Knowledge economy

world’s countries such as France, United States, Spain and China. Tourism helps in improving the country’s economy, here in the UAE depend on tourism and it helps the economy improving too. Dubai is one of the leading emirates in tourism earning 27% of its GDP from tourism receipts in 2013 (Rogers, 2014). Tour guiding is an important profession worldwide so it is essential to have knowledge, experienced and well taught tour guides to promote the tourist destinations. There are many…

On Behalf of Inequality and the Top 1 Percent For the past few decades, the unequal distribution of income has gradually positioned itself as one of the focal themes of academic research and of national debates in the United States. While the chances of it being thoroughly discussed on the news remain relatively slim due to Donald Trump 's latest groping scandal and Hillary Clinton 's missing emails, the topic inevitably holds the interest of many other people, especially economists, leading…

International Political Economy or IPE is one of social science studies that focusing on the correlation between economy and politics internationally. IPE will be focuses on international economic growth, international welfare, international finance, hegemony, etc. In this subject, it seems like there is no boundaries between economy and politics. They related and influence one another. After the colonial period, Indonesia has experienced a lot of progress for both domestic affairs and foreign…

functioning on its own. The nested economic interest of underlying the process of globalisation include increase in the inflow and outflow of foreign capital in the country, shift from manufacturing to service sector and finance and opening up of the economy to make space for international economic activities; as a result of this, the urban spaces have had to redesign themselves in order to facilitate these. . It can be observed, especially in the case of India,…

organisation and locations abroad since it shifted to cheap labour and raw materials in countries like China, Mexico, and Brazil. Moreover, it also took into consideration the comparative advantage from the specialisation of the country regarding knowledge, existing regressive connections facilities, and skill in particular…

With the great opportunities to affect the long last socioeconomic, political and cultural reform has make the Philippines stands on the acme of the new era of prosperity. Philippines require a dynamic local consumer market and attract foreign investment by investors outside of the country in key growth industries. Strategic location of Philippines which flanked by the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea makes it a critical point to some 500 million people in the ASEAN market. Therefore,…

Through his book Guns Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond has masterfully woven together the historical developments across many cultures and different time periods. In doing so, he illustrates the historical themes that have been consistently relevant in human history. The main themes are interactions between humans and nature, development of cultures, state-building/expansion, and the evolution of economic systems and social structures. Throughout Guns Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond constantly…

Ouakrim. In a context of independance, when Morocco was is need of necessary industries such as the oil sector, Akwa group, called at first Afriquia SMDC (Société Marocaine de Distribution de Carburants), imposed itself like a pillar of the Moroccan economy, in spite of the hostile competition and monopoly of some multinational companies. Conscious of its national impact and its responsibility to escort the social and economic development of Morocco, the group diversified itself by investing…

INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Transport is an important part of India's economy but it is of low and inadequate standards as compared with international standards. Due to economic liberalization, infrastructure development has progressed rapidly; today there are variety of modes of transport by land, water and air. However, India's relatively low GDP per capita has meant that access to transport has not been uniform. The main problem is that the land mass is limited hence the roads cannot…

MARITIME PIRACY AND ARMED ROBBERY The importance of the oceans and seas are essential to running a trade that can bring improvement economy of a country, for trade in goods globally and maritime transport activities. International trade has been increasing the number of negative impact of the increase in the exposure and vulnerability of international shipping. These problems have caused a potential target for piracy, armed robbery and other crimes (Rodrigue, 2013 as cited in United Nation,…