upheaval in the Middle East, which is a major supplier of energy related importers to the area. Prices are subj...

new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...

natural resources rent account for 8% of the national income the advantages of democracies are eliminated. Collier argues that if ...

A proposal is presented for research to assess the roles of the banks along with the banking system in the economic development of...

is the potential for there to be differences in the conditions in Sierra Leone compared to other areas where suitable measures may...

He appealed to logic and strove to demonstrate that a central government guided by the Constitution as it existed would bring grea...

is apparent across the entire region. POLITICAL CHANGES One of the major changes which occurred in the economics and politics of ...

considering arguments that explain its development. Other questions tackled in the book include issues such as the role of religio...

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

and unskilled, they exist in a primitive society within a world where everything works as it does in the modern technological worl...

difference, however, is that these people are not the operators of that world, they are only the users. They have imported their ...

for assistance; but under the International Monetary Funds (IMF). "Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief program, Sene...