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Ethics at Nike

Nike is often criticized, with the accusation that they are an unethical company exploiting low paid workers in developing countri...

BRIC Countries and Their Economic Outlook

current G6 (a group that comprises the U.S., Japan, the U.K., Italy, France and Germany) will be among the worlds six largest econ...

Divorce and the Impacts of Globalization

Introduction The rate of successful marriage verses divorce varies considerable between the...

"Marketing, the ethic of consumption, and less-developed counties"

identification is (more or less) closely bound up with what one owns or consumes" (Brenkert, 1998; p. 93). These are the people t...

THE ECONOMICS OF OPEC

of drug, the copyright or patent on those drugs effectively erase all competition for a period of several years, to allow the comp...

Issues and Challenges in the Carbon Offset Market

avoid the need for further intervention. The first consideration may be the way in which the voluntary market is utilized, it app...

IS IT WORTH IT? BRINGING SOCCER’S WORLD CUP TO THE UNITED STATES

the advantages to hosting such an event? Even more importantly, how is it that a nation that is not anywhere near as soccer-mad as...

Consideration of the Brazil for Investment by a Biomedical Technology Firm from the United States

These types of development are reflected in the healthcare that is demanded and expected (Bilton et al, 2006). In terms of the so...

Neoliberal, Radical and Transformationalist Approaches to Explain the Way Globalization Impacts on Culture

as embracing more than simply the practice of international trade. A useful definition comes from Lubber and Koorevaar, (1998) who...

Urban Informal Economy of Latin America and Ideology

In ten pages this paper examines the urban informal economic structures of Latin American countries and the influence of ideology ...

Relationship Between Country Risk And National Culture

its entire economic status into a tailspin, ultimately threatening the worlds economy, as well.2 The most prominent forewarning o...

Monsanto as a Global Company

good ideas but failing to capitalize on those ideas. It would prove to be quite sound, however, and even visionary. In order to ...

Fair Trade

that it requires local people to adjust to its way of doing things - such as operating with a high degree of mechanization - and i...

How Economic Prospects For The Global Economy Can Affect Patterns Of Internal And External Migration In Developing Countries

perception, although often true, is not accurate. A migrant is a person who chooses to leave their home and move to another region...

England and France During the 17th and 18th Centuries

was played out by their government. It has been contended that English land was a critical element in most all of the...

Ghana, West Africa Case Study on Breast Cancer, Behavior, Attitudes, and Knowledge

detected are already in the later incurable stages (Jones, 1999). There are many arguments regarding issues such the ethical res...

Brazil's Obesity Problems

in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...

The Economy of Saudi Arabia

Before considering an country as a potential destination for investment it is necessary not only to look at the markets and the ex...

The Ethical Problem of Child Labor

that the "job" of childhood is to go to school and learn the skills and knowledge that will prepare them for the working world the...

Is the Ghanaian Economy Ready for Part-Time and Remote Tertiary Education Provision?

2010). This has meant in terms of education and the educational infrastructure there was an inheritance fro the former colonial p...

Nutritional Diseases Across the Globe

the most basic level. In the developing world, inadequate access to nutrition remains a significant problem. Anemia, for example...

Selected Data from Honduras

are able to attract investment and trade is reflective of the intervention conditions within the country. One of the major conside...

A Career Change Decision

most school districts support a process of lifelong learning, and the educational system in general focuses on methods to enhance ...

The Position of the United Kingdom Economy and Government Economic Policies in 2010

The United Kingdom suffered a recession in 2008/9, in common with many other countries. The writer discusses the way in which this...

Globalization - Overview

that had been spurred by Genghis Khan in 1100 across Eurasia (Ferraro, 2006). The Ottoman Empire in the 1300s spanned "Europe, Nor...

Maternal Mortality; Article Reviews

such as the attitudes surrounding pregnancy and childbirth and why help is not sought unless there are major indications of a prob...

Uninsurance & Economic Impact

the aggregate value of offering health coverage to all citizens is likely to be greater than the estimated costs of providing this...

The Body Shop; A Company Successful at Creating Partnerships

been seen in mixed lights. There is little doubt that whatever approach is adopted there has been the creation of profit, this was...

Bahrain; Women’s Rights

all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, ...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...