Urban-rural Rising Income Inequality in China As a developing country, China is trying to develop its economy and solving the threat of poverty since the economic reform. As a well-known economist Arthur Lewis said that "development must be inegalitarian because it does not start in every part of the economy at the same time" in 1954 (Lewis, 1954). It is also true for China. The income inequality issue between poor and rich increased faster, which has a negative impact as China tries to become a
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(Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The most significant policy undertaken by a wide range of cities since World War II was that of urban renewal. Since 1954 urban renewal programs have changed the face of many downtown areas and displaced millions of low-income citizens. If there is anything to the "growth machine" hypothesis, the origins of this program at the national level, and the implementation of it in different cities, should reveal the guiding influence of the growth machine, for what these programs
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The McNeil Museum of Art (MMA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1925 locating in Universal City, in the western United States.Mcneil museum primarily sourced by appropriation from Fannel County and chartered as the Fannel County Museum of Fine Arts, the museum went through a name change in 2000 to reflect the museum’s main benefactor, Jonathon A. McNeil, who left $28 million dollar as a gift to the museum.Museum endeavors to hold its difference from other museums by holding both art and history
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Land Reclaimation Case study- The Foreshore, Capetown. This town was propose on 1937 under in charge of The South African Railways and Harbours (SAR&H) and the city council took charge of the venture. SAR&H appointed two advisers (F Lonstreth Thomson, a well-known British planner, and Prof. L.W. Thornton White of UCT) and the municipality drew on the services of a French planner E.E. Beaudouin, who was given leave from the army by the French government who considered it an honour for France
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the rapid and massive growth of cities as the migration of people from the countryside in search of better jobs and living conditions occurs. Migration is defined as the long-term relocation of an individual, household or group to a new location outside the community of origin. As the process of internal migration increases within a country large masses of people are gathering in the densely populated and highly structured settlements of a country. Consequently, cities are growing significantly in size
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Details: In this assignment, you will be writing a 1,000-1,250-word essay describing the differing approaches of nursing leaders and managers to issues in practice. To complete this assignment, do the following: 1. Select an issue from the following list: nursing shortage and nurse turn-over, nurse staffing ratios, unit closures and restructuring, use of contract employees (i.e., registry and travel nurses), continuous quality improvement and patient satisfaction, and magnet designation. 2.
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Aug 19th 1999 | WASHINGTON, DC | From the print edition Timekeeper THE phrase “a tax on jobs” is usually an insult to some revenue-raising scheme that increases the cost of labour by mistake. In Portland, Oregon, it is an exact description of city policy. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, has recently agreed to pay the county $1,000 a year for each new person it hires once its regional workforce has increased by 1,000. And this is not for some paperclip-making factory. Intel is Portland's
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the population of U.S. cities tripled. By 1890, New York became the second largest city in the world with 3.5 million residents, while Chicago and Philadelphia claimed more than one million city dwellers each. By 1920, nearly half of the nation’s population lived in urban areas. The diverse needs of the swelling population forced drastic changes to the physical and social make-up of the American city.” By the end if the 19th Century, bridges and roads would connect cities throughout the United
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would be the meeting place of the Second Largest Volkswagen meet in the United States. We, Volkswagen enthusiast that is, call the meet SoWo or Southern Worthesee. The City of Helen nestled in the mountains of north Georgia and has a nostalgic feeling of being in Germany the infrastructure of the town is made to look like its sister city in Fussen, Bavaria in Germany, yes I said Germany which makes this quiet town of 580 people the perfect spot for a European car meet. The town of Helen has a lot of
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Rural Marketing Post the economic slowdown, policymakers and companies are busy designing strategies to sell products and services to larger markets. While boosting profits quickly is no longer the essential parameter, Atmanand, MDI Dean of Executive Post Graduate Programs, believes that revisiting age-old management theories and sticking to basics is the most cost-effective marketing tactic. The rural focus “The strategy taken by Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL) to enter the rural sector, which
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