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. ... This and the developments in the "social and behavioural sciences, computer science, statistics, mathematics and GIS" has made contemporar...

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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). ... Statistics show that the national ratio of affordable units to low-income families in the United States is a slightly more than 3:10 ratio (8). ... 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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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. ... For example, we can see in England and in America as well, that the differences in income between upper and lower social layers are larger than they have ever been since collection of...

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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. ... This factors, or a combination of many, make populations far more vulnerable to human trafficking, making it easy for traffickers to sell these people with low risk and high profit. ... Statistics around poverty help to explain the strong equatorial pattern of human trafficking with the most tier two watch list and tier three countries found in the equatorial region especially within...

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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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On the other hand an increase in demand is mainly caused by increase in government expenditure, increase in private expenditure, increase in consumer spending as a results of modern-day credit purchases, reduction in taxes, governments repaying their debts, increase in population, as well as deficit financing. ... Pressing forward stock prices increased by 55% by May 2013,and most importantly consumer spending increased causing economic growth at 3.5% > the key to get the cycle starting again to create inflation, as wages were not increased or decreased through statistics released by the gove...

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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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For instance, a firm that aims at capturing the niche markets, provides only specialized or distinct items, or utilizes nontraditional distributional methods should determine how it is assisting the needs of the targeted population. ... While a product may seem to fit into a specific risk niche, the interconnectedness of the different aspects of the given target population cannot be ignored. ...

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