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Identified weaknesses of Canada's system were comparatively higher infant mortality rate, the prevalence of chronic conditions, long wait times, poor availability of after-hours care, and a lack of prescription drugs coverage. [102] An increasing problem in Canada's health system is a shortage of healthcare professionals and hospital capacity.
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
The United States has a highly developed mixed economy. [44] [45] [46] It is the world's largest economy by nominal GDP and second largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). [47]As of 2024, it has the world's sixth highest nominal GDP per capita and eighth highest GDP per capita by PPP). [10]
With this inflation in mind, Javier Milei (Argentina's newly sworn in president as of 10 December 2023, with 55.69% of the vote in the runoff election [35]) weakened the Argentine Peso by 50% to 800 per dollar in order to bring the official exchange rate (which was only used in theory) down to the market exchange range, [36] along with cuts to ...
[citation needed] In July 2020, Cuba opened new stores accepting only foreign currency while simultaneously eliminating a special tax on the U.S. dollar [300] to combat an economic crisis arising initially due to economic sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, [301] then later worsened by a lack of tourism during the coronavirus ...
The economy of Puerto Rico is classified as a high-income economy by the World Bank and as the most competitive economy in Latin America by the World Economic Forum. [14] [15] The main drivers of Puerto Rico's economy are manufacturing, which primarily includes pharmaceuticals, textiles, petrochemicals, and electronics; followed by the service industry, notably finance, insurance, real estate ...
Between 2000 and 2002, significant pro-growth economic reforms included a comprehensive tax reform, which introduced a flat income tax of 13%; and a broad effort at deregulation which benefited small and medium-sized enterprises. [101] Between 2000 and 2008, Russian economy got a major boost from rising commodity prices.