Category: Economics

  • Cryptocurrency Economics Essay

    Cryptocurrency Economics Essay

    Cryptocurrency economics is a complex and rapidly evolving field that has the potential to have a significant impact on the global economy. Cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, are decentralized digital currencies that use advanced encryption techniques to secure and verify transactions. The decentralized nature of cryptocurrency, along with its use of blockchain technology,…

  • The Significance of Cell phones to the Progressive Lifestyle of the Filipinos

    CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Cellular phones, a computer controlled communications system that connects the telephone system to a network of mobile radiotelephones, has been the latest trend of this country, mainly because of the features it has to offer: Multi-colored casings, Colored LCD’s, Polyphonic ringing tones, WAP, JAVA games, Infrared reception,…

  • Organizational Behavior – Analysis of Wal-Mart

    Organizational Behavior LaTeisha Schaffer University of Phoenix MGT344 Brian Boutt November 25, 2008 Organizational Behavior All organization has its individual distinctive behaviors, uniqueness that symbolizes the organization’s traditions of constructing pleasant relations by accomplishing individual, organizational, and social goals. This characteristic in the organization culture is what identify the business. The organization’s thinking, ethics, mission,…

  • Advertising Essay

    Advertisement In today’s world advertising is an important part of our economy. Advertisers are hired by companies, to come up with ads that will sell their product. Advertisers and marketers say that the world of advertising is very important, because it helps run the capitalist society that we have in this country. They say that…

  • Has the British Welfare System been ‘Americanised’?

    Has the British Welfare System been ‘Americanised’? “The need of a constantly expanding market for its production chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections…it creates a world after its own image.”

  • Causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis

    Conclusions (2008 and past 2 months) In this past year and especially the last two months; I have seen the Fed do things that I have never even deemed possible. There have been so many rules of fundamental economics that have been broken in the last 2 months that it is very hard to say…

  • Cash or Card?

    A phrase that is commonly said in the super markets is “paper or plastic”. In today’s society, however; it is not talking about bags. They are referring to the type of payment that you will use to pay for your goods and services. Paper refers to actual money, like cash. Plastic is credit and debit…

  • Inflation Targeting

    Inflation Targeting In order to achieve price stability in New Zealand, the monetary policy Inflation Targeting was adopted in 1990. With the growth and success of this new strategy, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain and many other counties followed suit in the subsequent years ahead.

  • The Oil Business in America

    Over the past few years a very big topic that has come up in the news and in a lot of conversations is Oil.

  • Benchmarking Money Transfer Services

    Money transfer overseas is that process in which money can be transferred from one location to another. Various companies are offering this type of services to a large number of customers.

  • Economic Intervention by Government

    In todays world there are various kind of entities. Some entities can do no wrong, such as the WHO or greenpeace. They can do whatever they like and still end up smelling of roses.

  • The True Nature of the Private Sector in Nigeria

    The True Nature of the Private Sector in Nigeria – By Ikechukwu A. Ogu. Generally, every free market economy is divided into two sectors, the public sector and the private sector. The former is “the portion of a nation’s affairs, especially economic affairs, that is controlled by government agencies”, while the latter is “the part…

  • Effect of Import Liberalization on Industrial Productivity

    There are reasons to expect a favorable effect of import liberalization on industrial productivity. This is expected to occur through several channels: (a) Import liberalization will provide to industrial firms greater and cheaper access to imported capital goods and intermediate goods (embodying advanced technology), which will enable the firms improve their productivity performance; (b) Greater…

  • Immigration: America’s need

    Immigration has been a key issue in the United States for several decades. Every year millions of people, mainly from Mexico and Central America, migrate north towards the United States searching for higher wages. The United States benefits greatly from the presence of these immigrants, but unfortunately some connotations of their presence, including the reality…

  • The Economics of Ketchup

    Ketchup is the most widely used condiment in the United States. It can be found in 97% of all kitchens, a showing matched only by salt and pepper according to Gidman (2010). Ketchup has been popular in the United States for nearly 200 years and today is consumed by 93% of the population. According the…

  • Did Monetary Policy End the Great Depression

    “Monetary rather than fiscal policy ended the great depression in the USA” – Is this statement true? Was going off the Gold Stan Introduction The Great Depression initiated in 1929 with the “Black Tuesday” in October initiated a decade of under full employment production that only saw full recovery with the emergence of the Second…

  • New Zealand and hoe it may prosper.

    In considering the proposition that national economic prosperity is directly linked to public sector R&D investment, two separate issues must be addressed. Firstly, is investment in R&D a material driver of national prosperity, and secondly, is prosperity best served by R&D investment being publically or privately funded? This paper will discuss both these issues, and…

  • An Economic Analysis of Groundwater Development vis-à-vis Resource Use Efficiency in Tank Command Areas.

    ABSTRACT: Out of total farmers 75 per cent were cultivating rice in tank command areas. The rest of the farmers cultivated other crops and hence resource use efficiency has been estimated for rice crop alone. Among the rice growers 27 per cent of farmers have raised rice with tank water alone while the rest applied…

  • The Tax Burdens on Tobacco Products is Shared Between Consumers and Producers

    “The tax burdens of sin taxes on tobacco products is shared equally between consumers and producers” This statement is arguably incorrect. In this piece of information I am going to explain why the statement given is not true and I will show, with illustrations that producers pay less or even no tax than the final…

  • recession in india

    Global Recession has brought magnanimous amount of grief and anxiety to all workers all over the world. It has severely affected the lifestyles and the living conditions of people worldwide. Business closing down, great retrenchment and staggering percentage of unemployment mirror how recession affects our modern world.

  • China’s Rural and Urban Inequality

    Introduction During the last three decades, China has great changes, and these changes were originally a series of progressive political reform-driven. The late 70’s of the last century, the agricultural sector reconstruct, this is known as the “agricultural reform”, lasted for eight years. The subsequent second period known as the “urban reform” began in 1985,…

  • Furloughs In Place of Layoffs

    Abstract Many organizations are turning to furloughs as an option over layoffs. In the short-term, furlough will optimize the cost of productivity while closing the budget gap. In the long-term, the organization is saving because they are able to keep their top employees and not have to hire and re-train staff. In our current time…

  • Investing in Technology and Education to Sustain Economic Growth

    IMPORTANCE OF INVESTMENT IN TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION BY THE UAE FOR SUSTAINED ECONOMIC GROWTH Annotated Bibliography Khateeb, F. B., Darrat, A. F. and Elkhal, K. (2007),” The UAE growth surge: have information technology and human capital contributed?”, Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 297-306.

  • TRADE IN SOUTH ASIA : PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

    TRADE IN SOUTH ASIA : PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS By KAZI ASIF AHMED Trade in South Asia is an ancient activity, both within and beyond. South Asia consists of seven countries namely, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. South Asian countries, officially known as SAARC countries contain about just over a fifth…