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Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington. [6] The company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories. This diversification led to it being referred to as "The Everything Store". [7]
National Humanities Medal (2012) [4] Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2017) Information at IDEAS / RePEc. Amartya Kumar Sen ( Bengali: [ˈɔmortːo ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1972.
Survey data. In 2015, the Eurobarometer, a survey funded by the European Union, found that Christianity was the religion of 54.3% of the respondents, with Catholicism being the main denomination with 47.8%, followed by other Christians with 4.1% (Protestants with 1.8% and the Eastern Orthodox with 0.6%).
In 2021, official government statistics reported that the Philippines had a poverty rate of 18.1%, [1] (or roughly 19.99 million Filipinos), significantly lower than the 49.2 percent recorded in 1985 through years of government poverty reduction efforts. [2] From 2018 to 2021, an estimated 2.3 million Filipinos fell into poverty amid the ...
The Congressional Budget Office provides periodic reports on unemployment insurance programs. The unemployment insurance (UI) program provides a weekly benefit to qualified workers who lose their job and are actively seeking work. The amount of that benefit is based in part on a workers past earnings.
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages.
Humanitarian crisis. A humanitarian crisis (or sometimes humanitarian disaster) is defined as a singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well-being of a community or large group of people. [1] It may be an internal or external conflict and usually occurs throughout a large land area.
In 1820, India's GDP was 16% of the global GDP. By 1870, it had fallen to 12%, and by 1947 to 4%. India's per-capita income remained mostly stagnant during the Raj, with most of its GDP growth coming from an expanding population. Per capita income growth from 1850 to 1900 is estimated to range from 0.75% to 1.25% annually.