Essay: Kiva’s Microfinance

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Microfinance has steadily gained popularity in many developing countries and also in many developed countries targeting poorer communities. It has attracted both Non-Governmental Organizations and commercial investors realizing the economic potential in the huge market size (Pratt. 2007).

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Essay: Introduction to Poem Carpe Diem

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Both these poems carry a sense of urgency and passing time. The stress is on the fact that if we do not live our life now, time will pass and we will never get those chances or that passion back, in other words ‘Carpe Diem’.  The poets develop this sense of passion and ‘Carpe Diem’ using urgent and persuasive tones, exaggerated language to enhance the impact of what they’re saying and using passionate emphatic images.

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Essay: Kiva Revolutionizes Microfinance

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The institution-based view stresses on the focus that must be placed on the bigger picture and that due consideration needs to be given informal and formal institutions. It means for example looking beyond the economic realities to the institutional frameworks behind these for example the legal framework of a nation or even the cultural norms affecting the work habits of its residents (Peng, 2009 ).

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Literature on History of American Society

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A couple of decades ago they lived in inner city isolation or were rather made to as they shopped from the same stores, lived in community blocks and their children went to the same schools, at the same time the residents were able to practice effective control in terms of social norms too. Assimilation and integration is what followed to disperse and enhance their belongingness into the general society and be appreciated and recognized for what they were. However, even though social acceptance has followed, blacks still fall in the most unemployed category.

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Essay: Malthusian Theory

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Reverand Thomas Malthus suggested a theory explaining how economic development is related to growing population while highlighting his concerns in an essay written in 1798. However, this theory could be deemed obsolete for developed countries while related to developing countries (Todaro and Smith 309).

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Literature on Scientific Management

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According to Byrens (2008, p. 56), the last sixty years have witnessed an in depth study of the scientific management and work environment which have led to a better understandability of how employees give in their input and what could be done to improve working methods. As a result terms and methods such as operations research and critical path analysis have been devised to have scheduled procedures in completing a task.

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Essay: Management Theories

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As time progressed, various management theorists devised opposing theories which proved that money is not the only motivating factor and that there exist other factors that determine one’s stance at work. Related arguments can be drawn based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Herzberg’s hygiene and motivating factors and McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. Thus, the workers that Taylor described as being productive due to money as being the only motivator could be related to McGregor’s Theory X individuals (Byrnes 2003, p. 55); these are people who are not self motivated and are most likely to be pushed or forced to work. Therefore, it also had various other limitations as workers would deem their job invaluable thereby sacrificing quality in order to produce more and more units and undermine the quality of output.

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Essay: Open Market Operations

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‘Open Market Operations’ is one of the tools used as part of the monetary policy. In order to facilitate banks reserves thereby increasing bank deposits, The Federal Reserve buys financial assets which include buying government bonds from the general public (Frank and Bernanke 626). It happens to be a continuous cycle whilst the government prints more money to pay for these bonds, the public in return deposits the money in commercial banks as receipts of selling bonds.

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