The piece of literature that grabbed my attention and had a great effect on me is A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, which was written by Ishmael Beah. The book is about Ishmael and his older brother and how they survived during the war in Sierra Leone. The boys live in horrific conditions and under a constant risk for their lives. The only thing that keeps them going is their hope, faith, love and memories about their family since they were told that there family was alive. However, due
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Child Growth and Development Module 1: Principles of Child Growth and Development 1 Icons This icon represents a new topic in the text. This is a visual cue for you to answer any questions about the previous section before moving along to the next one. This icon is used to identify an exercise that involves in-class practice and feedback. This icon is used to identify a specially designed activity that requires active class participation. This icon is used to identify a section that is
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the financial developments and economic growth, so that they can occupy one position in the modern competitive economic environment. Financial development involve lots of factors, including producing information about possible investments and allocating capital; monitoring the firm performance and corporate governance; trading, diversification, and management of risk; mobilization and pooling of savings; and easing the exchange of goods and service. Usually the financial development level is primarily
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Quantitative Methods Inquires CORRELATIONS BETWEEN CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE CASE OF ROMANIA1 Laura OBREJA BRASOVEANU PhD, Associate Professor, Finance Departament, University of Economics, Bucharest, Romania E-mail: laura_obreja@yahoo.com Victor DRAGOTA2 PhD, University Professor, Finance Departament, University of Economics, Bucharest, Romania E-mail: victordragota@yahoo.com, victor.dragota@fin.ase.ro Delia CATARAMA PhD Candidate, Assistant Professor, Finance Departament
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"Green Growth": A Necessity Green growth is a new buzzword among the policymakers around the world. For many policymakers it's a new magical word that can play a very significant role in the development of a country. Green growth is viewed as a key to sustainable growth. It has been recognized that there is an urgent need of transition towards green growth to achieve sustainable development and prosperity. As per Asian Development Bank "... green growth is an imperative not a luxury, for developing
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understanding of the interface between economic growth and economic development and offer recommendations of what a country like Zambia needs to do in order to achieve them. Firstly this essay will define terms such as development, economic growth as well as economic development. It will then proceed with a brief discussion of the various measures of development, and show why the human development index, has in recent years become a widely accepted measure of development. This essay will then highlight the interface
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IMPLICATIONS OF MEASURING DEVELOPMENT AS GROWTH Development is a complex issue with many different and sometimes contentious definitions. More often than not, development is measured as economic growth. Economic growth basically explores the increase in the productive capacity of any state. This upward change in productive capacity is usually ascertained in terms of Gross Domestic Product as well as Gross National Product. The former takes a look at the total final output of goods and
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GSICS Working Paper Series Infrastructure Development for the Economic Development in Developing Countries: Lessons from Korea and Japan Byoungki KIM No. 11 November 2006 Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies Kobe University Infrastructure Development for the Economic Development in Developing Countries: Lessons from Korea and Japan Byoungki KIM Abstract Infrastructure is indispensable to achieve the main development targets in developing countries, such as urbanization
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Economic development is the increase in the standard of living of a population. Economic development includes economic growth among the main criteria. Economic growth is a sustained growth from a simple economy to a modern one. The study of economic development includes theories of the causes, the process, and the policies by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social well-being of its people. Economic development theories relate to the causes of industrial-economic modernization
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INTRODUCTION Development is a multi-faceted process. It is most often synonymous with the progression and growth from lower economic status to that which is advanced it be of a community or country such that its productivity noticeably increases. Many scholars as such agree that growth in economic proficiency as is brought about by economic growth is a yardstick for development. It is on this particular premise that this paper shall endeavour to describe economic growth and further elaborate
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