United States plays a crucial role for war-devastated Korea in the 1950s. ... It functioned as popular ideology of popular mobilization and legitimacy during the hardships and social disruption of rapid economic growth (Eckert et al., 1990, p. 406). ... The Vietnam War provided economic opportunity at the right time. ... Political authoritarianism is not necessarily good for economy. ... The justification of hardships and infringing civil rights under Park's regime could possibly be to fill their hungry stomachs first before asking any luxury of human rights. ...

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BRAZILIAN ECONOMICS Historically the economy in Brazil has not been strong. While there have been periods of growth, the fifteen years immediately following World War II and the 1970's showed large economic growth, Brazil has always been a country deep in debt and riddled with poverty. ... Government jobs were cut and civil service reforms were put into place. ... It would be hard to argue that Cardoso was not successful with his Real Plan in terms of attracting FDI and lowering inflation during the 1990's. By being unable to control debt, however, Brazil's economy took a h...

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World War II was the beginning of the distance between Spain and the rest of the European nations. As a result of Spain never entering into the war, the country never received the benefits from the European recovery plans, keeping it in a situation of complete isolation. Then following the Civil War in Spain, an inward-looking development model known as autarky, was adopted as a result to its isolation with its surrounding neighbors in Europe. ... It also has been categorized by the large reduction in employment in 1992 during the following economic deceleration. About two million new jobs wer...

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Account for Pitt's success in restoring National fortunes in the years 1783 - 1793 Pitt had restored a majority of national fortunes during 1783 and 1793. ... The national debt in 1783 was £243 million, before the American wars the debt was £160 million, quite clearly the national debt had increased greatly due to the American wars. ... There was peace on all fronts; Britain was not at war with anyone. ... The Civil list was the list of patronage. ... Another factor was the growth in the economy due to the industrial revolution; this brought a vast sum of income to Pitt v...

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But those reactions are exacerbated by the way that those local economies work. ... Finally, in such poor economies the absence of economic growth kills people: let alone what happens when economies start to shrink. With so many people at or just above the subsistence level it doesn't take much of even a slowdown in the economy to push some of them below it. ... It warns that the disease, if not successfully contained, could cost the West African economy US$32 billion in 2015. ... But the cost to the affected economies could well exceed the medical bills. ...

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England was the dominant world power and had the largest industrialized economy during the 1800's. ... This economic shrinkage came to a spearhead during the reign of Charles I. ... "the 'rise of the gentry' ... ideas concerning resistance to rulers ... nor even the narrowing financial base of the Tudor and Stuart monarchy ... determined the outbreak of the Civil War ... ... The conflict between the Crown and the Parliament during the 1640's meet this criteria. ... A significant amount of people rallied behind the King and the Civil War soon followed9. ...

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During this time he attended the seminar with Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk. ... In the summer of 1914 Mises was called back to active duty for World War I. ... Later in the war he served with the Army's General Staff in Vienna working on economic problems until released in 1918. ... During this time he also completed several more works: Nation, State, and Economy: Contribution to the Politics and History of Our Time (1919), Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth (1920), Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (1922), Stabilization of the Monetary Unit, from the Viewpoint...

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Basically, this means that national economies have developed economic relations that have transcended the nation state and occur at a supranational level, giving rise to the world economy. As a result of economic globalisation, advocates propose that it no longer suffices to refer to goods as being American, British or Chinese and no longer appropriate to refer to economies as being German or Canadian but more appropriate to refer to a global economy, in which interdependent and interrelated economic relationships have developed, spearheaded by improvements in transport and telecommunications...

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Was the British entrepreneur the most important single reason for the relative decline of the British economy in the late nineteenth century? Despite a continued growth of production and wealth in absolute terms, the economy of "the first industrial nation" began to decelerate after 1870, in comparison with that of her closest competitors. ... Derek Aldcroft` s article, `The Entrepreneur and the British economy, 1870-1914 published in 1964 spearheaded the broad indictment of the British entrepreneur (2) . ... Years United Kingdom Germany France U.S.A 1890 3,579 2,195 670 4,275 1896...

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