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Dillon Patel

The main cause of global warming | Time for change - 0 views

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time for a change global warming human main cause

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  • It took more than 20 years to broadly accept that mankind is causing global warming with the emission of greenhouse gases.
  • More than 80% of the world-wide energy demand is currently supplied by the fossil fuels coal, oil or gas.
  • energy demand is simply too high.
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  • Why have warnings about climate change been ignored for more than 20 years?
  • The true cause of global warming is our thoughtless attitude to Nature.
  • Why were ever more scientific evidence demanded to find the coherence of man-made CO2 emissions as cause of global warming? Why wasn't common sense reason enough to act?
  • Why can one still today find people who stick their head in the sand and don't want to understand what's going on in the earth's atmosphere?
  • Why do most people refuse to change their personal behavior voluntary in order to reduce CO2 emissions caused by their activities?
  • The answer to all these questions is a rather simple one:
  • In our technology and scientific minded world, we seem to have forgotten that mankind is only a relatively minor part of Nature. We ignore being part of a larger whole.
  • It's your personal decision whether you want to be the cause of global warming
  • In this context the question is whether global warming and its effects will eventually wake up mankind and spark off a change of paradigm. Will we understand this hint of Nature to follow the true meaning of life or will we continue to let us manipulate by media and advertisement as sheer and willing consumers in the economic cycle? Will we continue to strive for power, prestige and possessions following the concept „the more the better "? Shall economic growth and an ever increasing personal income continue to be the reason for being here, beyond everything else?
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    This website looks very reliable, and it mentions that humans need to realize that it's time for for a change, because global warming is becoming more visible, and scientists have said that global warmings' main cause are humans... With my argument.
Dillon Patel

How Do Humans Cause Global Warming? - Planetsave.com: climate change and environmental ... - 0 views

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humans global warming main cause

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  • main cause of global warming.
  • our species create huge problems that are beyond the ability of other animals to create
  • Humans cause global warming
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  • our unique ability to capture and use energy from stored energy sources.
  • Even your basic needs are dependent on fossil fuels.
  • if humans didn’t have the ability to exploit dense energy sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
  • their discovery transformed the face of the earth and the nature of humans.
  • the human population has grown by more than five times
  • person uses more energy than ever.
  • This energy comes largely from fossil fuels, the use of which is a direct cause of global warming.
  • we want to decrease global warming, then the amount of carbon released each year by humans must be drastically reduced.
  • the we
  • althy (that means you!) Increasing population among the poor
  • Americans consume 300 – 600 times as much as people in very poor nations, in some cases.
  • many of whom aspire to live “better” lives, to consume like wealthy people.
  • From this it becomes clear why humans are the main cause of global warming.
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    The main cause of global warming, the human species, us.
Dillon Patel

NASA - Global Warming - 0 views

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helpful details global warming causes human

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  • Global Warming
  • Causes of global warming
  • the late 1800's. A majority of climatologists have concluded that human activities are responsible for most of the warming. Human activities contribute to global warming by enhancing Earth's natural greenhouse effect.
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  • The greenhouse effect warms Earth's surface through a complex process involving sunlight, gases, and particles in the atmosphere. Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are known as greenhouse gases.
  • Climatologists (scientists who study climate) have analyzed the global warming that has occurred since
  • human activities that contribute to global warming
  • burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas)
  • clearing of land.
  • reates carbon dioxide, whose chemical formula is CO2. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that slows the escape of heat into space. Trees and other plants remove CO2 from the air during photosynthesis, the process they use to produce food.
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    VERY RELIABLE SOURCE Talks about Global Warming in General, the impact of it, the causes of it, it mentions my argument, how Humans are mainly responsible, and other very important details.
Dillon Patel

White House report says people cause global warming - 27 August 2004 - New Scientist - 0 views

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main cause global warming white house humans

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  • White House report says people cause global warming
  • People are responsible for the spike in global warming in the last 30 years, says a new US government report.
  • enact policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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  • Our Changing Planet
  • climate change research by 13 government agencies.
  • The document reports that global warming in the first half of the 20th century, estimated at 0.2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, "was likely due to natural climate variation", including increased solar activity.
  • can only be explained when factors related to human activity
  • "There's nothing else we can blame it on, really,"
  • "If we don't put the changes in carbon dioxide into our models, we don't get global warming out."
  • "Well over 98% of scientists competent in this area would agree with that," he told New Scientist.
  • "The big question is what effect this will have on climate policy," Janetos told New Scientist.
  • that would be big news indeed."
  • Trenberth agrees, saying Bush's policy thus far has been to "take whatever nature throws at us
  • "Bush has said that if we do something about emissions, it will hurt the economy,"
  • Others experts have lobbied the government to regulate carbon dioxide through the Clean Air Act.
  • "This research will help decision makers and managers in the US and other countries evaluate and respond to climate change."
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    According to the white house, humans are the main cause. Reliable source.
Dillon Patel

Global Warming "Very Likely" Caused by Humans, World Climate Experts Say - 0 views

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main cause humans global warming

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  • Global Warming "Very Likely" Caused by Humans, World Climate Experts Say
  • Global warming is here, it's human-caused, and it will continue for centuries even if greenhouse-gas emissions are stabilized, an international panel of climate experts said in a report issued today.
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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  • human activity to Earth's warming temperatures
  • Fossil fuel use, agriculture, and land-use change are fundamentally affecting the systems on our planet," Achim Steiner
  • reach unanimous agreement on the wording of each sentence in the 20-page summary for policymakers. "Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperature since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic [human-caused]
  • The phrase "very likely" translates to a 90 percent probability
  • In 2001 the panel concluded humans were "likely," or with 66 percent probability
  • Each time they've used a more explicit statement about the human contribution
  • dies the threat of global climate change, said the report will cause some people to "be somewhat more concerned"
  • but doubted it would be
  • would be
  • "revolutionary" in spurring action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Jacoby, who stu
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    A very reliable source, National Geographic mentions that Climate Experts say that Humans are "very likely" the main cause.
Dillon Patel

How Do Humans Cause Global Warming? | A Cooler Climate - 0 views

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humans global warming

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  • Driving your car
  • Buying your suburban home
  • Eating supermarket meat
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  • tremendous amounts of fossil fuels.
  • storing carbon for thousands, possibly millions of years.
  • When your car burns them, that carbon is instantly released as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
  • cleared of existing trees and plants that were actively storing carbon.
  • they stopped storing carbon and released all the carbon they had accumulated over tens or even hundreds of years.
  • use of enormous fossil fuel-powered machines in the production,
  • produce methane, a major greenhouse gas.
  • beef, lamb or goat meat,
  • that animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions,
  • Is Human-Caused Warming Dangerous?
  • short answer is “yes
  • Much concern exists within the scientific community about global warming, the main cause of which is an accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    The three most significant ways that humans cause Global Warming and other useful information.
Dillon Patel

Scientists agree: Humans causing global warming - 0 views

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global warming humans are the main cause

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  • Scientists agree: Humans causing global warmin
  • Report today makes strongest assertion to date
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  • the world's leading climate scientists are reporting today that they are basically certain
  • the effects are likely to last for centuries.
  • Evidence of climate warming is unequivocal.
  • "We did it."
  • "Scientists are pretty well done arguing about whether the warming in the last 50 years is related to burning fossil fuels," Mote said.
  • Researchers said they are more than 90 percent certain that global warming is caused by humans
  • their most powerful assertion to date.
  • the report says, the warming is likely to mean intensified droughts and heat waves, along with unusually strong storms
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    This source, which is pretty reliable states that scientists are making a STAND that humans are a huge, and most of the contribution for global warming, and are responsible.
Yasmin Tandon

Foreign Aid for Development Assistance - Global Issues - 0 views

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Foreign Aid America economy

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  • both the quantity and quality of aid have been poor and donor nations have not been held to account.
  • 1970,
  • world’s rich countries agreed to give 0.7% of their gross national income as official international development aid, annually
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  • Furthermore, aid has often come with a price of its own for the developing nations:Aid is often wasted on conditions that the recipient must use overpriced goods and services from donor countriesMost aid does not actually go to the poorest who would need it the mostAid amounts are dwarfed by rich country protectionism that denies market access for poor country products, while rich nations use aid as a lever to open poor country markets to their productsLarge projects or massive grand strategies often fail to help the vulnerable; money can often be embezzled away.
  • This web page has the following sub-sections:
  • “Trade, not aid”
  • excuse for rich countries to cut back aid that has been agreed and promised at the United Nations.
  • This target was codified in a United Nations General Assembly Resolution, and a key paragraph says:
  • The donor governments promised to spend 0.7% of GNP on ODA (Official Development Assistance) at the UN General Assembly in 1970—some 40 years ago
  • developed countries will rapidly and progressively take what measures they can … to reduce the extent of tying of assistance and to mitigate any harmful effects
  • make loans tied
  • Developed countries will provide, to the greatest extent possible, an increased flow of aid on a long-term and continuing basis.
  • almost all rich nations have constantly failed to reach their agreed obligations of the 0.7% target. Instead of 0.7%, the amount of aid has been around 0.2 to 0.4%, some $100 billion short.
  • the quality of the aid has been poor.
  • USA’s aid, in terms of percentage of their GNP has almost always been lower than any other industrialized nation in the world, though paradoxically since 2000, their dollar amount has been the highest.Between 1992 and 2000, Japan had been the largest donor of aid, in terms of raw dollars. From 2001 the United States claimed that position, a year that also saw Japan’s amount of aid drop by nearly 4 billion dollars.
  • Aid beginning to increase but still way below obligations
  • In 2009, the OCED and many others feared official aid would decline due to the global financial crisis. They urged donor nations to make aid “countercyclical”; not to reduce it when it is needed most, but those who didn’t cause the crisis.
  • And indeed, for 2009, aid did increase as official stats from the OECD shows. It rose 0.7% from just under $123 bn in 2008 to just over $123 bn in 2009 (at constant 2008 prices).
Dillon Patel

Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says - 0 views

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against argument global warming human main cause solar

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  • our planet's recent climate changes have a natural
  • and not a human-induced
  • controversial theory.
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  • Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (Get an overview: "Global Warming Fast Facts".)
  • "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.
  • Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.
  • Abdussamatov believes that changes in the sun's heat output can account for almost all the climate changes we see on both planets
  • ice ages throughout their histories.
  • "Man-made greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years, but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance," Abdussamatov said.
  • Abdussamatov believes he can see a pattern that fits with the ups and downs in climate we see on Earth and Mars.
  • has not been well received by other climate scientists.
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    From a reliable source, National Geographic, they say that Global Warming's main cause MAY NOT be humans, though in fact solar. Against my argument.
Dillon Patel

Solar Cycles Cause Global Warming & Cooling, not Humans - 0 views

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humans are not cause of global warming

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  • Planetary warming has also been observed on Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and on Neptune's largest moon Triton during the decades following the peak of the "Solar Grand Maximum" - wonder why - there are no humans there!
  • And Pluto is moving further from the sun in its orbit,
  • it should be cooling, but instead it is warming.
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  • due to solar changes rather than mere human antics.
  • t Earth's oceans are now beginning to cool.
  • The Earth heats up after a Solar Grand Maximum, lagging a bit after the peak. With a Solar Grand Minimum now on its way, a "global cooling" is on the horizon--a natural oscillation occurring in much longer solar cycles.
  • continue to ignore all of this, perpetuating fear and advocating spending billions of dollars on non-solutions.
  • humans contribute to greenhouse gases,
  • the overall effect is a tiny fraction compared to natural causes.
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    Humans ARE NOT the cause of Global Warming. Against my argument.
Yasmin Tandon

Rethinking American Foreign Aid - US Foreign Aid - 0 views

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Foreign Aid America economy

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      Blue- Background Yellow- Yes Green- No Pink- Need to read further to get more detail
  • zSB(3,3)Sponsored Links World Affairs DailyGlobal Headline News & Commentary from International Media Sourceswww.worldaffairsjournal.org Winter Programme on UNGeneva Winter Programme on the UN and International Developmentgraduateinstitute.ch/winter The Progressive Realista metablog about American foreign policywww.progressiverealist.org zob();if(zsForeign Policy Ads Budget Foreign Aid Foreign Policy Congress Federal Budget US Government Budget zSB(3,2);if(zsSponsored Links Life Experience DegreesNo attendance - No coursework Accelerated - Worldwide Shipmentwww.universityofdublin.org 16th Int'l Education Expo660 Exhibitors from 25 Countries Why not Check Now & Meet Yours?www.cieet.com January 10, 2008 America's foreign aid programs are controversial
  • Polls indicate most Americans want the United States to be a generous donor of foreign aid.
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  • Explore US Foreign Policy
  • overestimate how much help we send overseas.
  • Others are concerned that our foreign aid falls far short of the global commitments made in the Millennium Development Goals.
  • And yet others say Western foreign assistance is focused more on "giving a man a fish" than on "teaching a man to fish."
  • The full report (215 pages, PDF) is available here.
  • The State Department budget plus all the foreign aid totals less than $40 billion (which is less than 1.5% of the federal budget). But Defense Department spending for this year, plus maintenance of America's nuclear arsenal, plus the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
Dillon Patel

Humans are Responsible for Global Warming - CreateDebate - 0 views

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debate global warming human

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  • Dillon Patel on 11 Nov 10
     
    Are humans responsible for Global Warming? *debated*
Yasmin Tandon

The Debate over Foreign Aid - Council on Foreign Relations - 0 views

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news Foreign Aid

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  • $4 billion--a 7 percent reduction in the already frugal
  • proposed budget of
  • $58.8 billion
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  • -$14.6 billion--for global challenges like health, food security, climate change, and humanitarian assistance.
  • less than a quarter
  • wants to maintain a strong commitment to overseas assistance and global health.
  • budget request includes strategic
  • structural shifts to reach those goals, including aligning foreign assistance more closely with foreign policy objectives, demanding greater accountability from recipient governments, and delivering more "bang for the buck" by increasing cross-agency cooperation, streamlining delivery of goods and services, and reducing U.S. government redundancies.
  • In fact, $14.6 billion for the abovementioned global challenges amounts to a mere .38 percent of the $3.8 trillion federal budget.
  • Americans want to be magnanimous in helping poor nations but also want to reduce spending
  • The problem is that polls show that Americans actually believe that spending on overseas health, development, and humanitarian and anti-poverty programs is 15 to 20 percent of the national budget. In fact, spending has never exceeded 0.5 percent.
  • Very little of the government's budget is discretionary and easil
  • also lack the strong constituency backing of other government programs
  • global financial crisis
  • greatly increased the need for agricultural, poverty, and health programs
  • World Bank estimates show backward movement on key health and development targets since the onset of the economic crisis.
  • 2. Will the Obama administration's structural reorganization of foreign assistance achieve the administration's, or Congress', goals?
Dillon Patel

The Human Contribution - Fossil Fuels, The Planets Natural Balance, The First Warning, ... - 0 views

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global warming contributions by man

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  • The Human Contribution
  • Fossil Fuels:
  • The Planet's Natural Balance
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  • The First Warning
  • Revealing Discoveries
  • Deforestation
  • Beyond CO 2 —the Perils of Methane
  • Other Heat-Trapping Gases
  • The Uncertainty Lingers
  • the term greenhouse warming to describe the current warming of the earth.
  • "The concern is that we human beings are modifying that greenhouse effect by adding to the atmosphere gases that increase the natural abundance of these so-called gases. . . .
  • burning fossil fuel (coal and oil and natural gas), which releases carbon dioxide
  • Over time, pressure and heat from the earth compacted the material into layers of sedimentary rock.
  • Coal is a fossil fuel
  • 1000 B . C .,
  • Industrial Revolution its use began to soar.
  • was found to be both plentiful and cheap,
  • where it was believed the pollutants would disperse without harm." 16
  • All fossil fuels release carbon whenever they are burned, but coal has a much higher carbon content than either oil or gas.
  • The other two fossil fuels, oil and natural gas, are also used to produce electricity, but not as often as coal. Oil and gas are primarily used to heat homes and factories, as well as fuel all forms of transportation from buses to ships and motorcycles to airplanes.
  • Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless gas that is naturally present in the atmosphere, but only in tiny amounts.
  • oxygen and nitrogen comprise about 99 percent of atmospheric gases
  • carbon dioxide is only a trace gas, it is essential for life.
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    Man's contributions to global warming, I've been focusing my sources on just the basic argument.
Ben Walters

Video-game sales overtaking music - MSN Money - 0 views

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Economy Games Money Sales Music Growth

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  • 6/26/2007
  • video-game sector will remain one of the above-average growth segments of the global entertainment industries through 2011, with global games spending set to exceed music spending this year
  • Key growth engines will include online and wireless games, new-generation consoles and the burgeoning in-game advertising business.
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  • 2011, the worldwide gaming market will be worth $48.9 billion at a compound annual growth rate of 9.1%
  • ith gains slowing every year because of the maturation of the current generation of consoles,
  • exceed the 6.4% advance that PwC foresees for the overall entertainment economy during the period.
  • Its data include consumer spending on games, but exclude spending on hardware and accessories.
  • For the U.S. gaming business, PwC projects 6.7% compound annual gains for the five-year period, to $12.5 billion. Asia-Pacific should remain the region with the highest overall spending on gaming during the period and reach $18.8 billion in 2011, PwC forecasts.
  • Despite its leading size, its 10% average annual gains will only be exceeded by the combined region of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), which is pegged for a 10.2% compound annual gain and is set to remain at No. 2 in terms of worldwide gaming.
  • In the U.S., online and wireless games should see the biggest gains through 2011
  • online will expand from an estimated $1.1 billion market last year to $2.7 billion in 2011
  • Consumer spending on console and hand-held games will go from $6.5 billion in 2006 to $7.9 billion in 2011
  • However, the U.S. PC games market will continue its decline, with PwC eyeing a contraction from an estimated $969 million in 2006 to $840 million in 2011.
  • growing from an estimated $80 million last year to $950 million in 2011
  • this estimate could prove conservative as "advertisers like to reach the younger males" that many games tend to attract.
  • He also said that the overall gaming audience continues to expand and become somewhat more female and older than in the past thanks to casual games and the arrival as games as an "important part of culture."
anouska khambatta

Economy of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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policy economic india economy

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  • The economy of India is the eleventh largest economy in the world
  • India was under social democratic-based policies from 1947 to 1991.
  • Since 1991, continuing economic liberalisation has moved the country toward a market-based economy.
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  • A revival of economic reforms and better economic policy in first decade of the 21st century accelerated India's economic growth rate
  • By 2008, India had established itself as the world's second-fastest growing major economy.
  • However, the year 2009 saw a significant slowdown in India's GDP growth rate to 6.8%[19] as well as the return of a large projected fiscal deficit of 6.8% of GDP which would be among the highest in the world.
  • Goldman Sachs has outlined 10 things that it needs to do in order to achieve its potential and grow 40 times by 2050
  • Improve Governance Raise Educational Achievement Increase Quality and Quantity of Universities Control Inflation Introduce a Credible Fiscal Policy Liberalize Financial Markets Increase Trade with Neighbours Increase Agricultural Productivity Improve Infrastructure Improve Environmental Quality.
  • However the subsequent government policy of fabian socialism hampered the benefits of the economy leading to high fiscal deficits and a worsening current account.
  • ince 1990 India has a free-market economy and emerged as one of the fastest-growing economies in the developing world; during this period, the economy has grown constantly, but with a few major setbacks. This has been accompanied by increases in life expectancy, literacy rates and food security.
  • India is often seen by most economists as a rising economic superpower and is believed to play a major role in the global economy in the 21st century.
  • Policy tended towards protectionism
anouska khambatta

India Economic Policy | Economy Watch - 1 views

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policy economic india

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  • relaxing its money supply activities
  • would be able to bear fruit provided other advanced economies of world are able to recover from aftereffects of global financial meltdown.
  • adopted an economic policy at India of borrowing.
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  • significant bearing on India’s economic policy
  • only led to increasing of financial deficit.
  • As per his observations, prime lending rates being charged by banks belonging to public sector were a bit higher than what is desirable in present circumstances.
  • economy would be moving towards a single goods and service tax by doing away with differences between rates of service taxes
  • INR 6,600 crores and for excise duties it would be INR 8,500 crores.
  • According to this India economic policy a significant amount of money would be lost as a result of these tax benefits – losses are expected to amount to INR 29,000 crores. Maximum amount of losses to tune of INR 14,000 crores
Bhavya Puri

Shark fin soup alters an ecosystem - Page 2 - CNN - 0 views

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ecosystem soup fin shark finning

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  • Shark finning is not illegal. Taiwan has no law against fins taken from international waters coming into its ports. However, Taiwan does have what it calls a "plan of action" that requires the bodies of the sharks the fins came from to be accounted for and not dumped into the sea.
  • but identifying them and monitoring them and having a regulated fishery is virtually impossible."
  • Taiwan is not alone. Shark finning thrives off weak regulations around the world and only a few countries demand that sharks arrive in port with fins attached.
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  • The fin is one of the most expensive pound-for-pound item from the sea. And the beauty about the fin is that it's very compact ... it doesn't take up your hull and you can make a lot of money from it,"
  • ins can sell for $500 per pound, according to WildAid, which is campaigning for a global ban on shark finning.In recent years, Cocos Island has become another battleground in the fight to save the shark. Ads by GoogleShark Breaching and DivesGreat White Shark Breaching and Cage Diving Trips Gansbaai www.sharkdivingunlimited.com<<<123>>> We recommend You might like: Push begins to halt Pacific shark finning - CNN CNN.comSharks endangered by a bowl of soup CNN OpinionShark researchers study oil impact CNN USMan saves Australian woman during shark attack CNN World onmousedo
Aditi Buti

Is Poverty Linked to Terrorism? | Global Envision - 0 views

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  • starting with the fact that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by middle-to-upper-class men. (A 2003 paper suggests that terrorist groups may recruit well-educated, well-off members because they can blend into their Western targets.)
  • Poverty can surely lead to a sense of societal alienation, which could make people more likely to join a terrorist group
  • A prime example is American Greg Mortenson's efforts to build dozens of schools in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are documented in the book Three Cups of Tea. According to Mortenson, "Education in general is a powerful tool to provide alternatives to the illiterate, impoverished areas that are the recruiting grounds for terror."
Yasmin Tandon

EBSCOhost: Obama at UN summit: foreign aid is 'core pillar of American power' - 1 views

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  • development and foreign assistance are for the first time elevated to the level of key factors in US national security and economic policy.
  • "core pillar of American power."
  • ountry's multibillion-dollar foreign assistance programs
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  • these programs have lost effectiveness and been marginalized since the end of the cold war.
  • regions in greatest need. I
  • tighter linkage of foreign aid to national security interests.
  • 145 countries attending the Millennium Development Goals Summi
  • new policy would promote global development for the 21st century.
  • focused more on economic growth
  • "democratic governance"
  • He offered food aid as an example of the change.
  • mpower communities to meet their own food needs
  • "That's not development," he said, "that's dependence."
  • "the US must focus its efforts in order to maximize long-term impact."
  • "The United States cannot do all things, do them well, and do them everywhere,"
  • development duties splintered
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