... , to their most productive uses. It channels resources to those entrepreneurial or investment projects with the highest expected rates of return rather than to the politically connected. A thorough and proper assessment of risk is therefore a key ingredient of a sound financial market. Business investment is also critical to productivity. Therefore economies require sophisticated financial markets that can make capital available for private ... ...

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... be accomplished, thereby increasing the wealth of the community and enhancing the quality of life. Whilst this definition of economic development emerges as being straightforward enough at first glance, an assessment of each of its component parts demonstrates the complexity and subtleties economic development actually encompasses (Allen and Thomas: p51). Besides, reference to the economic, social and political environments underlines the ... ...

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... Pakistan, adopted the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam to recognise its own religious interests. Although it is supposedly aligned with the UN Declaration of Human rights (UDHR), Article 24 of the Cairo Declaration states that "all the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to Islamic Shari'ah", thus compromising the very human rights it ... ...

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... , little civil liberties, and poor working conditions, its economy cannot be perceived as other national economies. It is obvious that China's ability to pay some workers roughly fifty cents an hour under terrible conditions has made its economy expand much faster than any other national economy. As a result of China's rapid economic development, means for economic development, and conflicts arising from ... ...

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