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World Development Indicators have improved relative to the year 1990. 75% of poverty reduction shown happened in China. [1] International development or global development is a broad concept denoting the idea that societies and countries have differing levels of economic or human development on an international scale.
The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping, later adding international trade, manufacturing, and finally, services, to the point where agriculture represented less than 2% of GDP .
The emphasis on the power of lead firms in global industries (which gave rise to the analysis of “governance structures”) and the development emphasis of many GVC researchers (highlighting the economic, social and environmental upgrading trajectories of countries) produced a unique amalgam of research questions and analytical tools.
The early technological and industrial development in the United States was facilitated by a unique confluence of geographical, social, and economic factors. The relative lack of workers kept U.S. wages generally higher than salaries in Europe and provided an incentive to mechanize some tasks.
Economic globalization is the intensification and stretching of economic interrelations around the globe. [3] [4] It encompasses such things as the emergence of a new global economic order, the internationalization of trade and finance, the changing power of transnational corporations, and the enhanced role of international economic institutions.
The result of the 1980 report, followed by a second one in 1983, [3] provided an understanding of drastic differences in the economic development of the Global North and Global South. The Brandt Report suggests primarily that a great chasm in standard of living exists along the North-South divide and there should therefore be a large transfer ...
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. ( Brundtland Commission ) There exist more definitions of sustainable development, but they all have to do with the carrying capacity of the earth and its natural systems and the challenges ...
Development economics is a branch of economics that deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural change but also on improving the potential for the mass of the population, for example, through health, education and workplace conditions, whether ...