Main causes of French revolution were poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Bad weather caused poor harvest for several years, and the French government did not help people. Immediately before the French revolution bread riots broke out. The reasons for differences of American and French revolutions were the leaders. In America, most of the leaders were, wealthy bourgeoisie, who owned vast manors and incredible wealth, so they were concerned about their wealth and their place in the society, they had much to
On August 3, 1981 labor relations in America would be forever altered by nearly 13,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. PATCO went on strike against its employer, the Federal Aviation Administration, in order to achieve demands for its members of increased wages, shorter work weeks, and full-retirement packages. The PATCO strike was quickly stamped out by the President Reagan administration and its members never acquired the reparations they avidly felt they deserved. Modern critics of organized labor mark this strike as a major turning point in the battle between management and its laborers. The roles of the federal government and American unions still feel the impact of the policy that resulted from the PATCO strike today.
To this day in 2011 we are still fighting these very same wars. We have lost American soldiers as a result. Then Obama’s election took place in 2008 and he promised to fix our economy but as we can see it was quite the opposite. The economy got worse and the national debt increased. To make it worse the
What we do know, without debate, is that the wars begun eleven years ago have been tremendously painful for millions of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, and the United States, and economically costly as well. Each additional month and year of war will add to that toll. The goal of the Costs of War project has been to outline a broad understanding of the domestic and international costs and consequences of those wars. The Eisenhower Research Project based at Brown University assembled a team that includes economists, anthropologists, political scientists, legal experts, and a physician to do this analysis. We asked:
Possibly the most important showdown was the debt-ceiling fight of August 2011. It “threatened the country's ability to meet its financial obligations and resulted in an unprecedented downgrade in the U.S. credit rating by Standard and Poor's. The subsequent failure of the bipartisan super-committee to reach a deal on $1.2 trillion in targeted budget savings over ten years unleashed automatic spending cuts for both defense and non-defense spending”
Preceded by the presidential election, it was annulled and a riot took place resulting in violence and death. In the late 1990's in order to curb corruption and inflation, petrol was raised by 38%. In the end of the 90's, finally, all parties agreed on a president, General Sani Abacha. Ironically, he died of an unexpected heart
issues travel warnings Hundreds of people arrived at the White House late Sunday night and chanted, "USA! USA!" They then chanted, "Hey, hey, goodbye!" in reference to the demise of bin Laden and then spontaneously sang the national anthem. "This welcome news is a credit to our intelligence efforts and brings to justice the architect of the attacks on our country that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, in a statement issued Sunday night.
Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Global decisions, policies, and practices are typically influenced, driven, or formulated by the rich and powerful. As a result, a few get wealthy while the majority struggle. Globalization has contributed to growing inequality across countries and to social and economic exclusion and marginalization. According to Iceland, “The poorest 20% of the global population has not benefited much from general improvements.
Unfortunately the large number of programs that have resulted has led to many overlapping programs that are a veritable hodgepodge that is of unknown efficacy. Unlike many of the welfare states in Europe the United States welfare system has restricted nearly all of its benefits to the bottom one-third of income earners through extensive means testing on income and/or wealth. One good aspect of this is that the Federal government does not take up nearly 50% of all incomes in taxes as is common in Sweden, France etc.. These countries typically spread their social programs out to nearly all residents but then tax the benefits and impose a 15-25% VAT (sales tax) to recapture much of it. Unfortunately, since the programs in the United States seem to be focused on alleviating some of the effects of relative poverty they have done a "lousy" job of teaching people how to stay out of poverty--finish school, don't have children unless you are married, get a job and good intentions are not enough.
PEST ANALYSIS POLITICAL Analysis • Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI): 94th out of 176 nations, score of 36 out of 100 on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) • Political instability: factions, criminal cases against leaders, corruption • Government stipulation for foreign single-brand retailers: source 30% of what they sell from SMEs. Ikea requested for moratorium on this, government agreed to 7 years a 10-year • Frequent strikes, protests and bandhs (complete or partial shutdown of cities), often instigated for political reasons – Often in response to some change introduced or proposed by the ruling party – If it’s a union or organization strike / protest, opposition party will support it in order to bolster its vote banks – Examples of reasons for strikes / protests / shutdowns: • Increase in LPG or petrol prices, or even onion and potato prices • Allowing foreign supermarket chains to enter • Not raising public transport tariff (autos and taxis) • Death of a political leader • Release of a controversial movie • Regulation changed to allow 100% FDI for single-brand retailers. However, states free to allow or bar retail FDI – Key cities and states for Ikea: • • • • Mumbai (Maharashtra) New Delhi (Delhi - Designated National Capital Territory) Chennai (Tamil Nadu) Bangalore (Karnataka) – Two strong parties in most states; one is more liberal and supports progressive reforms, the other supports the masses and blue-collared workers. For e.g., • Mumbai: Congress-NCP v/s BJP-Shiv Sena • Chennai: AIADMK v/s DMK – State policies keep changing according to who’s ruling and what alliances have been formed between which political parties Hurdle & Solution - Ruling and opposition political parties have different stands on FDI - If opposition comes to power,