THE UK RETAIL SECTOR Retailing is one of the major economic sectors of United Kingdom‚ with retail sales of £221 billion‚ employing around 3 million people and operating over 300‚000 shops. Within the sector there is a scale polarisation at both the business and the store level. The leading retailers are huge‚ multinational businesses which dominate the sector. They operate a range of stores from major hypermarkets and supercentres through to small convenience stores. Retailing is also significant
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travelled through the use of transport in the decade 1995 to 2005. This has been the case as vehicles such as cars have become more affordable and convenient to use in terms of their mobility. * In total around 159.08 billion Euros were spent by UK households on transport in 2005 * 51% of total expenditure in 2005 was on transport. There has been a prediction that by 2025 that there will be an extra 4 million trips made every day by a form of transport. * 15% of final household expenditure
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Structured Inequality and Incarceration Lori Young Chamberlain College of Nursing Abstract When it comes to arrest and incarceration‚ black men are overrepresented in comparison to Hispanics and whites. Over forty years ago the Civil Rights Act was implemented and racism still continues today due in part to a form of cultural imagery. This structured inequality is evident in the politics of government and all levels of the criminal justice system. The very system that is to be fair has been
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In PSHE we were studying death penalties in the world. All of the students had different opinions on why we should have or why we shouldn’t have it like it is now in the UK. In this case my opinion is to keep it how it is and not punish criminals with death penalties. I would like to keep the law with no death penalties in the UK. This is because even though the do horrible crimes to get a death penalty‚ they are still human and there are a lot of things that could go wrong. You could be taking
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the United Kingdom | Project group 6DJorn de Ruijter - 3813894David de Vos - 3805638Franceska Toader - 3726177Ruben Verdoorn - 3833259 | Supervisor: A. van den BergCourse: Institutional Economics (ECB2IE) | 28-10-2012 | 1 Introduction The UK Government transferred the ownership of the British Airports Authority from the Government to the private sector on the first of April 1987. After 25 years‚ more than 50% of the British airports became privatized. There has been a lot of political debate
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TYPES OF SCHOOLS IN UK The school system in United Kingdom is divided in to two main groups‚ which is divided into different stages it starts from early years education‚ primary‚ secondary‚ higher and further education. The children progress from nursery‚ reception‚ key stages 1‚2‚3 and 4. The two main groups of schools are: Maintained schools/ State schools Independent schools/ Private schools 1. Community schools: These state schools are also known as county schools in England and Wales and are
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Types of unemployment: 1. Frictional unemployment.. This unemployment occupies people in the middle of transiting between jobs‚ searching for new ones; it is compatible with full employment. In other words‚ we can say it frictional unemployment. There are many people in this world who are not totally satisfied with their jobs. Describes workers “in between jobs”. When someone with marketable skills moves from one job to another. Usually three months or less. 2. Demand-deficient unemployment
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. According to the latest statistics the life expectancy in UK is 79.9 which is much better when compared to other nations(UK national statistics‚2008).The government has introduced several policies to increase the quality of life of the people. In this assignment am going to have a brief look on the different health indicators in UK and the challenges faced by health care team in meeting those needs. “Life expectancy is the expected number of years of life remaining at a given age(Wikipedia)"
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An Observation on UK Crowd Funding By C.W.Hart 07/12/12 Table of Contents: Introduction 1. What is crowdfunding? 2. Crowdfunding and the Creative Industries 3. The Methods of a good crowdfunder 4. The rise and growth of projects 5. The UK and it’s ‘crowd’ Conclusion Bibliography 3 3 5 6 7 Introduction On the 12th of October 2012‚ renowned Oscar-winning filmmaker David Fincher – a man who Hollywood has financed an array of treasured features such as Fight Club and The Social Network – launched
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wingfall tax and believe that the equality of opportunity means giving people better chances. Since it defined itself as Social Democratic party‚ the ideology of the party has been changed as accept value of market forces but also accept the idea that the UK is a community where is better work together rather than individually. b) Explain carefully 3 policy similarities between the modern Labour‚ Liberal-Democrat and Conservative parties (post in 1997). (10) Since 1990s‚ three main parties have their
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