University Degree: Economic Systems
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The EUs policy in the past has been strongly orientated towards market liberalisation. Using examples discuss the likely dangers of greater interventionism by the member states in recent times
Therefore numerous American real estate banks have to claim high write offs and finally to go into an insolvency. The US real estate crisis is then the beginning of the finance crisis, because this subprime credits have been contra financed by identifying revolving funds. The requirements of the source against the finance slave have been bundled to bond packets and as asset packed bond sold to especially investment banks and hedge-funds. After the illiquidity of the debtors the buyers have to available high write offs.
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With reference to the literature on poverty and development, and using statistical evidence on a developing country on your choice, discuss what progress has been made in reducing poverty in your chosen country over the last 15-25 years
India's Poverty Gap Ratio gives us a better understanding (See appendix 1). India's PGR fell from 13.6% in 1994 to 10.5% in 2005.8 Furthermore, the total population below the poverty line has fallen from 36% in 1994 to 28.6% in 2000.9 The CIA World Fact-book puts this figure at 25% in 2007.10 Whilst the absolute levels of poverty are decreasing, there is increasing disparity between urban poverty and rural poverty. Academics also acknowledge that India 'has recorded impressive gains in many areas and significant reductions in the intensity of poverty, but there is still much ground to cover in terms of ending human deprivations.'11 Finally, there needs to be a clear distinction made between Poverty Alleviation (PA)
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The rise of the Chinese economy over the past twenty years has been meteoric and its influence on the world economy has also increased during this time. Analyzing these changes through statistics and graphs is an interesting and beneficial exercise.
2.2 There is a significant difference between GDP and GNP, approximately $4.2 trillion. 2.3 Chinese GNP is greater than GDP, as it takes into account all profits generated by Chinese people and business abroad, whereas GDP only accounts for the value produced within Chinese borders. 3.1 Year Consumption (US$ Billions) 1990 217 1994 316 1998 597 2002 866 2006 1388 2009 2389 3.2 In 1990 Chinese consumption was quite low for a country of its size and population. Throughout the nineties there was a steady and impressive increase. Between 1990 and 2002 consumption quadrupled from $217 billion to $866.
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Assess with refrence to a particular developing country how agriculture has helped its developement
Brazil's agricultural sector is broken up into two geographic parts; the southern part gifted with frequent rainfalls better infra structure and higher levels of technological advancement and with more experience farmers. Moreover, the northern part of Brazil near the Amazon, which does not have as much rainfall with soil that, isn't the best for farming and is less urbanized so has less technological resources. Using these points further on in the essay I aim to highlight how the success of Brazil's agriculture came about and the importance it has on the Brazilian economy.
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Designing a Future Academic Library
Organisational requirements can be derived from strategic plans. Thus, strategy should involve all management plan and relevant information. A library has the strategy as well. In recent years, strategies are very important to every university libraries, which even determine their existence. How to survive the impact of information revolution and information technology is placed on the agenda seriously now. Strategy commonly includes the analysis of internal and external environment, stakeholders, resources etc. in current situation. Through the analysis, business environment, values and objectives and resources will be well understood and business requirements will be well captured. In this section, the essay will analyse what strategies should current libraries have for surviving the impact of high technology; organisational requirements will be captured during the analysis as well.
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Has Urbanisation developed too fast?
Infant mortality in urban areas has been significantly less than in rural areas.(3) LDC rural-urbanisation migration has differed historically to that of more developed countries. Developed countries shifts have been more balanced, whereas LDC migration has been pulled towards the larger cities and it is thought that it won't be too long until mega-cities start to spring up in the developing world.(2) The cost benefits of locating in cities are known as agglomeration economies. LDC governments have tended to pursue policies that favour urbanisation; this is known as the urban bias which further widens the rural-urban gap.
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Business Policy
Technological environment * Environmental environment * Legal environment Industry analysis * Power of Customers * Power of Suppliers * Threat of New Entrants * Threat of Substitute Products * Rivalry Importance to customers in winning orders Performance of competitor supply chains again Market Segmentation and Opportunities Evaluation of identified issues and impact on business strategy Conclusion References Introduction Insurance business operations play an especially important role for the development of social economic. Business insurances are considered as protection economic organizations, individual and it can be attract the resources investment from overseas.
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Marketing Management
Therefore, the differentiation can be considered as the most effective way for an organization to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. In the book "Contemporary Strategy Analysis" of Grant (2005), Mr. Goizueta, Coca-Cola's former Chairman, believes that if the way to sell real estate is location, the way to sell products will be differentiation. So, what is differentiation? In the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2006) there are two differentiation's definitions. The first one is "the act or process of differentiating". And the second definition indicates differentiation as "development from the one to the many, the simple to the complex, or the homogeneous to the heterogeneous" In the book "Differentiate or Die", Trout (2000)
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Marketing Management
Each type of goods, consumers have many different options on types and brands of goods. So customers can choose what goods the most attractive products to satisfy most needs and interests. In this situation, the requirement of businesses to strive to affirm its position is very necessary. But it is also a pressure on managers because they do not know how to maximize production efficiency. What and How to do likely are big question for all businesses. One of the strategies that managers are most interested in is product differentiation strategy.
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Marketing Management
In reality, brand is the concept that exists in customers' perception (Tai and Chew, 2008). Brand differentiation will make positive impression to customers when they view the company. If customers cannot find the differentiation between the company's brand and competing brands, they will buy products with lowest price. Therefore, the key of differentiation is "brand" (Kotler et al., 2006). For example, Evian is doing business as selling water. Water is a commodity available everywhere - 80% of the earth is covered by water. But water of Evian is supplied from Alps Mountain. And then mineral is added to this water.
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Hog Industry in USA
Briefly, the agri-industrial meat production processes that has established in North America has been defined as intimidating the continuing sustainability of small town and rural societies (Biz, 2009). Although some of these consequences happen in both significant-scale production and processing, we will observe them separately. Societies with significant scale-meat production plants have all encountered similar challenges: expansion, often fast and explosive; people mobility; costs related with dramatic growths in cultural and linguistic multiplicity; increasing rates of offense, health, and social issues; strains on communications and social services.
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Analysis of Italian Serie A Players Salaries in Correlation to their Personal Performance
One reason for the introduction of salary caps is to regulate fairness with in leagues. A high performing athlete brings in great amounts of fans and with the fans comes increased yearly revenue for the clubs. This should not be an issue although, this creates unfair advantages. Clubs with high performing athletes and great amounts of yearly revenues drives the prices of players higher than they should. So, the teams with money to spend will outbid small market teams and give in to high salary requests.
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E-Business - Online Auction
The relative ease with which portfolio investment can enter and exit countries has been a major contributing factor to the increasing volatility and instability of the global financing system. There is an important distinction between FDI and FPI. FPI is investment by individuals, firms, or public bodies in foreign financial instruments. FPI does not involve taking a significant equity stake in a foreign business entity. FPI is determined by different factors than FDI and raises different issues. 2.1 Forms of FDI FDI exists in many forms. The most common classification is based on the investment type in the foreign economy.
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The Role of expatriation in MNC International Assignments
(Hodgetts and Luthans, 2003) The literature identifies three main reasons for why MNCs send out expatriates: position filling, transferring technical skills and knowledge; management development, giving international experience to national managers; and organisation development maintaining the structure and decision processes of the parent company (Hamill, 1989; Harzing, 2001; Baruch et al., 2002; Morgan et al., 2004). MNCs should recognise that selection and subsequent management of expatriates will differ, depending on the reasons behind the expatriation. Perhaps the most persuasive argument as to why expatriates are needed in MNCs is due to knowledge transfer (Bender and Fish, 2000; Harvey and Novicevic, 2001; O'Keefe, 2002; Fish 2004; Crocitto et al., 2005; Shih et al., 2005).
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Interest Rate report
If interest rates are lower, they may have an increased demand for borrowing activities. In general, the lower the interest rate the more money will be demanded at that rate. Cost of Operations Interest rates paid and earned affect the cost of operating expenses. In a business the goal is to keep operating costs low to increase the revenues and profits generated from the sale of vehicles or products sold. The higher the interest rate paid on a loan, the higher the operating costs will prove to be. If costs are declining having liquid cash available may help the business to purchase products and materials at a lower cost.
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Discuss the benefits of trade and specialisation and the reasons why some countries impose restrictions or barriers to international trade. Wherever possible, use examples to illustrate your answers
These firms produce or supply a service which is relatively different from its rivals within the market; their products are differentiated, examples include builders and restaurants. As a result, firms can have some control over price, for example, a burger can be bought for 99 pence at a MacDonald's take away, whereas in some restaurants they can cost between 7 and 10 pounds. Even though the firms have some control over price they are still known as price-takers. Their demand curve would be downward sloping but relatively elastic.
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Proposal to Fix America's Health Care System
This proposal suggests a one-payer system that promotes wellness and prevention. One-payer systems flourish in many developed countries. In fact, according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not guarantee universal coverage, and because of this, 18,000 people in the United States die every year from a lack of health insurance--that's two people every hour (4). We have the most expensive system in the world per capita, but we lag behind many developed countries on virtually every health statistic you can name.
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strategy of aldi in the french market
Firstly, I am going to analyze the external environment of Aldi thanks to PESTEL and Porter's five forces. This part will summarize too the opportunities and the threats. Secondly, the next part will include the weaknesses and strengths of Aldi's strategy using the Porter's value chain. TASK A: External environment of Aldi : Porter's five forces analysis http://www.sarkozy.fr/download/?lang=fr&mode=programme&filename=monprojet.pdf ; http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&id=301 ; http://lekiosque.finances.gouv.fr/AppChiffre/etudes/tableaux/apercu.pdf ; They permit to simulate a competitive situation. Barriers to entry To enter into the market requires an important investment because it is very difficult to open only one supermarket.
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Economics of Death penalty
Almost 12 states do not have death penalty but do have life imprisonment laws. This life imprisonment can sometimes be without parole. The rest of the states have different death penalty laws for different kinds and degrees of offences. About 200 to 300 criminals and prisoners are sentenced to death. The use of death penalty as a punishment rose to its heights when the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Since then more than 600 executions have place in US.
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price elasticity of demand
The demand elasticity is 'low' if it is a small number and the quantity demanded is insensitive to the price, ('high' or 'low' refer to the size of the elasticity ignoring the minus sign) (Begg, Fischer, Dornbusch 2008:45). The demand elasticity falls when it becomes a smaller negative number and the quantity demanded becomes less sensitive to the price. Elasticity refers to the degree of responsiveness in supply or demand in relation to changes in price. If the elasticity of demand is greater than or equal to 1, meaning that the percent change in quantity is greater than the percent
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Are trade unions in terminal decline?
Unions face different organizational problems in different parts of the economy. Furthermore, unionization patterns differ remarkably, both in levels and trends, between Europe and the United States, as well as within European countries. Finally, experts have dissimilar opinions about the future of the negotiating between firms and workers and the measures that should be adopted. Role of trade unions Before exploring the reasons that brought on the recent decline of trade unions, it is fundamental to briefly summarize the ways in which these institutions affect the micro- and macro- economy. Some people view labour unions as forms of monopolies that, while benefiting their own members, impose substantial costs on other members of society.
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McDonald's organizational systems and sub systems. How has McDonalds transformed the consumer's dining experience
Industrial engineers continually measure and evaluate production processes in an effort to improve efficiency. Continual monitoring of internal and external conditions is necessary to facilitate organizational development and adaptation while increasing the likelihood of long-run survival. Managerial subsystem. The managerial subsystem directs, coordinates, and adjusts functioning of the other subsystems to facilitate short, intermediate, and long-run goal achievement. This regulative and adjustment activity is largely achieved through effectively managed communication. Managers develop methods for gathering information about the operation of various subsystems, symbolize their conclusions with others during problem-solving sessions, and communicate directions for adjustment to specific persons across the subsystems.
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The implementation and effects of the national minimum wage in the UK
It is estimated that 90% of all countries have some kind of minimum wage legislation. Statutory minimum wages were first introduced nationally in the UK on the 1st April 1999 to prevent unduly low pay and to help create a level playing field for employers. It was also introduced to tackle the problem of poverty. Poverty is a problem because it has a negative effect on health and well-being, housing and homelessness, educational attainment and crime. Those most affected by low pay are women, part-timers, younger employees, peripheral workers (seasonal or casual workers), people with disabilities, those working for small companies, those working in certain parts of the private sector (especially hospitality, retail, social, personnel services and healthcare).
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Children Of Alcoholics
Children of alcoholics face intimacy problems because they do not know what a healthy relationship is like. "They have no frame of reference for a healthy intimate relationship, because they have never seen one" (Woititz, 1983 63). Children of alcoholics normally come from "broken" families because these families tend to have a lot of abuse, lying, cheating, denial, secrets, and little emotional stability. The alcoholic parent changes from loving and warm, and everything a child would want a father to be, to getting involved in big fights with the other parent, coming home late, breaking promises, and maybe even careless (Taibbi 21)
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