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Tag: China

The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin’s

Posted on June 30, 2016 by admin

Garrett Hardin offers an in-depth analysis of issues surrounding humanity’s common resources.  There are various common resources alluded to by the author, prominent among them are the geographic commons (the wilderness areas), air waves for telecommunication, public spaces that carry hoardings, the air that we breathe, rivers and oceans, etc. As citizens of a nation,…

To what degree did Buddhism provide a basis for cultural exchange and trade along the Silk Road?

Posted on June 29, 2016 by admin

The Silk Road (or Silk Route) was a vast network of inter-continental pathways that was a key artery of trade and cultural exchange during ancient times. First developed during the Han dynasty two millennia ago, the routes connected China to India, Europe, Arabia and beyond. While silk produced in China was a major commodity being…

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Marriott Hotel: Case Study

Posted on June 24, 2016 by admin

Recommendations: Marriott has established strong brand equity due to its excellent processes and an openness to adapt. Yet, there are areas where it could improve, leading it to the position of a leader in the field of Hospitality Management. One of the areas where the Marriott management could look into is its Corporate Social Responsibility…

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Comparative sketches of Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin

Posted on March 25, 2015 by admin

Hu Jintao is the present Paramount Leader of the People’s Republic of China. He also holds other positions in high office, including the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2003. He is also the acting Chairman of the Central Military Commission for the last 7 years. His association with Communist Party of…

Why and how was neo-liberalism able to establish itself as the dominant paradigm in the 1980s?

Posted on June 16, 2014 by JL Admin

By the start of 1980s, currents of change were detected in the global economic order, with nationalism and protectionism being replaced by neo-liberalism and free flow of capital. Even as elites from the West promoted this new economic order, the process was facilitated by respective business leaders from nations across the world. (Tyvela, 2004, p.156)…

Have power and ideology been used to achieve consensus in India?

Posted on May 20, 2014 by JL Admin

India is the world’s largest democracy.  With a population in excess of one billion and an electoral franchise that extends to all citizens above the age of 18, the General Elections that is conducted every five years is indeed a grand spectacle.  Moreover, considering the broad diversity of language, culture and religion within the population,…

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Capitalism and Democracy

Posted on May 16, 2014 by JL Admin

There is very little doubt that capitalism is a highly potent economic system for generating wealth and prosperity. In the last four decades of its implementation globally, there are numerous examples that support this claim. As Peter Berger writes, capitalism is a “horn of plenty that heaped…immense material wealth and an entrepreneurial class, on the…

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Does free trade cause development?

Posted on May 4, 2014 by JL Admin

Free trade is a buzzing concept in modern times, with all governments across the world proclaiming to promote it.  Indeed, the last thirty years or so of global economic integration is based on free trade principles – also referred to as laizzez-faire capitalism.  Definitely, there are many advantages to be availed as a result of…

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The Search for 100 Million Missing Women

Posted on March 14, 2014 by JL Admin

The author duo of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have made economics accessible to the general reader through their popular work Freakonomics and its sequel.  Continuing on with the spirit of scholarly adventure, they yet again unfold unexpected correlations in understanding odd phenomenon.  In the article in question, originally published in Slate magazine…

Media and Popular Culture in China

Posted on February 8, 2014 by JL Admin

During his Southern Tour to the Special Economic Zones in South China in 1992 to accelerate market reforms in the aftermath of Tiananmen bloodshed, the paramount Chinese leader advised the party state, “Guard against the Right, but primarily against the Left.” How do you make sense of Deng’s warning against the leftist political thought and…

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