Agrarian Economy 3. Industrial Economy 4. Services Industries 5. Conclusion 1. General information The Philippines are located in Southeast Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean. 7‚107 Islands are part of the republic. The islands are divided into three major groups: Luzon‚ Visayas‚ and Mindanao. The South China Sea defines its western borders and the Pacific Ocean its eastern limits. The country- Area covers 300‚000 sq. km. The Philippines’ neighbouring countries include Taiwan
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Macroeconomics in Chile & Suggestion on Investment Date: 12.01.2011 Table of Contents Executive summary 4 Chile background 5 About Chile 6 Location and Size 6 Population 6 Language 7 Weather and Climate 7 Chile – a seismic country 8 The Earthquake in 2010 9 Overview of Chile Economics 9 GDP 10 Chile Economic Structure: The Road Ahead 11 Chile GDP Forecast 12 Labor 12 Poverty and Wealth 12 Chile Unemployment Forecast 13 Chile working conditions 14 Inflation rate 14
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Economy of Singapore Singapore is a highly developed trade-oriented market economy.[10][11] Singapore’s economy has been ranked as the most open in the world‚[12] least corrupt‚[13] most pro-business‚[14] with low tax rates (14.2% of Gross Domestic Product‚ GDP)[15] and has thethird highest per-capita GDP in the world; in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). Government-linked companies play a substantial role in Singapore’s economy‚ which are owned through the sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND In every economy‚ there exist vast variety of activities some which undergo official recording and some other activities take place outside the officials. The later is the underground economy that refers to the economic activities that generate income but are hidden from official authorities in order to evade various taxes and remain unrecorded in official statistics (Yasmin and Rauf‚ 2004). The most common causes of underground economy are heavy tax burdens where economic
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Economic and Political Status in Paraguay Paraguay’s economy has constantly been improving over the years despite some set-backs they must face. Since they are a land-locked country‚ they do not have as many resources as most of its surrounding countries. They must rely mostly on agriculture for their main exports. As for Paraguay’s government and political conditions‚ they now have a president elected for a 5-year term. There are many different political parties‚ and the type of government
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Asia for doing business with emerging economies? Generally speaking‚ as we know that Asia has become one of the regions whose economy is developing fastest in recent years. This new flow of powerful booming begins to attract lots of global attentions and to occupy more and more world economic market. This fact which cannot be ignored any more is not only a huge challenge‚ but also stands for a great business opportunity for our developed western countries. Actually‚ except for Asia‚ there are
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Topic 1 Revision 1. Discuss one measure of the Irish Economy’s openness to the international economy. 2. Briefly outline the initial approach to economic policy pursued by the Cumann na nGeadheal government after independence in 1922? Employed a very conservative approach and continued on with the policies that had existed pre independence. Kept parity with sterling given that 97% of Irish Exports were to the U.K. Elevated the promotion of agriculture as the main policy priority. Low tax and low
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Human Geography – The Globalisation of Economic Activity 1. Uneven Development in the Global Economy * Globalisation * Characteristics * Processes * Impact on the world economy * Uneven global distribution of activities - Illustrate how globalisation has affected the economies of LDCs‚ DCs and NIEs * NIDL * Causes of the emergence of a new NIDL * Impact of the emergence of NIDL on the global economic activities * Impact of new technologies on
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Chap1: The National Economy I. THE SCOPE OF MACROECONOMICS the major macroeconomics issues Economic growth; governments try to achieve high rates of economic growth economies suffer from inherent instability. As a result‚ economic growth and other macroeconomic indicators tend to fluctuate. Rate of eco growth: the percentage increase on national output‚ normally expressed over a 12 month period. Unemployment waste of human resources‚ unemployment benefits are a drain on gov revenues
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debts in these countries are show a rise trend but still have some difference. To give more details‚ Greek debts shown a continued increase as same as German‚ while American government debts had a 3 years decline between 1998 and 2001. After the American financial crisis broke out in 2007‚ it presents a rapid growth trend reach to 102.93(%GDP) in 2011. Chinese shown a top point in 2010‚ which up to 33.5% of GDP while other years had fluctuated increase trend. In different countries have different
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