MICHAEL SANDEL: You mean during the Vietnam era, when there were all sorts of deferments? PARTICIPANT: I just think that telling someone that they have to— MICHAEL SANDEL: Oh, in principle, even without the deferment. And why is that? Can you say a little bit more about why its ...
Plastic production is also one of the most energy-intensive manufacturing processes in the world. So, before a traditionally packaged parcel arrives at a consumer’s door, it has already contributed seriously to the climate crisis. Then, all too often, this packaging end...
A brief history of the U.S. gold standard is enough to show that when such a simple rule is adopted, inflation can be avoided, but strict adherence to that rule can create economic instability, if not political unrest. Gold Standard System vs. Fiat System A fiat system is a monetary sys...
The U.S. did fight a prolonged war in Vietnam, however, in which its military supported South Vietnamese forces fighting the Chinese- and Soviet-supported North Vietnamese army and South Vietnamese communist guerrillas. The U.S. withdrew from the war and Vietnam was united under communist ...
However, 1971 saw the end of the gold standard in the U.S. when President Richard Nixon abandoned the monetary system as a response to widespread inflation, a ballooning trade deficit and the increasing cost of the Vietnam War. Foreign countries began to realize the U.S. didn’t have enou...
Some of the weakest currencies in the world include the Iranian Rial (IRR), Vietnamese Dong (VND), Sierra Leonean Leone (SLL), Lao or Laotian Kip (LAK), Indonesian Rupiah (IDR), Uzbekistani Som (UZS), Guinean Franc (GNF), Paraguayan Guarani (PYG), Cambodian Riel (KHR), and Uganda...
education systems. For more from the series, see “What can change in schools after the pandemic?” and “We will now resume our regular programming“. Previous interviews and posts have also looked at developments in theNetherlands,Italy,Poland,Finland,New Zealand,South Africa, andVietnam. ...
China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam are the only nations that have communist systems today.5Notably, most of these nations have relaxed some of their most rigid policies in the name of economic progress and global trade. The Soviet Union was an experiment in communism that was creat...
BookingsonTrip.Comfor trips to and from China over the lunar new year holiday have soared more than 900 percent compared with the year-earlier period.Top destinations for Chinese holidaymakers include Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand, andVietnam. ...
We address this gap by examining implementation of typhoid interventions in Nigeria, Chile, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Thailand. The study used the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to identify which factors were most strongly associated with perceived implementation...