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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research...
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This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …
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The traditional education system in Qing China has been widely debated over the past decades. Some have argued it was …
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discusses the interaction among economic globalization, economic development, and marketization reform in China, so as to … present an answer to the question of how China should participate in economic globalization. …
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inequality. In each case, we discuss recent and possible policy reforms. We make comparisons with China’s federal system where …
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understood to defend capitalism against socialism. But as Orwell was a committed socialist, this could not have been his … intention. Orwell's criticisms were directed not against socialism per se but against the Soviet Union and similarly …
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After the demise of “real” socialism and the decline of “western” socialism, socialism can be salvaged as a social … socialism could derive from the socialization of consumption, if the consumption of public goods continues to make up a growing …
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Utopian socialists believed that socialism is inevitable because it is a more rational system to organize production … capitalist limits. This prediction did not come true – in the XX century socialism came to being not in most advanced capitalist … countries, but in the periphery and semi-periphery (USSR, Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, Cuba), and only in North Korea and …
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One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
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