Typically men and boys were responsible for doing the heavy farm work and working with the large stock animals, while women and girls worked in the gardens and homes. ... This meant that families could live off one income fairly easily and women were left available to take care of things on the home front. Finally, women were encouraged to stay home since the government encouraged home ownership through home mortgages with low interest and small down payments. All of these factors urged men to work and women to stay home and care for the children, family, and household obligations. ... An ...

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If this was said in 1999, the boy's mother probably would have said, "Let's go to the store and buy you a baseball glove so you can start to practice." ... All these constraints can and do change overtime, but at any one time they set limits on the operation of the economy (Professor Kristjanson). ... Incentives and constraints are spelled out clearly; players act as rational economic agents; sporting events and seasons can be seen as the operation of miniature economies (Sportometrics Texas A&M University Press). ... Competitive imbalance is an economic problem because if a team onl...

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It's rather a memento (and a pernicious one) of colonialism: that just as the Imperial and colonial nations used to trade between the "home" country and the various colonies so too those colonies have their trade oriented outwards to those former colonial powers. ... As ever the best thing we can do for poor people in poor countries is purchase more of what they produce (given that most of us are not health care experts who can help with the actual disease itself). ... Deliberately seeking out West African products and purchasing them, by preference over those from other areas o...

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For example, alcohol manufacturers require large quantities of sorghum while canning industries require chickpeas. ... Consumers can choose from a variety of meat products thereby creating stiff competition between beef and other meat products. ... The Size of the Company The company can be regarded as a large company because of its asset and operational level. ...

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But, since its apparition we can see a lot of improvements in the richest countries but also in the developing countries. ... Yet, even with that caution, we can argue today that economic globalisation is no friend of inequality and absolute or relative poverty. ... In the current wave of globalisation (1980), the World Bank has identified a group of 24 developing countries, home to some 3 billion people, as 'recent globalisers'. ... These examples show how economic reforms and outward-looking trade policies can rapidly lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and many people or cou...

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Conscience and sympathy, then, working together provide moral guidance for man so that the individual can control his own feelings and have a sensibility for the affections of others. ... Although economics has changed since Adam Smith's time, his influence can still be felt in the world of economics. ... In Adam Smith's view, the production and exchange of goods can be stimulated, and a consequent rise in the general standard of living attained, only through the efficient operation of private industrial and commercial entrepreneurs acting with a minimum of regulation and cont...

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It also brings new jobs and technology to different countries and makes profits for the car company that can be re-invested in making ever better cars. ... For the developing world, "doing what you are best at" in trade may mean providing sweatshop labour so that consumers in Europe can have cheaper trainers or electronic goods. Economic efficiency can mean maximum exploitation of workers, rather than technological innovation. Globalization, then, can be said to increase the exploitation of workers everywhere "and rising global inequalities will testify to such a fact." ... Technological...

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Before proceeding, it is important to mention that there are Muslims within the Ummah who do not doubt the fact that the Khilafah is the only destiny for the Muslims but at the same time find it difficult to envisage how the Khilafah can fit into the contemporary world which boosts a complex global economy. ... This in fact indicates the diffused and flexible nature of globalisation, meaning that it can be defined to suit anyone's agenda and interests. ... The flaws in the policies can be seen from the discussion below. Oppressive use of trade barriers Developing countries have bee...

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Unfortunately, the 2007-2008 global financial crisis has demonstrated that financial globalization can lead to catastrophic outbreaks. ... Currency can also be used as financial instrument for capital gains, to offset risk or even to earn interest by exchanging the currency. ... During this crisis millions of people lost their jobs, homes, their savings and got into very big debts. ... What measures UK and US have taken to reduce the impact of crisis and also what can be done to avoid similar crisis in future? The roots of financial crisis where everything has started can be followed back to ...

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The Purpose of Business It has become apparent that the accepted view of the role of corporations in society is evolving, and necessarily so. This is especially true after the recent corporate scandals in the USA involving multinational companies whose names have become commonplace in discussions ...

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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 state and/or local/regional authorities) and/or others (e.g. voluntary sector). ... Social Partnership does not necessarily require an institutional setting and can be described as a mode of policy making characterized by actively seeking compromise (Boyd, 2002). ... In exchange, government agreed to re...

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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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New commodity development is a complex task and can generate undesirable consequences. ... Executed accurately, adding a new product can generate a significant impact to the performance of a firm. ... While the firm can accurately decide to outsource all or some of the operational features of the commodity, they can hardly outsource the accountability for complying with regulations and laws of the land. ... New home equity commodities may permit consumers to lock in section of their non-fixed –rate line of credit at a constant rate but can also cause increased credit or sensitivity risk ...

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