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    A study area is the region of the U.S. Lake States, including Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In the region, about 27% of the estimated 20.8 million people reside in rural areas. Over 96% of the lands are considered as rural areas. Traditionally, the region had economically dependent on natural resource extraction and related low-skill manufacturing industries (Hamilton et al., 2008). However, such industries are recently weakened by globalization and rising policies on protection of natural

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    Argentina Argentina is the 2nd largest South American and Latin-American region. With a population of just over 40 million people, the Spanish speaking country has multiple aspects of consumer behavior that influence the way that people spend. Marketing in Argentina is communicated in ways very similar to the United States. Radio and television are large factors in how marketers reach consumers in Argentina. There are 170 AM radio stations and 2000 FM radio stations in Argentina with about twelve

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    In the past thirty years, globalization and market openness lead world to a better stage of wealth, however, it is inevitable that without government intervention this prosperity is concentrated in the hands of the small elite. The uneven of wealth distribution or the gap between the rich and the poor called economic inequality. This essay will argue that the government of Indonesia needs to introduce some policies to reduce economic inequality because economic inequality has no benefit at all, Indonesia

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    Inequality in America Income inequality has deeply affected the economy and our society for decades. The socioeconomic inequality gap in the United States has been getting higher and higher since the late 1970s, creating more unequal opportunities for millions of people in the lower and middle class. It seems as though the lower classes families are getting crushed, while the top 1% are on top of the system. The system makes it hard for those from poor income families to succeed. In the article

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    Income inequality Gini Coefficient: Gini Coefficient is measure of inequality on a scale of zero and one, if the score is “0” it implies all population has the same income which means every household has the same income, if the score is “1” is the opposite, where everyone has unequal income and is at perfect inequality. If only one household has all the income then the score would be “1”, which refers to complete inequality. A research report on OECD countries reflect AUS is the eleventh most unequal

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    Table 4.1 presents the characteristics of the milk market participant and non-participant households. There are statistically significant differences between the two groups on 17 covariates. Husbands in participant households are on average older (mean 50) than husbands in non-participant households (mean 47). In terms of remoteness, participant households are located closer to the main road and milk collection centers (MCC) (2.84 and 2.79km respectively) compared to non-participant household (5

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    What is Income Inequality? Well “Income Inequality is the unequal distribution” of family or individual wage over the different individuals in an economy. Income inequality is often showen up “as the percentage of income to a percentage of population” (Staff.) Income inequality creates and impacts the U.S. in different aspects, whether it is distinguished by “region, gender, education and social status” (Staff), as well as there are certain causes and potential solutions to resolve the problems that

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    Income, Wealth and Poverty in the United States of America I. Introduction This study considers the conditions of income, wealth and poverty in the United States of America. Income got a better distribution during the 70s but the level of economic growth decreased aggravating the unequal distribution of income (Stone, et al). However, wealth enclosed an inequality of distribution in the United States. It is referred to the unequal distribution of assets among residents of the United States. Also

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    Jason Silva Professor Kreier Macroeconomics 2 November 2016 Global Perspectives Signature Assignment: The Distribution of Income within and among Nations 161026 Based on three graphs from Piketty (2014) Questions 1-4 refer to Piketty’s Figure 9.8 1. The variable measured on the vertical axis of Figure 9.8 is the share of total income received by the “highest decile.” What does the term, “highest decile,” mean in the context of this graph? The term highest decile means the richest 10% of the

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    LINE CLIPPING ALGORITHMS Line clipping is the process of removing lines/portions of lines that are outside of an area of interest. There are two main algorithms of line clipping namely: 1) Copen- Sutherland 2) Liang Barsky Copen – Sutherland This algorithm is used to detect and dispense with two trivial cases and in order to clip a line we are required to consider only the end points. When the endpoints of a specific line lie inside the window then it can be said to be trivially accepted and clipping

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