Articles, tagged with "world economies", page 4
16th August 2010
This is an excerpt of UNDP comments on Nigeria on the progress of its Millennium Development Goals following a 2006 status report. Of the eight goals, UNDP foresaw only the achievement of universal primary education, environmental sustainability and glo...
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Author:
Peter Osalor
16th August 2010
In 2008, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) reported that 52,000 Nigerian women were dying annually due to pregnancy and child-birth related complications. In more comprehensible terms, the number translates to 145 women per day.
Population i...
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Author:
Peter Osalor
16th August 2010
With a population of 148 million and the second largest economy in the continent after South Africa, the state of Nigeria's economy is a bundle of extreme contradictions. The US sources 10% of its crude imports from abundant oil fields in the Niger Delt...
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Author:
Peter Osalor
16th August 2010
The general state of infrastructure across the African continent and especially sub-Saharan Africa is acutely discomfiting. With the exception of South Africa, the continent's largest economy, the entire region is bogged down by severe infrastructure de...
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Author:
Peter Osalor
16th August 2010
Nigerians wishing to build their own businesses would do well to learn from the bottom up and equip themselves with the skills necessary to meet the creative challenges of entrepreneurship. The skills necessary to take the local economy into overdrive a...
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Author:
Peter Osalor
16th August 2010
There is no denying the fact that Nigeria has had more than its fair share of national misfortunes. The decades following independence from British colonial rule in 1960 saw this strategically located sub-Saharan nation plunge into political uncertainty...
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Author:
Peter Osalor
11th August 2010
India is no doubt the most populated country in the world after China, but the country is second to none when it comes to development. This is well substantiated in the recent recession that paralyzed world economies. Yet India fast recuperated; thanks to...
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Author:
Jena Smith
11th August 2010
In the last 100 years, electrical power produced the means of providing the chance for the biggest development and improvement in the lives of mankind. New technologies and inventions on unique levels of electrical systems were and are being made with dep...
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Author:
E. Tino
29th June 2010
But obvious, we are living in a world where Internet is playing a key role in bringing world economies together. Virtual presence has become an important section wherein people are standing in long queues to get it done. As a result, the web designing and...
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Author:
manish rawat
21st June 2010
Rich or poor, the mounting fuel price is causing an appalling damage to the world economies across the globe. It was year 2008 when the fuel prices hiked up drastically and ends up with a record high of $150 per barrel. We are still observing the gradual ...
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Author:
Tauqeer Ul Hassan
07th June 2010
Oil is not called "black gold" without reason. All world economies exist on oil. Without oil, business and industries come to a stop, prices of basic commodities escalate, and life as we know it changes drastically. However, oil is a finite resource and t...
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Author:
Alex Mc Stafani
04th June 2010
Gulf is known for its oil spewing that has made the region extremely rich and one of the most preferred career destinations in the world. Millions of expatriates from all around the globe migrate to the Arabian Gulf to pursue their dreams of working overs...
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Author:
manika
03rd June 2010
Remember the rule on supply and demand? This very essential aspect of consumption and production has fuelled the world economies for more than a century. People require something and producers provide the sources. As of now, the sources are dwindling, but...
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Author:
Sunil Punjabi
02nd June 2010
Some years ago, it was difficult to imagine seeing a Dominos Pizza outlet in a quiet neighbourhood in Thailand or shopping at Marks and Spencer in Singapore or using your credit card in any part of the world. Welcome to the golden era of our times. An era...
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Author:
Angela Smythe
02nd June 2010
Living in the U.S., particularly in one of the high-tech hotspots like Boston, Silicon Valley, North Carolina's Triangle Park or Los Angeles can spoil the unwary businessperson. It is not intentional (usually) but we humans have a tendency to generalize f...
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Author:
Alex Mc Stafani
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