Development of the Chinese Economy

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Abstract This paper discusses China's current Economic system and the transition it has foregone to get where it is today; The driving forces leading to China's enormous growth in recent years and whether or not currency manipulation has been a factor; and also where China's economy is going in the foreseeable future. How would you classify China's economic system, as it currently exists? China ...

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Electronic Money as an Alternative to Paper Money

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Electronic money (smart card), The Alternative Way of Paper Money Abstract: Everyday life has suburbanized by the modern technologies and money is not exclusion. The conventional ways of the monetary exchange has improved into electronic ones. Tonight electronic money has become progressively fashionable among people and around the globe. But some implementation of e-money e.g. credit card is not so efficient because it requires an ...

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Recession and VoC Approach Analysis

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"The economic recession that began in 2008 has shown that the Varieties of Capitalism approach has paid far too little attention to the common features of all capitalist economies." Discuss. Introduction The purpose of this essay is to look at the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) approach, and whether since the recession this approach has paid little attention to the common features of all capitalist economies. ...

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Impact of Fraud | Importance of Fraud Prevention

02 Aug 2017 29 Aug 2017

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There has always been a case in our life when we have been deceived or scammed and not only us as individuals but us as a group and this often damages us. No one likes unfair competitions or disadvantages but some people think otherwise and deceive other people in order to get what they want .These people are called frauds as they benefit from others ...

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Free Trade

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Free Trade is imports and exports of goods from countries without any tariff barriers being imposed. Free trade allows prices to be lower for consumers so exports will be increased and there will be a greater choice and variety for the consumer. There are advantages of free trade these are the economy will growth slower and the government will spend less money as they will ...

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Land rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana

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Summary The paper "The profits of Power: Land rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana", put forward by Markus Goldstein (world bank) and Christopher Udry (Yale University), examines the effects of land rights on the investment and farm productivity in the Akwapim area in Ghana. It examines the relationship between social relations, political structures, institution and economic activity in order to understand the economic behaviour ...

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Economic Models for Scarcity of Resources

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Scarcity of resources is one of the basic issue in the economy. Countries all around the world has limited amount of economic resources to fulfill the unlimited needs and wants. Therefore people need to select what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce. These three fundamental questions required to accomplish in the most ideal way by effective utilization of resources. In this ...

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Analysis of Borrower and Lender Households

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Macro Comp Question 1 August 2015 Suppose there are two types of households in the economy. "Borrower" households borrow funds from "lender" households to purchase housing. Borrower and lender households differ in two ways: first, only borrowers value housing, while both types value non-durable consumption. Second, borrowers discount future utility flows more heavily than lenders: 0 < βB < βL < 1. Both borrowing and ...

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Women in SMEs, Politics and Corporate Bangladesh

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A New Outlook of Women in SMEs, Politics and Corporate Bangladesh. Abstract In this paper, I will explore the status of women in corporations, politics and various other industries in Bangladesh. In exploring the multitudinous breakthroughs that women have achieved overtime, I will provide empirical examples of their journey to the leadership positions in Bangladesh. I will present the traditional socio-economic and cultural background that ...

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Assessing Public Expenditure Management in Cambodia

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Cambodia Public Expenditure Management 2015 At the heart of economists is predominant on how to use the resources. When it comes to public resources, management of these resources is the concern of ministries of finance or economy, central banks, and the other international governmental organisations like the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, and so on (Mundial, 1998). Thereby, an approach like public ...

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Impact of Affirmative Action Policies

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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND Throughout the world, various forms of social segregation create different sects of people who live as minority groups within national boundaries. A minority population is an often socially and economically disadvantaged and discriminated group of people. Discrimination is not only a social and moral issue, but also an economic issue. According to a report[1] by the Center for American ...

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Industrialization as an Engine of Economic Growth: India

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A Case Study of India Introduction The process of Industrialization is considered at the core of economic growth in any economy and it is critical for development and progress. Since the Industrial Revolution, secondary sector development is regarded important for mass production, provision of employment opportunities, gaining advantage of technological advancements. The development of industrial sector has had spillover effects and brought about innovative solutions ...

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Energy Consumption and Economic Activity

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Abstract Nowadays, most analysts agree that energy is crucial for the global economic output, as it constitutes the backbone of international economy. Global trade, industry and ultimately our current lifestyle could not be maintained without it. As the world economy improves and new opportunities are created, it is expected that energy demand will increase significantly in the future. In recent decades, its significant role is ...

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Impact of the Mechanical Reaper

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The reaping machine commonly referred to as the mechanical reaper was invented by Cyrus McCormick and Obed Hussey in 1833 and 1834. It followed a major pattern for its uses in the harvesting of wheat and other small grains as well as grasses. The invention of the mechanical reaper drastically changed the lives and yields of grain farmers. In regards to the eventual success and ...

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Impact of the Corn Laws

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The Corn Laws were a series of policies which aimed to stabilize the price of corn by imposing some tariffs and restrictions on corn imports. For example, they prohibited the importation of wheat when the home price fell below 80 shillings a quarter. The Parliament discussed them between the 1815 and 1846. The issue interested all the social classes, as corn was the principal food ...

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Strategies of Money Laundering

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Money laundering is a serious global crime that has been occurring, as historians have noted, for roughly four thousand years. In China, the first instances of money laundering occurred when merchants engaged in trade that was sanctioned as illegal by the state. Merchants were forced to contrive a system that allowed them to conceal their profits from suspicious bureaucrats who would otherwise confiscate their wealth. ...

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Assessing if Governments in Developing Countries are 'small'

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Governments in developing countries are 'too small'? A discussion cross-referring in different stages of development Economic Analysis of the Public Sector Introduction Assessing if governments in developing countries are 'too small' is not a simple task, since many subjective concepts arise from the affirmation. To start with, there are no agreed global criteria to distinguish between a developing and developed country (World Bank 2016). On ...

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OPEC's Determination to Rise Oil Price in the Future

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On February 10th, OPEC acclaimed that they had achieved 90% of compliance that they would cut down 1.8 million barrels per day. OPEC has always been considered Oligopoly. Some of those countries which are oil exporters allied together and formed the OPEC. It was successful from 1973 to 1981. Through their strategy of controlling the output of crude oil, OPEC raised the price from $3 ...

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Effects of Free Trade Agreements on Trade and Growth in US

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The Effects of Free Trade Agreements on Trade and Growth in American Countries: Evidence from the Gravity Model Approach Trade as a driver of growth and development is a concept that has been addressed from different perspectives or approaches for scholars and policy-makers. However, an integrative path was sealed with the creation of the World Trade Organization ...

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Microfinance as a Strategy to Fight Global Poverty

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Critically discuss the following statement: "Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.", Jonathan Morduch, UN Expert Group on Poverty Statistics. Microfinance, as a special arrangement form of financial system, a provision of financial services to poor and low-income groups, has made important contribution poverty alleviation in many developing countries. Scholars have different view on microfinance ...

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An Example of Price Discrimination

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Discuss an example of price discrimination. Economics exists everywhere in our life. It plays an important role in explaining how the world works, how people behave in the society and how the government makes decisions on policies to deal with the relations with other countries. However, today I'm going to talk about something about "price discrimination", which, from my perspective, is the most wise and ...

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Analysis of Optimal Conditional Heteroskedasticity Model

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Abstract: Recently cryptocurrency markets have seen an immense growth. Bitcoin is one of the most popular cryptocurrencies accounting for the highest share of all cryptocurrency markets, even though it still remains rather unclear whether it resembles more to a currency, a commodity or an asset. Previous research has shown that Bitcoin is often used for investment purposes, a fact that suggests the importance of ...

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Do Competitive Workplaces Deter Female Workers?

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  Introduction The gender gap in the labour market exist whether you measure it by wages or promotions to name a few. Galor and Weil (1996) mention negative consequences of this is being "economic growth and fertility." In this area of researching their have been several papers all with different hypothesis's to explain why. The more recent being Niederle and Vesterlund (2007) stating ...

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Trade Patterns of Lithuania

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Introduction Trade among countries can be generally clarified as coming from the specialisation of countries in especially industries as moulded by the country's relative variable endowments. The development of trade specialisation after some time is a phenomenon that frequently reflects profound deep structural changes in the entire monetary system of a nation. After regaining independence in 1990, the reforms essentially changed Lithuania's economic relations with ...

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Trends of Transnational Companies

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In our today's world transnational companies (TNCs) play a crucial role in global economy as they are one of the biggest economic institutions. In this essay, I will give an explanation of what transnational company actually is, describe the main trends of TNCs activity and express my own opinion about transnational companies' future and compare it with the view of other views. To begin with, ...

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Indian Rupee against the U.S Dollars for a Five Year Period

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Indian economy is one of the most promising economies among the emerging markets in the world. The Indian economy underwent noticeable and a consistent growth for at least five to eight years from the beginning of the last decade. Though the present economic situation seems to have a declining trend due to administrative and political failures, Indian economy has the prospective for regaining its strength. ...

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Impact of Brexit on the Construction Industry

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Task Critically analyse the potential effects of the United Kingdom leaving the EU on a specific sector of the construction industry. Choosing just one sector of the construction industry, critically analyse the potential impacts on that sector of the UK's exit from the EU. Use economic theories and current economic data to explain and illustrate your arguments. Maximum 1000 words, excluding references. Presentation of Preliminaries ...

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WLB and WS of Employees in Nepalese Airline Companies

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CHAPTER IV Result and Discussion This chapter provides systematic presentation and analysis of primary data. Different statistical and regression model described in chapter three have been used for the study purpose. This section is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the presentation and analysis of the primary data and presents the results of questionnaire survey. The second section covers the analysis of ...

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How to Succeed in a Man's World

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Many people perceive women's rights movements as tactics to push for female power in society rather than female empowerment. Fundamentally, women's rights can be equated with human rights, and should be treated as so. Even though half of society is comprised of women, a majority of positions of authority and leadership are occupied by men. Women face many types of discrimination on a daily basis ...

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Price Controls and Pharmaceutical Drugs

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It is no secret that drug prices are on the rise. Pharmaceutical companies across the nation are gaining large profits through their hold on such a vital resource. Due to the qualities [m1]that characterize pharmaceutical drugs, companies are able to drive up prices without fearing sufficient decreases in profit. Corporate leaders are aware of their position because drugs are an inelastic good. Therefore, they are able to increase their ...

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The Power of Incentives

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The development of renewable energy technology has significantly contributed to the increase in the amount of renewable energy consumed in the United States. Today, Americans consume more than double the amount of renewable energy consumed in 1975 and the industry continues to grow. In November of 2016, renewable energy made up 10.6% of total energy consumption ("Total Energy Data Analysis", 2017). Current trends in the ...

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Analysis of Chile's Economy

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Introduction This paper looks at the developments that Chile as a country has achieved so far. It employs one on one interviews with citizens of Chile while also conducting research on available literature on whether the World Bank and the IMF have been instrumental in the development of Chile or not. With a population of 17.62 Million people as of 2013, according to statistics from ...

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Financial Implications of Natural Disaster in Pakistan

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3.1. Introduction In order to follow a controlled research process it is essential for a researcher to understand type of his research, and identify the material (data) that he will need to collect, and analyse, to answer his research questions and achieve research objectives (Dawson, 2002). Research methodology is a systematic way to solve research problems and achieve on some result and draw the conclusions. ...

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The Circular Flow Model Analysis

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The circular flow model is used to represent the monetary transactions in an economy. It helps to show connections between different sectors of an economy. It shows flows of goods and services and factors of production between firms and households. The circular flow of income is a model that helps show the movement of income and spending throughout the economy. In the economy, households help provide ...

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Impact of Globalization on Countries

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Globalization is a multifaceted phenomenon. The term Globalization is a controversial term and has been define in several different ways. Some concentrate on the monetary perspective and thus stress the worldwide economy standpoint, though some concentrate on the social parts of this phenomena and how globalization has effected different aspects of their culture, still others concentrate on the political parts of the structure of globalization, ...

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Gender Inequality in Business

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In today's business world, there has been a lot of change in the number of women participating in the labor force. For the past years, the number of women in the workforce rises dramatically. Unfortunately, women are still being treated lower than men when comparing their wages, and gender inequalities in the workplace have been very considerable. Women continue to earn considerably less than men, ...

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Arguments For and Against the Minimum Wage

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Use economic theory and supporting material to discuss economic reasons in favour and in disfavour of an imposition of a minimum wage. After careful and long consideration, the government in UK decided to implant a National Minimum Wage in April 1999. The wage is set to £3.60 per hour and £3.00 per hour for those who are 18-22 years old. (Economics Online 2017)The Low Pay ...

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Impact of Intersectionality on the Labor Force

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Question 1: How does the intersectionality of being a person of color and a woman affect them in the labor force? The term intersectionality is intended to understand the social categories of minorities such as class, race, and gender and how they intertwine and overlap with various interdependent systems of discrimination. It highlights the disregarded experiences of groups of minorities in several ways. Intersectionality provides ...

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Analysis of India's Service Sector

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The services sector is not only the dominant sector in India's GDP, but has also appealed significant foreign security tides, significantly backing to exports as well as provide large-scale employment. India's services sector covers a wide variety of activities such as trade, hotel and restaurants, transport, storage and communication, financing, insurance, real estate, business services, community, social and personal services, and services associated with construction. ...

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Conventional Versus Unconventional Monetary Policy

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Abstract This paper offers information regarding the different types of conventional and unconventional monetary policies. It supplies content that is relevant to how these different policies affect the markets. Specifically, this paper provides information on the three different policies that are used under conventional monetary policies, unconventional monetary policies, how they are compared and when to use the unconventional monetary policies. These policies are in ...

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Advice for Women in Business

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As you are beginning a career in business you will face many challenges as a woman. The best advice I can give you going forward in your career is to network, find mentorship, and demonstrate leadership roles effectively. It is evident that as women we are taken for granted in the business world and for that reason you need to work hard and demonstrate confidence. ...

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Economic Growth Models and Standards of Living

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Essay which examines: 1) Whether economic growth models can explain (and if so to what extent) international variation in the standard of living, and; 2) Whether there is economic convergence, that is, whether poor countries tend to grow faster than rich countries. Introduction Economic is an important factor in the development of every country. For countries, economics symbolize national power. Economic growth brings high income, ...

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Monopolistic Competition Market Structure with Astro Company

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All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio Operator, which is also well known as Astro, is a Malaysian media and entertainment broadcast company. It was founded by Tan Sri Ananda Krishnan and he started its service in Malaysia and Brunei in 1996 when there is the launch of MEASAT. According to Astro (n.d), the Astro provides satellite broadcast service with 22 television channel and 5 radio stations ...

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Decision Making-Waitlist Management

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Decisions are made by people every day. Each decision creates different effects that influences not only the decision maker themselves, but also the people directly or indirectly related to them. For example, the famous Butterfly Effect claims that a subtle movement can eventually cause a huge hurricane is also because within the chain of reaction, different decisions are made by different people according to their ...

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Petroleum in the World Economy

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According to an online-dictionary (merriam-webster.com) petroleum is an oily flammable bituminous liquid that may vary from almost colourless to black, occurs in many places in the upper strata of the earth, is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons with small amounts of other substances, and is prepared for use as gasoline, naphtha, or other products by various refining process. Oil was discovered in ancient times, but ...

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New Public Management and Health Sector Reforms

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Q. What is New Public Management? Explain the concept and application in relation to health sector reforms across developed and developing countries. 1. Introduction In the contemporary era, neo-liberal policies are given weightage attributing to their stance of limiting the work of government in the economy and its ability to introduce efficiency and effectiveness. We now witness an emerging trend of adopting neoliberal policies. The ...

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Does the WTO have a Future?

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Table of Contents An Overview of the WTO Mismatch in stated goals and achieved outcomes Failings in the current trade environment Labour Laws and Sustainability Power Disparity Trade Wars and Large Disputes Increased Preferential Trade Agreements Bureaucracy impeding progress The future of the WTO? Align with more powerful institutions Restructure WTO procedures Intervene in trade negotiations Empower developing nations References   ...

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Fairness under Transaction Costs

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Introduction While the Pareto efficiency criterion can be used to rule out inefficient allocations, it allows for very unequal distribution of welfare among the individuals. To the extent that extreme forms of inequality are seen as undesirable, this suggest a need to complement the Pareto efficiency criterion with some welfare distribution criterion. We do this below by introducing fairness in the analysis. ...

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Poor as Suppliers of Intellectual Property - Analysis

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In their Business Ethics Quarterly article, "The poor as suppliers of Intellectual Property: A Social Network approach to sustainable poverty alleviation", Shivarajan and Srinivasan observe that the base of pyramid model's view of the poor and their approach towards poverty alleviation needs to be extended or altered through an alternative model that considers the poor as the valuable suppliers of intellectual property rather than as ...

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Factors for Asset Price Increase

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Introduction In finance, we buy securities such as stocks or commodities hoping that the asset will increase in value. This is known as a long position. In mathematics, we usually use a positive number to signify this. For example, if there is a share of +1, that means there is a long one share. However, sometimes we borrow a security or commodity from others and ...

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Effect of Health Conditions on Labour Market Status

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Introduction The growth and development of every nation, region, metropolitan area and county depends on the quality of human resources. Tallman and Wang (1994) and Lin (2003) were of the view that quality human resources contribute to long-term economic growth. Forbes, Barker & Turner (2010) defined human capital as a set of attributes possessed by an individual that makes him or her able to contribute ...

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Reasons for International Economy Stagnation 1970s

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Discuss the reasons for the stagnation in the international economy during the 1970's. Introduction: Countries generate economic growth by increasing their production capacity of tradable outputs, by increasing the supply of labour, by reducing their expenses and by increasing the level of education. In other words, a decrease in the rate of production, trade, employment, innovation and an increase in costs/expenses would engender a ...

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The Disruption of Cartel on Oil Prices

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The disruption of cartel on oil prices A cartel is defined as a group of firms that collaborates to make output and price decisions (Smith 2016). The conditions that give rise to an oligopolistic market are also conducive to the formation of a cartel; in particular, cartels tend to arise in markets where there are few firms and each firm has a significant share of ...

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Fiscal Policy in Greece Since the Crisis

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Economics Assignment - Public Finance The conduct of fiscal policy in Greece since the crisis. The most recent financial and economic crisis hit the economy worldwide with Greece arguably being one of the worst effected countries in the European Union. Towards the end of 2009 Greece was in a recession and the countries budget deficit was 15.4% of Greece's annual output[1]. The country was hit ...

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Women in Business: Communication Skills

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Communication skills are key to climbing the corporate ladder and raising status in the workplace. Oftentimes, lack of communication skills will cost an employee crucial opportunities to get what they want such as the wage they believe they deserve or an important idea they would like to get across. Efficient communication also leads to good connections and networks, which are beneficial because it measures an ...

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Impact of the IS-LM Model

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"IS-LMentary"   The IS-LM model is one of the central tenants of the neoclassical movement and shows the relationship between interest rates, the real outcome, the market for goods and services, and the money market. It is one of the basic tools to know the economic policy and for that reason it is a necessary concept of macroeconomics. The X axis represents the level of ...

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The Earned Income Tax Credit and its Effects in the US

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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) was incepted in the year nineteen hundred and seventy-five. The program is a tax cushion meant for both low-income and middle- income working individuals. It is aimed at offsetting payroll and income taxes and in the process, increase the amount of cash available for disposal. It has in recent years expanded considerably and currently; it is the most effective ...

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Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Business

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In order to come up with advice for women in business, it's important to consider struggles that women face within their jobs. Communication, discrimination, wages, and leadership are common conflicts that women face in the business world. Women struggle with communication with superiors, peers, men and other women in the workplace. Conscious and sub-conscience discrimination is also an ongoing issue for women in the workplace. ...

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Recession Definition and Causes

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Per the International Monetary Fund's Annual Report of 2009, the Great Recession is said to be the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression (International Monetary Fund Annual Report, 2009). The Great Recession officially began December 2007 and ended June 2009 and was a combination of different events that occurred sequentially, starting with the bursting of the housing market bubble due to large number of ...

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Introduction to Economics

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Economics seek to make sense of the economic problem; it is a discipline in which people try to figure out how to organize production and economies so that the max number of wants can be met. Economics is the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. Today I'll be talking about 3 different economies and the procedure they use to ...

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History of Occupational Segregation

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Occupational Segregation In the business world, gender discrimination undoubtedly is a hot topic as well as a tough problem. Such kind of discrimination leads to an unbalanced distribution of occupations in the workplace. Occupational segregation mainly involves channeling men and women into different occupations, or disproportionately into different occupations, or at different levels within the same industry. People tend to classify occupations to men's jobs ...

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Qatar National Vision 2030

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The development and achievement of all social and economic aspects in modern communities depend on long-term goals from the country. The leaders must develop their countries by adopting the good working, clear vision and proper planning. Qatar national vision began in October 2008. The vision work to establish a strong link between the present and the future providing a standard high living for all people ...

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Impact of Unexpected Depreciation on Current Account Balance

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Consider a country that has experienced near full employment but, due to the openness of its economy, is unable to deal with its persistent and large CA deficit in its balance of payments. Due to unexpected political events, the country unexpectedly witnesses a depreciation of its currency which analysts believe will help to improve its CA balance. Explain and illustrate how an unexpected depreciation of ...

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Impact of the Economy on Shipping Industry

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Potential Risks, Costs and Returns of the Global Economy in 2017 (and Beyond), the Likely Impact upon Global Shipping Industry and Methods to Take Advantage of Opportunities Whilst Minimising Threats Indian Navy The Global Economy has been in the doldrums in the last decade and has not completely recovered from the financial crisis of 2008. The crisis that began with the sub-prime market in the ...

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Shareholder Value Analysis of GSK

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Executive summary This report serves two purposes. Firstly, it provides a valuation and analysis of GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) using Shareholder value analysis (SVA) method. Secondly, it examines the GSK-Novartis's oncology-vaccines asset swap through the lens of competitive advantage. The SVA method produces an equity valuation of £84,854m for GSK, compared to the actual market capitalization of £77,015m as of January, 17th 2017, the SVA-based valuation ...

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How Competition affects Social Preferences

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Does competition affect social preferences in the context of a bargaining game? Abstract In the first part of this paper, we have a generally review about several typical experiments and their results. Then based on the empirical study, especially the achievement of Güth et al. (1982) and Fischbacher et al. (2009), we have a full discussion on how competition affects social preferences in the context ...

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Hotel Organisational Analysis

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The Organisations Status and Size in Relation to the Irish Economy Dooley's Hotel is a privately owned 3 star hotel and has been run by the Darrer family for nearly 70 years. They are a member of the Select Hotels of Ireland and have won a Certificate of Excellence from Tripadvisor in 2012. They operate in the private sector as a private limited company. Dooley's ...

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Airline Employee Work-Life Balance

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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW A literature review is a concise overview of what has been studied, argued and establishes about a topic, it also entails about the major findings as well as reviewing the tools and techniques used by the previous studies. This chapter provides review of related literature associated with Work Life Balance of individuals employed in Nepalese Airline Companies. This chapter is divided ...

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Major Subprime Crisis

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CHAPTER-III DATA BASE AND METHODOLOGY The excellence of any empirical research mainly depends on the choice of database and suitable methodology. The study covers 10 years time period from 2005 to 2015 when major subprime crisis occurred in the USA and Indian financial sector was mostly exposit to it. Our research work completely dependent on the secondary source of data. So the common limitations of ...

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John Rawls' Maximin Principle and Social Protection Schemes

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1. Introduction Ever growing rate of poverty in various economies around the globe have been alarming for national level governments of different countries. While it has become difficult to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of eradicating long term chronic poverty, national as well as international agencies have been making various attempts to fight against poverty. In such a situation, the role and the significance ...

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Delaware Ecological and Economic Sustainability

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Title of Grant: Ecological and economic sustainability in water, energy, and food in Delaware's changing coastal climate Theme Name: Social, Economic and Policy Dimensions. A) Status and overview. Overarching statement (2-3 lines; max five sentences) The social, economic, and policy dimension team propose research, educational, and outreach activities that seek to solve what has be called the "last mile problem" -whereby technological "solutions" are developed ...

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Impact of Brexit on Marmite

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Option 1: Microeconomics Brexit is a short term for "Britain Exit." On Thursday 23rd June 2016 a referendum was conducted that saw a popular vote cast to have Britain leave the European Union. The European Union is a trade union of 28 European countries that was meant to ensure political and economic partnership within the region. The main objective for which the union had been ...

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Impact of College Degree on Gender Wage Gap

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Can a college degree shrink the gender wage gap in urban China? An empirical analysis based on CHIP 1995 and 2013 Abstract: Based on the data set of CHIP 1995 and 2013, this paper estimates the rate of return to higher education for male and female by using extended Mincerian equation, and investigates how a college degree affects the gender wage gap by exploiting the ...

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Efficiency of Different Market Structures

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Question 1 Since the recent Great Recession of 2007-2009, there has been increasing disillusionment with the free market system. Briefly define "free market system" and identify and describe at least three of its major concepts or attributes. Then, critically analyze the view that the free market system is the best and only realistic alternative for determining the allocation of resources ...

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Impact of Gross Job Losses

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Task 1 Changes in the number of jobs are the net result of decreases or increases in the employment opportunities that are available in all sectors of the economy. The role of Business Employment Dynamics (BED) reports is to track and report such changes within private business establishments. Gross job gains result from the increases in employment opportunities that result from the expansion of existing ...

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A Study of the Efficiency of Indian Banks - A DEA analysis

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Introduction: The structure of Indian banking has evolved greatly over the recent past, and with removal of ₹500 and ₹1000 from circulation, it is hard to fully understand the change in efficiency on the banks operating in India in the future. This study aims to provide a benchmark of efficiency using the DEA approach so that that the results of the future can be compared ...

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Literature on Industrial Concentration

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Review of empirical literature on industrial concentration Suttons work looks at the numbers of firms in the market and their shares of production in the market and the relationship between that in a different oligopoly models where a small number of firms controls the majority of the market share, the study also looks at the difference between horizontally, homogenous and vertically differentiated products. The work ...

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Anthem Cigna Merger Block

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 US federal court blocks $48bn Anthem-Cigna merger Article (https://www.ft.com/content/56a0e9e2-ee6a-11e6-930f-061b01e23655) United States District Court earlier had rejected two of the health insurance industry mergers, including Aetna, Humana, Anthem and Cigna merger. United States Ministry of Justice filed to stop these two acquisitions in July last year. US antitrust officials considered that the acquisition would reduce competitiveness and increase premiums. If these two merger cases approved, major ...

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Impacts and Benefits of Outsourcing

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In recent decades, outsourcing American jobs has become common practice in order for companies to stay competitive in the global market and for them to cut costs to make larger profits. Current research and statistics are also suggesting that outsourcing will continue and even increase in the future as these types of business relationships are becoming more standardized and commonplace in today's global economy. The ...

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Trump's Immigration Policies: Implications

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Since the election of President Trump, American immigration policy has come to reflect an increasingly draconian, anti-immigrant perspective. Between Trump's trademark pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border, his harsh crackdown on deportations as well as his inchoate, legally fraught attempts ban immigration from majority-Muslim nations, the scapegoating of immigrants (both documented and undocumented) has come to represent a fundamental cornerstone of both ...

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Concepts and Definitions in Economics

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Supply and demand Supply and demand are perhaps one of the most fundamental concepts of economics and it is the backbone of a market economy. Demand refers to the product which has more value in the market. Supply represents to the price of a product according to it's value. The correlation between price and how much of a good or service is supplied ...

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Is Microfinance a Neoliberal Fairytale? Article Analysis

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Due to the article ¨Is Microfinance a neoliberal fairytale¨ (Bunting, March, 9th, 2011), microfinance has gone from being a unique aid reserved for poor people to be a common aid for all kinds of people and organizations. Since its creation has expanded worldwide with incredible speed. In just one decade the microfinance has accumulated large amounts of money. According to responses from the economist of ...

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Analysis of Canada's Healthcare System

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Canadian Health Care Canada is regarded as having one of the best health care services systems in the world. All Canadians residents are eligible to health care irrespective of income and health. However, like any benefit, there are a few exceptions that are governed in the policies of the provincial or federal governments. Although this system benefits Canadians immensely, there are still some people debating ...

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Questions and Answers on Canada's Economic Model

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  The Government of Canada has introduced a transition plan to raise the age of eligibility for Old Age Security from 65 to 67 years. Using the issues discussed in this course, discuss the pros and cons of the government's plan. Be sure to include a discussion of Canadian demographics and the implications for the OAS system. Plans to rise the age of ...

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Example of a Sustainable Brewery

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Deschutes Brewery Introduction Gary Fish started the brewery with humble beginnings in 1988 in downtown Bend, Oregon. He named his bar after the Deschutes river that flows through his town. His company philosophy in the beginning was "We want people to feel like this is, in a lot of ways, theirs." In 1993 he had to move in to his first facility, because the ...

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Pakistan and Green Revolution

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Introduction: Literature Review: The agriculture sector has played an important role in the economic development of the developing world and in this regard, the developing world has witnessed the massive progress in crop production over the time span of last half century even under scenario increasing land prices and land scarcity. Consequently, It can be viewed from this fact that cereals crop production has seen ...

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Importance of Inventory Management

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Q1) Point out how inventory has received a lot attention in recent years. Particular attention has been given to management of inventory, which is considered one of the most overlooked sources of hidden cash. Some evidence suggests that better inventory management can potentially account for almost half of the savings from working capital optimization. A1) The inventory received lots of attention in recent years because ...

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Trends in Offshoring

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The advancing digitization of processes and workflows is already influencing today our daily actions - such as the nature of our communication and our social and in particular the functioning of our business and work. How will this be in the future? Speculated and discussed in this context is about numerous possible short- and long-term consequences (Lin, 2016). A central aspect is growing Inequalities on ...

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Impact of Oil Prices on Unemployment

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The dependence on oil has increased in many nations as a result of increasing industrialization and oil has been the factor of many crises as well as many wars. However, this assignment examines how the oil price shocks affect the unemployment rate. Our main objective is to see whether a change in the oil price will affect a change in unemployment rate at a later ...

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Autarky and Economics Questions and Answers

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 Question 1 (a). Write down the problem of an agent that maximizes ex-ante utility in autarky. Find the conditions that characterise the allocation in autarky. Explain how the allocation changes with β. Autarky is a situation where no trading takes place between agents. Each agent needs to provide for his own needs in an autarky, ie he independently chooses the amount of I that he ...

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Benefit-Cost Ratio in Healthcare Services

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  When you think of going to the hospital or calling an ambulance, it is difficult to not think about the costs included with those services. All of the money spent does in fact go to good use in the hospital because the cost to run and maintain the machinery and equipment is very high. It can be so great that supplies are scarce therefore ...

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Effect of FTA on Palm Oil

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LITERATURE REVIEW The effect of the Free Trade Agreements (FTA) multiplication to a nation's general exchange particularly palm oil was portrayed by Ernawati et al. (2006). The reproduction demonstrates that a decrease of tax on export and import affects associated nation. The palm oil request has affected by cost, similar to the cost of substituted items, for example, rapeseed oil and soybean oil; export and ...

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Advertisements on YouTube

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  "How YouTube TV Could Help Google Finally Crack the TV Ad Market"by Mike Shields (2017, March 1)   Advertising is an imaginative and fast-moving industry that utilisations different media outlets to inspire individuals to purchase products and services and change their mentalities, reaches and motivate massive audiences. This industry's growth increases rapidly because of the changing social patterns and economic liberalisation that are happening ...

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Influence of Zakat, Infak and Sadaqah

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THE INFLUENCE OF DISTRIBUTION OF ZAKAT, INFAQ AND SADAQAH (ZIS) ON MUSTAHIQ WELFARE IN INDONESIA   Abstract: Zakat, sadaqah, and infak is a medium income distribution has taught Islam which aims to assist and relieve the burden of the House of mustahik, particularly the poor and needy. The purpose of this study was to examine and measure the influence of zakat, infak and ...

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Examining Canadian Dollar to US Dollar for Five Year Period

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There has been a revolution in US business practices. Several factors have combined to force significant change to the US economy, and the resultant changes on company production costs/techniques and location has forced a bifurcation of the workforce and the business community. The United States has been drawn into the world economy, and as such must compete globally for sales of its goods and services. ...

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Should Individuals be Free to pursue Economic Interest?

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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." Adam Smith's revolutionary Wealth of Nations has ever since driven our understanding of how individual freedom to pursue self-interest can enhance societal wellbeing. It seems ideal, to those who prize personal liberty, that individuals should have the autonomy ...

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Cooperation and Contribution on a framework of Public Goods

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Cooperation and Contribution on a framework of Public Goods Game (PGG) Introduction Essentially, the typical public goods game (PGG) consists in a model of public spending for a community (e.g. roads, pools, bridges), where players could invest their money in the good and the profit would be the surplus redistributed equally for all individuals (Silva, 2007). Many public goods games have been used to investigate ...

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Does Austerity Work?

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Critically evaluate claims that austerity is the most effective strategy to counter a recession. Austerity is one of the most controversial economic policies, not only because there is an ongoing debate between academics and policy makers about its effectiveness and consequences, but also because it effects the life of millions and have caused many political and social turmoil when implemented. The advocate of this policy ...

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Romania Economic Analysis

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Romania is a complex country with mainly influential geographic features. The country does use its own language, Romanian, but also often uses other tongues. Romania and its people are affected by the geographic features and also the political and economic choices and laws made by their type of government and population. Geographic: Romania is located in Europe. It is bordered by the following countries, Hungary, ...

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How Does a Country's History Determine Income Level?

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How far does the ancestry of a country's citizens determine its income level and growth rate? Is it more important than where that country stood in 1500? Introduction While substantial evidence support that quality of institutions affect the development of a country, many literatures also suggest a role for ancestral factors in determining economic outcomes of a country. Spolaore an Wacziarg (2013) mentioned that history ...

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