Assignment Discuss the intellectual history of Anglo-American economic geography since the Second World War. ... In this essay the specific economic geography of Anglo-America will be explored following the Second World War. ... Defining distinct epochs to explore the history of Anglo-American economic geography is challenging. ... The factory fuelled migration to the area and resulted in the city's population peaking at over one million. ... For example, tourism became the largest service sector industry in both the UK and America (World Tourism Organization, n.d.). ...

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In the early 1700s, slavery had become an entrenched economic and social institution in the English colonies due to the growing need for labor and the increased availability of slaves in America. ... When less and less people were coming from England to the American colonies, the need for labor in order to cultivate a large yield of crops grew. ... The population of slaves changed the social aspect of English colonies as the ratio of slaves to slave-owners grew. The demand for labor in the English colonies made slavery a rooted system in order to increase economic profit and also changed the p...

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Venezuela through political moderation and fiscal conservatism has deftly navigated its way to economic triumph in South America. ... It has surpassed its neighbor Peru to become the fastest-growing of the bigger Latin American economies. ... Agriculture is the source of livelihood for more than half of the world's population. ... The agriculture sector provides more employment opportunities to the labor force that reduce the high rate of unemployment in developing countries caused by the fast growing population (Myint). ... With this new economic power Colombia will also be able to wiel...

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For example, if a meat company that offers a healthy amount of pork and pork-related products wanted to expand in the multinational market, it would not want to place a deep influence on expanding in countries with a large Muslim population. ... Many American people believe in the way of the American economy, However, The way America runs its finances is not necessarily right. ... A nave business mind will assume that the way business is practiced in America is the way it is practiced outside of America. ... An American manager would be most likely be unsuccessful in an attempt to move into...

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With a dense population, the region houses Latino, Asian, Anglo American, and African American populations. Latinos, being the largest ethnic group in the Koreatown, make up about 53 percent of the population, many of which are of Guatemalan descent. Asians consist of about 32 percent of population, most of which are of Korean descent. Anglo American and African American populations make up about seven and almost five percent of Koreatown's population. ... Residents have noticed an increase in white and black populations in the region, and the incoming of "yuppies," or young urb...

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The population of "the West," which includes Western Europe, North America, and Asian capitalist economies, such as Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, has remained flat since the latter half of the 20th century, with some populations, such as Japan's, experiencing a steady decrease. Meanwhile, the population of developing economies has continued to grow, especially in Africa and India. ... In 1800, the share of the world's population living in urban areas was only 3%; this number had increased to 30% in 1950. ... Most of this population shift has been occurring in the globa...

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In Latin America, government has always been very complicated in regards to selecting its leaders. ... It would appear that the induction of populist leaders in Latin America did not deem successful. Each populist leader thrived off the desperation of the population and their need for a change in the government. ... Unfortunately this is a common theme in Latin America for which the government takes advantage of its hard working citizens in order to manipulate them solely for political corruption. ...

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In 2008, that was true of only 43% of the same population. In Latin America, the percentage of the population living in absolute poverty halved over the same period, to 10% from 20%. ... Population Demographics and Economic Growth Population trends in developing countries will affect economic growth in a variety of different ways, and when one trend is affected then a domino effect occurs. ... Every increase in population has led to more problems than benefits. ... Population growth is also blamed for overuse of resources and reduction of conservation measures. ...

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It has a population of about 126,635,626 people and over 250 ethnic groups. ... Nigeria has a population estimate of about 127 billion in the year 2000 45 percent of its population is living below the poverty line. ... So far I have only spoken of the state's population and economic status. ... Currently, Americans lend their support to Nigeria by increasing trade (oil), democratic solidarity, and foreign assistance. ... In June of 1996 Chief Dan Etete, Petroleum Resource Minister, transferred oil fields belonging to America to France. ...

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It was, as well, the only possibility for many countries to improve their economy: especially in Latin America, where Mexico just stopped refunding its debt because it couldn't pay anymore. ... In each country, even the population is divided in different economic and social layers. ... Twenty percent of the world's population living in the richest countries have 74 times the income of the poorest. ... In 1960, the average income of the richest 20 per cent of the world's population was 30 times higher than that of the poorest 20%. ... Two third of the African countries depend ...

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In contrast, there is virtually no human trafficking in the eastern northern hemisphere in the north American continent and in almost all of the southern hemisphere especially in the Australasian continent. ... The Causes International human trafficking can be attributed to many causes, these include; low economic status and a low GDP in affected countries meaning the majority of the population are living in poverty, little political power over the population leading to higher crime levels and little retribution for those who are caught, and low social status of particular groups including...

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Since the Great Depression ended, the Great Recession was the longest and deepest economic downturn. According to the economists, the Great recession has ended officially on 2010, but the impacts of the Great Recession still remain and threaten the world economy today. The recession is a period of ...

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The many Americans experiencing the unanticipated struggle to find a job are allowed to progress through the four tiers of unemployment benefits. ... The 99ers are currently petitioning for legislators to add a Tier 5 to the new extension plan that would include the 1.4 million Americans who have reached the limit on their benefits (Hoffer). ... The unemployment extension will help out millions of Americans who have found themselves out of a job in the past few years. ... The jobless rate is at a staggering 9.5 percent. 100,000 jobs will need to be created each month just to keep up with p...

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The Brazilian Film Industry In Latin America the film industry in general has undergone many hardships. ... This excluded about eighty percent of the working population causing a significant decline in viewer-ship. Despite the numerous efforts by the Brazilian government, the downfall of Brazilian cinema until the late eighties can be attributed to two major factors: foreign cinema (North America in particular), and the lack of audience interest in Brazilian film, caused by the cost of a movie ticket, the lack of distribution to rural areas, and the introduction of television. ... For...

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This is one of the ways in which not just Canadian, but many corporations all around the globe are taking advantage of the regional language speaking population to capture market and create a stable customer link in the region to sell its services and products. ... This is when it hurts the local population the worst, as they then have no other clear way to go to and the money and time they spent in learning those language skills is all down the drains for them. Then the population panics and takes stupid steps and also with such a worst-case scenario, the whole local and maybe the national e...

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Although America has experienced numerous recessions in the past none such have been characterized by such high unemployment along with a snail like rate of growth in GDP. To put it into perspective, "the Depression was the last time in American history that unemployment exceeded 8 percent four years after the onset of recession", coupled with the fact that GDP has grown at less than half the recovery rate compared to previous recessions (Stgilitz 2) (CBO 1). In order to stimulate more prosperity within the economy, effectively lowering the unemployment rate and lowering our GDP to d...

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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). ... It has been reported that a country whose population is farther than 100 kilometers from the sea grows 0.6 percent slower per year than nations where the majority of the population lives within 100 kilometers of the coast (World Politics, pg.42). ...

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This was the result of high population rates in Asia and the resulting lower wage rates, because of a lack of specialization and skilled labor in Asian markets. Frank revolves his entire book around the idea that Europeans were only able to usurp power and influence by controlling the money supply from South America, the labor supply from Africa and the productive capacity of Asia. ... Vast and wealthy empires were in existence in both South America and Africa during this same time period and in Frank's view they had little to no influence on world economic development. ... One fact th...

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Although drug use has declined in the last six years, an estimated 12 million Americans admitted to using marijuana in the last thirty days ("Info Facts", 2003). Moreover, one-third of all Americans twelve and older reported using marijuana at least once in their lives ("National Household Survey", 1998). ... The social and economic results of marijuana use have far reaching implications into the composite of the American families. ... Gfroefer, Greenblatt, and Wright (1996) examined the substance use in the college age population. ...

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In the subsistence sector, population is so large relative to products and natural resources that the marginal productivity of labor in the subsistence sector is very low or zero. ... These labors could be reduced without decreasing output; although in the model, there are other factors for an affluent supply of labor (these are: huge population growth due to low mortality and high birth rate, the daughters and wives released from domestic work, and workers from various kinds of casual jobs and the unemployment generated by increasing efficiency). ... Lewis claimed that workers mainly contribu...

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The Economic Commission for Latin American (ECLA) was established and commenced operations in 1948. ... The topics of ECLAC's publications include food and agriculture; industrial, scientific and technological development; international trade; development financing; sustainable development; population; women and development; statistics and economic projections; transport; transnational corporations; and regional cooperation. ... However, ECLAC formulated the key concepts applicable to Latin America. ... The level of development, size and rate of growth varies greatly among Latin American ...

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While the housing market for high scale apartments and luxury homes continues to grow, millions of Americans are living in housing they cannot afford. According to a study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, 75% of the low-income population is spending over half of their income on rent or utilities (5). ... If we think back to the 1700's - 1800's, In US history American workers were moving to the West at an astounding rate. ...

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Colonial Americans found there to be a limited supply of said coins and the only way to obtain these coins was through importing goods from foreign countries. There appeared to be a constant unfavorable balance of trade due to the fact that Colonial America was never able to produce enough currency to buy goods needed for economic growth. ... Colonists lacked in the supply of currency because colonial America was not able to produce coins for exchange on their own. ... The more there is of an incline in the population growth rate, the better trade and more demand for foreign goods and services...

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Modernization theory involves five steps, as stated by one of the most influential American modernization theorist ever, in our course reader, W.W. ... An example of this would be how it took 40 years for Americans to collectively own 1 million radios, but more recently, it took only 15 years for Americans to own 1 millions computers. ... First world countries like America are indirectly allowed to set standards of Third world countries by making unfair, but unavoidable, deals. ... After presenting this to the country who cannot pay for its own reparations the United States will require them t...

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South Korea has been a pro-Western nation, embracing many aspects about American political ideologies; also, South Korea followed many aspects of Chinese education system. ... U.S. decennial census data states that in 2010, immigrants made up 13% of the population, but 16% (23.1 million foreign-born persons in the civilian labor force) of the labor force (Singer, 2012). ... Immigrant workers are especially essential to the United States and also Russia (ranked second for destination country for immigration) because the U.S. population is aging rapidly as the baby boom cohort is entering old ag...

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