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  • Economic Growth Inequality and Poverty in Nigeria

    Economic Growth Inequality and Poverty in Nigeria

    ECONOMIC GROWTH INEQUALITY AND POVERTY IN NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1:1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The growth pattern of the Nigerian economy has been quite sluggish over the last two decades. This fact is however connected to the highly increasing level of poverty, which is further exacerbated by the pandemic problem of inequality. According to the UNDP Millennium Human Development Report (2001), “Nigerian economy has been suffering from severe and persistent regression since the mid-1980’s.

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    Essay Length: 1,433 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • Economic Growth in the State of South Carolina

    Economic Growth in the State of South Carolina

    Economic Growth in the State of South Carolina First, let’s define Economic Growth. Economic Growth deals with the economies income increasing over a period of time. This usually means individuals are better off, living standards are higher, and the economy in general is wealthier and producing more. An economist would define Economic Growth as being measured in terms of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP); which means the total market value of all final goods and

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    Essay Length: 877 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Economic Growth - What Is Meant by Economic Growth?

    Economic Growth - What Is Meant by Economic Growth?

    Economic Growth What is meant by economic growth? Economic growth is an increase of the in the real level of output. It refers to an increase in a countries annual output of goods and services. The most common measure of this is G.D.P. Economic growth figures must be corrected for inflation. Nominal G.D.P. is not adjusted for inflation whereas real G.D.P. is. Economic growth is also a long-term expansion of the productive potential of the

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    Essay Length: 864 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Jack
  • Top 5 Inventions for Economic Growth

    Top 5 Inventions for Economic Growth

    The ultimate engine of economic growth is new technology. According to economists, the growth of output per capita is a fairly recent phenomenon. This can be attributed to all the new technology people have discovered in the past few centuries, causing output growth to surge and accelerate faster than ever before in history. The result of all these ingenious, innovative inventions has been a total revolution in the way people live their lives. After examining

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    Essay Length: 489 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Top
  • Economic Growth in Sub Saharan Countries

    Economic Growth in Sub Saharan Countries

    Economic growth in sub Saharan Countries Introduction Economic development in Sub Saharan countries have not progressed at the pace sought after to achieve a sound economic growth. In many of the Sub Saharan countries there has been only small changes in Gross National Product and in some cases the population growth has been higher or the same as the economic growth and a consequence have been an amplified population who is living under or just

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Economic Growth of Chicago During the 1893 Columbian Exposition

    Economic Growth of Chicago During the 1893 Columbian Exposition

    Matt Hoffman History of Chicago Economic Growth 1/08/2007 Economic Growth of Chicago During the 1893 Columbian Exposition The Devil in the White City was a story about the times of Chicago’s most famous attraction, as it was host to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. In one part, the story undergoes the early stages and leads to the progress of the Fair. It gives a vivid explanation of how Chicago brought itself to new heights

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    Essay Length: 343 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Globalisation - Economic Growth and Development and Development Indicators

    Globalisation - Economic Growth and Development and Development Indicators

    Globalisation - Economic Growth and Development and development indicators. Essay written by: Phillip Miles “Outline the differences between economic growth and economic development. Discuss how economic development may be measured. Outline how globalisation may impact upon a nation’s development. Where appropriate make reference to a relevant case study.” Although economic growth and development are similar in meaning, they have some essential differences. Economic growth refers to the increasing ability of a nation to produce more

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    Essay Length: 1,705 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • Prospects for Taiwan’s Future Economic Growth

    Prospects for Taiwan’s Future Economic Growth

    According to the results from the local state-of-the-nation survey, over 40 percent of respondents in the Taiwanese survey expressed a certain degree of dissatisfaction concerning Taiwan’s future development, with only 25 percent answering positively. This was the first time that negative responses outnumber the positive responses by 15 percent, and the results represented the biggest lack of confidence in the economy for the past five years. It also showed that the public becomes increasingly pragmatic

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    Essay Length: 639 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • What Is Meant by Economic Growth?

    What Is Meant by Economic Growth?

    What is meant by economic growth? Economic growth is an increase of the in the real level of output. It refers to an increase in a countries annual output of goods and services. The most common measure of this is G.D.P. Economic growth figures must be corrected for inflation. Nominal G.D.P. is not adjusted for inflation whereas real G.D.P. is. Economic growth is also a long-term expansion of the productive potential of the economy. Sustained

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    Essay Length: 862 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Jack
  • Economic Growth in Botswana

    Economic Growth in Botswana

    I recently had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Scott Beaulier speak on his research on the reasons why the small and desolate country of Botswana has had such drastic economic growth in the last 30 years. Dr. Beaulier partook in what is called an analytic narrative, which is the act of learning about a country by going there and totally immersing ones self in their economy and way of life as to experience it

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    Essay Length: 624 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: regina
  • Political Instability Curbs Thailand's Economic Growth

    Political Instability Curbs Thailand's Economic Growth

    The economic growth of Thailand is mostly sustained by exports. However, recently a political crisis over several months continues to make its local consumption and investment slump and even curbs economic growth. That is to say, political situation plays an important role in economic growth which is mostly estimated with GDP. The National Economic and Social Development Board said the second quarter gross domestic product is 4.9%, year to year percentage change, slowing from 6.1%

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    Essay Length: 543 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Edward
  • National Economic Growth and Competitiveness

    National Economic Growth and Competitiveness

    National Economic Growth and Competitiveness Chap 2.2 1. Meaning and Intro 2. Porter’s Diamond / Porter and National Prosperity 3. Krugman’s Criticism on competitiveness a. Dangerous Obsession b. “meaningless” c. “misleading” 4. Comments by other Academics a. Francis Fukuyama b. Robert Reich c. Laura Andrea D’Tyson 5. Critique on Krugman 6. Conclusion 1. Meaning and Intro Porter wanted to find out why US was losing its competitiveness, and why - Japan was strong in automobiles

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Economics of Poverty in American Society

    The Economics of Poverty in American Society

    The Economics of Poverty in American Society Living in the United States, many of us do not think about poverty too much. Most people in the United States are above poverty level. They do not think about the less fortunate of America. Economics is the main factor of poverty in American Society, and more specifically, macroeconomics since it deals with the aggregate economy. To understand poverty and the poverty level, we need to see how

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    Essay Length: 677 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Top
  • Discussion on Some Political Strategies Using Science/research to Promote Industrial Development and Economic Growth: on the Hervikutvalget, Nou Report 2000

    Discussion on Some Political Strategies Using Science/research to Promote Industrial Development and Economic Growth: on the Hervikutvalget, Nou Report 2000

    Discussion on Some Political Strategies Using Science/Research to Promote Industrial Development and Economic Growth: On the Hervikutvalget, NOU report 2000 1 Introduction/ Objectives of the Paper The objective of this paper is to discuss some political strategies used by the Norwegian government to promote industrial development and economic growth by using historical and current examples. Norway has itself set the goal of reaching the average OECD level of investment in research and development (R&D)

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    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Max
  • Geography and Politics Bring Low Economic Growth in Post-1945 Bolivia

    Geography and Politics Bring Low Economic Growth in Post-1945 Bolivia

    Inder Dhillon Global Interdependence Paper for Module 1 14 February 2006 Geography and Politics Bring Low Economic Growth in post-1945 Bolivia The Republic of Bolivia has had historically low rates of economic growth for the post-1945 era. Although it sits on South America's second largest natural gas reserves, as well as a considerable amount of oil, the country remains one of the poorest in South America. Bolivia's poor economic performance can be explained through an

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    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Stages of Economic Growth

    The Stages of Economic Growth

    Economist W.W. Rostow in 1959 had a vast amount of information and intelligence in the history of the economy. Putting his intelligence and information together he wrote The Stages of Economic Growth, a small article in a much larger book, The Economic History Review. In this particular article Rostow feels that there are different stages in economic growth that countries follow: the traditional society, the preconditions for take off, the take off, and the age

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    Essay Length: 663 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 20, 2010 By: Max
  • Economic Growth Vs Economic Development

    Economic Growth Vs Economic Development

    Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition of economic development. There is no single definition that encompasses all the aspects of economic development. The most comprehensive definition perhaps of economic development is the one given by Todaro: Development is not purely an economic phenomenon but rather a multi dimensional process involving reorganization and re orientation of the entire economic and social system. Development is a process of improving the quality of all human

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    Submitted: July 13, 2010 By: Andrey
  • Factors Behind the Economic Growth

    Factors Behind the Economic Growth

    Factors behind the economic growth Here we will argue on the factors of CHINA and INDIA economic growth, how rapidly they are making their places in being larger exporters and there technological growth. As India got independence in 1947 and china in 1949.but there is not much difference in their growth sectors.. The basic factor of India growth is that they keep stick on their family and morals system. Still 85%hindusim is their religion and

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    Submitted: May 12, 2011 By: shahabs
  • Economy- Look for the Economic Growth

    Economy- Look for the Economic Growth

    BUMKT6942 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS I- INTRODUCTION II- HOST AND HOME COUNTRY ENVIRONMENT III- INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS IV- RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION (1-2PAR) V- REFERENCE LIST I- INTRODUCTION Obj/ purpose Structure (what should be covered in the report?) strength and weakness of the country Importance of IB and host country environment (political and economy factor) II- host and home country environment PESTLE discuss each. then summarizes one paragraph why the pestle analysis supports the country

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    Submitted: April 28, 2015 By: joygrace27
  • Impact of Tax Reform on Economic Growth and Development in Nigeria (2006-2014)

    Impact of Tax Reform on Economic Growth and Development in Nigeria (2006-2014)

    1.0 Introduction The realization of sustainable economic growth and development has been a major preoccupation of any government especially in Nigeria; however, the perennial issue of limited finance has necessitated the government to explore means of augmenting her revenue generation so as to have more funds needed to increase the value of goods and services produced/rendered by every sector of the economy yearly as well as to improve the standard of living of the citizenry.

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    Submitted: December 9, 2016 By: Sanni Tauhid
  • Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West

    Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West

    The piece done by Daina Stukuls Eglitis really points out the global wealth cap and how it is still very massive in size and growing. It shows the rich getting rich, and the poor countries remain in poverty with little ways to pull themselves out. It comes out to say that the previous administration had been making little progress on the task to close the gap between rich and poor nations, but since of 2002

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    Essay Length: 277 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: July
  • Poverty and Rapid Population Growth

    Poverty and Rapid Population Growth

    Poverty and rapid population growth Is rapid population growth a cause of poverty or is poverty a cause of rapid population growth? It is a life long argument as to whether rapid population growth is caused by poverty of if poverty is caused by rapid population growth. In this essay I will try to analyse both sides of the argument and form a conclusion. Many people think that poverty is the cause of rapid population

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    Essay Length: 751 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Debate on the Growth of Economic Globalization

    Debate on the Growth of Economic Globalization

    Team C’s Debate on the Growth of Economic Globalization GMGT520 External Environment of Global Business Week 5 Team Assignment TEAM C: September 17, 2005 Abstract Human societies across the globe have established progressively closer contacts over many centuries, but recently the pace has dramatically increased. Jet airplanes, cheap telephone service, email, computers, huge sea vessels, instant capital flows, all these have made the world more interdependent than ever. Multinational corporations manufacture products in many

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    Essay Length: 2,732 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Population Growth and Economic Development in Nigeria

    Population Growth and Economic Development in Nigeria

    1.0 Background Of The Study Over the years, it has become established that the Existence of an efficient and effective human capital is the key to economic growth and development in any nation. This stems from the fact that every other facility and resource required for economic development is driven by the availability of human capital. More so, in the absence of effective human capital development, an increasing population can have adverse negative effect on

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    Essay Length: 453 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Top
  • Economic Policy for Balanced Growth

    Economic Policy for Balanced Growth

    Economic Policy for Balanced Growth The broad objective of economic policy in India is to bring about rapid economic growth of the country. Economic growth to be meaningful, in a large country like India, should be balanced, regionally, locally, sectorally and temporally. Economists have made a distinction between the two terms, economic growth and economic development. While the term economic implies a quantitative increase in the volume of productions of goods and services in the

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Bred

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