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    law to limit the profit transfer of firm investment, before they pay the tax how much they owed. Guy Scott, Vice-President of Zambia said his country lost around $2 billion each because the foreign firms were tax avoidance (ibid), moreover this situation is happening in many country where the investment from MNC have. However, the condition will not gradual fall because that is not an illegal in some developing countries, in addition developing countries need the fund injection from other countries’ companies’ inevitable (Theigc). In fact, MNC created many jobs for poor people, but on the same it made many unemployment on some developing countries, because some company which only need people who are college trained, some company are for physical work. In developing countries there is difficult to find the people who have higher education, and employees always be exploited, overtime and arrears of wages, unfortunately there are number of worker so the workforce are overfull that made many unemployment in poor society. Conventional industries is a victim by the international company, there are much tradition already be displayed to other more profitable industries. Corruption usually happened in many country especially in developing world, for example the problem of corruption is bribes, it is a common problem in every government, when the FDI or MNC want to operation More convenient which try to bribe the government officials, if the officials who have emergent problems or…

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    Reflection Helping Them or Hurting them During the past years, there has been a lot of material and perspectives regarding the role of aid from developed nations to developing nations. How the undeveloped nations need to look up to the developed ones and follow their lead, do exactly as they did. The common factor about this week’s readings is that every country needs to walk their own path towards development. Here, I would like to emphasize their own path. For instance, how each…

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    struggles with an outbreak of yellow fever. Many physical and cultural aspects of Africa’s geography make it prone to these types of outbreaks. Angola has had 277 people die from yellow fever since this past December (Kupferschmidt). And the government of Angola has had a hard time stemming new infections for several reasons. The main reason is because of a shortage of the yellow…

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    When was the last time you bought an article of clothing? When was the last time you wore it? The industry of fashion has a more sinister story behind it than most people may realise, but the mistreatment and abuse of fashion industry workers cannot be heard. Asking the question of how our clothes are made and who makes it is simple enough, but would we as a society ever have thought that the people that make them for us live in extremely poor conditions? Children and Developing Countries are…

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    Foreign Aid Essay

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    Foreign aid is the international transfer of capital, goods, or services from a country or international organization for the benefit of the recipient country or its population. Aid can be economic, military, or emergency humanitarian (Williams 2015). Aid has long been recognized as crucial to help poor developing nations grow out of poverty. Peace and war has the significant effect of distribution of foreign aid in the developing countries. The distribution of foreign aids is effected in…

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    Massey says that she was angry because she believes that space is actually what matters for geography; however, philosophers and social scientists made the space into a residual dimension. The over-focusing of time instead of space is the factor that Massey is angry about; she believes that space has dynamic and three-dimensional. Space changes the way of human beings’ lives. People cannot just simply consider space and flat and describe it without its context. 2. Massey says that space is “the…

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    individuals are forced to find other ways of surviving in the city usually taking on factory labour. Therefore, one could argue that a factory worker, such as an individual in Bangladesh or Vietnamese Nike worker, experiences a conflict of power relations, by seeking employment in order to survive. Furthermore, while enduring these working conditions the workers are exposed to a lot of harmful conditions. Often times, workers are exposed to conditions in which they have no knowledge is harmful.…

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    nuances and changes happened after their era, it does not necessarily follow that people can entitle others “lonely” because they are not yet on the world stage. Rome was not built in a day, so were the developing countries. They were in the transition to their past to this incrementally more connected world by progressing themselves, and by the witness of history, many of them succeed. Second, of course, many will probably disagree and raise another question that some areas, such as Tibet, is a…

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    another country you have to know the local law in each area. Business must know the laws, regulations in order for them to avoid fines, penalties, and lawsuits. This may lead a company to hire an international lawyer or a lawyer in each area. Its help to know that the lawyers have a good standing with working with companies and laws, to make sure they have your back when working outside your country. Not to mention political problems, which is people opinions on globalization and certain…

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    roughly reasonable and some of the details still need to be proven over time. Developing countries have some advantages in confronting major changes in certain aspects. As they are still developing and the way how legal systems usually work in these countries, it would be quicker for them to change and adapt to new regulations. On the other hand, developed countries may find it easier to identify the correct drivers they are looking for since they have more prior knowledge in the area. The…

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