China’s Water Shortages China has the biggest population in the world at the moment, however it only supplies 7% of the World’s water supply. In the Capital, Beijing, there are many reasons why there is such a substantial shortage. These reasons can be separated into human factors and physical factors. As you can see from Source 8, there is a massive divide between the South of China and the North of China. The North of China houses 40% of the population.
Coal and iron deposits in the southern | The sparse population of the West did not support much industrial growth, and the economy continued to be based on natural resources. | Economic growth in both farming and manufacturing. | Population Change | There was a high population.By 1870 about 15 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born. | Many Africans Americans left to work in the North and Midwest because of the problems with race. |
Attacks by terrorists or rebels on important infrastructure and pipelines are a big problem for energy consumers. A big contribution to the energy crisis and shortages are strikes in the Middle East. This is a big problem because the Middle East has the largest oil production than anywhere else, meaning if there are successful strikes in the Middle East, there will be a global energy shortage as there is nowhere else that supplies as much oil as they do. Although, the U.S is now the world’s third largest producer, about 65% of our known oil supply has already been burned. The U.S has 4% of the world’s population yet consumes 25% of the world’s oil supply.
In 2006, out of all the consumer electrics in the world, 80% was exported from China. China is also a massive consumer. It consumes more steel, coal meat and grain than any other nation. This means that it also imports raw materials from many other countries. In 1978 Deng Xiaoping became leader and began an ambitious programme of economic reform aimed at raising rates of foreign investment and growth.
Half of all French businesses report that they are victims of this crime. Counterfeit items arrive from which countries? Asia continued to take first place for the production of counterfeit items with 89.6% in 2009 (73.5% in 2008), China alone (including Hong Kong) producing slightly over 85%. The EU took second place with 5.5% of counterfeits (excluding cigarettes). It was followed by Turkey (1.8%), and Africa and the Middle East (1.2%).
An overview of the Spanish Wine Sector Wine Tourism & Leisure SOME KEY FACTS ABOUT WINE IN SPAIN • Spain is the country with the largest area of vine cultivation in the world (15% of the world’s area under vine. 30% of the EU total). • Spain has a much larger area under vines than either France or Italy, but its annual production is much lower than either of them. (France 49 mio hl, Italy 41 mio hl and Spain 34 mio hl) • This is because much of the vineyard area is still planted at very low vine densities, with vines that yield small crops due to the very arid climate and their old age. • As a result, wines tend to be intense, concentrated and balanced.
Pg 8). However, not all new businesses begin as a start-up, some businesses split off from larger businesses, whilst others begin when two smaller businesses merge into one larger business. As start-ups are in the early stages they represent the greatest potential for growth but they also lack resources to promote stability or rapid expansion at first. According to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)…at the start of 2012 * SME’s (Small and Medium sized enterprises) accounted for 99.9 per cent of all private sector businesses in the UK * SME’s employed 14.1 million people and had a combined turnover of £1,500 billion * Small businesses alone accounted for 47 per cent of private sector employment and 34.4 per cent of turnover. (Federation of Small Business, 2012) The success or failure of these SME’s is often dependent on overcoming a series of barriers including access to finance, business know-how and access to technical support, access to premises and facilities, confidence and support network issues.
According to recent data, 841 different languages are listed for the country, although 11 of these have no known living speakers. There may be at least as many traditional societies, out of a population of about 6.3 million. It is also one of the most rural, as only 18 per cent of its people live in urban centres. The country is one of the world's least explored, culturally and geographically, and many undiscovered species of plants and animals are thought to exist in the interior of Papua New Guinea. Strong growth in Papua New Guinea's mining and resource sector has led to PNG becoming the sixth fastest-growing economy in the world as of 2011.
The most noticeable change has been a steady removal from the US. Benetton as now has only around 150 outlets in the country, compared to 600 outlets they had in the U.S. in the mid 1980s (WARC, 2008). After hitting 2.1bn in 2001, Benetton groups revenues decreased, in 2004 they reach 1.7bn. Since this time there has been a slow and steady growth. In 2007, combined sales rose 9 percent to just under 2.1bn.
The population provides the much needed labor force that has propelled the country’s industrial and agricultural sector to great heights of productivity. China’s population is the largest in the world. As per mid-2011, the country had a population of over 1.3 billion people (Rosenberg, 2011). This is a 20% representation of the World’s total population because the world population is estimated to be around 6.7 billion. Besides providing labor for industries, the large Chinese population forms a ready market for goods and services.