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With the rapid economic development, the total number of vehicles and hand phone users can be described as climbing steadily. According to the international telecommunication union (ITU: International Telecommunication Union) statistics at the end of 2008, the number of china’s hand phone users has exceeded 600 million, which was about 90% of population aged 18 years or above. The total number of hand phone users of China was ranked as the first in the world. The human brain does not have the…

education is at high rate which is not good for the society and the nation. On the street of Lagos 0ne will so many little children not up to the age of 10 going around selling pure water or snacks. Nigeria has one of the world's highest economic growth rates, averaging 7.4% according to the Nigeria economic report released in July 2014 by the World Bank. Poverty may have been overestimated in Nigeria because of the many problems we have in Nigeria. So therefore poverty is just one of the…

their different growth margins. These economies have been classified based on level of development, growth stages and emergence. These classifications are inspired by GROWTH THEORIES/MODELS. Growth theories are speculations used overtime to classify economies or determine development in an economy. Under Growth theories we have:  Endogenous Theory/ New Growth Theory  Exogenous Theory/Solow Growth Theory The above theories are used in illuminating the source of long-term economic growth. This…

America experienced an increase in farming activities in the early 1900, this led to an increase in production of cash crops needed for exportation. Among this cash crops, whiskey was a major cash crop and was grown in large scale due to the increase in demand. Whiskey is a major ingredient in the production of alcohol. With the increase in alcohol production, the supply of liquor increased across the country. This led to a major concern from different American families concerning the effects…

fact, Singapore’s total fertility placed third lowest in these 5 Southeast Asian Countries (Wong 2012). Such a phenomenon has been a cause for widespread concern due to the host of societal problems it could potentially create such as slow economic growth and ageing population. A low fertility rate reflects how Singaporeans are not willing have more children and it is important to delve deeper into the reasons as to why this is so. While there has been many pro-family policies…

1. INTRODUCTION We need entrepreneurship in order to build a better world and future for the generations to come. It is also essential for expanding the economy. The Hoover Dam was originally known as the Boulder Dam from 1933 to 1947. The dam was named after Herbert Hoover who played an important role in its construction. The Hoover Dam is located in the Black Canyon on the border between Arizona and Nevada and was built with the effective use of resources. The Hoover Dam was built by…

Although the modern world is considered as the most developed and the most secured due to science and technology, so many threats are still posing serious challenges to human survival. If war and terror, famine and hunger, flood and earth quake have always been perishing human beings from the mother earth, the issue of food security is also threatening our existence on this planet. The problem is increasing day by day because on one side the population explosion is on the rise, but on the other…

concepts. The first is between extensive and intensive growth. Extensive growth has occurred for millennia in most parts of the world with the aggregate output rising, with the expansion of the population that has taken place over the period of time. Per capita income was however relatively low and stagnant during this phase. By contrast the modern era has been marked by intensive growth with constant rise of per capita incomes as the growth of output outstripped that of the population. There…

coal and other mineral deposits. These include countries like those in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Despite all the riches of these countries, their economic growth is low. On the other hand countries like China, Japan and the ‘Asian Tigers’ have a much smaller endowment of these resources but still enjoy higher growth and better living standards. The natural resource curse, therefore, is a…

Introduction Demography is the scientific study of human populations, including their sizes, compositions, distributions, densities, growth and other characteristics as well as the causes and consequences of changes in those factors. Demographic analysis is an important tool that explains sociological phenomena such as expanding population which can result in competition of resources such as food, land, access to trade routes among others. Demography largely relies on large data sets over long…