Nottingham University Business School MBA Programmes N14M79 Business Economics Globalisation and the Economic Impact on Small Island States: Caribbean January 6th 2011 Kole’ Mascoll Student ID: COPY [1] Globalisation and the Economic impact on small island states: Caribbean This paper conducts an analysis of Small Island States of the Caribbean‚ the Economic effects of Globalisation and addresses both the macroeconomic and microeconomic issues. The paper will begin
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The Developing Economies‚ XXXVII-4 (December 1999): 417–38 THE MALAYSIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS: ECONOMIC IMPACT AND RECOVERY PROSPECTS MOHAMED ARIFF SYARISA YANTI ABUBAKAR I. INTRODUCTION to the crisis‚ Malaysia had been dubbed as one of the miracle economies in East Asia owing to its maintenance of high growth rates averaging 8.9 per cent during the period 1988–96 in addition to low inflation rate of about 3–4 per cent per year. Moreover‚ the increasing emphasis on manufacturing‚ and electronics
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF LAND USE CHANGE: THE CASE OF CALAMBA CITY‚ LAGUNA A Research Proposal I. INTRODUCTION A. Significance of the Study Land and its uses are essential to all human communities. Every person is shaped in a range of ways by the landscape in which they live‚ and the products and resources produced on the land. Land and its uses are particularly important
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Chapter 1 1. Introduction Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been recognized as an important resource for economic development. Many people argue that the flows of FDI could fill the gap between desired investments and domestically mobilized saving. In recent decades under the changing modes of international transactions and cross-border mobilization of production factors‚ foreign direct investment (FDI) attracted great attention not only in developing countries but also in developed countries
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Sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies have experienced chronic economic crises which have had a severe impact on their growth performance‚ poverty profile and income distribution which in turn undermined economic development. These hardships can be traced back to the global crises of the early 1980s‚ inadequate financing due to disruption in local production coupled with deficiencies in national policy-making and most importantly weaknesses in the economic structure of these countries. These have left most SSA
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Research Proposal On Impact of Socio Economic Condition on Academic Achievement of Students Introduction Education provides individual children with the knowledge and skills necessary to advance themselves and their nation economically. Socioeconomic factors‚ such as family income level‚ parents ’ level of education‚ race and gender‚ all influence the quality and availability of education as well as the ability of education to improve life circumstances. (Jennifer‚ 2005). A person’s education
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HRTM 483: Tourism Economics Term Project 1 Myrtle Beach‚ South Carolina The thriving industry of tourism found in Myrtle Beach‚ South Carolina economically contributes to the gross domestic product‚ employment‚ foreign exchange‚ earning‚ investment‚ regional impacts‚ contribution to taxation‚ and impact on other industry sectors within the state of South Carolina According to the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce‚ in 2006 the state of South Carolina spending on travel and tourism reached
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in terms of many aspects such as the tremendous amount of debt and war costs that they had to encounter at the end of the war. Such effects were usually long-term in nature and were most strongly reflected in the form of changing political‚ economic and social structures‚ and public opinion across those participant nations or even other parts of the world for decades even after the official end of World War I.1 At the end of the War‚ changes in political structures were evident in many
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How technological change impact upon economic growth There have been dramatic changes in global economics in the last two decades through the flow of trade‚ foreign investment and of course technology‚ with a major rise in the manufacture and spread of information and communications technologies (ICT). For the course of this paper‚ ICT‚ a general purpose technology will be used to include in broad terms‚ computers – software and hardware‚ telecommunications‚ satellite communications‚ email and
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In economics‚ there are many fallacies that exist. In relation to economics‚ a fallacy is a policy or theory that can be misleading if based on faulty reasoning yet is still accepted by many as fact. Economists attempt to use information based on statistics and facts in order to hypothesize relevant theories. Due to the fact that economists and others that are involved in making decisions on economic policies are human‚ human error can occur. As a result‚ policies put in place that seemed logical
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