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    An Eastern Europe Epidemic: Human Trafficking and its Victims With a market economy that is more open than ever before‚ both legitimate and illegitimate businesses across Europe are benefitting (Philips). Though the drug trade is often thought of as being the most prolific illegal trade‚ according to security experts‚ human trafficking has recently surpassed the drug trade as the largest illegal business in the world (BBC News). Thanks to economic recession‚ Eastern Europe is considered to

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    Inequality in Latin America

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    Although Latin America has faced many social‚ political‚ and economic issues within the last three centuries‚ inequality remains one of the most important‚ historical‚ and omnipresent aspects of the region’s culture. As Europeans took over Latin America during the time of colonization‚ they implemented many elitist social structures that have held strong and are evident today (Harris). Income inequality is the most visible and greatest disparity that the region faces; yet inequality between gender

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    The USSR’s influence and domination of Eastern Europe during the 40’s and the 50’s of the previous century has left indisputable marks upon the region’s economic‚ political and global status‚ evident still today. As to how this Soviet control was garnered and maintained‚ and the measure of effectiveness it had‚ there are two main time periods to examine‚ namely‚ Eastern Europe under Stalin‚ and destalinised Russia under Khrushchev. If control were defined as the "ability to authorize‚ manage or direct"

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    QUESTION 1: Eastern Europe is currently in severe financial distress.  Discuss why the crisis has affected the Eastern European countries in such a strong way.  Reflect on the interdependency between the members of the European Union.  How does situation in Eastern Europe affect countries in Western Europe? The economic conditions of the 20 countries comprising of the Central and Eastern Europe region faced exceptional deterioration during the global financial and economic crisis. Reports from 2009

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    11/25/04 12:18 PM Page 7 On the same Track? MOZAIK 2004/1 Sören A S M U S The Conquest of Latin America: Europe and the External Other It has taken a long time to realise how the respective peoples perceived the encounter between people from Europe and people from Latin America. Enrique DUSSEL describes the process of encounter between the European conquistadores and the indigenous people of the Americas from a European point of view in six forms: Invention‚ Discovery‚ Conquest‚ Colonisation

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    establish equality throughout a population. While good in theory‚ it created conflicts that lasted for decades. First conceived in the Soviet Union‚ there was an expectation that communism would be a revolutionary tide that would sweep across all of Europe. After WWII‚ the Soviet Union still dominated with communist ideals in the countries of Czechoslovakia‚ Hungary and Poland. After the Berlin Wall that separated Germany into East and West collapsed‚ representing the fall of communism in Germany‚

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    Motivating factors of foreign direct investment in Pakistan Abstract: Purpose – the influence of market size and growth to attract FDI has been examined. Methodology/approach – This paper investigates whether FDI motivators affect FDI based on time series data for Pakistan covering period from 1988-2011. Findings – The result of the study indicate positive and significant relationship between FDI and market size and between FDI and growth rate. Originality/value – The basic contribution

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    Executive Summary This study was conducted to determine the factors which motivate workers. It was limited to the perceptions of the full-time employees randomly selected by surveyconsole.com. A two-page questionnaire was administered to collect primary data. The collected data was analyzed and interpreted using simple statistical techniques. The findings of the data indicated that the highest rated factors of employee motivation were salary‚ medical benefits‚ and overall job satisfaction. In

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    The countries that led most of the exploration of South and Central America were Spain and Portugal. They have introduced many changes to the new conquered territory. It all begins with the search for better access to new routes of trade with Asia. At the European explorations‚ countries like Spain and Portugal were the pioneers in the discovery and conquest of new lands. Portugal and Spain during their voyages accidentally came upon the western hemisphere; then soon started to exploit the new land

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    The increasing economic presence of China in Latin America: implications for US foreign policy. Maria Camila Gonzalez Research project Christian Maisch December‚ 11. 2012 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Chapter 1: China’s historical presence in Latin America 3.0 Chapter 2: Consequences of Chinese economic presence for Latin America 4.0 Chapter 3: Changes in United States foreign policy to Latin America 5.0 Chapter 4: Study case - Brazil 6.0 Conclusion 7.0 Bibliography

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