York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session were claimed to have injected greater clarity to the US ‘endgame’ plans for Afghanistan. If so‚ there is little evidence of this. Conscious of the need not to draw the electorate’s attention to the “good war turned bad”‚ President Barack Obama made only a passing reference to Afghanistan in his nomination speech‚ mentioning that “in 2014‚ our longest war will be over”. Mitt Romney ignored this issue. Senior US Administration officials
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The word “Population Growth” has its origin from the latin words ‘Populus’ meaning people. According to ecological term; “population is group of people of the same species occupying a particular space”. Population is subdivided further into demes or local population which is group of interbreeding organism in demes; they share a common gene pool. Population density is defined as a number of individual per unit area or per unit volume of environment. When the size of the individual is uniform the
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AFGHANISTAN-TALIBAN AND THEIR DOWNFALL 5. Geo-Strategic Importance of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is Central Asia’s land locked country‚ spread over an area of 253‚ 861 miles. Bordered on the North by the Republics of Tajikistan‚ Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan‚ North-East by the Chinese province of Sinkiang‚ on the South-East by Pakistan‚ and on the West by Iran. Afghanistan’s geopolitical importance has been that of a buffer state first between the Tsarist Russian and the British Indian Empires and
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Although women have the same constitutional rights as men‚ women still continue to be degraded and treated as inferior by a big percentage of the population. Women all over the world are faced with injustice acts every day of their lives due to this discrimination. This is not only shown in America‚ but in other counties as well. The countries Afghanistan and Nepal provide many statistics showing that even women on the other side of the world are not treated equally in their country. The situation
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Case 3-4 Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid Central Issues The concept of the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) market was originally developed by C.K. Prahalad in “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” to highlight a large potential market made up of a large segment of the world’s population that has‚ until recently‚ been an ignored market segment among multinational companies. In an age of increasing global competition and near-saturation for some products in more mature markets‚ this
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The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan In the year of 1979‚ after helping to establish and maintain a communist government in this nation‚ the Soviet Union engaged in a bloody war with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan‚ or the DRA (Unknown Author. (Unknown Date). Encyclopedia: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Retrieved April 4‚ 2004 from the World Wide Web: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Soviet-Invasion-of-Afghanistan.). This 10 year conflict caused massive amounts of destruction and
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insurgent groups‚ the Taliban & Co. The security situation is relatively stable‚ and the war is finished. The institution building and democratization process picks up pace and President Hamed Karzai hands over to a democratically elected successor. Afghanistan still ranks among the least developed countries in the world. Scenario “Forced Marriage”: After long-standing political negotiations strongly supported by the international community‚ especially the United States and Great Britain‚ Islamist insurgents
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The 4 billion people comprising the base of the pyramid，they earn less than $2‚000 each per year. The base of the pyramid is poorest but largest socio-economic group. In 2012‚ two billion to three billion people live in poverty worldwide. This huge base of the pyramid has an estimated $5 trillion in purchasing power.While the developed markets are well saturanted‚ the base of the pyramid become more attractive for many enterprises.The base of the pyramid may indeed provide strong growth engines‚not
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Republic of Afghanistan: Selected Issues This Selected Issues paper for Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with the member country. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed on January 30‚ 2008. The views expressed in this document are those of the staff team and do not necessarily reflect the views of the government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan or the
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Water Crisis in Afghanistan It makes up approximately 70 percent of the Earth that we inhabit. You may find yourself “up to the neck in it” at any given point‚ seeing as humans can be composed almost entirely of it. Water is all around us‚ and is essential to the ongoing cycle of life. Although water may seem abundant throughout the Earth and atmosphere; the amount of clean‚ useable water is an everyday crisis for some of the drought stricken‚ less fortunate countries. While the Oceans hold roughly
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