EC137 Economics Coursework Based on Principles of Microeconomics (Lecturer: Ger Turley) Assignment 2 Instructions: To be submitted by 4pm on Friday‚ 18th of October to the Economics Department‚ 1st floor of St. Anthony’s building (old part of the CAIRNES School of Business and Economics building) on the Upper Newcastle Road (located on the right-hand side‚ beyond the Topaz garage and crossroads). Please ensure that your name‚ student ID‚ tutorial details (day‚ time‚ venue)‚ degree programme
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1. Explain economics? Economics is the study of how society allocates scarce resources and goods. Resources are the inputs that society uses to produce output‚ called goods. Resources include inputs such as labor‚ capital‚ and land. Goods include products such as food‚ clothing‚ and housing as well as services such as those provided by barbers‚ doctors‚ and police officers. These resources and goods maybe be considered scarce because of society’s tendency to demand more resources and goods than
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Economic development flourishes our life,but our environment is deteriorating with the growth of the economy. The present serious environmental problems are largely caused by rapid economic development. For example‚ land resource are shrinking because of industrial environment and the expansion of cites. We excessively exploit nature and ecology‚ which is threading future generation. We shouldn’t sacrifice environment to develop economy‚ because if we sacrifice the environment for economic development
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Economic development has to occur after a period of sustained economic growth. It is therefore the growth in total economic output accompanied by changes in the structure of the economy. There are many barriers to economic development in Ghana. Eight of them are discussed below: First and foremost‚ Ghana like most developing countries is enriched with natural resources or deposits but the human capital is not able to transform them to achieve rapid economic growth and development. For economic
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THEORY: - Economic development theorists over the last few centuries have developed models for explaining the “undeveloped-ness” of countries in the third world countries. From Durkheim to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)‚ we have‚ time after time‚ come to witness the rise and fall of development theories and their explanations for the predicament that many poor countries face. Dependency theory has (more so than others) lasted a great deal of time in the framework of the international sphere in
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1.0 Introduction Although inflation is generally thought of as an inordinate increase in the general price level‚ throughout the history of economics the causes of inflation and the definition of inflation itself remained as an unresolved issue. There is a general agreement that‚ in the long-run‚ inflation is a monetary phenomenon. In short-run‚ however‚ many other factors could cause inflation that instigates unsettled debate on the causes of inflation. Every school of economists tries to define
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ECONOMIC HISTORY Only study guide for ECS2608 J. Inggs Department of Economics University of South Africa Pretoria © 2012 University of South Africa All rights reserved Printed and published by the University of South Africa Muckleneuk‚ Pretoria Page-layout by the Department ECS2608/1/2012-2014 iii ECS2608/1/12-14 Contents ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE WORLD Important topics and specific national examples between the two World Wars Chapter Page 1 HOW THE STUDY GUIDE
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Journal of Economics 11 : 1 (Summer 2006) pp. 19-34 Trade Liberalization and Economic Development: Evidence from Pakistan Bushra Yasmin‚ Zainab Jehan‚ Muhammad Ali Chaudhary* Abstract Unrestricted trade stimulates economic growth and bridges socioeconomic gaps existing in different countries of the world. Pakistan has adopted trade liberalization policies since the late 1980s with the same expectations. This study has empirically analyzed how trade liberalization has affected economic development
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Does Economic Development always lead to Improvements in Livind Standards? Economic growth and economic development are often thought to be synonymous but although the two are closely linked‚ there are crucial differences in their meanings. Economic growth is defined as ’a rise in the total output (goods or services) produced by a country’. It is measured by the percent rate of increase in the gross domestic product (GDP). Economic development as defined by Todaro is "not purely an economic phenomenon
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Evaluate the role of International trade and economic integration in promoting development. Traditionally‚ development has been measured in terms of income levels (GDP per capita) as this can show the value of a country’s goods and services produced in a year shared between its population. The GDP per capita can then be compared between multiple countries to form comparisons. However‚ the fundamental flaw of GDP is that it does not show what resources were used‚ how they were used‚ pollution or the
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