Joseph S.Kiria Introduction and Background Proposed research is literally about potentiality of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in achieving strategic objectives envisaged in the national vision development objectives in Tanzania. Study explores the potentiality and sustainability of EPZ as a development strategy in the context of linkage with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and its benefits in a competitive environment. An understanding of this subject is important for at least four reasons.Firstly
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Development over Environment: A Pledge to Converse this Trend Introduction The second a child comes on this earth, since that moment he starts developing. For a better and positive development of that child, we proudly implicate for a better and hygienic environment. But in the present scenario, things are a bit different from that of past as yesterday was greener than today. Both development and environment are necessary elements for the survival of a society or a habitat but with the growing or
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Maximizing Foreign Direct Investment for prosperity in Lesser Developed Countries Over the past 30 years foreign direct investment has been a major contributor to economic growth across the globe. FDI inflows reached an all-time high in 2007 at $1.8 trillion with approximately 40% of that amount being invested in less developed countries. The prediction of this inflow into less developed countries was that it would be a wholly positive thing for the host country through resource transfer effects
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producers to plan ahead, or save up in order to build a better life for themselves. Overall the trade patterns in cocoa and the consumption of chocolate have meant that the profit made from the chocolate stay within the MEDC, further widening the development gap between these two groups of countries, as the MEDCs can further develop and the LEDCs struggling to maintain a standard of
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“deficits”, is often a major component of these food security strategies. This essay therefore is going to define the concept of food aid and explain its impact on the development efforts of developing countries drawing practical examples from Zambian experience. It will first start by defining key terms which are food aid, development and the impact of food aid will be looked into and lastly a conclusion will be drawn from the discussion Food aid, is defined by Maxwell (1982) as external help from
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Globalisation is the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale. The world is undergoing rapid globalization as the population rises and there are developments in the information technology industry and as major TNC’s are growing causing their to be larger factories and larger infrastructure. Globalisation has been caused by many things, improvements in transportation means that there are larger cargo ships, this
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Role of ICT development in rural areas in Africa African culture is all about being together rather than progressing as an individual, therefore the main purpose of ict in rural Africa should be a tool of being/getting together. This can either be explained in ways of social networks such as face book and twitter for one or group communication, or using internet as an addition to current group activities. For example, wedding initiations can be sent easily to distant relatives. ICT can be presented
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Human development is the study of how people develop on physical, intellectual and social levels. It probes the different stages of life to better understand how people work. Development Studies is a dynamic area of study concerned social, political and economic change and the policy challenges they present. The major focus in Development Studies is on countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America that have remained poor relative to the industrialized parts of the world. However, many of the issues
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to talk about several vibrant phenomena which ensure two major components. Firstly, they function across national boundaries and secondly, they result in higher incorporation or interdependence of human societies. It is therefore one aspect of development that affects the world in general, from every point of human view. There are numerous ways in which globalization has impacted the world today. Some of these include modification of worldwide environment in investment, management, machinery, policy-making
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Power can be maintained directly or indirectly, this has changed over time. In the past, those who had power maintained it almost exclusively through direct control (e.g. colonisation), yet in the present day power is maintained mostly through indirect control (e.g. neo-colonial models of influence, for example trade, aid and debt). The main way that superpowers would impose direct control on more vulnerable territories in the past would be through colonialism. They would use war and their superior
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