Economic mobility

A brief history of the author of the book: The Travels of my T-Shirt in the Global Economy. Pietra Rivoli, PHD, is a professor at McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. She specializes in international business, social issues in business and finance. Since writing this book the book has won several awards and has been translated into fourteen languages. The Travels of my T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically acclaimed storyline that sheds light on globalization while…

OBSTACLES TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN: Since 1947 (the time of partition) Pakistan has struggled to build up infrastructure and productive potential through the process of development planning. Seven five year plans has been completed. The over all result of economic development is not encouraging. Pakistan has strategies to accelerate the rate of economic development but due to some obstacles it could not achieve its targets. The main obstacles in the way of economic development of…

No individual is guaranteed success or doomed to failure, however, the odds to succeed are stacked particularly against women, those born in poverty, and racial minorities. These groups lack upward mobility because they start with disadvantages and obstacles that make them have to work exceedingly hard to achieve success. Katheleen R. Arnold, a professor of political science at the University of Texas, states in “From America’s New Working Class," that…

In the early 1970s, Lake Mary began to change into a semi-rural bedroom community for the city of Orlando. During the 1980s and 1990s, Lake Mary experienced tremendous growth of its own, with an increase in residential development as well as an economic development center containing hundreds of thousands of square feet of office, retail and industrial space.…

Humanizing Trade: Economic Growth and its implications on Poverty. Mahatma Gandhi once wrote, “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” Few would disagree. Rural poverty, low-wage jobs, poor labor rights and lopsided trade policies are fast killers of human capability and encourage extremist behavior. To reduce poverty, neoclassical economists & neoliberal politicians argue that trade liberalization contributes to overall growth, however, growth is simply not enough, trade should only be…

2.2. Traffic-free and Car-free Concepts Many cities experienced a rapid economic growth would arrive at a common phenomenon of car-oriented transport nature and the common solution is to promote rail transport to mitigate the transport problem while implementing restrictions for vehicle access would help to reduce the usage of private cars. The discouragement of unnecessary private vehicle uses and promoting the use of public transport to minimise traffic congestion and roadside pollution is the…

children experience which means we can’t avoid the use of their mother tongue which is that children know and it is part of their cultural background. These policies are damaging education and promoting school failure with harmful psychological, economic, social, cognitive, linguistic and political consequences for citizens. Although, there are some educational models in which children have a period of adaptation and they are taught in their mother tongue during a year or two before start with a…

The American Fur company was founded in 1808 by an ambitious German immigrant named John Jacob Astor. At the age of twenty on his journey to America he was introduced to the fur trade, which he soon after shrewdly managed to dominate. Like many businessmen Astor was self-made and extremely driven. As a result, by 1787 he was a completely self employed fur trader. He traded trinkets with Indians for highly coveted animal skins such as beaver, martin, ermine, mink, otter, deer and others that…

BACKGROUND OF JAPAN Japan is one of the major economic powers of the modern world, it currently has the third greatest economy in the entire world right behind The USA and China despite the fact that it is a small area country. Among the long history of Japan, it has had three particular economic and political periods. The first period is Edo period which began in 1603, and ended in 1868. The Meiji period began right after Edo period with enthroning of Emperor Meiji. After the unconditional…

and how immune to democratic control they were. Many lawmakers supported bills aiding companies in which they had invested money in or which they received stocks from. Not only was the Gilded Age a dynamic age it was also a harsh era of incredible economic explosion. In 1887, public outcries against railroad practices were responded to by congress establishing the…