The selected articles focus on the ideas of food shortage and economics, and the impact of the East-African food crisis. ... Created to help farmers deal with the uncertainty of growing crops, "futures" enable farmers to sell their crops in the future at a guaranteed price. ... Various groups around the world, both government-run and NGO's, have stepped into the famine, some trying to help and others trying to take advantage. ... However, the economics of this drought are appalling. ... Further details on the economics of this crisis are explained in the last two paragraphs of t...

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Sachs is a professor of economics, expert on sustainable development, and a senior UN advisor. ... The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution that "provides policy advice and financing to members in economic difficulties and also works with developing nations to help them achieve macroeconomic stability and reduce poverty" (IMF). Yet, Sachs sees the solution in Poverty Reduction Strategies as the mechanism to make sure that the aid is spent properly and calls for "clinical economics" (Sachs, 47). ... Finally, Duflo and Banerjee are chang...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The controversy with this issue however, is that many people don't believe that women belong in high-powered positions. ... Especially with the Master's degree, which surprised me, where in 1960 men earned 51 Master's, as opposed to women's 24. ... Since women's duties were mostly housework and child rearing, males became more powerful and prestigious with technology and economics, leaving women in the dark for many years. ... Even though women have faced so many huge problems with their social mobility, women really have come a long way. ... Women are becoming more in...

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Not only did the European sailors provide direct ocean routes to areas that had been in contact with Europe through more expensive and difficult overland routes such as West Africa and East Asia, but also the ships reached areas that had had no preceding sustained and reciprocal contact with the outside world. ... They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... Africans proved to be more profitable than Indians because they had other added "bonuses" that came with them. ... Negro slaves supplied the obvious sol...

• Word Count: 1449
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