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Globalization means flow capital (finance in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI), technology, human resource, goods and service among countries. FDI is investment in real assets like automobile, consumer goods production, service sectors like insurance, telecommunication, air transport etc. Liberalisation means freeing the economic activities and business from unnecessary bureaucratic and other controls imposed by the governments. Privatisation or Disinvestment: Selling the government owned public sector enterprises to private industrialists and opening the government operating sectors for private investment.

The Major areas of  New Economic Policy 1991 are Fiscal policy reforms Monetary policy reform Pricing policy reform External policy reform Industrial policy reform Foreign investment policy reform Trade policy reform Public sector policy reform

Since 1991 more "new economic policies" or reforms have been introduced.

Reforms include currency devaluations and making currency partially convertible, reduced quantitative restrictions on imports, reduced import duties on capital goods, decreases in subsidies, liberalized interest rates, abolition of licenses for most industries, the sale of shares in selected public enterprises, and tax reforms.

faster growth rate of the economy

There is enormous pressure from the media on young girls to be thin.

Models can be seen everywhere with their skeleton frames sticking out suggesting this is the body image one should strive for.

Eating disorders are so common in models that it seems to get glamorized to young girls.

Many kids are spending less time exercising and more time in front of the TV, computer, or video-game console.

as 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds.

flying from New York to London, on the 7th of February 1996.

BA need to write off £84M now rather than £150M in 3 or 4 years. Air France wrote off a large sum of money too.