GDP & GNP
This article is about GDP in the context of economics. For other uses, see GDP (disambiguation).
Nominal GDP per person (capita) in 2006.
IMF 2005 figures of total nominal GDP (top) compared to PPP-adjusted GDP (bottom).A region's gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of the ways for measuring the size of its economy. The GDP of a country is defined as the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. It is also considered the sum of value added at every stage of production of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. Until the 1980s the term GNP or gross national product was used in the United States. The two terms GDP and GNP are almost identical - and yet entirely different; GDP (or GDI - Gross Domestic Income) being concerned with the region in which income is generated and GNP (or GNI - Gross National Income) being a measure of the accrual of income to a region. The most common approach to measuring and understanding GDP is the expenditure method:
GDP = consumption + investment + (government spending) + (exports − imports)
"Gross" means depreciation of capital stock is not included. With depreciation, with net investment instead of gross investment, it is the net domestic product. Consumption and investment in this equation are the expenditure on final goods and services. The exports minus imports part of the equation (often called cumulative exports) then adjusts this by subtracting the part of this expenditure not produced domestically (the imports), and adding back in domestic area (the exports).
Economists (since Keynes) have preferred to split the general consumption term into two parts; private consumption, and public sector (or government) spending.
George W. Bush ( United State Of America)
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States of America, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. The oldest son of former United States President George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush was elected president himself in the 2000 general election. Previously, Bush had been serving as the 46th governor of Texas since 1995. Bush was re-elected in 2004 as president.
Bush worked in his family's oil businesses following college. In 1978, he made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before returning to politics in a campaign for Governor of Texas. He defeated Ann Richards and was elected as Governor in 1994, serving until his successful campaign for president.
Bush won the presidency in 2000 as the Republican candidate in a close and controversial contest. Although he lost the nationwide popular vote, the Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore stopped the selective recount process, giving Bush a 537-vote margin in the state of Florida, and the required number of electoral votes. As President, Bush pushed through a $1.3 trillion tax cut program and the No Child Left Behind Act, and has also pushed for socially conservative efforts such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and faith-based welfare initiatives.
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Bush declared a global War on Terrorism and ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, destroy Al-Qaeda and to capture Osama bin Laden in October 2001. In March 2003, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, asserting that Iraq was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 and that the war was necessary for the protection of the United States.[1][2]
Running as a self-described "war president" in the midst of the Iraq War,[3] Bush won re-election in 2004[4] and his presidential campaign against Senator John Kerry, was successful despite controversy over Bush's prosecution of the Iraq War and his handling of the economy.[5][6] After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism, even from former allies. His domestic popularity has decreased since the 2004 election.[7]
Aung San Su Kyi ( Nobel Peace Icon)
Nobel Peace Icon Suu Kyi in Myanmar Democracy War
YANGON (Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi, widely expected to be released from house arrest in the Myanmar capital any day, went from being a housewife in the English countryside to one of the world's most recognized political prisoners in the space of a few chaotic months.
Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy holds a press conference in Yangon in this February 25, 1999 file photo. REUTERS/Patrick de Noirmont
The daughter of Myanmar independence hero Aung San, Suu Kyi became an international symbol when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while serving another period of house arrest -- from 1989 to 1995.
But despite the steely determination with which she has faced up to Myanmar's military rulers, the slight 56-year-old has brought the country no closer to democracy.
The resource-rich country of 45 million people -- once known as Asia's rice basket -- has been ruled with an iron fist by the military since a 1962 coup.
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won the country's last elections, in 1990, by a landslide, but has never been allowed to govern.
Suu Kyi, her aides and party members have been locked up, harassed and intimidated ever since.
She has been confined to her lakeside home on Yangon's University Avenue since September 2000, a prisoner in all but name, without the use of a telephone and with her visitors restricted to a handful of diplomats.
Her latest spell of house arrest, never formally announced by the junta, was imposed after she attempted to leave Yangon on a train to visit supporters in the provincial city of Mandalay.
"SECOND STRUGGLE"
Suu Kyi spent much of her life abroad before returning to her family's home on Yangon's Inya Lake in April 1988 to care for her ailing mother just as resentment of military rule boiled over into pro-democracy protests across the country.
She first spoke to crowds of democracy protesters from the steps of the capital's historic Shwedagon Pagoda on August 26 that year.
People seeing her for the first time were struck by the resemblance to her father Aung San, the hero of the campaign for independence from British rule in the 1940s.
"I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on," she told the huge crowd.
"This national crisis could, in fact, be called the second struggle for independence."
The military crushed the democracy uprising the following month. Thousands were killed and imprisoned but the generals promised an election.
In 1989, Suu Kyi broke a taboo by publicly attacking retired dictator Ne Win as the source of Myanmar's ills. This sealed her popular appeal, but also her fate -- she was placed under house arrest on July 19, 1989, and remained there for six years.
LOUD AND CLEAR MESSAGE
Her message to the military has always been loud and clear -- she wants an open dialogue with the junta and Myanmar's ethnic minorities to try to end the nation's political stalemate.
The generals refused to recognize her, questioning her patriotism by calling her by her married name, "Mrs Michael Aris", and accusing her of being a traitor and an "axe handle" or tool of the British and U.S. governments and their neo-colonial designs.
She has always refused to leave the country, knowing she would not be allowed back in.
Suu Kyi's husband, an Oxford academic, was denied a visa to visit her even when he was dying of prostate cancer. He died in March 1999.
The government said she was a rabble-rouser who wanted Western-style democracy before Myanmar was ready for it.
But the NLD stood steadfastly behind Suu Kyi, insisting there would be no talks unless she was included.
In October 2000, encouraged by U.S. Special Envoy to Myanmar Razali Ismail, the military finally accepted this argument and began secretive talks with Suu Kyi.
"FREEDOM FROM FEAR"
Suu Kyi was born in Yangon, then called Rangoon, on June 19, 1945. She was educated in Myanmar and India where her mother was an ambassador. She later studied at Oxford and later worked with the United Nations in New York.
In 1972, she married Aris and they raised two sons while moving between Bhutan, India and Japan.
Suu Kyi, who says arrests for her and other activists are an "occupational hazard" of the democracy movement, has always played down the hardships she has faced compared with those the Myanmar people have endured. She calls the struggle of the people one of freedom from fear.
"For me, real freedom is freedom from fear and unless you can live free from fear you cannot live a dignified human life."
The Prime Minister Tony Charles Lynton Blair ( U.K)
The son of a barrister and lecturer, Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh, but spent most of his childhood in Durham. At the age of 14 he returned to Edinburgh to finish his education at Fettes College. He studied law at Oxford, and went on to become a barrister himself.
After standing unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in a by-election, Mr Blair went on to win the seat of Sedgefield in the 1983 General Election, aged 30.
Tony Blair made a speedy rise through the ranks, being promoted first to the shadow Treasury front bench in 1984. He subsequently served as a trade and industry spokesman, before being elected to the Shadow Cabinet in 1988 where he was made Shadow Secretary of State for Energy. In 1989 he moved to the employment brief.
After the 1992 election Labour's new leader, John Smith, promoted Blair to Shadow Home Secretary. It was in this post that Mr Blair made famous his pledge that Labour would be tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
John Smith died suddenly and unexpectedly in 1994, and in the subsequent leadership contest Tony Blair won a large majority of his party's support.
Blair immediately launched his campaign for the modernisation of the Labour Party, determined to complete the shift further towards the political centre which he saw as essential for victory. The debate over Clause 4 of the party's constitution was considered the crucial test of whether its members would commit to Mr Blair's project. He removed the commitment to public ownership, and at this time coined the term New Labour.
The Labour Party won the 1997 General Election by a landslide, after 18 years in Opposition. At the age of 43 , Tony Blair became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812.
The government began to implement a far-reaching programme of constitutional change, putting the question of devolution to referendums in Scotland and Wales.
An elected post of Mayor of London was established at the head of a new capital-wide authority, and all but 92 hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords in the first stage of its reform. The government has also implemented an investment programme of £42 billion in its priority areas of health and education.
Tony Blair was re-elected with another landslide majority in the 2001 General Election.
His second term was dominated by foreign policy issues - notably the 'war on terror' which followed the September 11 attacks in New York, and the war in Iraq.
The Labour Party went on to win a third term for Mr Blair in May 2005, albeit with a reduced majority.
Outside Number 10 on the day after his victory, the PM said that 'respect' would play a big part in his third term agenda.
He said he wanted to bring back:
"A proper sense of respect in our schools, in our communities, in our towns and our villages."
Mr Blair is married to the barrister Cherie Booth QC, and they have four children. Their youngest, Leo, was the first child born to a serving Prime Minister in over 150 years.
Rangoon University History
Established in 1878 as an affiliate of University of Calcutta, Rangoon College was operated and managed by the British. Rangoon College was opened by the Education Syndicate, which was established by the colonial government to manage educational institutions in Burma.[1] It was renamed Government College in 1904, and University College in 1920, when University College (secular) and Judson College (Baptist-affiliated) were merged. The American Baptist Mission decided to recognise Judson College (formerly Baptist College) as a separate institution within the University of Rangoon.[1] The University of Rangoon modelled itself after University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.[2] Throughout the 1940s to 1950s, Rangoon University was the most prestigious university in Southeast Asia and one of the top universities in Asia, attracting students from across the region.[3][2]
Yangon Technology University
Yangon Technological University or the Yangon Institute of Technology (YIT, ) is also known as RIT (Rangoon Institute of Technology). It was the first engineering university in Myanmar. Located in Gyogone, Insein, Yangon, it offers a B.E. Engineering degree, and Masters and Doctorate programs.
After the BEHL (Basic Education High Level) exam (equivalent to O levels in Britain), YTU offers an engineering degree after 6 years of study. At the third year, students are divided according to their interests. They offer 11 titles of degree for undergraduate, namely Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Petroleum Engineering, Textile, Aeronautical Engineering options and Architecture. Among them, Civil, Mechanical and Electronic engineering are on the highest demand by students. A food diploma is offered by Chemical Engineering.
After the 1996 and 1998 Uprising, the military government relocated many universities from the capital of Yangon to rural areas. Today, many cities have GTCs (Government Technology Colleges), formerly known as G.T.I.s (Government Technical Institutes), which offer 2-year engineering courses. Qualified students will enter engineering universities such as the Mandalay Technological University.
Bad Day Lyrics
Where is the moment we needed the most
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
You tell me your blue skies fade to grey
You tell me your passion's gone away
And I don't need no carryin' on
You stand in the line just to hit a new low
You're faking a smile with the coffee to go
You tell me your life's been way off line
You're falling to pieces everytime
And I don't need no carryin' on
Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day
You had a bad day
Well you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don't need no carryin' on
You had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day
(Oh.. Holiday..)
Sometimes the system goes on the blink
And the whole thing turns out wrong
You might not make it back and you know
That you could be well oh that strong
And I'm not wrong (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeah)
So where is the passion when you need it the most
Oh you and I
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
You've seen what you like
And how does it feel for one more time
You had a bad day
You had a bad day
(Oh, yeah, yeaaah, yeah)
Had a bad day
(Oh, had a bad day)
Had a bad day
(Oh, yeah, yeah, yeeeeah)
Had a bad day
(Oh, had a bad day)
Had a bad day...
Had a bad day...
