... the access of less-developed communities to core economic activities and services. Effective modes of transport-including quality roads, railroads, ports, and air transport-enable entrepreneurs to get their goods and services to market in a secure and timely manner and facilitate the movement of workers to the most suitable jobs. Economies also depend on electricity supplies that are free ... rise of cross-border value chains has important implications for countries' economic and trade policies as well as for development efforts. One consequence is that cross- border trade in goods has b...

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... growth of GNP per capita was negative in many African countries, and also in Jamaica, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela. Conditions created by the new global competition in industrial goods and later in financial services became increasingly incompatible with the theories that had previously dominated economic thinking, that is Keynesianism in the centres and anti-dependancy import substitution in the ... . Yet in many cases the GDP growth of countries undergoing structural adjustment remained stagnant. The growth that does occur mainly limited to a few sectors like raw materials extraction or ...

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... of grants. The loans which are also mainly tied that is they are to be used on specific projects and purchase goods and services from the donor country a situation that gives the donor country to sell their expensive and sometimes substandard goods and weakens the micro economic development of many companies in less developed countries. For instance the Chinese government loan to ... ...

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... facilities in Vietnam in order to take advantage of Vietnam's low cost labour. This has been a result of their integration with the global economy, creating new export markets for Vietnam's goods (such as petroleum and agriculture). Thus, the presence of global businesses, and the subsequent creation of new export markets, has allowed for aggregate supply to expand, fuelling economic growth in ... reduce living standards and quality of life for some, hindering Vietnam's economic development. Globalization has negatively impacted on Vietnam's external stability as technological advances ...

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... level of importance, but economic development may be perhaps the most significant argument for agrarian reform. As the "purchasing power (of workers) increases," they are able to utilize more national goods, thus encouraging economic growth (Handelman 113). Around the world, the poorest of the poor are the landless in rural areas, followed closely by the land-poor, or those whose poor ... . It is increasingly clear that an agrarian reform of this nature is a crucial, essential and necessary element of development policy. A developing agriculture raises farmers' incomes, increases the dem...

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