The Human Population

Unfilled orders fell .8%, marking a third-consecutive month of decline. Industries are softening up as durable goods orders fall below expectations, and it may continue to struggle if companies are reluctant to increase capital spending. There is growth nonetheless, but the rest of the year may yield below expected levels if the factory sector cannot recover. The US economic growth may be slowing as consumer spending slowed to a more moderate pace. According to the Commerce Department, the total value of goods and services slowed to 2.3% with a previous rate of 1.8% last year.

As the relative role of the private sector increased in the economy, the importance of enterprise management and performance correspondingly increased. Looking more deeply at Thailand’s performance, manufactured exports grew by about 23% per year between 1980 and 1995, almost doubling during 1992-1995. However, in 1996 export growth fell practically to 0 per cent, with labor-intensive exports usually identified as the main culprit. Certain factors are generally cited as responsible for this abrupt and dramatic decline: · External factors cited included the emergence of new competitors, with the coming on stream of new production facilities in lower income/lower wage countries such as China, Indochina, Philippines, further complicated by the30% devaluation of the Chinese yen in 1994; · Domestic factors cited generally relate to rising wage rates and overvalued exchange rates. Domestic wage rates during 1991-95 rose about 11%, on average or about 5% increase in real wages per year, cited as the key factor in the slowdown in growth of labor intensive exports.

An Aging World Introduction The world is changing. It has been known since the beginning of time, that children outnumber their elders. This might not be the case anymore, a new study showed that in 2018 elders aged 65 and more will outnumber children under 5 [1]. Due to the decrease in fertility and improvements in the health care system worldwide, life expectancy jumped, and is likely to go on rising, this boost would be much more significant in the developing countries [1]. Developed vs.

This decline is due to the improving economy, sequester, and a tax increase on high-income households. The big factor that went into the decline in the deficit for 2013 was the payment that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made. The deficit decline in the present time may make some think the U.S could get out of debt but it has been projected that the U.S deficit will start to increase once again. Keywords: Budget Deficit, GDP, Budget Surpluses, Federal Debt, Economic Downturns, Tax Cuts Introduction Throughout the years the U.S has had more budget deficits than it has had surpluses. This is due to the excess in spending and not enough revenues to pay for it.

India's population is in peril. Without the implementation of stringent, effective population management policies, the country's population will rise above 2 billion within the next 20 years (www.fpaindia.com). In the absence of control programs, India's ever growing population will lead to increased incidents of famine, disease, environmental stress and result in a severe shortage of housing facilities. However, if the Indian government quickly administers population regulations so that couples have, on average, 2 children by 2001-2006, India's population will stabilize at approximately 1.7 billion (www.fpaindia.com). A drop in both the fertility and birth rates is essential.

Globally, the growth rate per person of the human population has been declining since its increase in 1962 and 1963 which was at 2.20%. In 2009, the estimated annual growth rate was 1.1%. As of now the population of the world is at about 7,211,021,348 humans, which has gone up 4 billion people since the 60’s. Most of this growth is coming from the countries in high poverty. Rise in human population can cause problems such as pollution and congestion; these might be resolved or worsened by technological and economic changes.

This will allow mega cities to limit their population size and grow and expand to other more unpopulated areas. Megacities are becoming an issue right across the world, some settlements like toyko are home to more that 37million people. With such a high population living in such a dense area with it brings a decline in the quality of life. There is the problem of the high amount of personal transport being used which is pollution the earth’s atmosphere as the issue of not having enough resources like food and water to support the demand required. By having national laws put in place, governments and councils are able to limit the population and physical boundaries.

There is a risk of a bigger percentage of the elderly compared to the young generation. A higher older population undermines productivity, thereby inhibiting economic growth. In less developed nations, birth and death rates are high. Their economies struggle to maintain this high population. There is over-reliance on foreign aid.

Costco also has experienced stable net income growth, however this growth has slowed this past year and fell to under 1% from the previous year’s 20%. Wal-Mart has had generally unstable net income growth; year-to-year growth has fluctuated between 14.33% to -5.75% (see Figure A). Costco does have a high cash flow from operations percentage and higher quality of income compared to Wal Mart, and this yields a growth in total assets as Costco is able to invest more with it’s cash on hand. Costco has a smaller dividend yield (0.97) than both Wal-Mart (2.28) and the industry average (1.90). Costco’s return on assets has had steady growth, though it fell 8.45% this year.

What are the factors that contributed to the problem and how are today's corporations going to handle this problem? The type of labor needed in today's society has been undergoing a constant change. There is an increase in demand for workers but there is a much greater demand for educated white-collar workers, especially management material. Projections state that the growth in managerial positions will increase 20% by the year 2010 yet the population aged 35-50 will decrease nearly 10%. What these figures say is the already diminishing supply of executives is going to dwindle even more over the next 10 years.