the physical‚ economic and social efficiency‚ health and well-being of urban and rural communities.Planning is a continuous‚ time-oriented and cyclic process of identification and achievement of goals. Regional Planning: It is a specific type of planning‚ based on a specific planning structure (regional system)‚ for inducing public action aimed at societal well being. It implies that regional planning is concerned fundamentally with the society in the context of space. Regional planning is a
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DEVOLOPMENT ECONOMICS Fall 2013 COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS JINAN UNIVERSITY Instructor: Lan Ding （丁岚） Office Hours: Pending or by appointment Email: tlanding@jnu.edu.cn Time: Monday‚ 19:00-22:00 Classroom: A506 Course Overview Development Economics explains the unprecedented progress that has been made in many parts of the developing world—but fully confronts the enormous problems and challenges that remain to be addressed in the years ahead. The course shows the wide diversity
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The Economic Development of Ghana Ghana is an African country located on the western side of Africa. Its neighbors are Burkina Faso to the north‚ Togo to the east‚ the Atlantic Ocean to the south‚ and Cote D’Ivoire to the west. It has a population of 18‚100‚ 703 and a population density of 197 people per square mile. Ghana is 92‚098 square miles and English is its official language. The capital city of Accra has around 1‚ 673‚000 people residing in it. There are the physical statistics‚ now onto
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Global development is entering a phase where entrepreneurship will increasingly play a more important role. There are at least three reasons for this‚ each particular to certain types of countries. Firstly‚ in the West‚ the managed economy of the 1970s-2000s‚ characterized by reliance on big business and mass production‚ has given way to a so-called entrepreneurial economy. Here knowledge-driven goods and services are now more flexibly provided by smaller firms‚ and the emergence of a creative class
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the white man who didn’t defend slavery were know as traders and they may have been injured by others that believed in slavery. There are many ways on how slavery affected slaves‚ and how it affected the slaveholders‚ and finally how slavery brought light on all of this in total. It was real hard for slaves and Douglass had
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unpaved areas. He faced the repercussions of an economic meltdown‚ two foreign wars against an unidentifiable enemy‚ and dismal education system. It can be said that political change was eminent‚ with the several new faces on Capital Hill and a resounding cry of ‘Hope’ among the nations’ voters. But at the same time‚ it could also be said that technologic landscape was changing as well. Social media‚ cell phones‚ cable television‚ and the internet would have been words of tomfoolery to anyone before the
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into the process and persistence of regional imbalances in social development within northern region of the state of Karnataka with special attention on the problem of chronic backwardness and subsequent low standards of human life in both the Bombay-Karnataka and the Hyderabad-Karnataka regions within North Karnataka. Through a detailed study on North Karnataka‚ it has been an attempt to understand the dynamics of regional imbalances in social development within the framework of political economy
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The economic development in India followed socialist-inspired policies for most of its independent history‚ including state-ownership of many sectors; extensive regulation and red tape known as "Licence Raj"; and isolation from the world economy. India’s per capita income increased at only around 1% annualized rate in the three decades after Independence.[1] Since the mid-1980s‚ India has slowly opened up its markets through economic liberalization. After more fundamental reforms since 1991 and their
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specialized labor‚ and complex institutions. However‚ it did have many set backs like uncontrollable flooding‚ which destroyed lives and crops. Regardless‚ both the success and failure of Mesopotamia was affected by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Euphrates and the Tigris rivers were on both sides of Mesopotamia‚ and the people living there used the water as an advantage to trade. The location of the rivers is an example of how geography affected Mesopotamia positively. Petroleum and red clay were two
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What were the central political‚ economic‚ and social developments of the Hellenistic World? The Hellenistic era was the age of Alexander the Great and beyond roughly 300BC-30BC. One of Alexander’s generals was later appointed governor of Egypt and signified an end of the pharaohs of independent Egypt. This was the age of Cleopatra and lasted until the Roman conquests in 30BC. Alexander also appointed a governor for Babylonia as well. This was the age of the rise of the Roman Empire as
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