Examples of rural obligations in the following topics:
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- For people during the medieval era, cities offered a newfound freedom from rural obligations.
- City residence brought freedom from customary rural obligations to lord and community (hence the German saying, "Stadtluft macht frei," which means "City air makes you free").
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- These privately-made "sycee" first came into use in Guangdong, spreading to the lower Yangtze sometime before 1423, the year it became acceptable for payment of tax obligations.
- Secondly, agricultural tools and carts, some water-powered, help to create a gigantic agricultural surplus which formed the basis of the rural economy.
- Many of these markets appeared in the rural countryside, where goods were exchanged and bartered.
- A second type of market that developed in China was the urban-rural type, in which rural goods were sold to urban dwellers.
- Another way this type of market was used was professional merchants who bought rural goods in large quantities.
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- Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society and was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire.
- These obligations could be payable in several ways, in labor, in kind, or, on rare occasions, in coin.
- Dependent (serf or villein) holdings carrying the obligation that the peasant household supply the lord with specified labour services or a part of its output;
- Free peasant land, without such obligation but otherwise subject to manorial jurisdiction and custom, and owing money rent fixed at the time of the lease.
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- During the 1970s and again in the 1990s, the rural population rebounded in what appeared to be a reversal of urbanization.
- The rural rebound refers to the movement away from cities to rural and suburban areas.
- But again in the 1990s, rural populations appeared to be gaining at the expense of cities.
- Rather than moving to rural areas, most participants in the so-called the rural rebound migrated into new, rapidly growing suburbs.
- Explain the rural rebound and how it contributes to the suburbanization of society
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- Examples of long-term liabilities include long-term bonds, leases, pension obligations, and debentures.
- A transaction or event obligating the entity that has already occurred
- Liabilities in financial accounting need not be legally enforceable, but can be based on equitable obligations or constructive obligations.
- An equitable obligation is a duty based on ethical or moral considerations.
- A constructive obligation is an obligation that is implied by a set of circumstances in a particular situation, as opposed to a contractually based obligation.
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- The Third Estate comprised all of those who were not members of the above and can be divided into two groups, urban and rural, together making up 98% of France's population.
- The rural included peasants who owned their own land (and could be prosperous) and peasants who worked on nobles' or wealthier peasants' land.
- Similarly, the tithes (a form of obligatory tax, at the time often paid in kind), which the peasants were obliged to pay to their local churches, was a cause of grievance as it was known that the majority of parish priests were poor and the contribution was being paid to an aristocratic, and usually absentee, abbot.
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- Roosevelt's New Deal agenda included an unprecedented effort to provide reform, recovery, and relief programs in rural areas.
- Although by 1930, more than a half of Americans already lived in cities, nearly 44% still resided in rural areas.
- Never before did rural areas witness as comprehensive reform programs as during the New Deal.
- Rural Electrification Administration (REA, 1936): Provided low-cost federal loans to cooperative electric power companies in order to bring electricity to isolated rural areas.
- The vision and outline of New Deal's rural programs have greatly shaped the agricultural sector and later rural reform efforts in the United States.
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- Urbanization is the process of a population shift from rural areas to cities, often motivated by economic factors.
- Urbanization is the process of a population shift from rural areas to cities.
- Rural flight is exacerbated when the population decline leads to the loss of rural services (such as business enterprises and schools), which leads to greater loss of population as people leave to seek those features.
- The wealthiest individuals began living in nice housing far in rural areas (as opposed to forms).
- Over time, the world's population has become less rural and more urban.
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- A liability is defined as an obligation of an entity arising from past transactions/events and settled through the transfer of assets.
- In financial accounting, a liability is defined as an obligation of an entity arising from past transactions or events, the settlement of which may result in the transfer or use of assets, provision of services or other yielding of economic benefits in the future.
- A duty or responsibility that obligates the entity to another, leaving it little or no discretion to avoid settlement.
- A transaction or event that has already occurred and which obligates the entity.
- Long-term liabilities have maturity dates that extend past one year, such as bonds payable and pension obligations.
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- Liquidity ratios measure how quickly assets can be turned into cash in order to pay the company's short-term obligations.
- X's Acid Test Ratio = 1,000 / 1,000 = 1, which means that it can pay off short-term obligations.
- A low liquidity ratio means a firm may struggle to pay short-term obligations.
- Low values for the current or quick ratios (values less than 1) indicate that a firm may have difficulty meeting current obligations.
- If an organization has good long-term prospects, it may be able to borrow against those prospects to meet current obligations.