The Literary Flowering The greatest cultural advance of the 1920s was visible in the outpouring of literature. ... Art and music lagged behind literature but still made significant advances. African Americans migrating northward brought the most significant contribution : the spread of jazz The cultural growth of the 1920s was the work of blacks as well as whites. The # of African Americans graduating from college rose from 391 in 1920 to 1,903 by 1929. ...

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This understanding of globalisation fits into the set of literature referred to as the ' first wave' and is associated with US truimphalists and business schools theorists. ... The yearly subsidy the US gives just to American cotton farmers is three times its total aid to Africa. From 2001 to 2002, the US granted its cotton farmers $3 billion in subsidies, more than the entire economic output of Burkina Faso, just one poor African nation. ...

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Among these false perceptions include the view that the people of Lesotho have not had modern conveniences of schools, hospitals and roads even after independence and they have migrated to their "rich" neighbor, South Africa, as a response to declining agricultural production. However, Ferguson provides evidence that most of the people of Lesotho largely derive their income from wage labor, had established modern hospital, schools and markets even during colonial times, and migrated to South Africa long before a decline in agricultural production to buy other goods as well as to pay...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and n...

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