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. ... In the area of agriculture, the objective of the government was to increase production by both small and large-scale farmers. ... To assist in the processing and marketing of agricultural produce, especially for the small-scale farmers, the co-operative movement was strengthened. ... A number of development finance institutions, intended to cater for small and large-scale industries, were also established. ...

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Vocational training was always passed over in favour of more academic pursuits, it was supposed, and thus the population of universities contained smaller numbers of science, technology, economics and business students than her competitors. ... Knowledge, especially scientific knowledge, therefore took second place in the new British educational system, to the maintenance of a rigid division between the classes. ...

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The models that were in place since World War II collapsed and the laissez-faire neo-liberal capitalism became the dominant ideology. ... But even if that is true, when the incomes of the very poor first start growing at a faster rate than rich countries' incomes, the absolute (dollar) increases in incomes of the poor will still be smaller for many years than the absolute increases for the rich, even though the relative gap is closing. ... Apart from the very large enterprises and the multinationals indicating a more important control on their part, small and medium-size enterprises are...

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Competitive imbalance has to do with the fact that only a small amount of professional teams have the money and the talent to compete with other teams in their league (Markiewicz 1). ... Competitive imbalance is an economic problem because if a team only makes a small amount then that team can not afford to pay the big dollars that is required to sign star players and with out these players it is hard for teams to remain or become competitive. ...

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In a personal level, globalization has led people to be connected throughout the world regardless of their proximity using the most recent technologies, which resulted in making our world a smaller place. ... In a more global level, globalization connected most of the nations together in a way that one country's action will have an effect on other countries, however big or small the effect may be. ... And the United States, being first place in the rank for destination country for immigration, has accumulated numerous different cultures from throughout the world. ...

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1.0 Product Introduction Traditionally, novel products have provided immense opportunities for the society and firms to connect and provide value-added commodities. Selecting the appropriate item for the organization and its clients, nevertheless, may not be an easy task. Studies have shown that suc...

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Ziai expertly delivers an overview of the post-development movement, having arisen in the 1980s as a response to the dissatisfaction with the concept and practice of "development" already in place. Ziai more or less defines this movement as placing an emphasis on alternatives to development via grassroots, local and regional movements. ... This would include recognizing what is already in place in the area, emphasizing relations rather than the logics of development, and building upon the economic interdependence of individuals and groups. ...

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More recently, in order to better place the discussion of competitiveness in the societal and environmental context, the World Economic Forum has begun exploring the complex relationship between competitiveness and sustainability as measured by its social and environmental dimension. ...

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(Boyd, 2002) pointed quoted a point from (The Copenhagen Centre for Partnership Studies,2002) stating that Social Partners and Social Partnership can be defined as: Social Partnership can be defined as a tri or multi-partite arrangement involving employers, trade unions, public authorities (the stat...

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NICARAGUA HISTORY Nicaragua takes its name from Nicarao, chief of the indigenous tribe then living around present-day Lake Nicaragua. Although it is the largest republic in Central America, has a relatively tiny population of approximately 4.5 million people. Nicaragua is bound on t...

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Task 1 Different Types of Organizations and the Purpose 1.1 Purpose of organization Before we learn about the types of organizations, we need to learn the basic purpose of setting organizations. The main purpose of organization is to provide a pathway to their business setup and to set the main objective for their business. Organizations help in making profit in a standard way. The different purpose of organizations helps in building the structure of company. Different Types of Organizations There are three types of organizations in business field. ...

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Adam Smith Economics is a science that most people practice everyday. Economics is the social science dealing with the use of scarce resources to obtain the maximum satisfaction of society's unlimited economic wants. Many of the ideologies of the modern world have been shaped by prominent economists of the past, like Adam Smith. Adam Smith is recognized as the Father of Economics. He was student, professor, tutor, commissioner of customs in Scotland, traveler, philosopher, and an economist. ...

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They had a growing middle class and the needs of the poor were being met by a small but thriving volunteer sector. ... As noted in the article "Can't buy me love" in The Economist, "This would place the world's sixth-most-populous country, a nuclear superpower and a permanent member of the UN Security Council in the company of such countries as Afghanistan and the Congo - poor war-ridden places, some barely existing as states". ...

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Multinational production capitalizes on the resources and skills available in different places, making cars cheaper. ... Marxists concentrate less on efficiency gains (though many accept these may take place) and focus more on how changing production provides new kinds of economic power that can be used to extort profits from those that are weaker. ... If policy is less attractive, business can threaten to move somewhere else, thus creating difficult choices for government about the balance between the need to keep business in place and the desire to tax and regulate it in the interests of th...

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY Brief economic history During the 1960s the South African economy expanded at an annual average rate of 5,5 percent and experienced average inflation of 2,4 percent. This compared with annual growth of 5,0 percent in industrialised Organisation for Economic Corporatio...

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The global financial crisis that erupted in 1997 affecting the "Asian Tigers" economies and quickly reverberating globally set the stage for the first genuine debate in several decades over the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Moreover, this debate has placed a spotlight on an ongoing debate among academics and developing-country policy-makers about the impact of IMF involvement in developing-country policy formulation. Developing countries turn to the IMF for financial assistance in times of foreign-exchange shortfalls. While they receive this assistance, in accordance...

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Introduction There are many changes in the UK's economic climate that affect the business environment. Measuring the economic environment and its position in the economic business cycle is not an exact science. The state of the economy can be measured using a number of economic indicators, such a...

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History of Women in the Labor Force The United States economy has endured many changes throughout history. It was once primarily based on agriculture. In this era crops were grown and sold in the marketplace as a means of income. This agricultural industry was a time in which men took on certai...

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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 an...

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The main reasons behind this new approach to studying economic systems are the immense political and economic changes that took place both in the Western and Eastern hemispheres. ... The traditional terms for economic systems are limited to fixed systems and are not applicable to dynamic changes taking place in economies across the world. ...

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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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