Understanding Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood: A Literature Review Emerging adulthood is defined as a development stage of life, starting approximately at age 18, or the end of high school, and spanning until 25, when adult roles are “officially” adopted (White et al., 2006). Emerging adulthood is a relatively new stage of development, which was developed by Jeffrey Arnett in 2000. Arnett explained that there are “gap years” where youths begin to identify new roles in life, which separate
With India’s movement to eliminate trade barriers, and China’s decision for economic reforms since the 1990s, there have been significant changes in the composition and size of the global economy. Ever since the joining of workers from developing countries, the international labor pool has seen approximately twice the size than before. On one side, this is beneficial for high-skilled workers and firms in advanced countries, as they enjoy more trading opportunities, higher labor demand, and lower
Introduction: Why has a collective, global solution to climate change become stuck? What international relations theories can explain this and how can they facilitate better cooperation between countries? A global climate change solution has been stuck due to the unwillingness or inability of developed nations like the U.S. to take responsibility of their large share of the past and current greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing emissions in developed countries is not enough, and the weighted action
countries facing a crisis to restabilize. In industrialized countries, domestic central banks have the ability to do this with the lender of last resort operation in which the central bank lends freely during a financial crisis. However, central banks in emerging market countries are
Globalization is the integration among nations of political views, products, ideas, and cultures. It helps by stimulating innovation, communication, and offers developing countries to catch up to industrialized countries. With the use of advanced technologies, large corporations can supply the world populous with consumer goods that would only be available in 1st world countries. Despite the numerous contributions that globalization has brought, it also carries with it disadvantages. Large corporations
Throughout history, many have debated about whether a wealthier country (developed) should help out a poor, less developed countries. “The U.S. disbursed $33.2 billion—$19 billion in economic assistance to 184 countries and $14.2 billion in military assistance to 142 countries.”(Forbes) Is it beneficial for a more developed nations to help out a less developed country? There are billions of dollars that developed countries give to the developing countries to say that they are helping the poor
1.5. Research structure The research is presented through five chapters: Chapter 1 is an introduction to the study with background, research questions and purposes. Chapter 2 contains related concepts, literature review previous researches and theoretical models. Chapter 3 presents research approach, collection procedure and analysis tool. Chapter 4 discusses findings obtained from the collected data. Chapter 5 provides discussions and recommendations. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW Some important terms will
Living Below the Line The majority of the world’s nations and people are in a state of poverty. Most in-debt nations are a result of guidelines set by global establishments that use the nation’s desperation to their advantage. Also, many causes of hunger result in poverty. Additionally, the world as a whole has spent unfathomable amounts of money for wants, when achieving basic necessities for developing countries is far less. Poverty would not have to exist if the developed world was not greedy
eventually taking over its adversaries. In 2012, another type of innovation has been introduced by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble. Also known as trickle-up innovation, ‘Reverse Innovation’ is the term that is usually used to refer innovating in emerging markets and moving those products to the wealthy world. This concept was put forward with the idea of developing solutions for the developing markets rather that minimizing the price of an already developed product. Multinational companies have
for negative consequences caused by ethnocentrism, on the one hand, it impacts overseas exploration of corporations and causes trade conflicts. On the other hand, it leads to ineffective resource allocation and decelerates economic development of emerging countries. Ethnocentrism impacts overseas exploration of corporations. In the past decade, enterprises all around the world feel increasingly unsaturated with triumphs in local districts and attempt to explore external business. The executives of