As being one of the few survivors of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, People’s Republic of China presents an impressive economic growth receiving global attention in the last two decades. It has economically continued to have an annual growth of 9 percent for more than thirty years (Lin, 2012) and maintained an average four times … Read More
Dave Levengood “Too Big to Fail” vs. “How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes” The Great Recession of 2008 was not only the largest economic crash of this decade, it was the largest economic crash since the Great Depression. The Great Recession has been studied extensively since it happened, and there are finite conclusions … Read More
The 2008 recession was one of the worst economic crises in America since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Caused by the collapse of an 8 trillion dollar housing bubble, the recession eventually led to the closures of many large banks on Wall Street and insurance firms like AIG, and to millions of Americans losing … Read More
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT The informal sector makes a considerable contribution to production, consumption and income generation, particularly in developing countries. For example, it contributed about 8 percent and 68 percent to the GDP of the United States and Bolivia respectively in the years 2002 – 2003 (Schneider 2005). The sector is also … Read More
A Journey into Singapore’s Past While the earliest known historical records of Singapore are shrouded in the mists of time, a third century Chinese account describes it as “Pu-luo-chung”, or the “island at the end of a peninsula”. Later, the city was known as Temasek (“Sea Town”), when the first settlements were established from AD … Read More
Reference this Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Absolute advantage theory was first presented by Adam Smith in his book “The Wealth of Nations” in 1776. Smith provided the first concept of a nation’s wealth. Adam Smith is a grandfather of economics because he introduced two important concepts that many of the new trade theories are based on these … Read More
Background of Adam Smith Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher and pioneer of political economy. Adam Smith is well known with his classic works such as The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith was cited as the father of modern economics and is still the most influential economics thinkers. … Read More
Reference this Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The appropriate value of t is 2.100. Since we are concerned whether b (the slope of original regression line) is significantly different fro B (the hypothesized slope of population regression), this is a two tailed test, and the critical values are ±2.100. The standardized regression coefficient is 0.063, which is inside … Read More
INTRODUCTION The World Trade Organization (WTO) represents one of the largest international institutes regulating foreign trade activities in general and its trading sector in particular. The big authority and popularity of the WTO in world economic community are connected, first of all, with practical benefit from participation in activities of this international organization. This benefit … Read More
a) According to Mankiw and Taylor (2006), unemployment means that inability to obtain a job when one is willing and able to work. Even though there are several different ways to measure unemployment, this can be normally measured in two ways: the claimant count and the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Get Help With Your Essay … Read More
