Zimbabwe’s Emergency Management System: A Promising Development Grace L. Chikoto and Abdul-Akeem Sadiq Introduction Zimbabwe’s encounter with droughts‚ in particular‚ combined with economic and political challenges‚ has denigrated the country’s former status as the “breadbasket of Southern Africa” (Hunter-Gault 2006; Maphosa 1994; Swarns 2002). Zimbabwe is particularly prone to a number of natural and man-made hazards such as droughts‚ floods‚ veld fires‚ storms (PreventionWeb 2012)‚
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http://www.bhutto.org/reforms.php The Nationalization process in Pakistan[1] (or historically simply regarded as the "Nationalization in Pakistan)‚ was a policy measure programme in the economic history of Pakistan‚ first introduced‚ promulgated and implemented by people-elected Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the Pakistan Peoples Party in order to lay foundation of socialist economics reforms to improve the growth of national economy of Pakistan.[2] Since 1950s‚ the country had a speedy
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What impacts has conflict had on Afghanistan? What impacts has conflict had on Afghanistan? The Afghanistan war began in 2001 after the intervention of the U.S into the Afghanistan civil war after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The Afghan Civil War began before that in 1992 but the full intervention of the Western World and its allies began only after the terrorist attack on the U.S. Many things in Afghanistan were impacted due to the conflict taking place in Afghanistan such
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NATIONALIZATION Nationalization is a general policy which beings a whole sector of the economy into public or state ownership‚ usually indicates an attempt to make a fundamental shift in the organization of the industry within a host economy. National security National security and developmental objectives had caused a world-wide trend for government to go nationalization for such popular and economic mentioned investment Public utility is one of the most popular type of investments which
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What Causes an Economic Downturn? The financial crisis is still the cause of the economic downturn. Depending on which experts you choose to believe‚ the current state of economy was first cyclical than secular (Leonhardt‚ 2011). This resulted in both crisis being opposing destructive financial forces. The current global financial crisis begins with worthless subprime mortgages and the banking systems cease to cooperate with each other. The failure on Wall Street when the realization those
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Stagflation in US economy threatens outlook for the airline industry profitability. US airlines forecasting Q108 losses citing high fuel costs and a potential economic slowdown. Other regions of the world will expand such as Asia‚ Middle East and Latin America. Slowdown has already affected some US small-mid cap carriers with the recent onslaught of bankruptcies. US majors are better armed to combating the effects of the sharp increase in jet fuel. Cost reduction
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Article Review HOW TO MARKET IN A DOWNTURN The article has been written by John A. Quelch (Senior Associate Dean and the Lincoln Filane Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School) and Katherine E. Jocz‚ a research associate at Harvard Business School in the April 2009 editions of Harvard Business Review Name: KAPIL KALRA Roll No: N-32 (North Campus)
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Luqmani Article: How to Market in a Downturn by Quelch and Jocz This article focuses on how companies should market in a downturn. The authors suggest that for tailoring a company’s marketing strategies to consumer’s recession psychology they need to asses opportunities‚ plan for the long term and balance their communication budget in order to get the biggest returns from their marketing budgets. Moreover‚ the authors indicate in the article that to market in this downturn‚ firms must resegment
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at home. By the 1960s most families has TV sets in their living rooms‚ depending on if they liked being entertained at home. Television in the United States has grown year after year and has made a big impact on American culture in many ways. TV has taken a big part in violence in society‚ the news‚ how people are stereotyped‚ childhood obesity‚ family values‚ social interaction‚ and so much more. In my opinion one of the biggest impacts that television has had on American culture is childhood
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430-01 Protectionism: Good or Bad? Protectionism is the economic policy adopted by some nations to restrict the flow of goods to the country by: increasing the price of imports (tariffs)‚ restricting the quantity of imports (quota) and lowering the price for domestic products (subsidy). It is a politically motivated policy‚ used by nations‚ to give a competitive advantage to the domestic industries over foreign industries. In simple words‚ it is a barrier to free trade. Protectionism has always
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