output in 1994‚ 1999‚ and 2001. Due to global economic conditions‚ GDP fell to a 0.9% annual rate in 2008‚ and contracted by about 6% in 2009. Inflation fell to 6.5% in 2009 - a 34-year low. Despite the strong economic gains from 2002-07‚ which were largely due to renewed investor interest in emerging markets‚ IMF backing‚ and tighter fiscal policy‚ the economy has been burdened by a high current account deficit and high external debt. Further economic and judicial reforms and prospective EU membership
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Research Journal of Finance and Accounting ISSN 2222-1697 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2847 (Online) Vol 2‚ No 3‚ 2011 www.iiste.org The Role of Capital Market on Economic Growth in Nigeria (19802008) Usman Owolabi Akeem‚ Phd Faculty of ManagementScience‚PMB4000‚ LAUTECH‚Ogbomoso‚Nigeria e-mail-labisky@yahoo.com‚ Tel:+2348036675099 Abstract The capital markets play important roles in the economy growth of the market. A well functioning market insures that both corporation and investors get or
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No Dogs Allowed 1. What economic question(s) does this case require the town to ask? What benefits and services would we provide to the community by building the dog park? Is building a dog park the best use of the undeveloped land? What percent of the population would benefit from building a dog park? 2. List the possible resources that the town would need to construct and maintain the park. Possible resources would include money‚ labor to construct the park and clear out the trees and maintenance
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‘Nature of Islamic Economics’ ‘’Islamic economy identifies and promotes an economic order that conforms to Islamic scripture and traditions". Economic problems started with the birth of men and become more complicated with the development in the wants of men as the men is surrounded by wants. According to western scholars economics is the study of wants and scarcity and the reaction towards the ends and wants of the people. Adam Smith is regarded as the Father of economics due to his famous book
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Text: Measuring economic activity There are a large number of statistics produced regularly on the operation of the world’s major economies. The UK’s economy is no exception in this respect. You will probably have noticed that often the headlines in newspapers or important items on television news programmes relate to economic data and the implications for individuals and businesses. A prime example of this occurs when interest rates are increased: the media responds by highlighting the adverse
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“Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.”…Paul Samuelson INTRODUCTION Economics is the social science that analyzes the production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services. A focus of the subject is how economic agents behave or interact and how economies work. A given economy is the result of a process that involves its technological evolution‚ history and social organization‚ as well as its geography‚ natural resource endowment‚ and ecology
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248 THE FUTURE OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS Muhammad Akram Khan In view of the economic problems of the present age and the inability of neoclassical economics to analyse them and suggest acceptable solutions‚ Islamic economics holds promise for the future. This article consists of four parts. The first introduces the Islamic worldview and economic objectives of Islam. The second part argues that only Islamic economics has the potential to respond to the economic problems of the future. Part three sheds
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Hitler’s economic miracle When Hitler was elected chancellor in 1933‚ Germany was an economic mess. Before he came to power‚ Germany’s economy had already endured a lot. By 1914 Germany had become Europe’s most powerful economic and military power. That was second only after the United States in the world. After that‚ 4 terrible years of warfare leaded Germany‚ by 1918‚ to economic ruin. Warfare was the fact that they couldn’t export or import industrial goods and were limited in trade. As a result
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regularly to perform a task. Economic System An economic system is a system that involves the production‚ distribution and consumption of goods and services between the entities in a particular society. The economic system is composed of people and institutions‚ including their relationships to productive resources‚ such as through the convention of property. In a given economy‚ it is the systemic means by which problems of economics are addressed‚ such as the economic problem of scarcity through
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19/08/2014 Economics of Accounting Professionals (ECON910) Kankesu (Jay) Jayanthakumaran Lecturer/Tutor: Chris Keane 1 Chapters 1&2 Chapter 1: The nature and method of economics Copyright © 2011 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PowerPoint slides to accompany Microeconomics 9e by Jackson‚ McIver & Wilson 1-2 1 19/08/2014 The roles of economics • Economics is concerned with the efficient use of limited productive resources for the purpose of attaining the maximum satisfaction
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