Stronger governments have had more choice than weaker governments concerning their response to global pressures for more international and less regulated economic activities. Even the weakest government, however, has had some room for manoeuvre. ... In the international realm, such thinking is most obvious in liberal views concerning free trade (though many liberals would take a slightly more ambiguous view than the neoliberal one set out here). ... Furthermore, governments need business, and business's tax revenues to provide their citizens with expected services. ... Liberals argue tha...

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It should be seen as a systematically interactive set of processes in which the direction of causality is two way and contingent. 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 advocates--and when understood economically as trade liberalisation, financial deregulation and priv...

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Together with other hybrid of international agencies, national governments and voluntary international nongovernmental organizations, the UNHCR has positioned itself to fulfil its mandate and obligations to refugees in spite of all odds. ... But these religious persecutions gradually faded as most people in Europe became more politically sensitive with strong political affiliations and tenacious resistance to their new revolutionary style governments. These revolutionary style governments were seen in countries like France, Germany, Poland and Russia. ... State sovereignty became for the fir...

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A government deficit that is not "excessive", or a government deficit that doesn't exceed 3 percent of yearly gross domestic product, and the value of outstanding government debt doesn't exceed 60 percent of yearly gross domestic product. However, meeting the criteria has led to considerable activity in the area of government statistics fudging. ... They counted a current pension fund surplus as government income, thus reducing the calculated government deficit. ... Government bonds will be denominated in Euros, and some countries, like France, will convert existing debt to Euros. ...

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Eventually, the social panic becomes a political problem and the governments have to step in and either regulates the production, distribution and/or consumption of the drink in question, or if in seeing a need, a total prohibition of the product is established. ... After consulting many different books, articles and government documents, as well as trying the drink myself, I must say that, personally, I don't think that Absinthe is "bad" and is in no way a cause for panic. ... Within the last ten years, Absinthe has seen more and more liberality in the eyes of certain governments. ... Go...

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INTRODUCTION Telecommuting or Teleworking has been the subject of numerous debates, articles, and academic papers - and in my opinion, the difference is minimal. The term "telework" tends to be used more in Europe and some other countries, while "telecommuting" is used more in the U.S. Some people prefer the word "telework" because it's a more accurate description of the concept - the "tele" prefix means "distance", so "telework" means "work at a distance." The telework advocates also believe that "telecommuting" has too strong a connotation about the commuting aspect, and that "telew...

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Reforms and the right set of investments to enhance competitiveness will be crucial for the economic transformations that can lead to sustained higher growth over the longer term. ... The 12 Pillars of Competitiveness We define competitiveness as the set of institutions, policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity of a country. The level of productivity, in turn, sets the level of prosperity that can be reached by an economy. ... First Pillar - Institutions The institutional environment is determined by the legal and administrative framework within which individuals, firms...

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Our research set out to improve our understanding of the immigration from 1960s up to 1980s and by exploring the rhythms and realities of everyday life both of immigrants and natives people. ... Indeed, this movement particularly, across international borders that people invented, has become an important policy issue for the governments all over the world because it affects the lives of people in many areas. ... Assess the role of social and political intervention in achieving to set up laws for immigration and the issues that followed. ...

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The accomplishments of the Carolingian age set the stage for the following traditional restoration, known as the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, a term coined by Charles Homer Haskins (1870 "1937) to portray the blooming of established learning amid this period. ... In the accompanying era, the Florentine chancellor Colucio Salutati (1331 "1406) helped transform traditional style from an abstract development into a capable device for molding governmental issues and society on the Italian promontory. ... Traditional style was additionally the establishment of the instructive unres...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. ... Indeed, the attacks on the Somme, and many other dismal affairs like it, Passchendaele for example, may well have not been possible, bar such unscrupulous recruitment practices, many of the enlisting Sergeants allowing underage enlistment, "smiling they wrote his lie: aged 19 years", (Disabled) sending five different sets of brothers from Eton alone, to their premature deaths. ... Th...

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Factors including the U.S. government's policy mechanisms, it's bureaucracy and public opinion, coupled with the narrow domestic political mindedness of President Roosevelt, lead us to ask; Why was the American government apathetic to the point of culpability, and isolationist to the point of irresponsibility, with respect to the systematic persecution and annihilation of the Jewish people of Europe during the period between 1938-1945? ... The obvious lack of intended action was summed up in the final communiqué of the conference, "The governments of the countries of...

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History 185 Test #2 04-01-03 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that paved the way for the creation of our modern day governments and societies, was an era of political and social revolutions. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... The final stage of the French Revolution occurred when the bourgeois failed at government and their republic floundered. ...

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The United States, taking the dominant role, set forth in the Moscow Declaration of 1943 methods to deal with the punishment of Germany. ... This document, entitled the London Agreement, also stated that the defendant's position as head of state or government would not excuse him from punishment or responsibility, and that following orders would not be an excuse for a defendant, but might mitigate punishment dealt to him (Encyclopedia Britannica Online). ... Yet, but the tenets set forth in the London Agreement, all were equally culpable. ... These men and 17 others were all involved eit...

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It also links to the structure of Napoleon's government as prefects which were head of independent departments were often friends of Napoleon and were appointed by the First Consul because of Napoleon's confidence in them completing their job to the best of their ability through their loyalty to Napoleon, which is why Napoleon is likely to have appointed family members and friends such as Murat in high positions. ... This trend is also followed in countries such as Holland, Poland, Italy and Germany with these countries gaining more centralized power, allowing for more stable governm...

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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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The importance of securing natural energy resources is taking center stage in the European Union's (EU) future plans. Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Eu...

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