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  2. Target costing - Wikipedia

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    Target costing is defined as "a disciplined process for determining and achieving a full-stream cost at which a proposed product with specified functionality, performance, and quality must be produced in order to generate the desired profitability at the product’s anticipated selling price over a specified period of time in the future."

  3. Causes of unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are many domestic factors affecting the U.S. labor force and employment levels. These include: economic growth; cyclical and structural factors; demographics; education and training; innovation; labor unions; and industry consolidation [2] In addition to macroeconomic and individual firm-related factors, there are individual-related factors that influence the risk of unemployment.

  4. Economies of agglomeration - Wikipedia

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    Economic agglomeration may also affect rural areas. The over-agglomeration in the city would affect agricultural production and cause unemployment problems. [23] For society, Economic agglomeration also caused some social problems. First, the increased population led to high land prices.

  5. Economy of Uruguay - Wikipedia

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    In the 19th century, the country had similar characteristics to other Latin American countries: caudillismo, civil wars and permanent instability (40 revolts between 1830 and 1903), foreign capitalism's control of important sectors of the economy, a high percentage of illiterate people (more than half the population in 1900).

  6. Economy of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Until the French colonization in the mid-19th century, Vietnam's economy had been mostly agrarian, subsistence-based and village-oriented. French colonizers, however, deliberately developed the regions differently as the French needed raw materials and a market for French manufactured goods, designating the South for agricultural production as it was better suited for agriculture, and the ...

  7. Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    On 26 March, MTI said it believed that the economy would contract by between 1% and 4% in 2020. This was after the economy shrank some 2.2% in the first quarter of 2020 from the same quarter in 2019. [366] On 26 May, the Singapore economy contracted 0.7%YoY, which was better than the expected contraction of 2.2%.

  8. Economic history of World War I - Wikipedia

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    The trajectory of the main economic factors, the business and financial system, and the technology continued on their way. Women temporarily took war jobs, and at the end of the war there was a great deal of unrest among union members and farmers for a few years.

  9. Engineering economics - Wikipedia

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    There are also non-economic factors to be considered, like color, style, public image, etc.; such factors are termed attributes. [5] Costs as well as revenues are considered, for each alternative, for an analysis period that is either a fixed number of years or the estimated life of the project.