Essays on Bahia

The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) debate raises heated arguments between the supporters of the idea that multinational companies (MNC) have the capabilities to reduce poverty by strengthening the purchase power of the poor, and those who support the adverse idea that MNCs solely exploit the poor. The main proponents of this debate are C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart, who mitigate for the BOP theory in their study “The Fortune at the Base of their Pyramid”, and Aneel Karnani, who demounts the BOP claims in his “Mirage of Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid: How the Private Sector ...

Zika virus is name after the Zika Forest of Uganda, where it was first originated in 1947 during the course of a rigorous search for yellow fever virus under a collaborative project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and British Government . The virus was derived from both a rhesus monkey and also from a group of Aedes africanus mosquitoes. The spread of Zika virus in the US was first corroborated in February, 2014, on Easter Island. In the following year, nearly 16 patients from the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Nortei n Brazil were diagnosed as positive for ...

Texas, unlike the other states, is part of the United States by treaty instead of territorial incorporation. Before it became a state, it first belonged to Spain then it became part of Independent Mexico in 1824. The Spanish authorities let the Americans acquire land in the region from 1821 with terms that included, them converting into Catholic and handling all their affairs in Spanish (Barr, 1990). The Texas revolution, also the Texas war for Independence, was an outcome of some serial events that started out long before the firing of the first shots in Gonzales on October 2, 1835 and ...