opportunity costs‚ and tradeoffs for individuals‚ businesses‚ and governments. a. Define scarcity as a basic condition that exists when unlimited wants exceed limited productive resources. b. Define and give examples of productive resources (factors of production) (e.g.‚ land (natural)‚ labor (human)‚ capital (capital goods)‚ entrepreneurship). c. List a variety of strategies for allocating scarce resources. d. Define opportunity cost as the next best alternative given up when individuals
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different customers. KFC Corporation‚ based in Louisville‚ Kentucky‚ is the world’s biggest chicken restaurant chain‚ specializing in Original Recipe‚ Hot & Spicy‚ BBQ Honey Wings and Zinger Burger. KFC is part of Yum! Brands‚ Inc.‚ the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants‚ with more than 36‚000 locations around the world. KFC arrived in Hong Kong in 1985. KFC (Hong Kong) is a franchise‚ managed by Birdland (Hong Kong) Limited since 1997. KFC (Hong Kong) has over
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w w w e tr .X m eP UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level and GCE Advanced Level e ap .c rs om MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2007 question paper 9708 ECONOMICS 9708/02 Paper 2 (Data Response and Essay (Core))‚ maximum raw mark 40 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates‚ to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate
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both inflation and unemployment in general as stated in previous studies and some economic theories that deal with these problems and their impact on GDP . According to jordan economy profile in mundi index‚ Jordan’s economy is among the smallest in the Middle East‚ with insufficient supplies of water‚ oil‚ and other natural resources‚ underlying the government’s heavy reliance on foreign assistance. Other economic challenges for the government include chronic high rates of poverty‚ unemployment
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flies by‚ Malaysia is now occupied by quite a number of other Hypermarkets like Tesco‚ Giant‚ Carrefour and Mydin. All this bring choices to the consumers in Malaysia as all these Hypermarkets are competing with each other. Retailing is one of the factors that bring growth to Malaysia Growth Domestic Product (GDP) and with more Hypermarkets coming up‚ so do the GDP of Malaysia. The market structure of hypermarkets in Malaysia belongs to oligopoly. The market structure characteristics of oligopoly
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Billion and a GDP of 7321508 Million US dollar. Population explosion in China was an outcome of high economic growth as well as a reason of heavy profits and surpluses of manufacturing industries in China. Through this paper I Intend to compare the similar relation among other countries like Japan and Sweden. Aging population brings the availability of cheap labor down and hence impacts the economic performance of countries. I will examine fertility and mortality and age structure pattern of population
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Consumer expenditure Mini Case John Hawksworth “Opinion: Economic Trends - Saved by the consumer?”‚ Accountancy‚ London‚ Mar 2002 (with minor editing) How long can the UK economy buck the global trend just because our consumers keep spending money? Have we avoided the recession that has gripped the US‚ Japan and Germany over the past six to 12 months or are we just postponing the day of reckoning? And are we storing up worse problems for the future as a result of rising household debt levels
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back in her door before anybody and especially two evil villains such as Sulley’s main rival as a scarer chameleon-like Randall and Mike and Sulley’s boss Mr. Waternoose the chairman and chief executive officer of Monsters‚ Inc. One of the many economic principals evident in this movie is scaricty. Scarcity is defined as‚ the inability to satisfy all wants at the same time. Scaricty occurs becaseu all resources and goods are limited. For example‚ there was a scarcity of screams so the city lacked
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Economics Activity Points % of Total Discuss 105 6% Exam 60 3% Final Exam 100 5% Journal 140 8% Practice 360 19% Quiz 540 29% Test (CST) 350 19% Test (TST) 200 11% Total Points for the Course : 1855 Unit 1: The Game of Economics Lesson 1.1: What Is Economics Anyway? Activity 1.1.1: Study - What Kind of Game? (Documents: Study Sheet) See how economics can be understood as a game with rules that is played by people with different roles. Duration: 40 min Activity
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Chapter 1: ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE.- “ When the U.S sneezes‚ the economies of other nations catch a cold” GLOBALIZATION . Is the process of greater interdependence among countries and their citizens. Agglomeration Economies.- are a powerful force that help explain the advantages of the "clustering effect" of many activities ranging from retailing to transport terminals. (Urbanization‚ Industrialization‚ Localization economies) FOREIGN OUTSOURCING.- Certain aspects of a product’s manufacture
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