Liberalization

Q4.1: (a) Does Boyd consider Canada to be a leader in environmental protection, or a laggard? (b) Why does he suggest that this should be surprising? (c) State briefly in your own words two weaknesses of environmental law in Canada. (d) What might an ultimate cause of these weaknesses? Answer: (a) Boyd does consider Canada to be a laggard in environmental protection with all the potential to be a leader. Canada’s environmental record is compared to 28 other industrialized nations, with…

According to Bill O’Reilly’s and Martin Dugard’s novel Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency, “Scores of police officers are called into line the route but cannot prevent the strikers from pelting the vehicles with rocks and bricks. Everyone on board is instructed to lie down on the floor to avoid being hit in the head by broken glass and projectiles.” The two authors later go to point out Reagan’s complete and utter hatred for the pro-communist protest by stating that…

In this recent case involving abortion rights, the Supreme Court ruled 5 – 3 that mere state interest alone does not satisfy the undue-burden test nor supersede it. The laws in question were Texas state statutes that requires abortion clinics to meet the same regulatory requirements as surgical centers, and that providing physicians also have admitting-privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility. Upon and even shortly before the laws’ implementation, the state would see its number…

Athletic footwear is primarily used for sports and related physical activities. According to global information company the NDP Group (2016), the industry in the U.S. achieved sales revenue of $17.2 billion US in 2015 (para. 1). The rivalry in the sports shoes industry in the U.S is very high, especially among the largest three players of Nike, Adidas and Puma (Said, 2013, para. 3). The purpose of the paper is to analyze the entry mode into the American market and comparative advantages of the…

Privatizations efforts also come hand in hand with massive layoffs. For Telkom’s case, twenty thousand workers were also fired. Another thirty thousand jobs were loss in nationalizing the state-owned electricity firm Eskom. Proponents of GEAR promised 3-4 percent annual employment growth, but instead delivered 1-4 percent job loss during the late 1990s. Unemployment rates grew from 16 percent in 1995 to 30 percent in 2002, coincided with the sale of over 30 SOEs at value of over R35 billion…

3. Exhaustion of the sugar agro-export model The sugar industry was for many years the key player of the national economy, where most of the investment and credit were concentrated and where most foreign exchange and tax revenues were generated. If production and sugar prices raised much, there were enough foreign exchange to import consumer goods for the population and inputs and techniques for businesses. In turn, the bank recovered loans and the government raised its revenue. In other words,…

On July 26 2015, 31-year old Xiang Liujuan and her young son were riding an escalator in AZG Mall in central China when the floorboards collapsed as they reached the top of the escalator. Xiang pushed her son out of harm's way before the floorboards completely gave way, pulling her in to the escalator shaft. She held on for a few seconds as two mall employees desperately tried to pull her out, before she was sucked in to the abyss by the escalator machinery. Despite a four hour rescue operation,…

Social Policy is the study of social welfare and its relationship to politics and society. It is basically the study of social services and welfare state. More specifically, it also considers detailed issues in management and administration of social services, including policies for health, housing, income maintenance, education and social work. Social policy also covers needs and issues affecting the users of services, including poverty, old age, health, disability, and family policy. Social…

Society follows a norm that requires a general agreement between groups, in order to function as a whole. Human beings are social “group animals” (Lessing 1) and need each other to survive, with the intention to get along or fit in. The role of media comes into play because it pressure individuals to give in, since they appeal to our needs, which is our needs to be accepted. This desire to conform “influence our idea about ourselves” (Lessing 1) that people loses a sense of their inner self…

In 1980, Jeffery Sachs introduced the concept of “economic shock therapy”. Sachs proposed that quick growth would be possible through shock therapy of the economy. This would mean quick privatization, along with trade liberalization. Sachs also wanted the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Bank (WB) to provide aid to poor, underdeveloped countries. Although this sounds like an adequate solution that could solve the problem of underdevelopment, scholars like William…