1. Underlying Causes for Political Instability in Somalia
"The world population will increase by more than a billion by 2015, with 95 percent of that growth occurring in the developing world." Yet in the developing-world urbanization will continue to boom, with approximatly 20-30 million of the world's poorest people migrating to urban areas each year. ... From the CIA World Factbook data I have drawn these conclusions through a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that I created: Country GDP (as of 1/1/00) Military Spending as of (1/1/00) Austria $190.6 billion $1.7 billion Belgium 243.4 billion 2.8 billion Denmark 127.7 billion 2.822 billion Finl...
This group makes up 37% of the Angolan population (The World Factbook). ... The Mbundu speak Kimbundu, and this language has eleven alternate names and six dialects (The World Factbook). ... This ethnolinguistic group speaks Kongo, and Kongo has 3 alternate names and 6 dialects (The World Factbook). ... From the late sixteenth century to 1836, when slavery was abolished by Portugal, 2 million slaves were taken to the new world, and Angola lost 4 million people to slavery. ... From 1975 (shortly after the Portuguese withdrew from Angola) to 2002, over one million lives have been lost to wa...
Germany's industries are among the world's largest and most technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages, shipbuilding, and textiles. ... President Barack Obama was telling Americans in his January 2011 State of the Union address that the United States needed to double its exports, Germany had quietly become the world's second-largest exporter (after China). ... The inventive spirit is also as strong as ever: In 2009 investors companies from Germany registered some 11 percent of wo...
The crash 2008 was an incident where many people around the world were affected by the sudden drop in the stock market. ... However, these are the people whose rights feel violated the most throughout the financial world. ... Ward a professional in theological studies emphasizes on the importance of countries with lower inequality than the United States, as measured by the Gini index and reported in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Factbook, include Kenya, India, the Philippines, Iran, Pakistan, Timor-Leste, and Egypt. ... "(p.1) Wall Street is considered to be the wealthiest and mo...
News of the Columbine massacre flashed across newspapers and television stations across the world. ... According to The World Factbook 2002, published by the U.S. ... Those who criticize television violence are convinced that children may become more fearful of the world around them and think violence is more common than in reality. ...
(CIA World Factbook, 2015) Those who work in the harvesting fields 7 days a week aren't going to give up their already low wages to go cast one vote in an election, and because it cost time and money to obtain a birth certificate, something required to obtain voter ID, politicians are going to cater their campaign to those who are actual eligible and likely to vote. ...
The economy of India is the seventh largest in the world. ... Overview of India's Labour Market India is viewed as one of the most emerging countries; it has 502.2 million labour force, which ranked second in the world (The World Factbook 2015). ... Labour force to population ratio in India is 56%, which is lower than the average of the world at 64 per cent (Institute for Human Development 2014). ... Poverty, accounted for 21.9% of total population (World Bank 2011), and attitude against female education cause widespread illiteracy, especially in many rural areas (Thomas 2012) and the gen...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM levitt (1983) in discussing the globalisation of markets state that "We live in a rapid globalising world and certain national identifiers like taste, technology, market and finance are no longer constrained by national boundaries. ... The defining features of globalisation are the interdependence and connectedness of the economics, politics and culture of nations and not uniformity of markets and taste of a single country- (Yong M, 1989) Globalisat...