Western European imperialism in Africa greatly influenced the economic, cultural, and military development of countries in that area. ... The speed with which Africa was divided demonstrates the intense competition involved with imperial expansion. This European influence did not have a positive effect on the economic, cultural, and military development of the African countries, and most of these countries eventually formed into third world nations. ... The French, rather harsh in their administration and their attempts to increase their economic footholds, used forced labor and imprisonme...

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Indeed, Africa is in very poor health despite the economic reforms of the past decade or so. ... , " are they vulnerable to global competition from other LDCs simultaneously expanding exports of products like textiles and electronics for example?"... The hard reality is that these economies are in competition with other newly-industrialized countries to continuously attract foreign direct and portfolio investments. ... So, it is clear that if Algeria is more apt to attract FDI, than in a couple of years, it is going to be by far ahead of Eritrea, which is just trying to consolidate its econom...

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The small wonder beer created a powerful competition. ... Despite the war in 1899, that disrupted the economic and social conditions, SAB's annual profit rose to 100,000 and assets exceed 1 million, making SAB the fastest-growing nonmining firm locally. ... SAB responded by buying out Ohlsson's and Chandlers Union Breweries group for some 400,000, enabling extensive rationalization of production and distribution facilities and eliminating much wasteful competition. ...

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As such, the reduction of prey has led to the decline of food sources for the African wild lion, leading to competition among the species, hunger and death (Gittleman 818). ... Their extinction would reduce the economic gains the entertainment industry obtains from broadcasting and selling films about the African lion. ... The feeding of the lion on herbivorous animals is nature's way of preventing their overpopulation, which could cause competition for food and water sources, leading to the death of some of the animals (Murphy 60). ... The main reasons for the occurrence are the poaching...

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Imperialism, in definition, is the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region in order to increase its own wealth and power. ... The Imperial powers used economic ways to reorganize important regions and bring them into the economy as suppliers of food and raw materials and as consumers of industrialized products. ... Economic causes also led to imperialism. ... The most dangerous aspect of imperialism was competition among the colonial powers themselves. ...

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Imperialism, or empire building, is a practice whereby a more powerful country dominates and influences a weaker nation, either by economic, political or religious means. ... Old imperialists recognized the economic burden in colonization as it could possibly lead to colonial wars and raise taxes, hence harming their economic interest. ... The political structure of the 1 (Chris Talbot, 1999) colonies was left intact as it was never the main intention of the corporate companies govern unless it interfered with their economic interests. ... In addition to more efficient government and gre...

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These flows have started declining, and are likely to decline further in the near future because of (i) general "aid fatigue" and sharply reduced aid budgets in the major bilateral donors, (ii) increased competition from new claimants, and (iii) efforts to focus aid flows on the poorest of the poor countries, mostly in Africa. ... The presence of a well﷓educated labour force puts the economies of the region in a better position to face the challenges of an economic environment that is changing rapidly, and increasingly demanding in terms of quality of products and services. 3. ...

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The role and importance of Africa to the British soon changed though do to imperial competition with France and Germany. ... Using their information on British expansion throughout Africa as a foundation it becomes possible to break down the period of greatest growth between 1880 and 1900 by analyzing British role in Africa prior to 1880, the external roles that competitors such as Germany and France had in forcing England's imperial hand coupled with the internal economic drives for procuring areas of Africa, and the special case and significance of the Cape Colony and British Afrikaner ...

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The findings of this study show that broadcasting - radio in particular - has become the dominant news source for the nation, an effective instrument of propaganda for the government and a powerful influence in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the Zambian people. ... What was achieved initially, benefited urban audiences and has been constrained by problems of manpower, the replacement of equipment and equipment spares, created by inadequate funding and other problems arising from the country's general economic difficulties. ... But now, instead of becoming a synonym ...

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Tea has emerged as Kenya's most important cash crop after a decades-long competition with coffee; its primacy has largely been the result of improved production by small farmers. ... The political and economic set-up during the colonial period thus did little for the economic development of the African peoples. However towards the end of the colonial era some economic development had started. ... The independent government was faced with many challenges revolving around the basic problems of economic development. The new government immediately implemented various economic policies and...

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In some cases, a combination of mounting nationalist pressure and declining domestic economic performance persuaded colonial powers to depart relatively peacefully as occurred in India and Malaysia. ... And even though nationalism entails a darker side such as emphasizing the differences rather than the similarities between humans to inevitably lead to rivalry and competition, it won't necessarily be expansionist nor aggressive. ...

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Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. ... In this essay, I will examine the actions of both the European nations and later on the newly independent United States to distinguish if the transatlantic slave trade was the main contributor to the development of a capitalist modernity by looking at four major developments in the social and economic structure of the world from 1440-1870. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the econo...

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Europe has just suffered the economic depression and thus an individual wants and needs start to intensify, and the competition for new resources i.e. raw materials and new markets began to escalate. ... " 1 On the topic of competition, colonial powers start to become strategic and especially the British begin to feel threatened by other rival colonial states, a form of protectionism starts to emerge whereby states want to shield their own domestic commodities and businesses from external influences. ...

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Naturally, other businessmen took note, and other companies provide competition" (Off 51). ... Economic condition in Africa spiraled down in the post- Second World War period as the empires channeled all resource into rebuilding their own countries. ...

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It made it even less possible for them to acquire economic position and moral and intellectual education, in short, any social strength comparable to that of the bourgeoisie of the West when it overthrew the aristocracy. ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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