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    Economy of China

    ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Economic Survey of China, 2010 What are the key challenges facing the economy? How should the monetary policy framework evolve? What reforms are needed in financial and product markets? How should social safety nets be strengthened? How has the labour market evolved? Can pensions be enhanced? How should health care be improved? For further information For further reading Where to contact us? Summary Since the OECD’s first Economic Survey of China

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    Child Labour

    1.INTRODUCTION Cursory observation would prove that child labour has increase in Nigeria since the late 1980s.To this end the increase may be related to the changing socio economic structure of the country. It is in this light that this paper seeks to relate the massive increase in the incident of child labour In Nigeria the mid 1980s.Globalisation should be seen as an encompassing process with implications for different sections of socio life (see Anugwom, 2001). Therefore, globalization significantly

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    Demographic Dividend of India

    hasn’t been successful, India has a population of 1.25 billion, the country has, by serendipity or by plan, reached a stage where the potential of its large population and the structure of it has become an important weapon in the country’s growing economic arsenal. The Demographic dividend, as this weapon is popularly called, depends on the make-up of the population, particularly on the dependency ratio, which is the number of dependents in a population (Age 0-14 and 65 above) as a part of the working

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    Dualism Theories

    TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Dualism Theories 3. The Concept of Dualism in Economics 4. Does the concept of Dualism adequately portray the development picture in most developing countries? 5. Conclusion 6. Refrences INTRODUCTION Dualism is derived from the Latin word duo meaning "two"‬ denotes the state of two parts. The term 'dualism' was originally coined to denote co-eternal binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in metaphysical and philosophical

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    The Importance Of Migration

    also a time context. Segregation refers both to the processes of social differentiation and to the spatial patterns that result from such processes, which are normally sit within the urban and community scale. Factors playing a role in the context of ethnic residential segregation of immigrants are including, socio-economic status, discriminatory mechanisms within a society. Furthermore, the handling of migrant families by public housing authorities, legislative frameworks, the status of migrants on

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    Literature Review for the Cost of Recovery of the Increasing Tariff Block System of Water Billing in India

    This Literature Survey has been submitted by Mr. Anirudh Dhawan ID No: 212142 On Economics-I During the Monsoon Semester 2013 Cost Recovery in the Increasing Block Tariff System in India Introduction The need for imposing a tariff on the consumption of water domestically by households arises for the basic reason of revenue sufficiency. Due to the economic diversity prevalent in the society and diversified and potential inequitable use of the good, this tariff has to be determined

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    Globalisation

    have not been universally distributed.” This statement was made by John and George Steiner in 2005. They said this when globalisation was beginning to happen at a rapid pace. Globalisation allows countries worldwide to trade with each other on an economic or political front. This has had many benefits for a lot of people around the world. In my essay, I will discuss the many benefits that globalisation has brought to people. My research has enabled me to analyse this statement to great effect. Firstly

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    China

    International Monetary Fund). This uncommon economics performance compels economists all around the world to ask them selves is a democracy an only system of government which guarantee sustainable growth and development of an economy? Though some economists believe that democracy, as the most common type of capitalism, is the most “healthful” and useful economics and government system, China is a socialist country. Socialism – “Compare capitalism an economic theory or system in which the means of production

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    Relationship Between Inflation And Tourism

    a deterrent to tourism output while on the other hand, studies have argued that urbanisation and inflation may boost tourism output. To begin with, Cicerchia (1996) emphasized that in the modern era of rapid increase in urban population, measuring quality of life in the urban areas is becoming challenging

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    Measuring Conditional Cooperation: a Replication Study in Russia

    Thöni Received: 29 August 2007 / Accepted: 30 January 2008 / Published online: 10 April 2008 © Economic Science Association 2008 Abstract We replicate the strategy-method experiment by Fischbacher et al. (Econ. Lett. 71:397–404, 2001) developed to measure attitudes towards cooperation in a one-shot public goods game. We collected data from 160 students at four different universities across urban and rural Russia. Using the classification proposed by Fischbacher et al. (2001) we find that the distribution

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