Assignment Discuss the intellectual history of Anglo-American economic geography since the Second World War. ... In this essay the specific economic geography of Anglo-America will be explored following the Second World War. ... Defining distinct epochs to explore the history of Anglo-American economic geography is challenging. ... The factory fuelled migration to the area and resulted in the city's population peaking at over one million. ... This and the developments in the "social and behavioural sciences, computer science, statistics, mathematics and GIS" has made contemporar...

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Did you know a couple of years ago in the Philippines a little over half of the country's population was living below the poverty line? These statistics show just how vital health is. Living in America shows how thankful people should be for what we have because other people in different countries are struggling more than you. In the Philippines an average family of 6 only earn $54.18 a month, and an average family in America can earn that within a few hours of work. ... The causes of poverty are because the total output of an economy compared to its population. ...

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Athens is the capitol of Greece and about 40% of the country's population resides here. ... The population of Greece, as of July 2002, was 10,645,343. 1,580,218 of the whole population are from the age of 0-14. ... Greece also exports 5% to the United States of America. ... These statistics give somewhat of a good picture of what everyday living is like in Germany. These statistics are also interesting when you compare them to the United States because of the differences. ...

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Is America really a country of equal opportunity for everyone? ... The American Dream is believed to be blind to race, sex, or socio-economic status and at a first glance, seems to be almost Utopian. In today's society, a good portion of the population is forced to work jobs that they hate and that pay minimum wage. ... As we look at today's statistics, we can see that the United States has the most unequal distribution of income. ... Paragraph #6: Conclusion Distribution of wealth in America has been uneven since the industrial revolution. ...

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While the housing market for high scale apartments and luxury homes continues to grow, millions of Americans are living in housing they cannot afford. According to a study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, 75% of the low-income population is spending over half of their income on rent or utilities (5). ... Statistics show that the national ratio of affordable units to low-income families in the United States is a slightly more than 3:10 ratio (8). ... If we think back to the 1700's - 1800's, In US history American workers were moving to the West at an astounding rate. ...

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Those of Mexican decent have typically depended on the wages mothers were able to bring in due to minimal human capital and a lack of marketable skills needed by this overall population. ... The African American working population dates back to slavery. African American men faced discrimination and a lack of marketable skills that lead to underemployment or unemployment. This meant that African American women had to work to survive (Hattery, 14). ... Department of Labor showed that in 1999 this number had grown to 46.7%, almost half of the professional working population (Kimmel, 122). ...

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It was, as well, the only possibility for many countries to improve their economy: especially in Latin America, where Mexico just stopped refunding its debt because it couldn't pay anymore. ... In each country, even the population is divided in different economic and social layers. ... Twenty percent of the world's population living in the richest countries have 74 times the income of the poorest. ... For example, we can see in England and in America as well, that the differences in income between upper and lower social layers are larger than they have ever been since collection of...

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In contrast, there is virtually no human trafficking in the eastern northern hemisphere in the north American continent and in almost all of the southern hemisphere especially in the Australasian continent. ... This factors, or a combination of many, make populations far more vulnerable to human trafficking, making it easy for traffickers to sell these people with low risk and high profit. ... Statistics around poverty help to explain the strong equatorial pattern of human trafficking with the most tier two watch list and tier three countries found in the equatorial region especially within...

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According to 2009 statistics, Vietnam's HDI index was 0.725 which ranked them 115th in the world. ... Despite this, Vietnam's quality of life has improved substantially in recent time as in 2010, 94% of the population has access to electricity which was double the 1990 level. ... The distribution of income across an economy can be visually represented through the Lorenz Curve, as seen in the below: An example of the unequal distribution of the benefits of globalisation can be seen through how 80% of the population earn their incomes from primary industries, which as an industry contr...

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It currently has a population of 8,210,650 million people (World Book). ... Currently, 15.9% of the population is unemployed (worldbank.org). ... If Bulgaria had not lowered the tariffs American imports would have been greatly reduced which could have caused their economy to fall into a recession. ... The following are the education statistics for Bulgaria, Combined gross enrollment ratio: 81% Gross primary enrollment: 82% Gross secondary enrollment: 79% Adult Literacy rate: 93% (Bulgaria) In the short amount of time that Bulgaria has been a nation, just over 100 years, they...

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The Economic Commission for Latin American (ECLA) was established and commenced operations in 1948. ... The topics of ECLAC's publications include food and agriculture; industrial, scientific and technological development; international trade; development financing; sustainable development; population; women and development; statistics and economic projections; transport; transnational corporations; and regional cooperation. ... However, ECLAC formulated the key concepts applicable to Latin America. ... The level of development, size and rate of growth varies greatly among Latin American ...

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These are Falsity of National Income Statistics - This argument is that the increase in the national income has been largely fictitious. ... America. Level of health is also important and 100% Of the U.K population has access to free health care which means that they can be treated without any problems to do with money. ...

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On the other hand an increase in demand is mainly caused by increase in government expenditure, increase in private expenditure, increase in consumer spending as a results of modern-day credit purchases, reduction in taxes, governments repaying their debts, increase in population, as well as deficit financing. ... Pressing forward stock prices increased by 55% by May 2013,and most importantly consumer spending increased causing economic growth at 3.5% > the key to get the cycle starting again to create inflation, as wages were not increased or decreased through statistics released by the gove...

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South Korea has been a pro-Western nation, embracing many aspects about American political ideologies; also, South Korea followed many aspects of Chinese education system. ... U.S. decennial census data states that in 2010, immigrants made up 13% of the population, but 16% (23.1 million foreign-born persons in the civilian labor force) of the labor force (Singer, 2012). ... Immigrant workers are especially essential to the United States and also Russia (ranked second for destination country for immigration) because the U.S. population is aging rapidly as the baby boom cohort is entering old ag...

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Keywords • PEST Analysis • Finolex industries limited (FIL) • American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) • Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) Diversification and innovation 1. ... We have complied this report to factor in the effects of the business environment to show how it has been used for the development as well as the detriment of the conglomerate. 2.2 Research Methodology 2.2.1 Primary Data Collection The primary research was collected by approaching the Finolex Group and requesting for certain statistics. 2.2.2 Secondary data collection The Secondary d...

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For example, in America, when he/she lose his/her job, the government will give he/she monthly an amount of money until he/she has a new job. ... Last year, 13.4% youth were unemployed, up from 11.2% in 2007 according to statistics Canada. The youth unemployment rate in Canada is approximately double the rest of its population. ...

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For instance, a firm that aims at capturing the niche markets, provides only specialized or distinct items, or utilizes nontraditional distributional methods should determine how it is assisting the needs of the targeted population. ... While a product may seem to fit into a specific risk niche, the interconnectedness of the different aspects of the given target population cannot be ignored. ...

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