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. ... In the UK the years immediately following the Second World War were a time of rebuilding a crippled economy. ... In the UK, during 1955, unemployment fell to a reported "post-war low of just over 215,000 - barely 1% of the workforce" (BBC News, 1999). ... The post-war economic boom ended in the early 1970s. ...

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The British and French demonstrate that a strong central power is necessary to maintain power on a world scale. ... The wars with France to the South and England to the West surround the Dutch. ... To the south of the Republic the French waged wars, leaving the Dutch with no way to protect their country or their industries. ... This is demonstrated in document 1, the graph shows the steady decrease in Dutch ships on the Baltic because there is no longer a need for the British industries to hire shippers when they have their own ships. ... The war fought by the Dutch was not for territorial gai...

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In the book "Labor Control and the Postwar Growth Model in Latin America," Ian Roxborough argues that the economic model known as import substitution industrialization (ISI) was employed amongst the Latin American countries after World War II as a compromise to meet the ever growing social and political demands within those countries. During this time period, there existed two main opposing forces, 1) the reactionary agrarian and mining elites that had majority of the political control for decades and 2) the mobilizing labor forces that demanded political reform. ... Many elites, having a desi...

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This state is a former British colony that achieved its independence on October 1, 1960. Due to inter ethnic power struggles the country was involved in many civil wars. ... Islam taught its followers to use war and violence as a tool to spread the religion. ... At that point they began to work jointly with the IMF and the World Bank to help get their economy back on track. ... This led to many negotiations and loans with the International Monetary Fund and also the World Bank. ...

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Seeing that this resolution talks about global status, then we must look at how it affects the people of the world. ... The affirmative presents the following definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary for the clarification of today's debate: Conflict- a state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas of interests, a clash Globalization- To make global or worldwide in scope or application Sovereignty- complete independence Contention 1: Globalization helps alleviate poverty world-wide. ... C2: Globalism avoids the harms of statism Sub A: Statis...

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Economy Of Hungary During the two decades following World War II, Hungary was transformed from a predominantly agricultural land into an industrial-agricultural state. ... The share of Hungary's NMP contributed by industry and agriculture has changed markedly since World War II. ... Before World War II Hungary traded primarily with Western nations, and the Soviet Union accounted for less than one percent of Hungarian trade. After the war, this pattern was reversed. ... The total value of Hungary's foreign trade in 1975 was $13.3 billion (converted at the rate of 1 forint=$0.117). ...

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Dependency Theory Over the last hundred years many events and situations have occurred throughout the world which have affected not only the areas that they took place, but because of industrialization, media relations, politics, and economic factors, have affected the world as a whole. ... One of the biggest arguments presented is about the process of infusion of capital from first world countries into countries that are less developed. ... 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 Ame...

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Some kind of 'cost benefit analysis' is not so easy when globalisation is perhaps the most over used and under specified concept in the international policy sciences since the passing of the 'Cold War'. ... In such a context part of the problem with understanding globalisation is the nature of the populist, sometime hysterical, discourse on the subject to be found not only in the media but also in a range of so-called scholarly texts that reduce 'globalisation' to a set of slogans to be either exhorted or demonised.1 Throughout the 1980-90s for many of its adv...

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The pattern of the trade of humans is usually from developing (third world countries) to developed countries ( first world countries). ... This will result in further social, political and economic impacts all over the world. ... The tiers are as follows: Tier 1 – countries whose governments fully comply with trafficking victim's protection act's (TVPA) minimum standards. ... Tier 2 Watch list – do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but are making significant efforts to do so and meet one of the following criteria: 1. ... Polit...

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World War II was the beginning of the distance between Spain and the rest of the European nations. As a result of Spain never entering into the war, the country never received the benefits from the European recovery plans, keeping it in a situation of complete isolation. Then following the Civil War in Spain, an inward-looking development model known as autarky, was adopted as a result to its isolation with its surrounding neighbors in Europe. ... On January 1, 1986, Spain finally ascended to the EEC. ... Spain is one of the world's largest exporters of passenger cars. ...

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China and India together account for 6.4% of the total world output and integration into global economy plays a vital role behind it. ... The primary objectives of this current study are: 1. ... Positive Impact of Global integration to developing countries 1. ... Financial integration helps to combat health challenges: A case of Sierra Leone After the end of the civil war, Sierra Leone, the small beautiful developing nation in West Africa experience several health challenges in various forms. ... Negative Impacts of Global Integration 1. ...

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The war raged between Tamil separatists and the State between 1983 and 2009. ... The descent of the Third World Democracy has been preceding rapid beginning in 1971 onwards with Sri Lanka and the political and economic turmoil being griped by violence. ... Generous investment and taxation incentives for world market production were extended even outside of the zones. ... The economic damage was estimated to be $1 billion. ... Because of the war, in the North and East of Sri Lanka, there have been many destructions to the roads, railways, public buildings, schools and hospitals. ...

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In the summer of 1914 Mises was called back to active duty for World War I. ... Later in the war he served with the Army's General Staff in Vienna working on economic problems until released in 1918. ... On January 1, 1927 Mises established the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research. ...

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Sime Darby, the world's largest listed producer of oil palm, is slowing production and Sifca Group, an Ivory Coast-based agribusiness, has halted rubber exports. ... Deliberately seeking out West African products and purchasing them, by preference over those from other areas of the world, is the one thing that each of us individually can do to help. ... The World Bank shares this outlook, revising growth estimates for the three countries. ... Overall, the World Bank estimates that the Liberian economy has declined by US$113m as a result of the crisis; Sierra Leone by US$95m; and Guinea ...

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How Sound are the Foundations of the Aggregate Production Function? Abstract: The aggregate production function has been subject to a number of criticisms ever since its first empirical estimation by Cobb and Douglas in the 1920s, notably the problems raised by aggregation and the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies. There is a further criticism due initially to Phelps Brown (and elaborated, in particular, by Simon and Shaikh) which is not so widely known. This critique is that because at the aggregate level only value data can be used to estimate production function, this means that ...

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Overview on Globalization Globalization is a hot topic in the world today. ... Table 1. ... Intensified security due to arising fear and the war on terror also played a part in the diminishing of the global market. ... Manufacturing outside the United States Although there are many good outsourcing manufacturers around the world, manufacturing outside the United States is very difficult. ... Because of this there are many products just filling up warehouses all over the world. ...

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Fundamentally, globalisation is about what is happening to the world today in the economic, political and cultural spheres. ... This is associated with the flow of goods, commodities, finance and capital from one corner of the world to another. ... This provides protection to domestic producers from cheap imports and acts as an impediment to development in the developing world as exporters from the developing world have to pay more to get into western markets. Multiple barriers in the world trading system have dragged down export growth of developing nations. Industrial countries charge on ave...

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This increasing integration has been due to the liberalisation of markets, rapid technological progress and major advances in telecommunications, which has created new investment and financing opportunities for businesses and people around the world. ... Apart from this ongoing integration and globalisation, world financial markets have also recently experienced increased securitisation. ... In a country such as Korea the rapid growth in labour productivity, the high rates of savings and capital accumulation and the investment by households in education were all-important factors in the growth...

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This so called "decline" was caused by a number of factors not merely one as the question suggests, indeed Supple` s foreword (1) asks, "Are we to be concerned with the rate of growth of total income or of manufacturing output? ... E/ They were insufficiently aggressive in organising cartels to extract monopoly profits from the world a t large. ... 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 Eas...

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