Article: Interest Rate Hikes in Brazil http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303626804579505673346899690 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/02/brazil-economy-rates-idUSL1N0MU0O420140402 As the global recession still lingers‚ countries have been looking for different ways to stimulate the economy. There are multiple ways to stimulate the economy‚ primarily through monetary and fiscal policy‚ action taken by the central bank and government respectively‚ in order to adjust money
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Interest Rate Risk (IRR) Management What is Interest Rate Risk : Interest rate risk is the risk where changes in market interest rates might adversely affect a bank’s financial condition. The management of Interest Rate Risk should be one of the critical components of market risk management in banks. The regulatory restrictions in the past had greatly reduced many of the risks in the banking system. Deregulation of interest rates has‚ however‚ exposed them to the adverse impacts of interest rate
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disparities in the quality of education between rural and urban India (aka Bharat and India) have finally come true. Labour Ministry data indicates that higher education and degrees are not helping rural job aspirants to get their coveted jobs. Not only unemployment among rural graduates and post-graduates is higher‚ but also they lack basic skill-sets to fill the demands of market economy. The dangerous trend‚ if anything‚ may offset the gains by India at the literacy front. While the country has added more
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Unemployment (or joblessness) occurs when people are without work and actively seeking work. The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force. During periods of recession‚ an economy usually experiences a relatively high unemployment rate. In a 2011 news story‚ Business Week reported‚ "More than 200 million people globally are out of work‚ a record
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Natural rate of unemployment The natural rate of unemployment (sometimes called the structural unemployment rate) is a concept of economic activity developed in particular by Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps in the 1960s‚ both recipients of the Nobel prize in economics. In both cases‚ the development of the concept is cited as a main motivation behind the prize.[1][2] It represents the hypothetical unemployment rate consistent with aggregate production being at the "long-run" level. This level
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Major Determinants of Interest Rates Inflation Inflation is a factor that decisively affects the nature or outcome of interest rates. “Inflation is an increase in prices of goods and services over time”(Financial Institutions‚ Instruments and Markets‚ 2012). Inflation is the natural byproduct of a robust‚ growing economy. No inflation‚ or deflation (the lowering of prices)‚ is actually a much worse economic indicator. Also‚ in a healthy economy‚ wages rise at the same rate as prices. A standard
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GDP should really stand for Grossly Deceptive Product” The Economist What does GDP actually measure? When discussing about the economy of one country‚ people often talk about “Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However‚ there are a number of disagreements among economist about the value of GDP. Therefore‚ this essay will discuss whether or not GDP is an ideal measurement of the development of a nation. It first explores the term GDP and ways to measure it. The essay then compares GDP with Gross National
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Korea has an overall gross domestic product (GNP) of one trillion two billion eight hundred twenty-five million two hundred seventy-six thousand one hundred twenty US dollars (See appendix A1). The GNP per person is twenty thousand five hundred thirty US dollars. (ucatlas.uscs.edu‚ 2003) This means that South Korea is producing twenty thousand five hundred thirty US dollars worth of products per person in South Korea each year. South Korea has a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of one trillion fourteen
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mechanisms that provide the link between monetary policy and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Financial globalization in recent years has affected the monetary transmission mechanism‚ either by changing the overall impact of policy or by altering the transmission channels.The liberalization of capital accounts alongside technological advances and the emergence of increasingly sophisticated financial products have posed new macroeconomic challenges for central banks in industrial
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Gross domestic product (GDP) is defined as the total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a nation each year. Gross domestic product includes all goods and services produced by either citizen-supplied or foreign-supplied resources employed within the country. GDP is a monetary measure to compare the relative values of the vast number of goods and services produced in different years. GDP can be viewed from an expenditures approach as the sum of all the money
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