The main purpose of this paper is to inform the historical economic changes and the current macro economic system of Korea related to the political and economical events. ... The worst thing that ever happened to Korea was the war between those two parts. ... After the war, Korean (South) per capital GDP grew by 7.3% per each year from 1962 to 1991. ... Another important consequence of ISI was the growth of rent-seekers trying to perpetuate the ISI regime. ... Thus an important byproduct of ISI was corruption. ...

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It expanded important parts of its economy by investing in the automobile industry, steel, and petrochemicals. Interestingly, during the Second World War, Brazil's Gross National Product was among the highest in the world – with a 7.4%. After the war was over, investments geared towards what seems to be one of the biggest problems the country faces today: infrastructure. ... Later adding, "which ended long lasting state monopolies and moved into private hands important sectors of the Brazilian economy such as steel, telecommunications, and electricity.... Investments in areas s...

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They lagged behind the West, and were unprepared for the possible outbreak of war. ... However, due to certain governmental decisions and actions, catastrophic events occurred. Incorrect figures regarding agricultural output, and the elimination of private farming plots, led to one the worst events in China's recent history, the Great Famine, which lasted from 1959 through 1961. ... China had to be prepared for war at any given time. ... According to Lin (2003), China lacked three important factors, making it unsuitable for rapid economic growth at the time. ...

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In short, mixed messages originate from observing globalisation and we need to ask whether it is a source of explanation of contemporary global events--or whether it is something that itself needs to be explained? ... 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'. ...

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What was very important was that it had an immediate affect on us but a domino effect in the economy. ... With the idea of terrorism and the pre-emptive strike which could lead to a war has caused people to be seem pessimistic about the near future. ... In order for the economy to recover those events, the consumers have to be put back and allow stability to come forward. ... The economy has to be able to by pass the bankruptcies, scandals, and current events in order to stabilize the economy. ...

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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. ... Events that take place in very influential countries, such as the United States, also have a tendency to make a larger impact on other countries because more relationships are tied through them. ... Education is also very important at this stage in order to keep the skills of workers and management ver...

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However, the tech crash and then the horrible events of September 11, 2001, pointed out that great riches are as vulnerable as they have ever been. ... Kevin Phillips's most important insight is revealing the central flaw in conservative mythology: wealth is not a value. ... Among other things, he cites ''financialization,'' a preoccupation with success in ''finance, technology and services'' and the neglect of ''basic manufacturing,'' speculation and the recurrence of bubbles and manias (from Dutch tulips to America's dot...

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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. ... Let me now move on to another very important characteristic of a state, which is power. ...

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The political events of the 1990's make it clear that countries wanted a change from the set systems of capitalism, socialism and communism as they sought better systems and higher efficiency. ... It is important to understand that the economic system of a country is the summation of other political, environmental and social systems and the modern approach studies the impact of these other systems, which is definitely an improvement from solely studying the economic factors alone. ... Economic systems are characterized by many different attributes and it is important that we know all ...

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(Robertson 1992, 8) Anthony Giddens's another global economist adds another dimension to the picture by emphasizing the interactive or dialectical dimensions of the process: Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. ... The phenomenon of Globalization When most people talk of globalization, it is taken for granted that this is a new phenomenon but the promoter of globalization occurred since the end of the c...

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The forces of production (technology, capital, the infrastructure of society, etc.) are important for the simple fact of who ever controls them controls the society. ... Using history, logic and the dynamic nature of humankind as guidelines, Carl Marx attempts to map out a sequence of events which will eventually lead to utopia (anarchy). ... "the 'rise of the gentry' ... ideas concerning resistance to rulers ... nor even the narrowing financial base of the Tudor and Stuart monarchy ... determined the outbreak of the Civil War ... ... Having failed, the King traveled nort...

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Sugar, nickel, mining, and tobacco are also important industries, as well as the manufacturing sector. ... From the time the United States granted Cuba its independence in 1902 through to the 1950s, Cuba was an important source of sugars, cigars, and unprocessed minerals for the United States. ... This essay reviews Cubans economic fortunes since 1994 up until 2002, grouping the most important events into three broad categories: Cuba during the 1940's-1950's, Cuba during the 1960-1989, and Cuba during 1990-2002. ... Castro made his pact with the devil and became a pawn in the Cold Wa...

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Although economic factors are an important driver of human trafficking and push victims into situations that make trafficking more likely they also influence the criminals trafficking humans. ... Political causes for human trafficking include militarism, war and civil strife including internal unrest. ...

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British and French officials became more concerned with urban development during and after the war, especially in efforts to create a stable and docile urban workforce. ... To the British, French, and Germans, the primary colonizing nations, the individual needs of their colonial subjects were not important. ...

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After a brief post-war depression, in 1922 saw the beginning of a great boom that peaked in 1927 and lasted until 1929. ... Equally important, the national per capita income increased by 30% to $681 in 1929, American workers became the highest paid in history. ... On college campuses, football became more popular than ever the popular yearning for excitement led people to seek vicarious thrills in all kinds of ways-applauding Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic ocean, cheering Gertrude Ederle's swim across the English channel, and flocking to such bizarre event...

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effective regulation of banks The recent events in the financial market have emphasized on the importance the need for effective regulation of banks and other financial institutions. ... 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 of the economy after the Korean War. ... One important type of regulation put for ward is that any entry of capital into a country would be made subject to a deposit equivalent to a proportion of the amou...

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More than 1,900 people have died from Ebola in the four affected west African countries, but many more will suffer the economic consequences. The tiny post-conflict country has been growing at upwards of 8% over the last couple of years, but won't expect anything like that kind of luck now. Finance ...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing economies play in the global economy. As advanced economies are searching for ways to speed up their economic engines, emerging and developing countries have been important drivers of the global economic recovery. ... The work carried out to date on these important aspects of human and economic deve...

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Reasons for Current Economy With the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, and the end of the Cold War, the West was eager to support Russia and all of the former Eastern Block countries in the transition to Capitalism and democracy. ... 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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INTRODUCTION Monopoly and perfect competition are two amazing instances of business structure. In actuality, there are markets having vast number of makers rivaling one another with a specific end goal to offer their item in the business sector. Along these lines, there is monopoly from one viewpoint and perfect competition, then again. Such a mixture of monopoly and perfect competition is called monopolistic competition. It is an instance of imperfect competition. ...

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