Economics
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Ploughing the Sea
Former vice president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, was sworn in to office today in the wake of the death of Hugo Chávez. His presidency is only an interim measure, allowing time for new national presidential elections to take place, but whoever wins office for the next six years in Venezuela will have a hard time [...]
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Cuba, New Rate
Cuba is one of the most beautiful places in the Caribbean Sea and a paradise for a tourist with its three hundred natural beaches, hospitable population and the best cigars in the world. An outsider will be enchanted by the blue sky, crystal-clear water and a friendly and cheerful atmosphere. But what about the residents [...]
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Keeping Micro states in the South Pacific Afloat
The Pacific Ocean lives up to the name Mar Pacifico, given to it in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan, meaning calm sea. This huge ocean, which covers around one third of the earth’s total surface area, can be subdivided into both North and South. It is in the vast expanse that makes up the South Pacific, [...]
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Collapse of the balancing rocks: Zimbabwe’s descent
“Once the land has been redistributed, the commercial farms will be broken up, the remaining white farmers reduced by exile or imprisonment; Zimbabwe’s government, already morally bankrupt, will decline towards economic collapse.” These words, stated by Wilfrid Denis Walker, in the final paragraph of his paper Land Reform in Zimbabwe written in 1989 may have [...]
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Wave of good fortune: Bangladeshi water management
Bangladesh is a nation whose fortunes are greatly influenced by its geography. Being a low lying country which is intersected by major rivers, the Ganges, which connects with the Jamuna before uniting with the Meghna, eventually flowing into the Bay of Bengal, water clearly plays a huge part in the lives of the Bangladeshi people. [...]
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The Dragon Nation’s Future, China’s Economic Policy
The Chinese are often assumed to be ‘the next world power’; Beijing will need to overcome dependencies and domestic uncertainties…
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Is Borisov failing Bulgaria?
The Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov has been painted as a man who is ready to root out corruption and bring Bulgaria forward, is this true however?
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East Germany and the Recent Financial Crisis
The new Länder that formally made up the DDR (East Germany) have suffered depopulation, high unemployment and reduction in services ever since the Berlin Wall fell and both halves of Germany were reunified. How is the recent financial crisis effecting East Germany? And how does East Germanys position effect the nation as a whole? [...]
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Nicaragua’s Progress In Reducing Child Mortality
Just How Are Those Millennium Development Goals Progressing? Goal 4 Reducing Child Mortality Rates. In 2000, Nicaragua along with the other 192 member states of the UN agreed to achieve 8 so called ‘Millennium Development Goals’ by 2015. One of these goals, goal 4, was to reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, [...]
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