Industrialization Over AgricultureThe decision on what kind of growth a country should pursue, balanced or biased, has been the subject of heated debates among academicians and government officials for over a century. While some argue that a balanced growth is more beneficial for a country, there ar...

Economic Development of Hawaii Hawaii, with an area of 28,313 sq. km (10,932 sq. mi.), is the 43rd largest state in the U.S.; 6.9% of the land is owned by the federal government. It consists mainly of the Hawaiian Islands, eight main islands and 124 islets, reefs, and shoals. ...

Agrarian Reform and Economic Development in MexicoMany people in today's Third World society rely solely on farming in order to survive. However, most Third World agricultural areas are home to the worst conditions imaginable. These areas are often poverty stricken, despite the fact that the peasa...

Modernization refers to the transition of societies from agricultural daysto hi-tech world of today where technology and knowledge have replacedmanual labor. Modernization has brought many benefits to the westerncountries especially to the status and condition of women in wealthiernations. women who...

Thesis Statement: A Detailed analysis of Egypt's economic progress over the last decade whilst analyzing the effect of privatization on the Egyptian economy Introduction: Egypt is the third-largest economy in the Middle East and North Africa region (after Saudi Arabia and Israel), a...

Economic development means economic growth, plus changes. So, for economic development to occur there must be not only an increase in the GDP, but also change. Economic growth is the increased ability of countries' economy to satisfy the needs and wants of its population overtime. Production Pos...

The rise of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century was based on the reation of a specialized regional structure in the nineteenth century. Four major elements helped evolve America¡s nineteenth century regional structure from the agriculture based, post-independence country tha...

Subsistence and Economics "A way of life." Many people use this expression as a way to talk about their subsistence and how they perceive their everyday life. What they fail to recognize, however, is the fact that their way of living is connected in a much broader category than they think. ...

The Jamaican economy is an ailing economy and a prime example of an impoverished nation with an inadequate manufacturing infrastructure, limited nation and agricultural assets and declining foreign investments. With a decline in foreign investments Lee Bailey, President of Cruise Shipping Associat...

The Primary Cause of the American Civil War: Economics More than one million people dead and a nation torn apart. \"A fight against slavery\" it was said, but was that the main reason the war was fought? Or is that just what our nation says to glorify our past? There were many factors that contr...

Mike Albin April 1, 2000 State and Local Government Dr. Arnold State of the State In this paper we are asked to read the text by Dr. Paul Brace, "State Government & Economic Performance," from that we are to decide as if we were the governor of the state of Kansas, which economi...

The Republic of Ireland has experienced a tremendous amount of growth in its recent history. However, this was not always the case. During the 1980s, Ireland was one of Europe\'s poorest countries. With its government out of control, the public debt was 120% of its national income. Even at the be...

Every community has a means of production and consumption for goods and services. The amount of goods and service in a community or town vary depending on where the town is located and what manufacturing features the particular town has, including the number of people who help to manufacture and sel...

I really enjoyed reading the book Things Fall Apart. Achebe did an excellent job of portraying the pre-colonial culture of the Ibo. This book was not only educational, but entertaining as well. His ability to focus mainly on one individual and still show the complexity of the entire clan's...

The Economic Impact of Colonialism This chapter begins with a picture of the tragic European economical impact on African between 1885 and 1939. Furthermore, we will emphasize why the European want to used African resources for their own development. In order to circulate agricultural and mine p...

How Economy Differences between the North and the South and the Pattern of Railroad Construction Fed Sectional Tensions before the Civil War. As the U.S. economy advanced and grew in size, each region of the country developed its own characteristics. The move toward industry made the regional di...

I. IntroductionEconomy is a science including many changeable subjects when researching in a certain vicinity. To explain basic economic regulations of the world in a homogeneous structure does not fit the economics nature. Even if economy is a process that can show diversified changes, behind the...

Economics, as defined by The American Heritage Dictionary, is "the social science concerned with the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services". Economists focus on the way in which individuals, groups, business enterprises, and governments seek to achieve e...

Information economy or the other words, knowledge economy is vey hot in the last two years in China though a lot of people still have no clear idear about this conception. American economic structure's change gives us a good example. In my personal opinion that the most part in the world still kee...

In the years following World War Two, Canada displayed its newfound role as one of the leading nations of the world. The conclusion of the Second World War created a time of remarkable economic prosperity throughout the country. Canada's economy boomed as it shifted from being primarily resourc...

Thomas Haliburton, the author of the book "The Clockmaker, The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville", demonstrates the power an author can have over his audience. By using two fictional characters, Sam and the Squire, Haliburton is able, although sometimes through ridicule not always gentl...

There are many ways to define sustainability and to answer the question of whether we live in a sustainable society you should first define the question. The simplest definition of what a sustainable society is still very complex. A society that can persist over generations, one that is farseeing e...

Germany's Economic System The Federal Republic of Germany's economy has now flourished despite its harsh times that have been faced throughout the decades. Most people know about Germany from its historic involvement in World War II; its successful campaign to unite East and West with...

Canada is the second largest country in the world after Russia, and relies heavily on the main three primary resources. The fishing industry is one of the primary industries in Canada, which is concentrated on both the East and West Coast of Canada. The farming industry is also a primary industry, w...

Introduction For various reasons, China has always been an important country in the world. With its increasing large population, it was determined by other countries that is has a lot of economic potentials. In just one decade and a half, China has transformed itself from a giant that use to l...