Essays on Moyo

(Institute/University/College)

Foreign Aid: for war or for peace?

Former United Nations Secretary General Boutros-Boutros-Ghali delivered his watershed report, “An Agenda for Peace.” In the report, Boutros-Ghali reaffirmed the part of the international agency in upholding global peace and order. Confronted with critical regional and global instabilities that are posited by ‘failed states.’ the global community has allocated billions of dollars into complicated, multifaceted state building programs geared to incorporate power and rebuild local institutions. However, it is posited that these institutions destroy the natural political order that happen in these failed states; these heighten the intensity and brutality of the conflicts within these states. One of ...

1.0 Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background and Rationale of the Research The industry of construction is not only a key player in the national economic growth; but also a crucial sector affecting the economic and social welfare of citizenry, particularly in its primary function in providing reliable and decent shelter. It is viewed as one of the most essential sector to highly contribute to the growth of an entire economy at the provincial, national and international levels (Artto & Kujala, 2008). In the recent years, cost modelling and estimation for construction projects have attracted major attention of several research scholars. ...

Identification of use issues and effectivity of the CVR cost-control method in the UAE construction industry

M.Sc. in Quantity Surveying

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1. Working Title Identification of use issues and effectivity of the CVR cost-control method in the UAE construction industry 2. Rationale for the Study The construction industry is not only a key player in the national economic growth; but also a crucial sector affecting the economic and social welfare of citizenry, particularly in its primary function in providing reliable and decent shelter. Although potentially profitable, it is also ...

Assignment Questions

Question one According to Moyo, there are three categories of aid namely, charity-based aid, emergency or humanitarian aid and systematic aid. The author focuses on the systematic aid, which is the sum, total of grants and concessional loans that is given by the donor country to the recipient country (Moyo, 2009). It is a loan from the government of a developed country to the government of the developing country or from international financial institutions such as World Bank and IMF to the government of the developing countries. This type of aid is the most damaging and it is has detrimental ...

Book Review of “Is China Buying the World”

As China grows to become the world’s largest economy, catching up with even the United States in the coming decade, it is important to understand the strategic growth objectives of the Chinese economy. Several authors have written books and research papers on the Asian Tiger, and the country is setting the pace of its economic growth. From becoming the manufacturing hub of the world at the end of the last millennium, China is now looking to expand its presence beyond its shores (Mitter, 2008). In the last decade, Chinese companies have begun acquiring companies and assets such as ...

Abstract

Economic and political crisis is severe in Zimbabwe and it is central to the domestic and higher levels of internal conflicts in the country. These have contributed towards the attainment of instability in the nation and massive movement of people to other countries in search of peace. The instability has also affected the regional trade patterns and interaction level, as well as the scarcity for essential services and goods for human survival in various countries. As such, this paper indicates why Zimbabwe is a failing nation and discusses the impact of such a failure. 1. Why does the country of ...

First scenario:

The ethical issue in scenario "The e- generation" connects to the fact even though Marta's record of accomplishment as "a very good teacher" in her 30-year career she has failed to keep abreast of changing methods of teaching connected to the technological aspects of the 21st century Western cultural educational framework. There exists the unfortunate reality, as in the case of Marta, that many teachers do not have the necessary instruction for integrating technology in the delivery of instruction. This exists in particular to school district administrations' failure to implement new technology as part of the educational curriculum, teaching, ...

Digital radio broadcasting is now common over the internet. This is done when the analogue signal of the audio is digitized and is compressed into formats like mp2 (Johnson, 2013). After which, these files are transmitted to listeners through something known as a digital modulation scheme. The aim of digitizing radio is to improve the audio quality and to make it more accessible. This in turn can increase the number of radio programs available to listeners in a given region. There are generally two formats of digital radio, the first is Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), which is used in digital radio ...