What Makes Countries Rich or Poor? by Jared Diamond |The New York Review of Books. I find the topic extremely fascinating: why do some nations prosper‚ and improve the life of their citizens‚ and others fail? Why do some nations have better education‚ while others are still in endless search of their identity? Some people in modern political economy say that countries succeed because of their natural resources and their control over others. This article brings us to take a closer look
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Chapter 7 The Gap Inc.’s Social Responsibility Reports 1) This chapter defined global corporate citizenship as putting an organizations commitment to social and environmental responsibility into practice worldwide. By this definition Gap has demonstrated global corporate citizenship since it has developed one of the most comprehensive factory-monitoring programs in the apparel industry in order to find and stop sweatshops‚ child labor and unsafe working conditions. The Gap has also pledged to
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The widening gap between Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. In this essay I will outline the emerging difference between the very rich (Bourgeoisie) and the very poor (Proletariat) . In the Communist Manifesto‚ it describes these classes as one being superior over the other‚ or in other words‚ one class acting as the oppressor and the other acting as the oppressed. In society through the ages‚ it was classes fighting amongst themselves‚ but nowadays‚ its two classes separating further apart. The Bourgeoisie
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The widening gap between ’bourgeoisie ’ and ’proletariat ’ As the title would suggest in this essay I intend to discuss the widening gap between the Bourgeoisie and Proletariat in today’s world. In a contemporary context I would take this to mean the widening gap between rich and poor and the economic inequality that continues to plague our world. In order to look at the situation in our present day we must first get an idea of what this divide means. In Marx’s day the term Bourgeoisie described
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Should rich people pay more taxes than poor people? Taxes are money that people and business must pay in order to support the government. The government uses the money for building roads‚ helping schools‚ and maintaining other public services. For example‚ parks‚ buildings‚ and more public utilities. People dread paying these taxes every year because large amounts of money get taken away. To make it fair‚ everybody should pay equal amounts regardless of their income. Both rich and poor should
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Discussion Case: The Gap Inc.’s Social Responsibility Report Do you think Gap has demonstrated global corporate citizenship‚ as defined in this chapter? Why or why not? The Gap showed global corporate citizenship as they develop a comprehensive monitoring software factory in the garment industry In its response to problems in its contractor factories‚ do you think Gap moved through the stages of corporate citizenship presented in this chapter? Why or why not? Gap move through the stages
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The Role and Responsibility of a Centralized Government of Control The birth and origin of a centralized government of control‚ or simply‚ a force that embraces as one‚ a body of living things and maintains stability and order within them can be stretched back to the earliest days of man. As Jean-Jacques Rousseau states in The Origin of Civil Society‚ “the earliest [and still intact] form of government is the family” (59)‚ where the
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Lending financial aid to poor countries has become a trend of rich countries since the second half of the 20th century. In my opinion‚ it doesn’t matter whether rich countries should lend poor ones financial aid or not but the way poor countries utilize this capital source because financial aid has both pros and cons. For the first reason‚ financial aid is a helpful source to poor countries. It provides huge capital for these nations to develop infrastructure‚ improve education as well as health
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countries ask for international aid in order to facilitate the implementation of these projects. Organizations such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are organizations that mainly give aid. Its loans are given by developed and rich countries who deposit their money into these banks from time to time. This money is what goes as international aid. There are advantages as well as disadvantages of getting international aid. International aid helps facilitate many developmental
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How rich is rich in the Philippines? June 21‚ 2010 http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/socioeconomic-class-philippines-rich/ Who are considered “rich” in the Philippines? For starters‚ you’re “rich” if you belong to the list of the Top 10 Richest Filipinos. However‚ even if your net worth does not run into billions of pesos yet‚ you may still be considered “rich” as per the definition of the National Statical Coordination Board (NSCB). Based on NSCB computations using the Family Income and Expenditure
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