indicators are defined as statistics that indicate the current status of the economy by determining the position or changes of different sectors in the economy for example industry‚ labour‚ market and trade. Key Economic Indicator: The Australian Dollar The Australian dollar is a very important economic indicator due to it being very effective in determining the strength of the economy. The Australian dollar is the currency used to purchase goods and services in Australia‚ however to purchase goods overseas
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is at max point Managers take production right up to the point where TC=TR; if they can [2] Oligopolies can benefit most from going past the profit maximising output because it gives them a market share advantage over their competition. The economic climate can affect managers’ ability to deploy this tactic. If a recession is on the cards then shareholders will be anxious and keeping them and profits high will be a priority to which managers must abide to keep their position. The Downsides:
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Economic development in New Zealand ! HDI Life expectancy GDP per capita PPP Literacy rate Mean years of schooling 2010 0.907 80.40 years $25‚293 99% 12.4 years 2013 0.919 80.82 years $25‚689 99% 12.5 years ! The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy‚ education‚ and income indices used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. From the year 2010 to 2013‚ New Zealand’s HDI has gone up
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What is Economics? Economics is the study of the production and consumption of goods and the transfer of wealth to produce and obtain those goods. Economics explains how people interact within markets to get what they want or accomplish certain goals. Since economics is a driving force of human interaction‚ studying it often reveals why people and governments behave in particular ways. There are two main types of economics: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Microeconomics focuses on the actions
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MOTURI KERRY MERVYN X74/34459/2011 UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI XEA: 301 DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ROSTOWS GROWTH THEORY Walt Rostow was an American historian who tried to explain process of economic development through a historical approach. He is motivated by what he terms as the failure of economic theory. He explained the development process using 5 distinctive stages and for a stage to replace the other there must be structural changes to necessitate this movement from lower levels of development
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Education and economic development The analysis of education as an economic commodity has a long history. The seminal work of Becker (1962) and Schultz(1962) presented a formal model of education as an investment good that augmented the stock of human capital. Individuals made educational choices in the same way as any other investment decision all of which have the common characteristic that an investment cost paid now produces a flow of benefits through time whose present discounted value is
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DEPENDENCY 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
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1. What is the ‘economic problem’? The fundamental economic problem is related to the issue of scarcity. Scarcity means that resources are limited and short in supply in the world (e.g. diamond). Because of limited resources and unlimited demands‚ society needs to decide how much to produce and distribute these relatively scarce resources. The basic economic problem can be define as what to produce‚ how much to produce and for whom to produce. Some countries are lucky to have great natural resources
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Frankly‚ to know more about Islamic economic‚ lets briefly look at differentiation between Islamic economic and conventional economic. The first different is the role of moral values. Basically‚ conventional economics is more concern towards behavior and preferences of individuals as given. However‚ Islamic economics more concern on individual and social improvement throughout the moral elevation. This moral evaluation or known as uplift moral aims to the changes of individual and preferences of
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Development Economics focus is on methods of promoting economic growth and structural change. The early proponents of development as a policy emerged with Keynesian Macroeconomics which encouraged the need for Government Intervention in order for economic growth to take place. This theory identified that fixed capital formation was a major source of economic growth and development. It also pointed out a need for a raise in domestic savings rate in the poor countries since savings led to investment
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