Economics

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  • Canada's Banking System

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    most sound banking system? What is so great about the Canadian banking system and why hasn’t Canada encountered any financial crises. Why do some people view the U.S banking system as dysfunctional? These are questions that are asked frequently by economic interpreters. Canadian banks are more stable banks because of their size/structure, safety/regulations and their global reach and mortgages. Although the United States and Canada are friendly neighboring countries they maintain their differences

  • Political System In Vietnam

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    being fullfilled. The Vietnamese government is following a socialist doctrine. In 1986, the communist congress decided to implement the Đổi mới, an economic reform to realise a “socialist-oriented market economy”. Nevertheless, the economic policy is centrally planned by the government. It is important to highlight that some Vietnamese economic policies effectively maximized the utility of the majority of citizens. For example, the poverty rate has fallen from 60 percents to 20 percents during

  • Division Of Labour

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    free themselves of the mental, emotional and manual labour needed for the cultural and social upbringing of children, by hiring low-paid women generally of colour (Parrenas, 2000). The international transfer of caretaking is a social, political and economic relationship between women and the labour market (Parrenas, 2000). This relationship is based on the class, race, gender and citizenship of the women (Parrenas, 2000). In the new international division of reproductive labour you look one step deeper

  • The NAFTA Agreement

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    U.S, Mexico and Canada. It has had its benefits and drawbacks on both the U.S and Mexico. Free trade has largely affected U.S workers and according to the Economics Policy institute it has had 3 large effects on U.S labor. the first of which is the loss of 700,000 jobs due to movement of manufacturing to Mexico. According to the Economics Institute most of these losses came from California, Michigan,Texas and many other states where manufacturing is concentrated into large areas causing massive

  • Case Study: We As The White Knight

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    sustaining international trading it provides more jobs. This will provide more jobs due to the reason that people will need be taxing everything that comes into our country in every aspect. With International trade being the world’s most powerful economic force, we must create barriers that doesn’t allow other countries to take advantage of us, meaning that multiple jobs will be available. The main focus will be not only be on creating jobs, but will be on importing and exporting goods at a costs

  • Gentrification In The 20th Century

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    The gentrification phenomenon, being a controversial topic in urban planning discourse, have debated regarding it’s explanation, importance, it’s formation, processes and effects in both economic and social aspects, throughout its emerge in second half of 20th century. It occurred as a remarkable theme which is discussed in terms of benefits and risks in the academic field. Thus it is interpreted with a variety of different explanations. Each portrayed the subject with a different point of view

  • The Role Of Industrialization In Canada

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    It is a public norm to assess a country based on its economic status and industrial variations. Not only do these factors help in developing the country in terms of economic monopoly and sustainability, but they are also important in shaping the country’s history when it is scrutinized later in search for learned lessons to be pursued in the future. Canada, for example, at some point revolutionized its industries that initiated a state of competition between Canada and other developed countries

  • Durkheim Economic Theory

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    1.1 How do they differ in regard to the role that the economy plays in relation to society? According to Marx the society is considered as a result of an economic base and a social superstructure. He went further to say that “the economic base determines all other social structures including religion and politics” (Scott, J. 2006). The economic base include the division of labour, division that harbours conflict of interest between the individual interests and it is regarded that the state is the

  • The Importance Of Gender Equality

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    the workforce and civil rights restrictions. In the past, countries that have taken the initiative to close the gap between genders in regards to a women’s education, job employment, and health, notice a positive and beneficial outcome in women’s economic/political participation. (World Bank) These actions were conducted by developed countries such

  • Cargo Insurance Case Study

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    1. Risk and “cargo” insurance Risk is the chance certain negative events to be realized and to cause partial or complete damage of the cargo. The cargo could be transported by land, water, and air or combined and transportation risks refer to natural disasters, cargo operation accidents, vehicle collisions, actions from outsiders, etc. Apart from these, there are other factors related to the way of transportation or in other words the nature of the cargo, such as type of packing, loading, arranging