The Strategies Of Sony For The Playstation

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PlayStation is a subsidiary from Sony Corporation, which means that Sony owns all operations that occur within PlayStation. Sony Corporation was first developed in the 1950s after WWII by two Japanese men that started off as radio repair shop workers. Their names are Masaru Ibuka and Tsushin Kogyo. People thought that these two workers had miraculous talent and skills in electronics and they would most likely apply ...

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Rationale For Public Policy Intervention

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It is almost a truism that the principal rationale for public policy intervention lies in the inadequacies of market outcomes. Yet this rationale is really only a necessary, not a sufficient, condition for policy formulation, (Sidgwick 1901, Cairncross 1976). The "anatomy" of market failure provides only limited help in prescribing therapies for government success, (McKean, 1964).The first known use of the term by an economists was in ...

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Economic Theories: Free Trade And Protection

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In economics, social, and politics, the human experience an increasingly important role of International trade presented throughout much of history from the first images of East-West trade (so-called The Silk Road and Amber Road) to current globalization. In the new item, globalization often goes hand in hand with world trade, international investments, and currency exchanges and their adverse consequences on common people. Economic internationalists favour free trade ...

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Impact Of Government Intervention In India

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In this study the impact of government intervention toward governance and performance of Indonesian state-owned enterprises was investigated, using 114 of total 141 enterprises from year 2006 to 2009 (456 observations) as sample. The study is cross-sectional to estimate how issues of intellectual property assignment, soft budget constraint and political embeddedness affect the economic performance of enterprises. Form of SOEs, number of ownership, government loan, capital injection, ...

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Small And Medium Enterprises In Mauritius

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SMEs are considered as one of the 'driving forces' of modern economies. SMEs' contributions in an economy are in terms of technological upgrading, product and process innovations, employment generation or export promotion. Therefore, helping SMEs to innovate is important not only because it improves their own competitiveness, but also through linkages and knowledge spill-overs with other firms, the entire industry and macro economy. SMEs are a key ...

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Inflation And Oil Prices In Malaysia

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It is observed that more than a decade ago, crude oil prices were between $20 to $40/barrel with its ups and downs throughout the late 90s. The price went up slightly before dropping again after the 1997 Asian financial crisis. In the beginning of the 21st century however, the prices started to climb to almost double that to the average value of $40. Volatility is high as ...

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Unemployment and Supply-Side Policy in the UK

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1. Introduction: Unemployment increased substantially across the world after the sharp oil price rises in 1970s and the collapse of the fixed exchange rates system. But unlike many other parts of the world, unemployment in many European countries never returned to its low levels seen during the golden age after the Second World War. Unemployment has generally been shown to have long-term negative consequences on the individual ...

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The Importance Of FDI In Pakistan

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Foreign Direct Investment or FDI happens when a home country decides to invest directly in a host country in order to benefit from the services provided to produce or market goods (Hill, 2009). FDI occurs when the investors are said to have the possession of the 10% interest or more than that in a foreign business venture (Feenstra 1998). A firm is regarded as a Multinational Enterprise ...

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Pros And Cons Of Foreign Direct Investment

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The unprecedented growth of multinationals is due to the concept of globalisation which has no boundaries or limits. Usually within country's economy there are flows of goods, capital and technology. This leads to high competition in the industry and naturally companies tend to expand their business in order to survive in the global arena. The countries use Foreign Direct Investment as a key to internationalise their business. ...

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Site Selection Process: Intel, Latin America

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Intel is still one of the main players in the semiconductor industry since introducing microprocessors. Its dominant role is, of course, on the one hand due to its first mover advantage but on the other hand mostly due to its high investments in R&D which enables Intel to launch constantly improved microprocessors. However if Intel wants to retain its competitive advantage and its high R&D spending, it ...

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Political Instability and Policy Inconsistencies in Malaysia

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The Malaysian government has provided various incentives to encourage FDI but most of our competitors have also provided similar incentives package (Lim, 2002). So, government had formulated various policies from the mid 2009 including the New Economic Model, 10th Malaysia Plan, Government Transformation Plan and Economic Transformation Plan to attract foreign investment. What are the factors affect foreign investor decisions to invest in our country? One of ...

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Roles And Functions Of Special Drawing Rights

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There are many roles and uses of Special Drawing Rights which created by IMF. In 1969, it is used to maintain the constant exchange rate system that was set by the Bretton Woods. IMF's member countries who want to participate in this system needed official reserves from government or central bank holdings of gold. Not only that, they should buy the domestic currency by using the foreign ...

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Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia Berhad Cbmb

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To monitor the achievement of company's mission and vision, the management team needs to study and analyze the environment of company. One of the environment analysis models that company applies is PEST Analysis. PEST is a framework that helps to scan the macro environment in each company. PEST is acronym in term of Political factor, Economic Factor, Social factor and Technology factors. Some writer will separate the ...

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Challenges to the Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka

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Apparel Industry of Sri Lanka "Garments Without Guilt" 1.0 Objectives of the Assignment Study and analyze a Sri Lankan export oriented apparel industry in order to Identify the nature and the challenges faced by the apparel industry. Identify the domestic and international policies in relation to the apparel industry Make recommendations based on the future trends for the sustenance of the industry. 2.0 The Apparel Industry of ...

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The Problems Faced by Malay Reservations

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Malay Reservation Enactment only prevents Malay from losing their land to non-Malay, but fails to protect poorer Malay peasants from losing their land to richer Malay peasants and landlords. There is no prohibition to a rich Malay to own more than a piece of Malay reservation. This may render the wealth gap becomes further. And such situation is definitely not the genuine intention of the author of ...

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The power of transnational corporations

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Footloose can be defined as free to go wherever one likes or to do as one likes. According to Taggart (2010), he said that "organizations which are flexible and no national loyalties in moving their businesses or operations to anywhere quickly & freely and have different nations of consumers". Transnational Corporation can be defined as a company that operates in more than one country. According to UNCTAD ...

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Arguments for and against price wars

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In this essay I will address the subject of price war in industrialised countries. From different angles I will to try to break down and analyse the idea that 'price war in industrialised countries ' is a 'fact of life'. The basic and underlying concept of a price war is that two or more firms in an industry lower or change their own prices with the knowledge ...

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Export Led Or Import Substitution?

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The emphasis that Countries have placed in their development strategies in favor of either export led growth strategy or import substitution has influenced the evolution of current account balances and growth of output. In the case of import substitution, the costs of these strategies have often turned out to be far greater than expected. In particular, the methods used to shield domestic sectors from foreign competition such ...

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Analysis Of Generic And Branded Drugs

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A Branded drug company invests a lot of money on the research and development of a new drug. After the discovery of a lead compound and before conducting the clinical trials, the company can apply for a patent. Once the patent is obtained, the company gets exclusive rights to manufacture the drug and to exclude other companies from manufacturing the drug. The branded drug company enjoys the ...

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World region and their characteristics

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Introduction: As we all know that the world system is an interdependent system of several countries linked by economic and political competition. The world region emphasize on the interdependence of places and regions around the world where in the regions are further categorized as core, semi peripheral and peripheral regions. Immanuel Wallerstein, the founder of the intellectual school of world-systems theory, characterizes the world system as a ...

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Costs Of Production And Determinants Of Supply

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Supply of a product will increase as the determinants of supply changed. One of the determinants is cost of production. Cost of production is amount of money or assets used to produced a good. When it decreases, the supply of the good will increase. This is because producers are willing to produce more as the cost of production is lower. For example, Mr Wong is a vase ...

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Indian Laptop Industry Analysis

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Introduction - Technology innovation rapidly changes from last decades to in India. The laptop market is expanding rapidly and develop into a one of the most commercial or profitable market in the world. Indian laptop industry have a very large target market and there are more competition between the companies; they are trying to making an innovative product which is according to the customer needs or price ...

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Free Entry And Social Inefficiency

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Free entry and social inefficience, Mankiw and Whinston formally established a two-stage model to expose the conditions under which the number of entrants in a free-entry equilibrium is excessive, insufficient or optimal. In their framework, at the first stage firms make entry decisions, and at the second stage the active firms make product decisions. The important insight of their work is that in a industry with homogenous ...

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The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

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The Ministry of Trade and Industry is an agency which regulates the businesses of the country and issues official documentations to business people wanting to start a business after first obtaining a commercial registration certificate. SAGIA is an agency which promotes and encourages foreign investors to invest in the country. Large scale corporations from the USA, Japan and the UK have invested in oil, petrochemicals and mining ...

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Foreign Direct Investment In The World Economy

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When discussing foreign direct investment, it is important to distinguish between the flow of FDI and the stock of FDI. The flow of FDI refers to the amount of FDI undertaken over a given period (normally a year). The stock of FDI refers to the total accumulated value of foreign-owned assets at a given time. We also talk of outflows of FDI, meaning the flow of FDI ...

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Impact of global economic crisis on automotive industry

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The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 commenced in July 2007 when a loss of confidence by investors in the value of mortgages in the United States resulted in a liquidity crisis that prompted a substantial injection of capital into financial markets (Felton & Reinhart, 2008). On August 9 2007, the world financial capitals were shocked when the European Central Bank injected €95bn worth of funds into the ...

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Demand Supply And Fuel Subsidy On Petrol

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Petroleum is crude oil in its natural state which contains a variety of hydrocarbons, liquid organic and other inorganic compounds (Petroleum.co.uk, 2013). Malaysia is known for being an important producer of petroleum. It has the 23rd largest crude oil reserves in the globe. Among many oil companies found in Malaysia such as Caltex and Shell, Petronas is the only major oil company that is owned by the ...

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Responsibilities And Strategies Of HSBC

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This report mainly focuses on an organization's stakeholders, market conditions and how firms adapt to different business circumstances. An organization needs to identify mission statement, values and key objectives and how these things influence of stakeholders. Environment of business is important to organization. The company should understand their responsibilities and strategies. They should identify the competitive strategies implemented to gain competitive advantage over competitors. An organization should ...

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Demand And Supply Of BHP Billiton

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In this report, BHP Billiton has been chosen as a business organisation to study the factors affecting its demand and supply functions, how changes to demand and supply during previous two years have affected BHP Billiton performance, opportunities and risks future changes to demand and supply function might pose to BHP Billiton. BHP Billiton is world's largest diversified natural resources company. BHP Billiton's portfolio consist of discovery, ...

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Impact Of SMEs On Economic Development

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CHAPTER 4 Small businesses contribute substantially to two fundamentals of poverty reduction - job creation and economic growth (The World Bank Group). In the previous chapter we examined a complete picture of M&A in the theory of banking and at offering economic evaluation and strategic analyses of the process, also high lighting the performance of commercial banks in post consolidation period in Nigeria. It then viewed the ...

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Elasticity Of Demand: Supermarket Sales

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Consumers in a market economy are inclined by various factors in deciding what to buy. One of these factors is price, and the law of demand that defines the typical relationship between price and quantity demanded. It states that consumers will demand particular product at a lower price, and less at a higher price. However, the price elasticity of demand extends this and observes the extent of ...

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Causes of changes in wheat prices

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Since the summer of 2010, we have seen the price of wheat significantly increasing. In this essay I will outline the possible reasons why wheat prices have shot up in recent months and also introduce methods of intervention that can be used to try and contain the price rises. This year has seen irregular weather patterns considerably affecting harvests in many major wheat producing countries. This has ...

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Balance Of Visible And Invisible Trade

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With trade, each country can concentrate on producing goods and services that it produces more efficiently, while trading to obtain goods and services that it does not produce efficiently. As a result, the total output of trading nations can be increased, leading to higher living standards of the residents of those nations. The mutual benefits realised as a result of trade are the gains from trade. 1.1 Theory ...

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Purpose Of International Economics Theories

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Open-economy macroeconomics deals with the mechanisms of adjustment in balance-of-payments disequilibria (deficits and surpluses). More importantly, it analyses the relationship between the internal and external sectors of the economy of a nation, and how they are interrelated or interdependent with the rest of the world economy under different international monetary systems. International trade theory and the policies are the microeconomic aspects of international economics because they deal ...

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Factors affecting the Indian Rubber Industry

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India is one of the largest producer and third largest consumer of natural rubber. India's production of rubber is consistently growing at the rate of 6% per annum. Thanks to the India's booming economy the rubber industry in the country has been growing significantly in strength and importance. India's ever increasing demand for automobiles has been another reason for the growth of its rubber industry. Rubber in ...

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Comparative and Competitive Advantages

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Since M. Porter (1990) published "The Competitive Advantage of Nations", competitive advantage worldwide began to spread and had a significant impact on the theoretical researchers and policy makers around the world. Nevertheless, there are still some shortcomings in people's understanding of competitive advantage. A major misunderstanding of them is that the followers of competitive advantage always tend to consider the theory of competitive advantage and comparative advantage ...

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Analysis Of Tata Steel In India

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The growth of an organization is invariably determined not just by its strategy, but on how quickly it responds to the challenges it may encounters. Over the decades, Tata Steel has successfully countered several challenges that have come its way with innovative responses and continuous improvement that have enabled it to remain stable and even convert some of these challenges into opportunities. It is this culture of ...

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Factors Affecting Urban Poverty

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This research is study about the factors affecting urban poverty in Malaysia from year 1981 to 2011. The variables used in this study are unemployment rate, inflation rate and education. Throughout the 30 years of observation from year 1981 to 2011, the results show that all the independent variables have a significant relationship with dependent variable except for inflation. Hence, we can say that unemployment rate and ...

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Counter Urbanization Cascade

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Evans, A and Eversely, D(1980) found evidence that by 1974 the number of people who are living in rural areas was actually increasing. Evans thinks that the reasons that made businesses choose urban regions to locate their businesses are not there any more that's why businesses and people started moving to rural areas. Before we investigate the impact of the counter Urbanization cascading on the British economy, ...

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Macroeconomic Analysis Of South Africa

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Introduction The financial crisis, in fact, affects the global world since 2008. There is high inflation, increasing unemployment rate, low export, decreasing GDP and so on. In every country as well as in South Africa that also faces the macroeconomic problems, representing by the falling of the output, high inflation, and the microeconomic problems also affect to the economic market. Therefore, the objective of this report is ...

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Globalisation: Japan And China's Economy

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Globalisation is currently happening rapidly around the world, aiming to bring different ideologies and infrastructures from various countries and join them together and turn it to be worldwide interconnected. According to The United Nations ESCWA, globalisation is actually not a new phenomenon since it has already emerged in nineteenth century, but it started spreading bit by bit from the World War I until the third quarter of ...

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The US and UK takeover regulations

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A takeover of a public company is the purchase of one company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange by another. Empirical evidence on takeovers suggests that they generally create value. The question is why have the UK and U.S- two countries with ostensibly similar systems of corportate governance taking different routes when it comes to regulating takeovers. A rich analysis draws from each country's historical ...

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Impact Of Immigration On UAE

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Since 1973 there have been a high number of recruitments in the UAE. The reason behind the increased number of recruitments in the UAE is the exploitation of oil done in the region 1973. Oil has been a huge natural resource serving the economy of the UAE to a great extent. The foreign population accounted in the UAE to a count of 75% from the total population. ...

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Oligopoly And Monopolistic Competition

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There are various firms which lie between perfect competition and monopolist. The two major of this are monopolistic competition and oligopoly. Monopolistic competition can be defined as a market structure which consists of a large number of relatively small firms competing with each other in terms of product quality, pricing as well as marketing the product. These firms usually enjoy the freedom of entry and exit in ...

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Economic policies under Franco’s dictatorship

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The Spanish economy has three well-differentiated stages during Francisco Franco's dictatorship. The first stage (1939-1950) was defined by the economic independence or autarky imposed by Franco's government. After the Civil War, Spain emerged devastated and with alarming economic problems. Most of Spain's economic reserves (gold and foreign exchange) practically disappeared; and given the reduced productive capacity faced by industrial and agricultural sectors, the government adopted anti-market policies ...

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Analysis of Malaysia's fragrance market

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The method to analysis the external environment of Malaysia fragrances market, we can use PESTEL. By using the PESTEL, the perfume firms will know what environment factors are affecting their organization. In the following is showing the 6 types of PESTEL may affect the perfume firms: Political Taxation Policy ( the abolished of import duties on the 300 goods which preferred by tourists and local) In 15 ...

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Impact of Financial Crisis On UAE Airlines

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In the following report we highlight the economy of the UAE and analyze its source of capital. We look at the various sources of income for the Emirates and what role does Tourism and Airlines industry play in the oil-dominated UAE economy. We also discuss the UAE economy prior to the financial crisis and how it performing in the international market again, focusing on the Tourism and ...

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The Olympic Games' Employment Opportunities

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The primary objective of this dissertation was to find out the socio-economic benefits and impacts of the London 2012 Olympics for London since development and regeneration began in 2007. As such, this dissertation aimed to identify the associated advantages and any negative impact of being the host of an Olympiad, but at this stage of the research made no forecast about the scale of impact. As a ...

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Specialization And Economies Of Scale

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According to theory, economic growth may be achieved when economies of scale is realized; this is usually attained through specialization. Adam Smith identified specialization and division of labor in 1763, in the beginning of his book entitled, "An inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations." Adam Smith, considered the father of modern economic theory, identified the division of labor and specialization as the ...

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Elasticity Of Supply Short Run And Long Run

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(Geoff Riley et al. 2006) There are determinants in price elasticity of supply. One of the determinants is time period. In time period, it is divided into short run and long run. Short run is meant by a period of time short enough so that the quantity of one or more factors of production used to produce a specific good cannot be changed. The place capacity of ...

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Inflation: A Monetary Phenomenon?

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Meaning : Inflation is a general rise in price level of economy as a whole. Demand is greater than supply. Worth of money came down . Purchasing power of money came down. Aggregate demand = consumption+Investment+Govt. Expenditre. Thus, Inflation is statistically measured in terms of percentage Increase in the price index, as a rate per cent per unit of time- usually a year or a month. NATURE: ...

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Automobile industry in Malaysia and India

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Firstly, International Business is the performance of trade and investment activities that have been done by firms across national borders when it takes place between two or more countries. It is also known as cross-border business. Individual firms, governments and international agencies are involved in the international business transactions. The assets that exchange by firms and nations mostly are physical and intellectual assets which including products, services, ...

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Electricity Energy Crisis In Pakistan

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ABSTRACT Energy Crisis in Pakistan is one of the severe challenges the country is facing today. Electricity, gas, water, fuel is essential part of our daily life and its outage has severely affected the economy and overall living of ours. Thousands have lost their jobs, businesses; our daily life has become miserable. Pakistan is currently facing up to 18 hours of electricity outage a day, is expected ...

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Fixed Versus Floating Exchange Rate System

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An exchange rate is the price's rate at which one countrys currency trades for another on the foreign exchange market. This rate differs from country to country and it is depends on many economical variables, the main of which are the general balance and imbalance of economy, monetary and fiscal policy, the state of the budget, international policy, the condition and development of the country's economy compared ...

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Hospital Industry Case Study: Apollo Hospitals

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The hospital industry is one of the most important components of the value chain in the healthcare industry. The industry is growing at the rate of 14% annually. The size of the Indian healthcare industry is estimated to grow at Rs. 1,717 billion in 2007. It is estimated to further grow by 3,163 billion at 13% compounded annual growth rate. The private sector accounts for 80% of ...

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The Foreign Direct Investment In India

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The economy of India is the third largest in the world as measured by purchasing power parity (PPP), with a gross domestic product (GDP) of US $3.611 trillion. When measured in USD exchange-rate terms, it is the tenth largest in the world, with a GDP of US $800.8 billion (2006). Is the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 8.9% ...

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The Monetary And Fiscal Policy Of Iceland

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The country of Iceland is the smallest economy within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with a gross domestic product (GDP) in 2007 of about $11.8billion. The Icelandic economy has been based on marine and energy resources. More recently, Iceland has developed a very strong services sector, which accounts for two-thirds of the economic output. Since the start of the decade i.e. from 2000, Iceland ...

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The express mail industry structure

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The express mail industry has expanded exponentially in recent years. Despite domestic and international competition from 6 other competitors, three top competitors have held 85% of the market. In 1996 alone, individuals and organizations consumed $16-$17 billion dollars worth of services for expedited shipments within the United States alone. The apex of service was the ability to fulfill the promise of overnight shipping accompanied with next-morning delivery. ...

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Growth Rate Of National Income

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National income can be defined as the part of the objective income of the community including income derived from abroad which can be measured in money i.e the money value of goods and services which is produced and made available for consumption in an economy for a particular period which is usually a year. National income is usually denoted as Y and is measured in countries to ...

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Issues of Oceanview Development Corporation

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This report analyses the issues that Oceanview Development Corporation is facing with regards to their endeavor to bid for the property that will be sold by sealed bid at a county tax foreclosure. The two pivotal points of chance events are whether Oceanview will have the highest bid and if the referendum for the zoning change will be rejected by the voters. This is of utmost importance ...

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Why Some Nations Are Rich And Others Are Poor

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Why are some countries rich and others poor? And to this question, only history can give us some guidance to the answer because past societies constitute thousands of natural experiments with known outcomes. According to many readings, the answer to the question involves both external and human factors. In Mancur Olson's essay, "Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich, and Others Poor," he ...

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Environmental Analysis Of Leisure Industry

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Government intervention has a huge influence on the regulation of firms operating in the leisure goods industry, and on the spending power of consumers and other businesses. The government needs to reform the UK tax system to make it more competitive, simpler, greener and fairer. Major tax reform is necessary to enhance the international competitiveness of the leisure goods industry and the UK in general. Reforms to ...

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Bargaining power of suppliers

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Introduction In this report Ryanair has been analysed in the European airline industry which is considered to be a low cost airline market leader with no frill operations. Ryanair operates a low-fares scheduled passenger airline serving short-haul, point-to-point routes primarily between Ireland and the U.K. In operation since 1985, the Company began to introduce a low cost operating model under a new management team of Michael O' ...

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Protectionism In India, China And Brazil

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Trade relations among the world's major industrial nations have taken a turn for the worse during the past two decades and are now threatened by new and more dangerous forms of trade restrictions, collectively known as the "new protectionism." This phrase, coined in the mid 1970s, refers to the revival of "mercantilism" whereby nations, particularly the industrial nations, attempt to solve or alleviate their problems of unemployment, ...

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Economic Development and Environmental Disaster

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The controversial issues arising from the correlation between economics and the environment too often conceptualise economic growth as a trade-off for environmental degradation (Lee, Chung & Koo 2005, para.1). It is difficult to refute that the implementation of a 'growth-orientated' economic model has sacrificed environment for profits; however, growing social awareness and the development of sustainable technology are shaping the landscape to ensure that economic development does ...

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An analysis of Globalization

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Introduction Globalization is defined to be the dynamic process of growth of all national linkages due to the enlargement and deepening of transnational linkages increasing due to the diversification of economic, political, social and even cultural rights. However, it is important to highlight that problems associated can become global as well, rather than just within the nation. Some people condemn globalization while others are all praise for ...

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Foreign direct investment in Malaysia

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Political Instability & Policies Inconsistency The Malaysian government has provided various incentives to encourage FDI but most of our competitors have also provided similar incentives package (Lim, 2002). So, government had formulated various policies from the mid 2009 including the New Economic Model, 10th Malaysia Plan, Government Transformation Plan and Economic Transformation Plan to attract foreign investment. What are the factors affect foreign investor decisions to invest ...

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Factors That Determine Demand And Supply

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Introduction The market of our choice is the airline industry in Malaysia. The main commercial airline companies in Malaysia consist of Air Asia, Malaysia Airline System Berhad (MAS), Firefly, a subgroup of MAS, Berjaya Air as well as a few other smaller companies in East Malaysia. Factors that determine demand and supply Price is a major factor that plays a part in determining the demand and supply ...

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An analysis of Free Trade

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UK can export 30 units of X for 30 units of Y from USA. Hence moving to point 'E'. Similarly USA can export 30 Y units for 30 X units from UK, which leads to both countries moving to 'E'. As a result both countries gain from economies of scale as both UK and USA gain 10 X units and 10 Y units, therefore reducing costs and ...

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Backward Bending Supply Of Labour

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Introduction In the traditional Law of Supply and Demand, if the price increases, the supply will also increase. But it may actually have the opposite effect on the labour supply if there is a backward bending supply of labour. That is, increase in wage intends to increase the supply of labour. This essay will focus on the reason that causes the supply of labour bends backward by ...

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The Economy And The Factors Of Production

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General Information and Demographics "Singa-Pura" which means The City of the Lion is from where Singapore derives its name. The official name is The Republic of Singapore. It is a diamond shaped island in South East Asia, having an endless coastline of 193 km, surrounded by 60 smaller islets which are a part of the country. This 'City-State' is located in the southern tip of the Malay ...

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Analysing The Gross Domestic Product

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This essay aims to explain the definition of Gross Domestic Product, the calculation of GDP, differences between real GDP and nominal GDP and limitations of GDP. The main issue in this subject, real GDP indicates the standards of living correctly, if it is not the inadequate sides of real GDP when measuring the welfare of society. Recent years, the GDP has been argued with its' deficient sides ...

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Impact of international law on trade

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BUSINESS LAW A business has to be built within a defined set of framework regardless of its nature and where it is conducted. This structural framework has to be structured on law which provides the various options for the proprietors of the business to choose the best suited to their particular needs. The particular needs of the business proprietors relates to issues such as the business flexibility, ...

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Smith's Work On The Division Of Labour

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A world-renowned book titled 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' was written by Adam smith at the end of the eighteenth century. This book, which is also known as 'The Wealth of Nations', remains an influential literature to date and is well-known amongst academics. The first chapter of this book is dedicated to a detailed discussion about the division of labour. ...

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Economic recovery program of Ghana

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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction This chapter attempts to provide an overview on the problem statement of the entire research work, objectives of the study, relevance of the study, methodology applied as the research unfolds and the organization of the study. 1.1 Background Ghana is one of the fast emerging developing countries in West Africa with twice the per capita output of the poorer countries in West ...

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Mercantilism and theories of international trade

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During the period 1400-1800, a group of writers appeared in Europe was concerned with the process of nation building who were famously known as Mercantilists. Until the end of the eighteenth century, most statesmen in Europe believed in mercantilist approach to trade and particularly it prevailed in England during first Queen Elizabeth's time (1558 to 1603) and Queen Victoria's era (1837 to 1901). Much of the underpinning ...

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Large Listed Companies In Malaysia

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IJM Corporation Bhd is one of the large listed companies in Malaysia and it is a heterogeneous conglomerate. Its core business activities encompass construction, property development, manufacturing and quarrying, infrastructure concessions and plantations. However, our report focus on its construction area only. 1.10 Objectives The objective of the assignment is to practice the students to apply and relate the strategy knowledge learned. They can understanding better on the ...

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Evian bottled water brand in the US market

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1. Case overview: Although it has achieved great success in other part of the world, the Danone and its Evian bottled water brand are facing significant pressure while handling the U.S. market. After the cola giants Coke and Pepsi set up their own bottled water brands, Dasani and Aquafina, Danone is the number four in the U.S. market with only a 3.5% market share in 2001. ...

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Environmental factors that influence TCM

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Environmental (PEST) Analysis This chapter will focus on the analysis of the environmental factors that influence the business of TCM in general, and its effect on the Group business operation and strategies. An analysis of macro environments such as PEST analysis will help to identify and understand the current situation of a company according to the external factors and help formulate strategy for further development if any ...

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Rising house prices in China

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There are several factors involved in our conclusion. First of all, although the housing market has been heated up as the rapid expansion of Chinese economy, The Chinese economy expanded 9.6 percent in the third quarter of 2010.Accoording to the World Bank, from1989 until 2010, average annual GDP Growth of China was 9.30 percent reaching an historical high. Although the price of housing has almost doubled since ...

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SADC Economic Development

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SADC Economic Development Overview of the SADC 3.1 Introduction SADC has been in existence since 1980, when nine states in Southern Africa formed the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) with the aim of coordinating development projects in order to lessen economic dependence on the then apartheid South Africa. On 17 August, 1992 the organisation was transformed from a Coordinating Conference into a Development Community giving the ...

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Economy Of The Kingdom Of Thailand

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Chapter 1: Introduction. The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. Thailand is the worlds 50th largest country in terms of total area with a surface area of approximately 513,000 km2 (198,000 sq miters), and the 21st most-populous country, with approximately 64 million people. About 75% of the population is ethnically Thai, 14% is of Chinese origin, and 3% ...

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The Wine Industry In Australia

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Introduction For its quality and customer value, Wine industry in Australia is famous around the world and has a long history for it due to many physical, social and human environmental reasons. For foreign companies, it is not an easy task to enter in to its wine market. This report will use Porter's Diamond of national advantage for an analysis of the current developing situation of Australian ...

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Factors Forn The Golden Age In Europe

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1939 - 1945 was one of the toughest periods in human history as economies and whole countries were ravaged by the conflict. All across Europe output and production was only a fraction of the pre - war numbers. Per Capita income dropped 25% in the largest Western European countries; Industrial output fell 20 - 40% across countries (Germany, France, Italy etc) and agricultural output was only 4/5ths ...

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The Reason Of The Market Failure

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In connection to the above statement, examine why markets sometimes fail to allocate resources efficiently, how government policies can potentially improve the market's allocation, and what kinds of policies are likely to work best. Your answer has to be supported with suitable current examples and evidences. In the market, there are many different variables that can affect the market condition. The government cannot make sure that can ...

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The Effects Of Corporate Welfare To Society

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"In general, corporate welfare is the funding of companies or individuals while neglecting others. This funding comes inform of business grants or financed loans, which do not require any exchange of either services or goods to the government. Many citizens do not have an idea of the huge sums of taxpayers' funds that goes to these programs known as corporate welfare. Despite the fact that there have ...

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The Gender Pay Gaps

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The U.K gender pay gap is nowadays one of the highest of Europe. Men earn 21, 1% more than woman, based on the average difference between gross hourly earnings (figure 1, statistics.gov.uk, 2009). Even if the pay gap between men and women has fallen quite dramatically over the past 30 years, the headline masks some less positive developments in recent years. UK is used to each generation ...

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Labour Shortage in Construction Industry

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3.1 Introduction Construction field is getting more essential around the world. Problem of labour shortage has bringing lots of consequences and economy of Malaysia will being the first signs of significant negative impacts of labour shortage. The major impacts such as construction costs increase, quality of work and the speed of construction will be slow down. In this era of welfare reform, we have to pay more ...

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Inflation-Deflation and Macroeconomics Objectives

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As we all know that Each and every country or economy must face some or the entire macroeconomics objective. The macroeconomic objective means that all the aims that affect the country or economy as a whole. These macroeconomic objectives are the main objectives and aim of the government whether the economy is free market economy or planed/commend economy. The government keeps this objective in order to affect ...

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International Business Environment In Poor Countries

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In the context of a business firm, environment can be defined as various external actors and forces that surround the firm and influence its decisions and operations. International Business environment includes the social, political, economic, regulatory, tax, cultural, legal, and technological environments. Poorest countries are those countries which are extremely poor & less economically developed country, with huge external liabilities. The GDP of poorest 48 nations is ...

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Monopolistic Competition And Market Structure

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Industries are traditionally divided into four categories depending to the degree of competition that exists between the firms within the industry. Perfect competition exists when there are many firms competing with none of them has the power to influence the price. At the other extreme is monopoly, which happens when a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product ...

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The tobacco industry: Price and demand

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Overview Nowadays, the tobacco industry is one of the profitable industries which government and company provided can earn with. In economic point of view, the tobacco is important as a part of microeconomic and macroeconomic. Introduction Benefits of tobacco to the economy: Greater consumer spending: The tobacco industry argues that it can satisfy employment field and also government in case of revenue. However there are two points ...

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Demand side and supply side policies

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Demand side policies: Economic policies of fiscal & monetary to influence AD Supply side policies: Microeconomic policies focusing on enhancing the long run output potential in the economy. The policies target specific markets such as labour, capital & competition. Policies are market orientated or interventionist. Fiscal policies : Policy that manipulate/use government spending & tax rate to influence AD of an economy. Monetary policies: Policy that manipulate/use ...

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What Is An Emerging Market?

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Emerging markets countries have much larger impact in the world economy. Because of fast growing in economies and most countries of the world are emerging economies. In this paper, China, India, and Brazil are used to represent emerging markets countries. Since they have significant characteristics and are the largest emerging markets. They are the fastest-growing economies within their relative regions and also in the world. The countries ...

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Stock Market Crash Of 1929

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The stock market crash of 1929 was one of many stock market crashes throughout the history, but it definitely was one, if not the most important one in the history. First of all, it is important to know what the stock market is and what role it plays in our lives, both at the time of the Great Crash and now. After the significance of the stock ...

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Aggregate Supply Curve In Malaysia

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Since 1970, Malaysia has transformed itself from raw materials producer into rising multi-sector economy. Under present Prime Minister, Malaysia is trying to reach high-income status and to increase value-added production series by attracting investments in Islamic finance, technology manufacturing, biotechnology, and services. The government is trying to enhance local demand and lessen economy's reliance on exports since exports remain an economy major initiative. As oil and gas ...

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The Reasons And Solutions Of Developing Gap

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Now with the open world market, many people increase confidence that the developing gap between developing and developed countries. However the opposite reality shows that after World War Two, this developing gap has been increasingly widened. According to a British expert, if developing countries' income remains at the level of 5% of developed countries', then the absolute gap in income needs 40 years to be eliminated. (Robert ...

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Aspects of microeconomics and macroeconomics

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On this assignment will be looking into different aspect of microeconomics and macroeconomics, will be taken into consideration the definition and concept of the whole question as follow below. Part 1 (Micro section) Q1 To help understands by defining Demand that is the quantity of a good which consumers want, and are prepared and able to pay for. In this case the demand of organic food and ...

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Globalization: Morocco's Economic Sectors

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Globalization, as a term, is very often used to refer to economic globalization that is integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and spread of technology. Globalization trade, outsourcing, supply-chaining, and political forces have changed the world permanently for good and bad. The pace of Globalization is speeding up and will continue to have an impact on business. ...

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Minimum Price Control On Alcohol

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Drinks, a gesture of the hospitality, especially the alcohol, has long been a part of social occasions, for example, the parties, wedding, even the funerals. And 70% alcohol becomes more affordable over the last 30 years. Currently, the wine sales of Scotland occupy the eight places in the whole world. According to some surveys, in Scotland, there are almost 40,000 people who are taken to the hospital ...

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