Aids in Society
Although the HIV/AIDS epidemic is still in its infancy in parts of the GMS, it poses a serious health problem with disastrous economic and social implications. Thailand alone has 800,000 people with HIV/AIDS; Myanmar, 500,000; and Cambodia, 250,000. Yunnan Province in the People's Republic....

Chinas Emerging Tax Regime - Local Tax Farming and Central Tax Bureaucracy
Abstract: China like other transition economies needs to establish a tax system compatible with a market economy, in particular, an efficient tax administration system with capable tax bureaucrats. The paper singles out the general and China-specific features by which central government attempts ....

Comparitive Development of the American Colonial Districts
Amidst the political and religious conflict of Renaissance Europe, the colonization of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries took shape in the framework of three distinct and incredibly unique zones. The north, the middle states, and the south all flourished as growing cente....

Corporate Compliance Benchmarking
Introduction [In the corporate governance and compliance arena, Sarbanes Oxley Act has commanded considerable attention. Developed in response to accounting scares that rocked the business world, SOX has introduced significant legislative changes to corporate governance and financial reporting....

Dilemmas of Reform in Jiang Zemins China
Macroeconomic Issues and Policies Gene Hsin Chang Western scholars have long wondered if there would be a major change, or even a setback in Chinese economic policies after the death of Deng Xiaoping. Such speculation has gradually faded as reform became more evidently irreversible. Indeed, th....

Ethics in Accounting and Financial Decision Making
Ethics in Accounting and Financial Decision Making The article I have reviewed pertains to the ethical and financial disaster of the Enron Corporation. According to Fox (2003), Enron was a corporation which employed approximately 21,000 people and was one of the worlds leading communications, ....

Ideologies of the Democracy Movement in China
After Deng Xiaoping gained power in 1978, a new political atmosphere was promised for the Chinese people. A promise of a free land with a modern economic state was made by Deng in order to gain public support. During Deng’s reign, a series of economic reforms were made. These reforms had ma....

Illegal Immigration
Scott Haraden Ms.Kirsch Composition 1 GE117 May.1, 2007 Illegal Immigration: An Annotated Bibliography Karen Wateboro, Biddeford, ME I agree with Pat Buchanan, on Illegal people "Invading" our Country! Our Government and BIG business is to blame for this! Both of them have let this unlawful ....

Illegal Immigration and the Economy.
Illegal Immigration and the Economy Illegal immigration has become one of the key political issues of the 1990s, especially in border states such as California. The Bureau of the Census estimates that there are now 4 million illegal aliens living in the United States and that about 300,000 more ....

Immigrants
Immigration is a form of migration that signifies the intention of a person to settle permanently in a new country. Motivating factors are generally economic, social, and political. Despite a long history in the United States and some other countries of receiving immigrants, most people who move fro....

Latin American Immigration
Latin American Immigration Introduction There are many origins of immigration into the United States. I chose to focus my research on Latin America, and more importantly, Mexico and Guatemala, based on a few factors that play key roles in the development of the United States. Latin Americans, inc....

Looting
The purpose of an archaeologist is to study human cultural activities through the analysis of material remains. The importance of a site remaining uncontaminated and unaltered is vital in the process of reconstructing sites and accurately assessing the material remains. When a site is tampered wit....

Management Economics - China, a country for Expansion
Executive Summary In the eyes of investors today, China poses to be an extremely viable option to initiate business operations. This was not the case some years back when China was adverse to foreign companies competing on their own soil, unless there was significant benefit to the local governme....

Power: The Federal Government and the Union Movement
When discussing power and its implications, one must take into account several key things: who the proponents are, what positions they hold, and what they have to gain from exercising power. Generally, it is obvious when power is employed, it is one group contesting the other, and an outcome is ach....

Reform and Relearn: How The Black Death Shaped The Renaissance
One fatal flaw of the human body is it's vulnerability to disease. In the history of the human race there have been many pandemics which have shaped the way we live, however the Black Death of 1348 caused much more than just a scare. While seventy-five to two-hundred million people perished to the B....

Sarbanes-Oxley
MDC Consulting January 15, 2003 TO: Michael Justin, CEO Aguri Industries FROM: MDC Consulting VIA: Mr. James Brown SUBJ: SARBANES-OXLEY ACT In response to your request, our team has examined the effects that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, will have on your company, w....

Serbian Orthodox
Serbian Orthodox Growing up in a Catholic home I didnt know much about different religions. I knew about God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. I attended mass every Sunday with my family and looking around as a kid I remember thinking God has all these believers. It didnt dawn on me until late....

Statute and Case Law Relationship
The application of regulations and statutes relating to legalities involving race, religion, nation origin, age and disability discrimination were examined. Relevant cases were originally referred to in Employment Law of Business (Bennett-Alexander, Hartman, 2003). Age discrimination is deter....

The Affects Of Illegal Immigration
The Affects Of Illegal Immigration The United States is seen as the land of opportunity and as such, many people around the world are willing to risk their lives as well as their families to illegally enter the United States. The United States Constitution grants its citizens freedom and rights ....

was the french revolution successful?
Many historians credit the French Revolution as being the beginning of modern politics. The revolution single-handedly crushed the monarchical way of politics, the aristocratic domination up to that point in France, and the dominance of the church in French politics. The revolution abolished th....

why did early reforms fail in the qing dynasty?
There were three reform movements between 1860-1911. They were the Self-strengthening movement, hundred Days Reform and late Qing reform. They all aimed at strengthening China. However, all of them ended in failure for many reasons. There were mainly six reasons: Empress Dowager Cixi's role, the op....

Why did Tsarist policy change between reform and reaction in the years 1879-1894?
Alexander IIs return to reformism According to the historian W.E, Alexander II was isolated from the Russian people in the beginning of 1880s. The result of all this was largely because of hin indecision between the two policies of reform and conservatism. His popularity was decreasing ....

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