difficulties in proposing a solution that engenders some kind of successful outcome to the problem at hand. Is a country with a high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) a "developed" country? Or is development about relatively high levels of Gross National Product (GNP)? Maybe a more proper comparison to make amongst countries of varied economic development is Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). Perhaps development is not primarily a question of the static level of income a person within the country receives
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market are easier to complete. In that case, funding, financing or transactions can be easily extended to a global base. After anticipating the future cash flows, it is vital to estimate the weighted-average cost of capital(WACC) in order to calculate the present value of the cash flows. By definition, WACC is calculated based on cost of equity and cost of debt associated with their value weighted respectively. However, Lopez found it difficult and inappropriate to estimate a local discount rate
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