... ] and accumulated interest; it is a contractually fixed charge in domestic real income and savings. (Todaro 2000, p.550) International debt is a major obstacle to development for many of the world's heavily indebted countries. The World Bank and the International Monetary fund (IMF) are both international institutions ... World Bank, Global Development Finance and World Debt Tables, various issues (Killick 2000, p.21). The loans mentioned above, have never posed a major threat to the international economic stability of the world and so the affected countries have not benefited from signi...

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... network, which was facilitated by mobile capitals from MNCs and financial liberalization undertaken in the NICs, was emerging rapidly. For example, in consumer electronic industries, each of the major stages of production has different production characteristics; the design stage of consumer electronics usually involves research-intensive process whcih required hight quality of human capitals. The manufacturing stages, especially ... heirarchy across national boundary was reinforced bt the rapid growth of intra-industry trade. Since the mid-1980's, trade in intermediat goods and or semi...

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Aid can be defined as grants or loans provided to governments or other entities in developing countries by governments or major multilateral institutions from developed countries in order to promote economic growth and human welfare. A lot of literature have springed arguing on the impact of the development aid on developing countries ... income inequality in less developed countries. Many development aids are not used for their destined projects as they are usually diverted to other non-productive programs an act which Van de Walle (2012) and other scholars have termed as fungibility of ...

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... cottage industries may not be traditional industries in strict definition. Thus, the "intermediate " categories are designated to define the association of traditional industries and modern industries without major change in the organisational characteristic of production. In developed countries, the existence of traditional industries depends upon modern small-scale production to meet the demand for high class items ... , handicraft or fineries. In contrast, in developing states like India, traditional or intermediate companies are major constituent though the differentiation cannot be c...

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... , Ngok & Huang, 2012). Wages were meager, and many of them went unpaid for months due to trivial transgressions. Underperforming workers were further humiliated in public. These deplorable working conditions became a major source of emotional stress and cases of suicide among the company's workers increased (Cheng et al., 2012). Such acts are intolerable, inhuman, and violate international labour laws. The kind of ... ...

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... disasters are destroying crops and harvests for much of humanity, having a significant impact on the resources providing us with food and on the prolonged growth of this global issue. Another major cause for global hunger is the expansion of economic inequality due to globalisation; for 98% of the 1.2 billion hungry people in the world live in developing countries, ironically there are ... ...

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... disasters are destroying crops and harvests for much of humanity, having a significant impact on the resources providing us with food and on the prolonged growth of this global issue. Another major cause for global hunger is the expansion of economic inequality due to globalisation; for 98% of the 1.2 billion hungry people in the world live in developing countries, ironically there are ... ...

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... that they are friendly with and concerned about communities in which their outlets are located. It is widely believed that the concept of Buy Local has particularly become popular after major retailers such as Whole Foods, Wal-Mart and Tesco realized that they need to differentiate their services from mainstream food stores by identifying exclusively local sources for the products they ... ...

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... of the human genome was published in 2001, an event that raised enormous hopes. These developments hold great promise to improve the prevention, identification, and treatment of some of the major diseases affecting humankind, including HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis.Already there are examples of successful application of these technologies to health problems in developing countries. For example, using genome-related biotechnologies ... ...

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