Essays on Developing Country

Climate change is one of the debatable issues in the world today. It is worth noting that climate change is a big threat to humanity and sustainability. Climate change refers to a lasting and significant change in the distribution of weather patterns in a period of time. The causes of climate change are many, and there is need to mitigate them in various ways. Both the developing and developed countries are part of the causes and effect of climate change; hence, every country is part of the issues concerning climate change. The problem of climate change begins when the greenhouse gases are ...

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Debt in developing countries remains a big challenge even after the IMF and World Bank efforts to cut down these debts to a manageable level. This study aims at identifying some of the factors which have contributed to the increased debts in developing countries. The purpose of selecting the issue is to carry out an investigation as to why the debts in developing countries persist even after the IMF and World Bank efforts to cut them down. Developing economies are characterised by with low GDP, high inflation rates, high interest rates, and low per-capita income hence have unstable economies (Toussaint, 2012). ...

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International Monetary Fund and World Bank are two well-reputed financial institutions that try to ensure that the global economy is in healthy state and the economic disparity among people and nations are reduced as much as possible. The basic goals of these institutions are focused around developing nations. Developing nations across the world have many basic problems impeding their progress. Many people in those countries are ridden with problems like the lack of access to clean water, lack of sanitation facilities, no access to primary and secondary education, disparity among girl and boy child, lack of health facilities and ...

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Natural disasters have always happened and will continue to happen. Unfortunately, there is a major difference in how developed countries prepare for and respond to natural disasters, compared to developing countries. When a disaster hits a developing country, the death rates are much higher than in a developed country, the recovery period takes longer and the long term economic impact is more severe. This paper looks at the causes for the differences and addresses steps a developing country can take to be better prepared for and respond against potential natural disasters. There is a distinct difference in the terminology disaster professionals use between the ...

Essay

Question 1 Many factors influence the economic growth in the developing countries. These factors include internal government policies, political stability, domestic capital formation, investment, export policy and foreign aid among others. Collectively, these factors provide the most significant platform for economies in developing countries. The major problem in developing countries is that they lack proper policy to implement these factors to promote economic growth. This has led to high rates of unemployment, income inequality, inflation and poor economic growth among others. Thus, the paper will evaluate various factors that constitute economic in developing countries. Globalization and income ...

Globalization of corporations has led to various pros and cons. Multinational corporations have proved beneficial for the economy and the company’s returns. However, there is more than just the economic perspective of globalization of firms. Most firms have been accused of eco-terrorism, child labor and other unethical issues. Most consumers benefit from cheaper products, but they do not understand what goes on in the production process. The thesis of my essay is to analyze the unethical issues involved in globalization of companies. These issues include child labor, which is one of the most prevalent ethical issues surrounding ...

BRAZIL: EMBRACING GLOBALIZATION

INTRODUCTION It has always been a challenge for the developing countries to find effective and efficient strategy regarding cross-national cooperation, globalization, and economic growth. The developing countries have been struggling to find the appropriate mix between the imports and exports. On one hand, the developing countries are looking for strengthen the local industry by putting up different regulations and tariffs and on the other hand these countries are looking for opportunities to increase the overall exports to other international countries. This requires the formulation of effective and efficient economic and trade strategy. The developing countries are facing the challenge ...

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Global warming is a phenomenon that alters the surface temperature on earth. Consequently, the change in surface temperate results in the changes in climate patterns. Global warming is caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Due to several factors and conditions in the atmosphere, these gases are blocked from escaping into space. This phenomenon is exacerbated by the absorption of solar radiation to the surface of the earth. Both mechanisms lead to the warming of the atmosphere. Therefore, trapped gas combined with solar radiation in the atmosphere cause the warming of the earth’s surface. Examples of greenhouse gases that get trapped ...

Some of these implications result to the government making choices that directly affect the countries economy like choosing between a clean environments and buying food. Choosing a polluted environment but having sufficient food is an ethical implication where need that is more pressing or concern comes as the first priority. In many cases, rich countries take advantage of the poor or third world countries. Many elites would refer this as advantage of dilemma to the poor countries that have no choice other than give in. the rich countries dump dangerous waste and garbage in the developing countries from where the ...

Since the advent of globalization, the presence of Multinational Corporations on foreign shores has increased manifold, especially in foreign countries. This increase in the presence of foreign companies in developing countries brings with it its share of pros and cons. This essay seeks to provide an overview of the historical growth of these corporations up until the current level of presence of Transnational Corporations across the globe. The advantages and disadvantages, with a focus on the labor and human rights impact of MNCs in developing countries, will also be covered. This analysis will include impact on employment and labor conditions, ...

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The Third World countries refer to the poorer and undeveloped countries in the world. Majority of these countries have extremely poor environmental conditions. Pollution is unrestricted in most of the Third World nations. The governments in these nations have not addressed the issue. Creating and enforcing environmental regulations would have negative impacts on the economy of the Third World Countries. As a result, many big businesses from the rich Western countries take advantage of the fact that they can exploit all the available resources and leave massive destruction of the environment. The businesses carry out their operations with minimum ...

Various communicable diseases exist. These diseases pose a major threat to the current population living in the developing world (Sullivan & Amor, 2012). Examples of the communicable diseases are Malaria, Tuberculosis, Measles, HIV/AIDS, and many others. It is the second only to HIV/AIDS the disease that is the greatest killer worldwide. The disease is so dangerous that 8.6 million fell ill in 2012 with 1.3 million people died from the disease (WHO 2014). Despite their existence, it is an issue of major concern that very few people in the developing world have sufficient knowledge or tools concerning these diseases. For example, ...

Introduction

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is defined as a cross-border investment by an entity resident in one economy with the objective of gaining a long-term interest in an enterprise resident in another economy. Another definition asserts that FDI “ involves the transfer of tangible and intangible assets from one country to another with the purpose of their use in that country to generate wealth under the total or partial control of the owners of the assets”. In both definitions, it is apparent that foreign direct investment involves the movement of capital and assets from a home country to a host country, where the money is ...

International trade forms a very important part of every economy’s financial structure. Trade activities and negotiations with other countries are the main source of earning foreign currency and also strengthening ties and building international relationships. Such activities come under the purview of the World Trade Organization, which is the regulatory authority and organization to ensure that fair practices prevail between all countries of the world. International trade can also be seen as a participative activity in which developed as well as developing economies both are actively involved. However, it is vital to note that, in many cases, developing countries are ...

Trade can be defined generally to mean the business of buying and selling of commodities. It can also be referred to as commerce. According to the website (www.thefreedictionary.com/trade), trade is taken to be an act or an instance that involves buying and selling of the goods and services which are either on domestic (for wholesale and retail) markets or in the international markets (for import and export) that are related. Trade can either be retail or wholesale. Here the wholesale trade means the transfer of the ownerships of the goods and any other services from one person or may ...

What has been the evolution of development theories since the “linear stages” period? Have these theories added value to the understanding/explaining the causes of underdevelopment? Give reasons for/against your position.

Among the many fundamental questions that continue to confound economists today, is the issue, what are the causes of economic growth and decline? Economic theories have emerged to locate, understand, and thus, develop the reasons behind the successes and failures of economies. While the original answers for this question were in the form of simple theories, nowadays, the complexity of this question has been better understood as these theories ...

Economically, different countries fall in three cadres either underdeveloped, developing or developed countries. Categorically, developing countries are from the continents of Asia, Africa and South America. However, Japan is the only Asian country, which falls under the class of developed nations, the issue of economic ability of China and South Korea is still under debate. Although some countries from the continents have good economies, the recent political upheavals like in Egypt and Libya have shrunk their capabilities. Except in few cases, the economic, social and political systems are similar. Developing countries have uniform characteristics, which range from political instability, ...

Abstract

There have been practiced 2 ineluctable trends in reshaping the functions of a government. The initial trend sways away from the policies of centralization hierarchal or vertical governmental machines in the way of polycentric networks related to governance that relies on different horizontal connections between assorted actors and that too within multi-layered as well as complex societies. On the other hand, the next trend emphasizes on the introduction of ICT methods which is focused on the transformation within the delivery of various types of public services and generation. Within these 2 trends there lies the concept of e-governance (Coleman, 2005).

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There have been practiced 2 ineluctable trends in reshaping the functions of a government. The initial trend sways away from the policies of centralization hierarchal or vertical governmental machines in the way of polycentric networks related to governance that relies on different horizontal connections between assorted actors and that too within multi-layered as well as complex societies. On the other hand, the next trend emphasizes on the introduction of ICT methods which is focused on the transformation within the delivery of various types of public services and generation. Within these 2 trends there lies the concept of e-governance (Coleman, 2005).

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The article by Robert Zoellick emphasizes on the importance of the World Bank as an instrument to “use finance to tackle global problems” and develop third world countries. Since its foundation the aim of the World Bank Group was to combat consequences of war and to provide assistance to the developing countries. Zoellick looks back at the history of the World Bank, mentioning challenges on the way of this institution. During the course of establishing of a free enterprise economy and the diffusion of private capital, the World Bank had not been only issuing loans, but fostering growth and overcoming ...

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Financial liberalization has been growing as a hot debate in many economies. While many, argue that the liberalization of the economy is a stepping-stone for achieving economic prosperity, others have concerns regarding threats to protectionism and the growth prospects of domestic industries. The Chinese economy, in particular, has to look at financial liberalization from various dimensions, because of two reasons. The first is that it has a socialist economy, while there are growing advocates of open markets and second, because of the growth potential that the country has shown, by emerging as a possible economic superpower. There is the apt availability of ...

Introduction

Today’s world is becoming increasing more globalized as new high tech gadgets make it easier to connect with people overseas and around the world, and countries and regions engage in international trade. Globalization is the increased interaction between countries and cultures of different regions as an effect of trade, the media, travel, education, cooperation, and more. Countries and cultures pick up aspects of the culture, politics, economy, values and technology of those with which they interact and assimilate to some extent toward these countries and cultures. Many associate globalization with westernization, however, the two terms are not actually ...

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An effective leadership strategy is determinant of an organization’s success. It defines the number and the type of leaders that an organization needs, as well as where these leaders are needed and what behaviors they should have in order to ensure the achievement of an organization’s goals and objectives (Pasmore, 2013). In this regard, an organization’s leadership strategy is based on a thorough analysis of the present situation and an informed view of the future. As a result, the developed strategy provides recommendations for closing the gap between the present ...

Ethics are a set of values and moral principles that guide the actions of a group of people or a person. A string of organizations whose main objective is to earn money often disregard the consequence of their actions to the environment and people living in it. Third world countries being poor and underdeveloped with no proper restrictions on pollution in place are often taken advantage of by the businesses located in the developed countries. In order to churn out more money, often business organizations from first world countries dump their hazardous waste materials on to the grounds of third world countries. ...

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Multilateral organizations, such the International Monetary Fund, play a major role in our society, working in the areas of technical and financial assistance through structural adjustments in developing countries, as well as funding and sector-specific policy guidance. This domain has an inherent dynamism, and must be understood by analyzing the historical trajectory of these organizations and understanding that their actions are guided by the ideology that sustains the society we live in, which is rooted in the capitalist mode of production. This led me to ask the simple question: to what extant has the IMF been a force for good in ...

Milestone One:

Introduction The paper is focused on the difference between developed economies and developing economies. The focus is to look at the gross domestic products (GDP), export rates, and import rates of advanced economies with those from less developed economies. These are compared to see those factors that have resulted in the increasing gap between advanced economies and developing economies. These choices of data are chosen because they are very factual and explain the real world situation. Also, the datasets are useful in giving explanation to the continuous dependence of developing economies on advanced ones. International trade has ...

Introduction

As indicated by many scientists,( what is the authority for this, which scientists, book or journal article) the reduction of greenhouse gas emission requires a global consolidated effort with participation from all the countries across the globe. At least, those countries responsible for emitting the maximum amount of greenhouse gas are expected to comply with the cause. The current environment regime as governed by Kyoto Protocol is not helping in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, Kyoto Protocol, due to differentiating between developed and developing countries, has come under heated criticism from all corners. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities ( ...

Introduction

“Foreign aid consists of all resources – physical goods, skills and technical know-how, financial grants (gifts), or loans (at concessional rates) transferred by donors to recipients” (Riddell 2007, 17). It can be in three different forms: bilateral, which is from one country to another, multilateral, which is from institutions like World Bank and IMF to other countries or institutions, and NGOs based foreign aid (Riddell 2007). The idea officially started from post World War Two even though many countries are found before that too helping the other countries in various forms of aid (Hjertholm and White 1998). The objective behind ...

Executive Summary

The reason of this research was to enhance education and knowledge of diabetes and its types for the good wellbeing and encourage healthy way of life actions to decrease diabetes base on the community in developing states with a comparatively high occurrence of diabetes. The occurrence of diabetes was measured by the questionnaire methodology distributed in community to know the information level of diabetes and its occurrence. The expansion of these factors of diabetes diseases reveals the main reasons enforcing cultural, economic and social transformation in the community of developing states. These similar reasons are enforcing the epidemiological background with ...

Aghion, Philippe, and Jeffrey Williamson, G. Growth, inequality, and

Globalization: theory, history, and policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Print.

This source is relevant to my research in that it explains that globalization is a source of labor inequality among the players in global economics. This book continues to explain that many economics had made a hypothesis at the beginning of the industrial revolution that the inequality that was brought about by globalization would slowly decline but over time this hypothesis has turned out to be un-workable. This information will be essential for my research in that I intend to explain that globalization is a cause of labor inequality ...

Introduction

This essay discusses the issue of Globalization, and specifically seeks to determine whether it has a positive or a negative effect on the creation of wealth (and therefore a reduction of poverty) in developing countries. A selection of the many and often opposing opinions on this topic is covered in the essay, so that this writer may be in a position to take an informed view.

Defining Globalization

Bardhan (2009) recognizes that whilst there are many strong opinions on the contentious subject of globalization, there are also different meanings attributed to the term. He explains that some interpret globalization as being the worldwide expansion of new ...

Introduction

Teenage pregnancy in modern societies is being viewed as a dysfunctional. Historically, across cultures it was discovered to be functional since teenage couples were encouraged to begin raising a family very early. With contemporary educational trends this value of childbirth at a very early age has been replaced by getting into college, having a degree and then thinking about childbirth in one’s late twenties; thirties or even forties. This research project hopes to explore how appropriate this perception of when pregnancy should occur and the damnation cast on teenage pregnancy in our modern world. It is also the author’s intention to ...

Bills are legislative rules enacted by the parliament of a member country stating the rules and guidelines that are to be followed by members of that country of origin. The parliament of a country of domain enacts laws in the form of bills that guide the general operations of that country. Rules guide activities and protect the less fortunate from the harm of exploitation and unfair treatment. Environment bills are set to encourage the conservation of the natural resources in the form of flora and fauna. Flora represents the plants species in these whole planet earth and fauna represents the ...

Is it fair to restrict the growth of developing countries because of climate change?

Climatic change is a fundamental problem that is affecting developing nations, as well as developed nations of the world. However, as Nath and Behera pointed that developing nations are likely to be faced with a greater incidence of the outcome of climatic change than developed nations. This is because developed nations have the resources to deal with the outcomes of climatic changes and are already setting up mitigation strategies with respect to it. The earth has limited carrying capacity and therefore increased population growth is likely to do more harm than good. Restricting the growth of developing nations can be ...

What separates the developed world from the transitional nations?

There are many factors that separate the developed world from the transitional nations. According to United nation Statistic Division, there are no fixed criteria to distinguish between developed and transitional world. However, socio-economic indicators, political maturity, condition of health and education sectors and general awareness of the masses are the factors most commonly used to make the distinction between developed and developing countries. The biggest difference between the developed and the developing world lies in the socio-economic sphere. Developed countries are much more stable economically, they have high labor wages and they have lower unemployment rate. In contrast, ...

There are many differences between the education systems in developed countries and developing countries. In general, the differences are clear; developing countries often lack the equipment and skills to allow their education systems to excel, whereas richer countries have had more years of ‘getting it right’ and have developed to a higher standard. However, much of the differences come down to perspectives and priorities. Unlike in many rich countries, people living in developing countries often have a perspective that values gathering food more highly than it values attending school. In the majority of developing countries, governments do not allocate very ...

An analysis of most developed countries in Europe against most developing countries in Africa portrays a number of similarities as well as differences. It is interesting to note that both countries conduct similar processes and activities. However, differences are observed when one analyzes the level of efficiency and organization that that characterizes the conduct of processes in both types of countries. A number of Illustrations can be used to show how similar processes are conducted differently when one compares developed countries against developing countries.

For example, both developed countries i.e. countries in Europe and those that are still developing i.e. ...

Section 1: What is the something else that DeSoto argues is necessary for a capitalist economy to produce wealth? Choose and explain one example or counter example used by DeSoto to make his case. The developed capitalist economies have the wealth to produce more financial resources for the investors. The individuals in the developed countries have houses, lands, and many other assets depending on those they can produce financial resources through the developed financial markets to make relatively more and more investments. Consequently, according to DeSoto, the capital is the most influential factor to be relatively more competitive in ...

The cries of children are heard in the thick of the night as mothers try their best to breast feed the infants. Young brothers and sisters push each other and struggle for the last bit of food left in the plate. The elderly sit down in total weakness as they watch their strength drain away one day after another. People that are known to be strong and well ambled sit down in despair as they watch their loved ones perish in hunger and diseases. This is not just a thrilling story for entertainment, but is a reality in a number of the developing ...

How the Developing Market Escaped the Debt Trap

1.0 Introduction The debt crisis between the years 2007 and 2008 had huge impacts on the performance of many economies across the world. This saw many industries in such economies collapse while others report very poor performance as a result of lack of funds to invest in them. This is because many people who had funds were afraid of losing their hard-earned money were they to invest it in the various industries. Moreover, people had lost confidence in the financial institutions and were therefore afraid of investing any funds in such sectors for fear of losing their investments. This ...

1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background information

International Agricultural trade is the exchange of Agricultural goods and services between countries following an agreed policy guideline. This kind of trade gives rise to a world agricultural economy, in which prices of agricultural goods and services, or their supply and demand, are affected by global events. An Agricultural product that is sold to the international market is an export while an agricultural product which is bought from the international market is an import. The agricultural exports and Imports are financially explained in the country's current account in the balance of payments. It ...

The legacy of the cold war and the struggle between the USSR, and the United States continues to flourish in large portions in developing countries. The two world powers had different ideologies, and were in a battle for supremacy. The Cold War pitted an American led alliance against the Soviet Union that divided the economical and political world into two major blocs. The cold war involved a contest of ideologies that intensified after the two great powers, America and the Soviet Union started competing for friendship from dozens of new sovereign states that had previously been colonial powers. The super powers ...

Essay

Investigate two possible solutions to low life expectancy in the developing world Life expectancy refers to how long an average person lives within a particular nation. This allows life expectancy to indicate whether a country will have people living as long as the age of 80 or will it have people that will die as early as 28. This difference may seem drastic but this difference is highly visible in terms of developed countries and developing countries. Therefore, it is obvious that developing countries face an extremely difficult task in identifying problems to such low life expectancy . However, with a rapid ...

- Introduction Economists and International Relations experts have argued that the world is slowly turning into a global village. The technological and communication advancements that have been realized in the past century have made it possible for the different territories, peoples, and cultures to interact more easily. Through technology various goods and services as well as people can be able to move from one territory to the other (Rook, 1985, p.253). In the light of this global dynamic this paper seeks to explain the dynamics that shape consumer convergence and divergence behavior, the role of countries as origins of ...

An overview of the challenges faced in Zanzibar as well as in one other exemplar "developing country" as regards the evolution, and adoption of IT/Corporate Governance standards in the public sector Whilst most developing countries are faced with similar challenges when it comes to the establishment of public information security, most have realized the significance of coming at par in this respect with their developed counterparts. The use of Zanzibar in this regard is therefore an exemplar to prevailing circumstance. The public sector in this respect is considered as lagging behind the private sector in the implementation of ...

Developing Countries in the International System

In our contemporary world, there still remain many countries that are in the bottom billion. They continue to face extreme poverty and unemployment because of the lack of industries and jobs. The biggest problem most of these countries face is that they have limited financial assistance to enhance their economy and industry and play into the hands of developed nations, who dictate what and how they should run their economy. We all know that in advanced and economically sound countries, the quality of life of the people is much higher than that of those in economically weak and poor ...

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, in 2010-2012, from the total of about seven billion people living on Earth, there are approximately 870 million people that suffer from hunger (FAO). That means that one in eight people are undernourished, which is a worrying and sad fact at the same time. One in three children in developing countries, suffer from poor nutrition, representing about 33 percent of the overall population of developing countries (de Onis et.al). The vast majority of those undernourished live in developing countries; in other words, a fourth of the population in developing countries is ...

Economic development as a branch of economics deals with the economic development of low-income countries. Its focus is not only on ways of promoting economic growth, structural change and economic development but also on increasing of the potential of the citizens for example through education, workplace condition and health through private or public channels. Dwells mostly on improving the standards of living of the people. It also involves formulation of methods and theories that help in the formulation of policies and practices that can be implemented by governments either domestically or internationally. Economic development is best displayed by qualitative and ...

Economic structuralism theory is an extremely useful theory in the definition of global political and economic structures. This theory dictates that the global political structure is determined by the global economic structure. The theory has been connected to a saying that fiscally developed nations set political rules, which they expect the developing countries follow in the foot step to getting developed. This statement is true since the developed countries have always had the intention of dominating the rest of the world. This happens in various ways while each of the activity that is witnessed has unique influence. There are both ...

‘Globalization and its discontents’ is a book written with a sharp wit to provoke the reader into keenly reading and analyzing the whole book. The book is written to illuminate the truth about globalization and the major problems brought about by the whole process of globalization and market liberalization. The author of the book has vast experience in dealing with world economics having worked at the US economic control body and the IMF. His book appears to draw most of its contents from personal experience while working at the top positions in the institutions. The main argument of the ...

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International migration is used to generally refer to movement of people from their country go live in other countries. There are several reasons associated with this form of migration such as civil war in the country of origin, search for employment, economic hardships in a person’s country, epidemics, and a search for bigger career opportunities. In most cases, international migration involves people moving from developing countries to go and live in developed countries which in turn impacts negatively on the developing countries. This is because such countries end up losing their skilled human resource as most of those people that ...

The effect of legislation on child protection laws in a third world country such as Azerbaijan compared to a first world country. Recognition of the Rights of the Child by the United Nations gave an opportunity for governments put in place policies, legislation as well as structures for the realization of these rights. Notably, child protection system as well as national legislation is yet to be established. Nevertheless, in each territory and country there are child protection laws which deals with responsibilities for individuals as well as organizations that have contact or work with children. Legislation on child protection laws ...

1.0 The role of World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization is an establishment that was set up out of the Uruguay rounds of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations in 1995. It was set up as a replacement for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which had previously been charged with the duty of coordination of trade relationships among its partners. The role of World Trade Organization is stipulated in the agreement that led to its formation which had a charter for the Multilateral Trade Organization mainly outlining the mechanism for the settlement of trade disputes and a Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM). The roles of ...

Introduction

The worldview towards global warming continues to change with time. The situation once thought as mythical, is now a major worldwide concern with factual effects. However, what remains controversial is the difference and similarity of this phenomenon across regions. One side views the economic impact of global warming as varying with differences in geographical locations. On the other end, the opposition suggests that global warming effects remain the same regardless of regional differences. This paper explores the economic effects of global warming and climatic change on countries. It seeks to prove that there exists a difference in this effect between the ...

Objective of the paper: The paper seeks to establish what impact have been seen in the different countries, both developed as well as developing, of the global recession and economic turmoil which has been in place for over two years now. In general, the paper seeks to analyze the situation from the point of view of producers, consumers, employment, debt and the steps that the countries have been taking to pump money back into the economy and bring it out of recession. Since each economy is different from the others, it would be interesting to see different measures that ...

Poverty has been on the rise in some parts of the world, a situation that prompts the American government to get concerned. America as the super power takes the central duty in regulating the poverty in the affected countries. Through doing that, it benefits from various projects around those countries. Their main drive in formulating a policy on global poverty is to improve the welfare of those countries and achieve better economic outcomes. This is mainly in those countries with the citizens living below 1 dollar per day. United States foreign policy deals with diplomacy, defense, and development. The “three ...

Introduction

A transnational corporation is any corporation that is registered and operates in more than one country at a time. They are also called multinational corporations. These corporations have their headquarters in one country while operating wholly or partially owned subsidiaries in at least one other country (Schularick & Solomou pp. 33 – 70). These subsidiaries report to the corporation’s central headquarter, where all its operations are organized. Since the 1950s, these transnational corporations have largely grown in number, which has brought about controversy because of their political and economic power and the complexity of their operations. This has cropped due to ...

Introduction

Globalization has led to the improvement of human lives and the development of many economies. The effects of globalization can be felt in the economy’s sectors, as well as the social and political lives of human beings around the world. The labor market has been positively and negatively affected by globalization. It is essential to comprehend the effects of globalization on the labor market since the earnings from the labor market form the main source of income for many people around the world. This is especially in the developing world where there are few entrepreneurs and hence high ...

Extent of challenge that international institutions like IMF, World Bank and WTO have on ability to develop domestic economic and social policies. Globalization dominated political, academic discourse and population policies during the 1900’s. Globalization is currently credited for incredibly a massive range of phenomena. This ranges from social problems, pollution, poverty, rural depopulation, urban overcrowding and congestion. Conversely, it is trumpeted as being central to a lot of developmental successes, poverty reduction, improved economic prosperity, enhanced human rights and better services. Globalization has also led to improvement in the political, social and economic sector within economies and human development ( ...

According to WHO definition, “stroke is caused by interruption of the blood supply to the

brain, usually because a blood vessel bursts or is blocked by a clot” (World Health Organization). This leads to stopping of blood supply and flow of nutrients to the brain, hence leading to damage to the brain cells. According to the report of the World Heart Federation, 2010, the incidences of stroke have increased by 100% in the developing nations while the same has decreased by 42% in developed countries, considering the same time frame. The report also says that in the last 40 years, the ratio of persons affected with stroke has changed from 52 per 100,000 persons in ...