Highlands, in the state of Bahia, became the diamond capital of the world attracting prospectors and adventurers in the same way that the California Gold Rush did. A series of major diamond finds in South Africa from 1867 onwards, coinciding with a decline in production in Brazil, soon made it by far the biggest source of diamonds. As in Brazil and Indian the first finds were alluvial but by 1869 diamonds were being mined in South Africa. Their value depended on their rarity and Cecil Rhodes realised
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Myra Garcia I'm just going to start off by saying this Gothic era is one of my favorite eras of all time, For one second I do not believe that this was an era art decline. I think this was an era of fascinating Buildings and awesome glass art like the Stonemasons and sculptors looking at this glass art is just cool they way they were even able to make such detail into glass. Almost like they were trying to show you that you can make art out of anything that nothing is impossible they were getting
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fertility rate is… The UK’s TFR in 2001 was… 1.63 2006… 1.84 1964… 2.95 These changes in fertility and birth rates reflect that… More women are remaining childless than in the past, and women are waiting longer to have children. Reasons for decline in the birth rate are.. Abortion | better nutrition | better medicine | improved housing | divorce | women do what they want | jobs | better knowledge of hygiene. Future trends in birth rates – page 48 Birth rates – fertility rates – family sizes
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3 A. 1. FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS RECENT TRENDS IN FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS AND OUTFLOWS Global trends 15 Following what seemed to be a swift recovery from the global financial crisis in 2010-2011, global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows have again taken a downward turn. As the world economic recovery continues to be uncertain and fragile, global FDI inflows have declined by 18%, from $1.65 trillion in 2011 to $1.35 trillion in 2012. Inflows decreased
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INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY 8 his chapter presents levels, trends, and differentials in perinatal, neonatal, postneonatal, infant, child, and under-5 mortality in Uganda. The information enhances understanding of population dynamics and will assist in the planning and evaluation of health policies and programmes. Estimates of infant and child mortality rates can be used to develop population projections. Information on childhood mortality also serves the need of the health sector to identify population
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(Montgomery, K. n.d.). Stage two; many have seen a rise in Europe population because the death rates have decreased slightly. It is still debatable that the birth rates stayed the same or risen slightly. The decline in death rates was seen in Europe starting in the 18th century in the north and the west. The reason for the lower death rates was two causes. One was the food. With food Europe develops new technology that helps grow food faster and bigger. When the food was no longer a problem people
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nation-state is important in regulating capitalism resulting in something Lash and Urry call 'organised capitalism'. A further feature of modern society is the domination of rational, secular and scientific ways of thinking correlating with a decline in the influence of magico-religious explanations of the world. Technically efficient forms of organisation, such as bureaucracies and factories, dominate social and economic life. Science becomes increasingly important in industry,
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Inpatient Outpatient Hospital Care Inpatient Hospitalization To Ambulatory Care Services (2010) from the Researchomatic. Retrieved on 09/05 , 2014 noted ambulatory care Sensitive situation are those "for which good outpatient care can possibly avert the need for hospitalization, or for which early intervention can avert difficulties or more critical disease" Although hospitalization rates are leveraged by socioeconomic components for example scarcity . I will discuss and compares inpatients
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Making money out of football Stefan Szymanski[1] Stephen Hall The Business School, Imperial College London April 2003 Abstract: In the US most economists have argued that professional sports teams are profit maximising businesses, but it is a widely held view in Europe that professional football clubs are not run on a profit maximising basis. This belief has important implications for the impact of policy measures such as income redistribution that are widely advocated. This paper
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World Cities Millionaire Cities, Megacities and World Cities Millionaire city: 1 million+ pop Megacity: 10 million+ pop, 2,000 persons/km², one or two places merged World City: Major area which doesn’t just serve area, but world, normally multinational These are all interlinked in a pattern, usually by train. Also they started mainly in MEDC’s, but have slowly appeared more in LEDC’s. Contemporary Urbanisation Processes Urbanisation: the movement and growth of proportion of people
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