In this essay, we will examine why these countries do not seem to be able to become the economic powers that their northern counterparts have become. ... In Africa and Latin America, for example, the richest 5 percent of the population earn almost 25 percent of the national income, while in industrial countries they earn only 13 percent (World Politics, pg.42). ... For example, in Mexico, the southern states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Guerrero have twice the infant mortality rate and only half of the educational opportunities as the country's northern states (World Politics, pg.42). ...

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A good example to use is the Akosoma dam in Ghana, which was financed by the Kaiser Aluminium and corporation of USA. ... An example is the Armenian earthquake in 1988, which cost the USSR half its national economic growth. Uganda, Mozambique, China, Vietnam, India, and Poland are all examples of countries where, within the past two decades, policy and institutional reforms have sparked rapid development. ... Korea, for example, progressed from borrowing from the International Development Association (IDA), to borrowing from the International Bank for Rec...

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The affects of globalization will be argued in this essay. ... For example a three-minute phone call from New York to London cost two hundred and forty-five dollars in 1930. ... Corporations like Nike for example, take advantage of this globalization because they can use the cheapest labour. ... For example, countries all over the world are exporting ten times the amount they did in 1950. ... For example most foreign investment went to Asian countries in the mid 1990's. ...

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For example, one can easily communicate with others face to face, using their computers, tablet PCs, and mobile phones. ... This phenomenon is called interdependency; and an example of interdependency would be when East Asian countries faced the Asian Financial Crisis altogether beginning in 1997, making the situations even worse because all the neighboring countries were economically suffering. ... South Korea is a great example of a country that utilized globalization to bring itself up to being a developed country. ... Boundaries are socially constructed and when countries, for example the ...

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