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Ebook Geography and Economic Development in Colombia: A Municipal Approach
Submitted by puput on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 03:06Recent economic debate has reopened the old question of the wealth and poverty of nations. The answer to this question involves all aspects of human life: education, religion, institutions, technology, the diffusion of knowledge and, more recently, geography. The latter, it is said, has contributed to shaping the destiny of nations and their people (although not inescapably). For instance, Diamond (1999) states “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among people’s environments.”
The idea that geographical and environmental factors have influenced social development is not new. Landes (1999) argues that European economic advantages are the result, in part, of the favorable rainfall patterns and mild seasonal differences that allowed Europeans to raise bigger and better animals than those of other lands. Larger animals brought the agricultural, transport and military advantages that reinforced Western European economic leadership for several centuries. Geography has clearly had some effect on the shaping of the economic history of countries and regions. However, the amount by which geographical factors affect current income per capita and economic development variations is a question that is beginning to be answered. In this paper we will attempt to establish an answer to this question in terms of Colombian inter-regional income per capita variations.
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Ebook Impact of Traumatic Experiences on Friendship
Submitted by antoq on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 07:27Differences in quality of close female friendships between women with and without trauma history were explored. Self-report measures were used to examine trauma history and cognitive schemas of 149 college women. Conflict resolution, intimacy, and relationship satisfaction in close female friendships were explored, as well as social support, perceived social support, intimacy goals, and perceived intimacy goals. Women who did not report trauma history reported higher use of obliging and compromising conflict resolution style in their close friendships than those who reported trauma history. Experiencing a traumatic event within the last year was significantly correlated with lower frequency of communication with a best friend. This research sheds light on the reality of close female friendships and the potential effects that trauma can have on the functioning and success of such relationships.
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Ebook Economic Reforms, Capital Flows And Macro Economic Impact On India
Submitted by puput on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 01:51The recent wave of financial globalization and its aftermath has been marked by a surge in international capital flows among the industrial and developing countries, where the notions of tense capital flows have been associated with high growth rates in some developing countries. Some countries have experienced periodic collapse in growth rates and financial crisis over the same period. It is true that many developing economies with a high degree of financial integration have also experience higher growth rate. Low Developing Countries (LDCs) are eager to welcome any kind of foreign capital inflows to overcome the debt crisis situation. They are facing the challenges from the foreign capital and the invisible resource. From the supply side also there are some strong inducing factors, which led the international investors towards the financial market of the developing countries. The correlation between the movements in developed and developing countries financial market, the deceleration in industrial economy markets and high growth prospects of the less developed market are some of the important reasons, which made them an attractive option for portfolio diversification.
It is fact that international capital flows on financial market can be very volatile. However, different countries experienced different degree of volatility of financial market and this may be systematically related to the quality of macro economic policies and domestic financial governance. In this context high volatility of capital flows has affected the macro economic variables such as exchange rate, interest rate, money stock (M3) and inflation negatively. Even in countries where a conducive atmosphere is created for the free flow of capital and authorities don’t operate with any current account deficit complicates the assessment of integration in financial market. Capital flows have significant potential benefits for economies around the world. Countries with sound macroeconomic policies and well-functioning institutions are their best to reap the benefits of capital flows and minimize the risks. Countries that permit free capital flows must choose between the stability provided by fixed exchange rates and the flexibility afforded by an independent monetary policy.
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