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A Comparative Study of the ministry of Interior General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs-Dubai with UK Government
A Comparative Study of the ministry of Interior General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs-Dubai with UK Government
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1.0 Introduction
In the study, a comparison of both the UK government and the ministry of foreign affairs in Dubai is going to get elucidated. The two get selected so as to bring an insight of the real issues reigning in both countries. The paper will look at the chronicle of aspects, governance and politics, economy, environment and organization, performance and strategy. In two instances, the issues arising from the investigation is going to get highlighted. Discussion of the findings is going to follow and in the end a way forward, and conclusion done.
2.0 History
It is a city with a large population in UAE and follows Abu Dhabi in second place in terms of size. Situated in south-East of Persian-Gulf, it places the city in a hub for international investors. It is a cosmopolitan and is now an international city. Dubai’s oil profits assist speed up the initial growth of the town. However, its investments are inadequate. The generation intensities are minute: nowadays, less than five percent of the emirates’ proceeds originate from oil. Tourism, real estate, financial services, and aviation are not the emirate’s model trade driving the economy. The city of Dubai gives international investors an urge to come and invest. It has the world tallest high-rise buildings and skyscrapers. Besides the construction, the city has man-made islands as well as hotels coupled with big shopping malls. Even though, there are archaeological sites, the real inhabitants of UAE cannot get established. The town that was in the region was centers for trade between the western and eastern side. There are pre- Islamic arts such as the Umayyad arts depicting that people worshiped Bajar. The proximity to Iran makes it a suitable location for doing business and acted as a focal point for international tradesmen and was well known for its pearl trade (Davidson, 2008). Hence the ministry of Interior General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs-Dubai get to look provisions of services on behave of government of Dubai. UK in history is known to set the pace for a number of countries during the period of colonization that spanned to various parts of the planet including Africa. They competed with France, Germany, and Portugal in territorial colonization (Rutherford, 2014). The UK government has a website for assisting clients on any issues both residents and foreigners.
3.0 Structures
3.1 Governance
The nation of Dubai was ruled by Al Maktoum from 1833 and has been a monarchy where no election gets done apart from citizens taking part in the federal college election for federal national council of UAE. The municipality gets established for provision of services, and planning and has established e-government as one way of empowering the clients in service delivery. In the judicial system, the law enforcement consists of a civil court, criminal court, and has sharia court. All these are to act in different capacities for the sake of dispute resolutions in Dubai (Acuto, 2014). Owing to territorial and long period of governance, UK has a well-structured system of governance that gets emulated by many nations of the world especially those it colonized. Every country in UK has a separate system of governance grounded on devolved systems (Payne, & Phillips, 2014).
3.2 Economy and Business
The economy of Dubai gets erected on the basis of oil exploration. As at 2011, the GDP was approximated to be $83.4 billion. Currently, the revenues from oil and gas have gone down. It is approximated to be 7% with real estate taking the center stage with 22.6%; financial system is 11%, and trade is 16%. The decision of the government to invest in tourism in place of oil related task is valuable and thus people from diaspora get to come to Dubai in large numbers. The ministry provides guidance plan of how to start business, start with 51% ownership being the governments and the remaining is for the owner. In expansion of business, one needs to get establishment labor card, and immigration card and to employ large percent of local residents. The employees must get better pay and medical allowance to allow them get government card (Ahrens, 2014).
In comparison with Dubai, UK’s economy is very stable and is ranked as the sixth in the globe. It is a place in the planet with a soaring cost of living where only the able ones can survive. It has in recent time encountered migration of people especially from EU states who are members. The policy of EU member states permits people of these states to live and work freely by any member nation with no hindrances. The provide support on how to get business capital, property regulations, taxes, employees’ benefits, patents, and good/services and data protection (Sanders, 2005).
3.4 Business Environment
The environment in Dubai is conducive in the region of Gulf. It emanated to be so since the diversification shift from oil dependent to other sectors of growing the economy, and it has progressed over the years to the state it is at present. It has attractive sceneries for tourism and thus persons from diverse parts of the planet visit the region. There is safety owing to low crime rates. It is attributed to the proper security mechanisms put in place. The attractive issue in terms of career in the salaries that is motivating. It gets attributed to free income levy to employees’ wages guarded by the law. The lifestyle get advanced and people long to working in Dubai as it gives a fast track on career progression as well as skills acquired to work in multinational companies in the region. The ministry’s conditions in supporting foreign affairs are diverse. In order to support and foster their services, the ministry has set up their websites. It is where clients go when they require immediate assistance. Furthermore, since the ministry is in proximity to the heart of Dubai, it makes it more accessible to the people (Cummings, & Worley, 2014).
UK governance has the most interesting atmosphere of freedom and free atmosphere. The clients and the employees are free to exchange ideas for the sake of the client. The liberty to ask one’s rights is the driving force in the system of governance. Devolution has made every this decentralized down to the people. In every country under UK, they have their governance. The organization is one that is down to up. It is the employee at the bottom who get to have a say. The top management acts as direction pointers based on views of people at the bottom. However, there are cases where the management must determine on what to get accomplished based on the transformations. Technology gets fully embraced with complete system automation (Choo, 2002).
3.5 Residents’ Information
In the residents tap, the ministry is doing great task in ensuring the people from diverse parts of the planet get their documents for residency and travel within Dubai in a very short time. The internet is one of the methods employed to give clients information that get required from time to time so as to avoid being acquainted on the bad hand of the law. It provides options of selecting schools, marriage, parenting, divorce, and job search. In comparison with UK, Dubai’s performance is still low. The crime reporting section gets highlighted. UK as well has an elaborate site with all elements that a client requires ranging from crime and justice, environment, housing, visas and immigration, working and jobs. It optimally presents their undertaking and efficiency is what clients enjoy most (Borman, & Motowidlo, 2014).
3.6 The strategies Employed
In looking at the strategies, both Dubai ministry of foreign affairs and UK government gets grounded on giving the clients the best within a very short time. Their website get to elaborate on many services that any client can look for thereby easing them of over-crowding. It is with this respect that both have laid down structures begged on culture, management of change, and design. The culture embraced by the two embraces use of togetherness and hospitality-thus making the client feels at home. They perceive client as a priority is service delivery. The strategy of management of change gets to come in line with the adoption of changing modern work-place and technological advancements (Greenwood, & Langley, 2014).
4.0 Issues/problems
4.1 International laws
The international laws are in a number of cases hindrances to the discharge of duties to the clients by the ministry. These laws are stern and rigid giving them difficulties in serving clients as envisaged in the ministry’s mission. For instance, the laws governing trade globally compel them to impose measures that scare away potential investors and thus barring big businesses to the country. UK, on the other hand, encounters the same issues even though they have the upper hand since it is among one of the nations bestowed in drafting these laws. In most instances, they are to their favor (Khani, & Mohammadi, 2014).
4.2 Terrorism and Related vices
It is an act that has been a problem to the international community. People for the Middle East get tagged with association and funding of terrorist groups. These are a great barrier to dealing with people from the diaspora. In UK, it is as well an issue. Gangsters have high skills of raiding people’s residences as well as banks and steal from them. It gets attributed to the engagement in drugs (Canter, Sarangi, & Youngs, 2014).
4.3 Environment and related issues
The environmental laws governing the environment are widespread and cut across the nations of the world. These are instances geared to guarding the planet for future generation. The ministry of foreign affairs gets a lot of challenges owing to people, businesses, and other sectors of government not adhering to these laws. It puts the ministry in a bad picture with the outside worlds. As a result of this sanction is in many occasions imposed to the nation (Thomas, 2014).
4.4 Drug Trafficking
Drugs such as cocaine and heroin are drugs trafficked across borders. These are drugs that cannot be allowed in any nation. The ministry gets a lot of challenge in dealing with the issues. It is because the trafficking is in a number of instances linked with prominent people in the government and are sometimes forced to go against the law. It is a case as well in UK in that trafficking gets done by people with high esteem in the government. Owing t this is very difficult in combating it completely. There are instances where laws have to be made strictly to punish anybody caught in the drug cases. In UK, the governance instills stern measures on anyone found to be part of the trafficking (McSweeney et al., 2014).
4.5 Human Trafficking and Human Rights
People get to Dubai through means that do not concur with the rules prevailing. There are culprits engaging in human trade. They ferry people from various parts of the world especially the developing nations at a fee. It is done contrary to the laws and without passing through the ministry of foreign affairs. It poses a big challenge to ministry (Davidson, 2008).
The Government of Dubai has been in the lime-light of torturing foreigner people. There are cases where expatriates get their passport held up by a company one is working for the reason of making the person lack freedom. Also, house managers get mistreated and tortured by their bosses. These are some of the cases of violating human rights. The ministry of foreign affairs is got in the mix not knowing what to do. People from other nations coming for employment in Dubai come with a positive attitude of getting to reap according to their skills, but they end up being slaves. In UK, the issues are not as augmented as in Dubai. The government of UK has set laws and regulations that guard the rights of an individual. People engaged in trafficking get to face the wrath of the law (Rainey, Wicks, & Ovey, 2014).
5.0 Discussion
In the investigation, it is apparent that both country’s’ governance not the same. In UK, there is complete devolution where every country gets to handle tasks that national government would have done. It makes services faster, and the people at the ground get services at their door steps. The foreign ministry of Dubai is centrally located only in Dubai. It implies that people must come to the city so as to get services. Even though, UK is a mature nation, it gives a challenge to Dubai to entrench full democracy in their systems of governance. The issues raised are in a way comparable. However, the issues are more rampant in Dubai. It gets attributed to laws that are not followed to the later. Dubai legal systems are still not tight thus paving a great challenge to the foreign affairs ministry in implementing these laws.
6.0 The Way Forward
In order Dubai to be the center of attraction globally, it has to embrace full democracy and allow devolutions of state functions to the people. It is through this that the people are going to enjoy the fruits of democracy.
The foreign affairs ministry through the government of Dubai must enhance law enforcement system. It allows culprits defiling the law culpable of stern punishment. In order to speed up efficiency in services delivery, full automation is mandatory.
Conclusion
Dubai is a nation that is growing at a fast pace. When proper laws, structures, and automation get done, it is going to be at bar with developed nations of the world and act as an example to developing nation. Proper laws and enforcement will eradicate all the vices and hence reduce issues at hand.
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Lesson 8 Assignment
Lesson 8 Assignment
Answer question 5 in “Problems and Applications” from the end of chapter 7 (p. 156). You will want to answer questions 3 and 4 first, but you are not being asked here to submit detailed answers to those questions.
Question 5. Consider a market in which Bert from problem 3 is the buyer and Ernie from problem 4 is the seller.
a.Use Ernie’s supply schedule and Bert’s demand schedule to find the quantity supplied and quantity demanded at prices of $2, $4, and $6. Which of these prices brings supply and demand into equilibrium?
b.What are consumer surplus, producer surplus, and total surplus in this equilibrium?
c.If Ernie produced and Bert consumed one less bottle of water, what would happen to total surplus?
d. If Ernie produced and Bert consumed one additional bottle of water, what would happen to total surplus?
For part (a), please fill in the chart below with appropriate numbers.
Price Quantity
Demanded Quantity
Supplied
$2 $4 $6 For parts (b)–(d), please show your calculations.
3. It is a hot day, and Bert is very thirsty. Here is the value
he places on a bottle of water:
Value of first bottle $7
Value of second bottle 5
Value of third bottle 3
Value of fourth bottle 1
a. From this information, derive Bert’s demand
schedule. Graph his demand curve for bottled
water.
b. If the price of a bottle of water is $4, how many
bottles does Bert buy? How much consumer
surplus does Bert get from his purchases? Show
Bert’s consumer surplus in your graph.
c. If the price falls to $2, how does quantity demanded
change? How does Bert’s consumer surplus
change? Show these changes in your graph.
Answer:
a)
b) At the price of $4, Bert buys two bottles of water. The value of first bottle is $7 but pays only $4 for it, therefore consumer surplus = $7 – $4 = $3. Area A in the graph is consumer surplus. The value of second bottle is $5 but pays only $4 for it with a consumer surplus = $5 – $4 = $1. Hence, Bert’s total consumer surplus = $3 + $1 = $4, which is the area of A in the figure.
c) When the price of bottle falls from $4 to $2, Bert buys three bottles. The consumer surplus includes both area A and area B. Hence, the consumer surplus rises by $7 – $2 = $5.
4. Ernie owns a water pump. Because pumping large
amounts of water is harder than pumping small
amounts, the cost of producing a bottle of water rises as
he pumps more. Here is the cost he incurs to produce
each bottle of water:
Cost of first bottle $1
Cost of second bottle 3
Cost of third bottle 5
Cost of fourth bottle 7
a. From this information, derive Ernie’s supply
schedule. Graph his supply curve for bottled water.
b. If the price of a bottle of water is $4, how many
bottles does Ernie produce and sell? How much
producer surplus does Ernie get from these sales?
Show Ernie’s producer surplus in your graph.
c. If the price rises to $6, how does quantity supplied
change? How does Ernie’s producer surplus
change? Show these changes in your graph.
Answer:
When the price of bottle is $4, Ernie sells two bottles of water. The producer surplus is area A in the figure. He received $4 for the first bottle but the cost is only $1. Hence Ernie has producer surplus of $4 – $1 = $3. He receives $4 for the second bottle which costs $3 and hence the producer surplus = $4 – $3 = $2. Therefore, the total producer surplus = $3 + $1 = $4.
When the price of bottle increases from $4 to $6, Ernie sells three bottles of water. The producer surplus consists of area A and area B.
Producer surplus from 1st bottle = $6 – $1 = $5
Producer surplus from 2nd bottle = $6 – $3 = $3
Producer surplus from 3rd bottle = $6 – $5 = $1
Total producer surplus = $5 + $3 + $1 = $9
Hence, the producer surplus increases by $5.
5. Consider a market in which Bert from Problem 3 is the
buyer and Ernie from Problem 4 is the seller.
a. Use Ernie’s supply schedule and Bert’s demand
schedule to find the quantity supplied and quantity
demanded at prices of $2, $4, and $6. Which of
these prices brings supply and demand into
equilibrium?
b. What are consumer surplus, producer surplus, and
total surplus in this equilibrium?
c. If Ernie produced and Bert consumed one less
bottle of water, what would happen to total
surplus?
d. If Ernie produced and Bert consumed one
additional bottle of water, what would happen to
total surplus?
Answer:
a)
Price Quantity supplied Quantity demanded
$2 1 3
$4 2 2
$6 3 1
b) At price $4, consumer surplus = $4 and producer surplus = $4. Hence, total surplus = $4 + $4 = $8.
c) If Ernie produces one less bottle, the producer surplus would fall to $3 (from problem 4). If Bert produces one less bottle, the consumer surplus would fall to $ (from problem 3). Hence total surplus would fall to $3 + $3 = $6.
d) If Ernie produces one additional bottle, the producer surplus would fall by $5 – $4 = $1. If Bert produces one additional bottle, the consumer surplus would fall to $4 – $3 = $1. Hence, total surplus would fall to $1 + $1 = $2.
Marginalized individuals in the community are most of the time stigmatized due to their condition.
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Introduction
Marginalized individuals in the community are most of the time stigmatized due to their condition. For this assignment, I chose to interview a homeless man who also happens to be an African American, due to this the man to whose name shall not be closed as he opted his name to be anonymous, he suffers double marginalization. During this interview, I chose four topics which were the main challenges faced by the homeless individuals, and these include; food and shelter insecurity, income insecurity, healthcare problems, and basic needs insecurity. There are multiple challenges faced by the homeless, but for this paper, it was better allocating some priorities as there are other problems faced by other ordinary people in society.
Exploration
Food and shelter are a crucial factor in a person’s life, and it is hard to live without them. Some time we don’t take our thoughts back and think of the less fortunate people, how do they get their daily food? How do they sleep at night? Do they feel secure? Before this interview, I completely had no idea of how these people live, where they get their food as well as how protected they are, due to this, I never had a reason to classify them as marginalized persons. But after listening to John, not his real name, I realized that there are lots of privileges that we people are accorded to and we fail to acknowledge them. In matters regarding food, it is unfortunate that there is no guarantee for any meal for homeless people. One day you might be lucky and get yourself a proper lunch donated by a well-wisher, but this does not continue for the rest of the days. According to John, “Most are the days that I have gone hungry, no breakfast, no lunch, and even dinner, it has been a hell of a situation. Sometimes I get lucky; someone may offer me some few dollars which I will use sparingly enough to take me for a week”.
Being an African American, John has not only higher chances of being denied food but also has a higher probability of being discriminated because he is black. John says that people around are not so much friendly and often ignore him, especially for the whites. He says that although they don’t show the hatred directly, the actions and facial expressions are an indication that he is not wanted. He says, “Some of my fellow homeless people are whites, but they receive better treatment from their fellow whites despite facing the same problem as me.” People experiencing homelessness do not have a place where they can call home and therefore spend their nights in homeless shelters, abandoned buildings, streets, or even accommodated by a friend to sleep in a couch. John is not lucky as he does not have a friend who can accommodate him and thus has a special place in the street where he calls home. There, John has a small mattress and a blanket that helps him fight against the cold nights waiting for the next day. The lack of shelter along with food insecurity that involves not knowing where the next meal will come from only makes it more difficult for the homeless people to get back to their feet and this is the case with John.
Unlike most people who are always assured to have a regular income, the case is different for the homeless. Many people experiencing homelessness do not have some income. However, there are some cases that they may be lucky to have some, but their income might come infrequently. For John, the situation is similar; he has an infrequent income. According to him, “I don’t have a stable income to boost my life, I mostly work as a garbage collector and the little I get help me secure some food. The problem with this job is that garbage collection in this area does not happen on daily basis and thus my income is not stable”. John cannot buy a home or rent because of the infrequent income as saving the money to find an apartment or rent is challenging as most of it is spent on food.
John says that most of the homeless people, especially those who he refers to as his community, are faced with major illnesses, but getting medical attention is the main problem they have been facing. John says that it has been difficult to pay for his insurance health coverage since he does not have enough, for him, food is a priority, and the same case happens for the rest of the homeless. Due to lack of access to healthcare, most of the homeless people die in the street and sometimes left disabled in case of recovery. When asked issues regarding the basic needs, John says that they suffer on chronic basis as most of them are deeply stricken by poverty. Accessing dry clothes, water, food, and warmth is a challenge as it is never guaranteed.
Research
Homelessness is caused by many factors and takes different forms. In this research, I found out that most of the people are homeless because they cannot afford rent (Pasquale, 2016). Most of the homeless people do not have a reliable income and in the event that they are unable to save enough money to cater for the basic needs and at the same time pay rent. The lack of affordable housing is one of the primary causes of homelessness. The government has cut its budget by over 50 percent in recent decades, and this has resulted in the loss of over 10,000 units of subsidized low-income housing every year. From this, the main fact about homelessness that emerges is that most people are homeless because they are unable to raise money for rent.
Domestic violence is another factor that can be attributed to the rising levels of homelessness in the United States (Rollinson & Pardeck, 2018). According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, more than 90% of homeless women are victims of severe physical and sexual abuse. Most of these women become homeless because they escaped abuse making it a contributing factor to homelessness. From this concept, the fact deduced is that domestic violence, whether physical or sexual is a contributing factor to homelessness, especially among women.
The government does not help much in reducing the number of homeless individuals (Lee, McGuire & Kim, 2018). There is enough public rental assistance to help about one out of every four households from extremely low-income. Most of the people who do not receive the help tend to be kept waiting for long in the lists. One of such examples is, Charlotte opened up their applications for public housing assistance for the first time in 14 years and to surprise, more than 10,000 people applied for aid in housing. The fact arising in this case, therefore, is that the government is capable of helping the homeless by providing grant and subsidies, but the fact remains that the government does not work to expectations.
Conclusion
The issue of homelessness has been controversial for decades with people claiming that those who are homeless are in that state in their will, but this is not the case. Various factors are responsible for homelessness that include domestic violence, irregular income, and lack of government support through policies. According to John, I learned that being homeless is like being in hell as they suffer from chronic lack of basic needs such as food, water, and clothing, not forgetting healthcare. I would recommend the government to change policies and at least provide the homeless with subsidies and jobs so that the number of homeless people can reduce from the street. Unfortunately, the number of veterans in the street is high, which as a shame to the government considering that these people dedicate their lives in protecting the nation.
References
Lee, D., McGuire, M., & Kim, J. H. (2018). Collaboration, strategic plans, and government performance: the case of efforts to reduce homelessness. Public Management Review, 20(3), 360-376.
Pasquale, F. (2016). The Disownership Society. Commonweal, 143(9), 24.
Rollinson, P. A., & Pardeck, J. A. (2018). Homelessness in rural America: Policy and practice. Routledge.