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Politics
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PREFACE TO VOLUMES I - V
1. Sharia implementation.
Alhaji Ahmad Sani, Yariman Bakura, was elected Governor of Zamfara State in the elections held on 9 January, 1999 – the first such elections after fifteen years of military rule in Nigeria. Zamfara State, in Nigeria’s far north, has a predominantly rural population of about three million, of which perhaps 84% are Muslim. Governor Sani was its first elected governor, the state only having been created (out of Sokoto State) in 1996. |
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Economics
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Foreword: Free markets do not exist within a vacuum, but need a legal framework that protects property, enforces contracts and allows free exchange to flourish. This statement would tend to be accepted by most economists and, increasingly, forms the basis of meaningful discussions of development economics.
This type of statement also leaves many of the most important questions unanswered, however. What should this legal framework look like? What are its limits? What systems should we use for determining it? And, perhaps most importantly, who should determine it? After all, if freely transacting parties within a market are capable of designing contracts and even designing very detailed systems of private regulation, such as those that used to be found within stock exchanges before government regulation took over, then why cannot freely transacting parties design systems of law that are widely applicable? |
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Novel
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Poor White is an American novel by Sherwood Anderson, published in 1920.
It is the story of an inventor, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the bank of the Mississippi River. The novel shows the influence of industrialism on the rural heartland of America. |
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Politics
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Background: Escalation can be defined as an increase in the intensity or scope of conflict that crosses threshold(s) considered significant by one or more of the participants. Escalation is a natural tendency in any form of human competition.
When competition involves military confrontation or limited war, the pressure to escalate can become intense because of the weight of issues that bring actors into violent conflict and the potential costs of losing contests of deadly force. Escalation can be unilateral, but it is often reciprocal, as each combatant struggles ever harder to achieve victory or avoid defeat. Left unchecked, escalatory chain reactions can occur, raising the costs of war to catastrophic levels for combatants and noncombatants alike. |
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Business
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Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out On Top at Work
There's no doubt about it, today's workplace is an uncertain and treacherous territory. Newspaper headlines are proclaiming near record-high levels of unemployment, and, in these tough times, companies are making swift judgments about human capital.
The bottom line: No job is safe. |
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Economics
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FORWARD: Ending poverty, the aspiration of the Millennium Development Goals, is the overriding developmental objective of the 21st century.Despite great progress in the past 50 years, 1.2 billion people—one-fifth of the people on Earth—live on less than US $1 a day, without access to many of the social services basic to a decent human life. Their plight requires a global response making full use of all the financial, intellectual and organizational resources that we can muster. |
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Tourism
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GREETINGS: San Diegans are tremendously proud of their city, acity known worldwide for its warm hospitality and sunny disposition. You too, I'm certain. will be impressed with all san Diego - America's Finest City - has to offer. Best known for its near-perfect climate, natural beauty and a bevy of fun-filled outdoor recreational activities, san Diego is consistently rated among the nation's top leisure travel and convention destinations. |
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Finance
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Covering 49 countries, this handbook contains commentary from KPMG member firms on corporate income tax, VAT, withholding taxes and transfer tax issues for derivatives. For many jurisdictions we have also included an example of a typical derivative transaction. |
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