There is also a cluster of Tier two watch list and Tier three countries and hence human trafficking in the east of the northern hemisphere, through the middle east for example in Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Asian continent in Burma and Thailand and the European continent in the east, particularly in Russia. ... In the Middle East, particularly in countries such as Saudi Arabia, women have very low social status and are often seen as the property of the men in their lives, either their fathers or husbands. ... In the middle east the low value of women and the belief of ownership of them my men c...

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It has taken several measure to undermine the already weak provincial council system introduced in 1987 through an agreement between the governments of India and Sri Lanka to defuse the demand for a sovereign state of Tamil Eelam in the North and East of the island. ... The most important source of foreign earnings for decades has been migrant worker remittances largely sent by women employed as domestic labor in the Middle East Receipts from exports of tea are the second largest contributor of foreign exchange followed by industrial goods, largely ready-made garments sold in the European Unio...

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Value of Manufactured Output - US$/person/year Since the beginning of this century the quantitative approach to the study of economic growth and development got an important stimulus from the increased availability of official statistics on income, output and expenditure. The creation of national...

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By studying the region, we see how Koreatown's economic growth led it to having a variety of professional businesses and offices, upscale malls, karaoke clubs, and bars, pulling more upper and middle income people to the area. ... The region lies not far from downtown Los Angeles within the streets of Beverly Boulevard to its north, West Olympic Boulevard to its south, Crenshaw Boulevard and South Wilton Place to its west, and 6th Street to it east. ... The corporate and entrepreneurial establishments and upscale shopping and dining areas in Koreatown has drawn upper- and middle-income re...

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The Leaderless Collective deals with the subject of financial markets and, in this section, Norberg seeks to refute the three main arguments advanced by critics of globalization on this issue, namely, the irrational movement of stock markets caused by speculators, the increasing market fluctuatio...

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Nevertheless, by the middle of the 1960's Hungary was one of the most industrialized states of Eastern Europe. ... This compares with an NMP per person of about $2,390 in Poland, $2,730 in Czechoslovakia, and $4,340 in East Germany in 1975. ... East Germany was Hungary's second most important trading partner in 1976, accounting for 8.8 percent of imports and 9.1 percent of exports. ...

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The Concordancia did not provide anything politically for the urban middle class, and at this time there was a large group of trade unions that were being ignored by the government. ... It was an disposition known as "café au lait", which was a collusion between the exporters of Sao Paulo (southern Brazil) and the cattle barons of Minas Gerais (north east Brazil), the armed forces were also in the mix. ...

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In 1978, the Chinese government commenced economic reforms which saw the economy experience tremendous economic growth. And between 1978 and 2007 the annual growth rate of GDP per capita averaged at 10 percent without any signs of deceleration. As a matter of fact, China accounted for 35 percent of ...

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And I quote Madison who states that with globalization, the world have in fact already witnessed in various countries in East and Southeast Asia is a steady erosion of "bureaucratic authoritarianism" the once very fashionable belief in the efficacy of managed capitalism. ... In doing so, they have been responding to demands on the part of their increasingly middle-class citizens to see economic development translate into an improved quality of life as well as for a greater say in how their country is run, i.e., to the forces of civil society. ...

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Introduction Globalisation refers to the process of bonding the world on aspects of, cultural, economic environmental, political and technological interactions leading to worldwide interdependence. It involves integration of the people, institutions and companies and also governments of different st...

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The slow uptake of technical innovation was key in the British decline, for instance the Gilchrist-Thomas process of removing brittle phosphorous from pig iron opened the way to the use of phosphorous -rich ores, in plentiful supply in North East England, thus providing the cheapest iron ore in the world for the production of steel. ... Unfortunately the public school formed the model for the new system of secondary education, which the less privileged sectors of the new middle class were allowed to construct for themselves after the Education Act of 1902, and whose main object was to exclude ...

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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. ... Many nations, especially in the Middle East, fight for territories because the territory contains historical, religious, and ethnic values (Frieden, Lake, Schultz, 2014). ...

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benefits and threats of globalisation Introduction There are processes in the international order--driven by revolutions in communication and information technology--that exhibit seemingly inexorable globalising tendencies while, at the same time, there are a range of actions, adopted by states and non state actors alike, that attempt to resist these often ill defined phenomena captured by the all embracing notion of 'globalisation'. For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do...

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Vietnam has also gone through a terrific economic development after the country's transition process from centrally-planned economy to a market economy and it also gone from a poor to a middle-income country in just 20 years. Over the past five decades, East Asia has emerged as a region with several spectacular stories (i.e. ...

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