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Globalisation has allowed countries such as China to liberalise their trade in order to attract TNCs and foreign investment to increase their economic growth. This has led to the creation of EPZs (Export ...

Development can be defined as a process of economic and social advancement in terms of quality of human life.  It can be measured in terms of culture, wealth, education, healthcare, opportunities and can ...

The force of water in a river, and more specifically, in a waterfall, has the ability to carve and erode the banks of the river. This is known as hydraulic action. As water falls over a waterfall, it has ...

The first is Hydraulic Action. This is the force of the river against the banks causing air to be trapped in cracks and crevices. The pressure then weakens the banks and gradually wears it away. Secondly,...

Before we look urbanisation, we have to define what we mean by urban and what we mean by rural. A rural area is an area of countryside, so for example a village or a hamlet. An urban area is a built up ar...