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10th Grade RSP

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Student Help for Research

CIA World Factbook has the majority of the information to complete this project.


For the natural increase rate, use the following formula. Express your answer as a percent.

(Crude birth rate − Crude death rate)    where birth and death rates are in per thousand.


The State Department has a report on human trafficking. It is a pdf file.


Voting rights is called suffrage.


Goabroad.com has the location and number of the embassies in the capital city.


The World Bank will be used to find the information not found in the CIA Factbook.


GNIPP is GNI per capita, PPP


The Big Mac Index is located on The Economist website.


Percent National Income from Remittances is Personal Remittances.


Informal Economy Link

WIEGO seeks to increase the voice, visibility and validity of the working poor, especially women.

To inform economic and social policies, statistics on the size, composition, contribution, and other dimensions of the informal economy are needed. As a relatively new area of statistical development, until recently only limited data have been available on informal employment and the informal economy. What follows is a summary of available data on the size and composition of the informal economy in developing countries and non-standard work in developed countries.


 

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)

Foreign direct investment are the net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10 percent or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, other long-term capital, and short-term capital as shown in the balance of payments. This series shows net inflows (new investment inflows less disinvestment) in the reporting economy from foreign investors, and is divided by GDP.

 


 

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