geography: mr youngs | Brazil: Developed or developing? | A handbook into the country of Brazil | | By Courtney Duffin-Hall | 12/10/2012 | | INTRODUCTION Brazil is situated in South America‚ and is home to the Amazon River. It is bordered by several countries including Uraguay‚ Paraguay‚ Chile and Bolivia. It has a population of approximately 198‚739‚269 and is home to 13 cities containing a million people in all of them together. The main capital is Brasilia; however it used
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country as being developed means that it has met particular criteria‚ and is considered to have a high level of development. The criteria for this classification are sometimes contentious and are still subject to debate from different organizations and authorities. That aside‚ the USA is considered to be a developed country because one of the criterions is income per capita. Countries like America who have a high gross domestic product (GDP) per capita are labeled as developed. Industrialization
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A developing country‚ also called a less-developed country (LDC)‚[1] is a nation with a low living standard‚ underdeveloped industrial base‚ and low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.[2][3] There is no universal‚ agreed-upon criteria for what makes a country developing versus developed and which countries fit these two categories‚ although there are general reference points such as the size of a nation’s GDP compared to other nations. Countries with more advanced economies
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There are many factors to support the fact that China is a developed country‚ with a rising GDP and poverty levels decreasing‚ it looks like China could finally be developed. On the other hand‚ the poor in China are extremely low with people living in rural areas have to live of 30 cents a day. So with this large gap between the rich and the poor is it really a developed country? Economically it would look like China was a developed. Since the global finance crisis it has looked very strong compared
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Response to Week 2 DQ: Five Forces Model framework developed by Professor Michael‚ E. Porter of Harvard Business School in 1979‚ is a powerful strategic business assessment tool useful in strategic assessment of business position in a volatile competitive market situation to understand where the business competitive power positions and analyze both the current competitive strength and the position which the business is intended to move into to gain profitability while and customer’s desirability’s
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insecurity orchestrated by Boko Haram insurgency nowadays within the polity appears to have created porous security condition that engenders violence and retards development. The basic question many Nigerians and foreigners ask is: How has Boko Haram developed or underdeveloped Nigeria? This paper is thus an attempt to address this question posed above. But this paper argues that boko haram activities have not been of any good help to Nigeria; hence‚ it has contributed to Nigerian underdevelopment especially
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Should Antarctica be developed in the future? Antarctica is the most untouched part of the world‚ making it immensely beautiful‚ breath-taking and bejeweled with miles and miles of twinkling ice. Antarctica lies on the Southern front of the Antarctic circle. Right at the bottom of the world‚ the closest place to Antarctica is South America. It is 7900 miles/12’700 km away from the UK and has a land area of 14 million sq km! Temperatures in the summer can edge their way up to just 5 degrees Celsius
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it has been know to get up to 70mph. The whole island is estimated to be 7000km by 7000km giving it a total area of 49000km squared‚ approximately. It is such and interesting place as it is the one place on earth that humans have not touched or developed on. It has not been ruined by humans and only about 40 humans inhabit it at one given time. It is so well preserved and looked after so can still offer us so much‚ fossil fuels could be under it or it could even hold the key to how our world
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Many developed countries are paying increasing attention to the needs of the disadvantaged. How far is this true in Singapore? * In May 2011‚ Prime Minister Mr Lee realized the government’s need to "lend a hand to those hurt by globalisation and technological changes that have‚ among other things‚ widened the gap between the rich and the poor" * The government is not only focusing on monetary assistance programmes‚ but also a sense of reassurance‚ concern and empathy. * Government also
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Is Uganda a developed or developing country? The country that I’m doing is Uganda. I think that this is a developing country. Why is this a developing country? Because this country has more agricultural production rather than industrial. This is one way to tell because a developed country would have more industrial production and more services and a developing country is identified as a country who has more agricultural production like farming. This country is agricultural because it accounts
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