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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OUTSOURCING Introduction In today ’s global competitive marketplace‚ outsourcing is also rapidly becoming a major factor that contributes to profit as well as the success of a company. Global outsourcing that was developed in 1950s has had remarkable influences on international business as well as on global marketplaces (Burkholder 2006). Today‚ with development of science and technology‚ global outsourcing has spread in many countries‚ particular in Asian countries. The reason why outsourcing
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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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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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How International Integration has impacted Spain 1. A general approach: Spain presents a logic delay associated with globalization because of his special history. We can’t forget that Spain was the most closed economy during the period after the Second World War (between all OCDE countries‚ only Turkey was more closed). Spanish government had a period of a protectionist and isolationist nature with indifference to international trade which ups and downs led the country until the end of civil
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Introduction to Economics and the Economy 1. Limits‚ Alternatives‚ and Choices © The McGraw−Hill Companies‚ 2009 IN THIS CHAPTER YOU WILL LEARN: 1 The definition of economics and the features of the economic perspective. 2 The role of economic theory in economics. 3 The distinction between microeconomics and macroeconomics. 4 The categories of scarce resources and the nature of the economizing problem. 5 About production possibilities analysis‚ increasing opportunity costs‚ and economic growth. 6
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The concept of outsourcing has erupted in popularity in the 21st century. Many corporations and small businesses reap the advantages of outsourcing their manufacturing or production needs to maintain their competitive edge. As employment in many countries contracts‚ there are people who look at the benefits of outsourcing as damaging to an economy. The main argument is reducing the labor costs involved in producing goods or services. On the surface‚ American employees view outsourcing as a threat to
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SPOTLIGHT How to Market in a Downturn by John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 How to Market in a Downturn 12 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Reprint R0904D FINANCIAL CRISIS SPOTLIGHT How to Market in a Downturn The Idea
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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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Assignment 7-1 What causes an economic downturn? What causes an economic downturn? An economic downturn defines as the economy being in recession‚ which is a period of time that economic‚ won’t grow or even falling. The definition of an economic downturn is less strict than recession. In the economic downturn period‚ the growth rate will slow down. We can see the house prices falling down and a lot of people lose their jobs. There are some features of an economic downturn: First‚ the economic grow
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