China’s New Challenge: Declining Happiness in a Growing Economy By Shiyu Song Dr. Nikolaev Econ 385R 03J 21st November 2013 Abstract Since 1978, China has seen a sustainable rapid growth in its economy. China’s real GDP has already surpassed 7 trillion US dollars in 2011 in current dollars, and it has replaced Japan as the world’s second largest economy. People in China also have significant improvements in their standards of living and material life. However, my findings contradict
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WHY IS COMPETITION IMPORTANT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION? Nick Godfrey Session 1.3.: Competition policy This paper was submitted in response to a call for papers conducted by the organisers of the OECD Global Forum on International Investment. It is distributed as part of the official conference documentation and serves as background material for the relevant session in the programme. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily represent those of the OECD or its member governments
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Whole Foods Market History Whole Foods Market was founded in Austin, Texas, when four local business people decided the natural foods industry was ready for a supermarket format. The founders were John Mackey and Renee Lawson Hardy, owners of Safer Way Natural Foods, and Craig Weller and Mark Skiles, owners of Clarksville Natural Grocery. The original Whole Foods Market opened in late 1974, it was an instant success. At the time, there were less than half a dozen natural food supermarkets in the
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Securing ‘Decent’ Conditions for Migrant Workers1 - should it be a part of SAARC Social Charter! Pravin Sinha2 Abstract The short term migrants are those who move to other region of the same country or to another countries for employment and intend to return the country of their docile. They are beyond the place of their permanent residence with sole intention to earn income that would help in meeting the needs of the family in a better manner. In performance of their work they face exploitation
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into colonizer and native, white and nonwhite, citizen and subject, employed and indentured, free and slave. The result was a fragmented national identity symbolized and implemented by the white minority government's policy of racial separation. Economic status has paralleled political and social segregation and inequality, with the black African, mixed-race ("Coloured"), and Indian and Pakistani ("Asian") population groups experiencing dispossession and a lack of legal rights. Since the first nonracial
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acronyms AERC African Economic Research Consortium ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations AU African Union AUC African Union Commission CBI Cross Border Initiative CEPGL Economic Community of the Great Lakes (Communauté Economique des Pays des Grand Lacs) CET Common External Tariff CHE Commission for Higher Education (Kenya) CIEREA Conference of Economics Research and Training Institutions in Francophone Africa CIRES Ivorian Centre for Social and Economic Research CM Common
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of ‘transnationalism’, ‘hybridity’ and ‘integration’ - And language. - What are the ‘traditional types’ of diaspora – victim, labour and imperial, trade and business, deterritorialised diasporas - what other (newer) forms are there? Economic, political (EU border issues). More modern notions that might not ‘fit’ traditional ideas of ‘diaspora’. Even the word seems rather outdated now? - Diaspora/transnational communities – relationships in the ‘hostland’, relationships with the ‘homeland’
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and socially desirable. Economic inequality is expressed through the unequal distribution of wealth in society. This has obvious ramifications in terms of the unequal distribution of what that wealth may purchase; housing, health care, education, career prospects, status - in our society, access to all these things is largely dependent on wealth. Because of the nature of our society - post industrial, competitive, capitalist, commercially driven and consumer oriented - economic inequality and social
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ISSN 2239-978X Journal of Educational and Social Research Vol. 3 (1) January 2013 Economic Status of Parents, a Determinant on Academic Performance of Senior Secondary Schools Students in Ibadan, Nigeria Osonwa, O.K1 Adejobi, A.O2 Iyam, M.A3 Osonwa, R.H4 Calabar. Doi: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n1p115
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view was mistaken because systematic drainage of Bangladesh’s resources during the British and Pakistani colonial regimes, which had left it with a deficit in food grain availability. Low levels of internal savings and a high population living below poverty line were evident: what in other words could be called a state of chronic external dependence. The country has followed the course of planned development since 1973. In a medium term framework, the First Five Year Plan was launched in July 1973. This
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