...Why do some countries fail to thrive? Critically evaluate one or two policies aimed at boosting growth & aiding development. Critically evaluate one or two policies aimed at boosting growth & aiding development. In this essay I will address why countries fail to thrive as well as evaluating the policies that boost economic growth and development. Globalization is a process of international economic integration effecting output of goods and services, input of capital and labor and aiding diffusion of knowledge and information. Breaking artificial barriers for goods and services in the last two decades has had a positive affect on development. Many countries have had successful economics growth and better standards of living due to increases in exports measured through increase in GDP. Even with better economic integration in the last two decades some countries still fail to thrive and benefit from globalization. Yet still some economies fail to thrive. There are many issues that can be looked at to understand why some countries have not developed quickly and efficiently as others. According to Jeffrey Sachs 2005 book ‘The end of poverty’; the richest countries in the world are ahead by two decades in relation to growth and economic gains. Poorer economies have suffered greatly due to poverty and geographical barriers such as famine and pandemics. Other issues such as political instability and collapsed governments have been a central focus point of many critics. I will...
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...December 15, 2015 December 15, 2015 Contents Introduction 2 Literature review 4 Proponents 4 Opponents 5 Advocate for the two-child policy. 6 Promoting consumption 6 Solving population aging problems 7 Balancing skewed sex ratio 7 Boosting the real estate 8 References 9 Introduction China has resolved to put an end to the three-decade-long one-child policy and each couple are allowed to have two children. Shortly after the announcement of the two-child policy, the article in appendix was written by a professor at Shanghai Academy in China Daily to advocate for the policy. And the target persons are citizens in China who meet the two-child policy requirement. The author used specific statistics to elaborate the population aging problems in current society (Logos). He demonstrated objectively that the two-child policy will benefit China both in the short run and long run and explained the benefits from improving demographic structure problems, boosting development of the service sector, strengthening domestic consumption and increasing innovation (Qu, 2015). The article was published at the right time when the two-child policy has been hotly debated. It would attract attraction of people who focused on this topic. And the author suggested the authorities put the two-child policy into force with assistance of more supportive policies as soon as possible (Kairos). At the beginning of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the population boom, regarded...
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...The one-child policy is the one-child limitation in the population control policy of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese government refers to it under the official translation of family planning policy. It officially restricts married, urban couples to having only one child, while allowing exemptions for several cases, including rural couples, ethnic minorities, and parents without any siblings themselves. A spokesperson of the Committee on the One-Child Policy has said that approximately 35.9% of China's population is currently subject to the one-child restriction. The Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau are completely exempt from the policy. Also exempt from this law are foreigners living in China. This policy was introduced in 1978 and initially applied to first-born children in the year of 1979. It was created by the Chinese government to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China, and authorities claim that the policy has prevented between 250 and 300 million births from its implementation until 2000, The policy is controversial both within and outside China because of the manner in which the policy has been implemented, and because of concerns about negative social consequences. The policy has been implicated in an increase in forced abortions, of female births, and has been suggested as a possible cause behind China's gender imbalance. Nonetheless, a 2008 survey undertaken by the Pew Research Center reported that 76% of the...
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...One Child Policy: Right or Wrong The world today consists of almost 6.9 billion people. China itself, serves host to more than 1.2 billion people. This astronomical figure is more than 17% of the enite word population. For centuries China has stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences. On the other hand, over the last decade, it has also plummeted economically. A big factor for this massive downfall is its overpopulation within the country. Due to this exponential increase in population, the Chinese government has installed a “one-child policy”. The one-child policy solved the overpopulation issue in China, but it also introduced a variety of other problems to the country. In the early 1900's, China's population was about 420 million. In the past century years, it had grown to 1.2 billion, an increase of almost 800 million people in a 100 years. (Hays) Having this many people in one area means that there is a lot of people to feed, clothe, and house. The population has put a large amount of tension on its limited resources. A quarter of China’s land is either desert, or infertile land, therefore no crops can be grown on the land. Also, it means that people won't want to live on it because they wouldn’t be able to support themselves due to the poor soil. This issue leads to tremendous amounts of population density in the cities. The Chinese government realized that something had to be put in place, otherwise they would never...
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...China Open Up Birth Control Policy Recently years, China’s government has recognized some disadvantages that the One-child Policy resulted, so the government decided to implement a new policy. The one-child Birth Control Policy was established to limit communist China’s population growth. There are both some advantages and disadvantages between China’s old birth control policy and China’s new birth control policy. But generally, it is obvious that the new China birth control policy is adjusted more to modern society than the old China’s birth control policy. The old policy caused some social problems. It restricted economic development. And the new policy could solve some social problems which the One-child Birth Control Policy caused. The One-child Birth Control Policy caused some social problems like sex ratio imbalance and abortion. Both the new policy and the old policy have great effects on population. The One-child Birth Control Policy stipulates people that one parent can only have one child. After the Second World War, China had a population explosion which caused social problems such like food shortage and famine. To resolve this situation, China’s government decided to establish a policy to limit the population growth which is China’s birth control policy. China successfully controlled its population growth after they stipulate that policy. In 2013, the China’s government decided to implement a new birth control policy. This policy allowed couples to have a...
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...View topic - TWO child policy daw sa Pilipinas ... www.tinig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=940&sid...22 Ago 2004 – Pabor ba kayo sa 2 child policy? ... pamamaraan ang positibong epekto sa lipunan gayon din maaari sa ekonomiya. ... ....one shot two hits yun. ... Resent Social Policy Free Essays 161 - 180 www.termpaperwarehouse.com/...policy/9 - Isalin ang pahinang ito Thesis statement: One child policy had crashing effects on the Chinese society. ... na ito na maipabatid sa mga mambabasa ang magaganda at masamang epekto ... Structural Adjustment—a Major Cause of Poverty — Global Issues ►► www.globalissues.org/.../structural-adjustment-a-major... 20 Hul 1998 This is one of the backbones to today's so-called “free” trade. In this .... “ assignment grant” of $25000 and a “mobility ... Higit pang mga video para sa ano ang negatibong epekto ng one child policy » Barrio Alimasag - Two-child policy forums.alimasag.com/printthread.php?s...threadid=9889...4828 Set 2004 – china's one child policy didnt.... it just created more problems ..... Kawawa nga ang mga bata, pero ang masamang epekto ng pagpaparusa sa ... 2010 February « A Catholic's Blog sicar.wordpress.com/2010/02/18 Peb 2010 – Kailangan nating laging taglayin ang isip ni Cristo (tingnan: 1 .... 26)Ikinatuwa ko ba ang masamang nangyari sa aking kapwa? ... pero kung susuriing mabuti ang epekto nito, makikitang ito ay hindi nagdudulot ng anumang pakinabang. ..... Kung sa Tsina ay may one-child policy, ang RH Bill...
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...IS AN EXCHANGE RATE POLICY? 2. WHY WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THE ADOPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A GIVEN EXCHANGE RATE POLICY TO THE BUHARI LED ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA? JANUARY, 2016 1. Exchange rate policy can be refers to the policy or manner or way in which a country manage its currency in respect to other countries currencies. This policy may affect aggregate demand in an economy through its effect on export and import prices and policy makers may exploit this connection. Exchange rates can be determined under this policy in two main ways; either by government or by market forces. When it is determined by government, it is called administered or fixed or pegged. When it is determined by market forces (i.e. the forces of demand and supply), it is called flexible or floating exchange rate because the rate move freely up and down depending on the strength of the forces of demand and supply. But there are two types of flexible or floating exchange rate policies and that treating them as one can be misleading. They are the free floating exchange rate policy and the managed exchange rate policy. The free floating exchange rate policy and the fixed exchange rate policies are two extremes of the approaches to exchange rate determination. The manage floating exchange rate policy lies in between the two extremes. So far, three broad exchange rate policies have been suggested and tried; the fixed, the floating and the managed floating exchange rate policies. 2. Of these three...
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...One Child Policy China What is the Policy? In the late 1970’s the Chinese government decided to introduce a number of measures to reduce the country’s birthrate and slow down the mass population growth. One of the greatest and most successful policies was the “One Child Policy”. This policy involves a couple only being allowed one child per family. In 1950 the rate of population change in China was 1.9%, an increase of around 1% would mean that the population would double in less than 24 years. The policy was established by the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979, at first this was a temporary measure to limit childbirths but has been continued ever since. At first when the policy was introduced there were two major concerns, how it would affect the booming economy and society in general? Why was it introduced? When the “One Child Policy” was brought into action in 1979 China’s population was 975.4 million people, in 2012 the population of China is around 1.34 billion, this is a growth of 138%. Although this seems a lot China is slowly slowing down their population growth especially compared to India’s which has had a 180% increase. The most recent peak in fertility rates in China was in the late 1960’s when it was 5.91. When the “One Child Policy” was introduced the fertility rate of Chinese women was 2.91 and the country had to slow this down, as they would not have enough resources and a structured infrastructure for the country to keep growing. Previous...
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...China’s issue with overpopulation has been a difficult problem to solve for a long time. The Chinese population is one fifth of the world’s population, and China has the biggest land in Asia. Population’s increasing role in consumption can have serious environmental affects on one nation. Moreover, as people consume more, if the population increases more and more, it can cause exhaustion of resources, pollution by industries, decrease the supply of food and hurt the environment. China was overpopulated sharply before the Chinese government provided the family planning policy of "one child per family". Because of overpopulation, the Chinese government needed to provide the family planning policy of "one child per family." However, the policy caused some side effects on the population. The results are imbalance between developed and undeveloped areas, unbalance of male and female, preference of bearing only male children and increasing of selective-sex abortions. Although China has succeeded with its “one child” policy in the eastern area, the western area of China which is undeveloped still has couples who have two or even more than three children. The eastern area’s residents who live in big cities adhere easily to “one child per a family” policy, but western area’s residents who live in rural area need more than one child. If they have only one child, they cannot be productive in their agriculture; Also the preference of bearing only male children caused an unbalance of male...
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...newscaster tells how it is a multiple alarm fire of unknown origin on a project that was under construction. You realize this is one of your firm's projects and your mind races trying to think what could have gone wrong. Your firm carries a single limit professional liability insurance (PLI) policy and you realize because of the magnitude of the loss, if the firm is liable, the total loss would vastly exceed your policy limits. Your firm would also be operating without any coverage for the remaining eight months of your policy year. Before the embers of the fire have cooled, your firm receives a notice of an intent to file a lawsuit from the attorneys representing the insurance carrier of the project owner and ordering your firm to preserve all documents pertaining to the project. This includes hard copy and electronic as well as emails. Fortunately there were no deaths or injuries, but the losses are expected to exceed eighty million dollars. This would be forty times the two million dollar limit of your PLI. There are indications that a design error contributed to the loss....
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...with individual party members varies between the two main UK political parties whilst the distribution alters when concerning different matters, for example voting for a leader and having an input in policy making. The Conservative party members have complete power when electing their leaders (aside from the fact they cannot elect the two candidates) whilst all branches of the Labour party are able to vote for their leader. When it comes to policy making in the Conservative party it is the leader who makes policy, in the sense that they have the final say on policy and the contents of the manifesto. In the Labour party there is a wider distribution of power in policy making as the MPs have relatively little power and all the branches play a part instead. Conservative party members did not have a say in the election of the leader until William Hague reformed the procedure in 1998 due to the small number of MPs the party acquired in the 1997 general election. In a contest with only two candidates, there is a ballot of all party members, however, if there is a contest of more than two there is a series of ‘primary elections’ but only with the Conservative MPs to find out which two candidates to put before the party members for election before a one member, one vote (OMOV) of party members then occurs. In this sense, the electing of the leader by ordinary members is not as democratic as it appears although they still get a say between two candidates. Conversely, MPs only have the power...
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...designed to further this goal. In the first part of the project you will choose an organization from one of two given scenarios (below), identify potential security weaknesses, and in the second part of the project, you will recommend solutions. The first part of the project is due in week 3, and the second part of the project, along with the first part (presumably revised based on instructor feedback) is due in week 7. This project constitutes a significant portion of your overall grade. This is an individual assignment and may not be completed in teams. ------------------------------------------------- Phase I In this phase you will choose either Aircraft Solutions or Quality Web Design as the company you will work with. You will then identify potential security weaknesses. Security weaknesses – You must choose two from the following three areas: * hardware * software * policy (excluding password policies) and identify an item that requires improved security. To clarify: you must identify a) one hardware and one software weakness or, b) one hardware and one policy weakness or, c) one software and one policy weakness. You must define the asset or policy with sufficient detail to justify your assessment. Your assessment must include: * the vulnerability associated with the asset or policy * the possible threats against the asset or policy * the likelihood that...
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...Company Overview 3 Security Vulnerabilities 4 Hardware Vulnerability – Absence of a Firewall 4 Policy Vulnerability – Lack of Timely Updates 5 Recommended Solutions 6 A Hardware Solution 6 Impact on Business Processes 9 A Policy Solution 9 Impact on Business Processes 10 Summary 10 References 12 Executive Summary This report will seek to evaluate and address security weaknesses with the Aircraft Solutions company. As security weaknesses are pointed out relating to hardware and policy weaknesses, recommendations will be made to Aircraft Solutions to be examined and hopefully implemented to improve IT security operations. Aircraft Solutions, located in Southern California, recognized leader in the design and fabrication of component products and services for companies in the electronics, commercial, defense, and aerospace industry. In reviewing Aircraft Solutions and its operations, uncovered were security vulnerabilities. Two vulnerabilities that were evident were issues with a lack of firewalls and the current security policy in place that is reviewed only every two years. Recommendations have been made that made help to remedy these vulnerabilities through the use of virtualization and by changing the security policy to be evaluated semi-annually instead of every two years. Company Overview The following organization, Aircraft Solutions (AS) has been chosen to have an assessment...
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...History of One-Child Policy The demands of China's family planners escalated as the eighties unfolded. The one-child policy, first adumbrated by Deng Xiaoping in a 1979 speech, was in place nationwide by 1981. The “technical policy on family planning” followed two years later. Still in force today, the technical policy requires IUDs for women of childbearing age with one child, sterilization for couples with two children (usually performed on the woman), and abortions for women pregnant without authorization. By the mid-eighties, according to Chinese government statistics, birth control surgeries — abortions, sterilizations, and IUD insertions — were averaging more than thirty million a year. Many, if not most, of these procedures were performed on women who submitted only under duress. The principal modification of the one-child policy occurred in the mid-eighties when, in response to rising levels of female infanticide, the government relaxed the policy in the countryside for couples whose first child was a girl. In many parts of China this has devolved into a de facto two-child policy, as rural officials found the selective enforcement of a mixed policy — one child for couples whose first child was a boy, two children for couples whose first child was a girl — difficult to manage. Current Situation Twenty-two years after my initial field research in China, where do we stand? Today, the Chinese family planning program continues to be carried out against the popular...
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...unobstructed fashion D All of the above Why is life insurance so important to Canadian families? A The cash values of most insurance policies are secure from the demands of creditors. B Sufficient policy face values can provide capital and income relief on the death of family breadwinners. C Not only can the lives of principal income-earners be insured, but all forms of debt can be insured. D All of the above Life insurance has other principal functions besides making a cash payment on the death of a life insured. What are they? A Insurance can provide an emergency cash reserve. B It can provide capital to pay ―last expenses‖ and operating capital during a family’s readjustment period. C Life insurance proceeds generate a financial lump sum that can be used to cover a family’s current and long-term operating expenses. D All of the above How do you calculate “inflation-adjusted capitalized value”? A It is not possible to do so. B Use the capitalized value and multiply the answer by the prevailing inflation rate. C Use the capitalized value and multiply the answer by the prevailing interest rate. D Take the prevailing interest or investment rate, deduct the nominal inflation rate, and complete the formula calculations. An insured makes $42,000 a year, and the current interest rate is 3.4%. She has a generous A&S policy, plus disability benefits that pay 70% of her salary. How much life insurance does she need based on capitalization of income? A $1,428 ...
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