world economy has been in a severe downward spiral as a result of the reckless lending practices of the world banks‚ the implications of which have trickled down into the industrialized economy over the last two years. This assignment aims to analyze the global seaborne trade industry with a focus on the dry bulk sub-sector and its major commodities by assessing the effect on factors that are influencing the demand and supply of dry bulk vessels and the future growth of the dry bulk market‚ examining
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GHANA’S ECONOMY 2.1.1 Introduction Ghana is located in the western part of Africa between French-speaking La Côte d’Ivoire‚ Burkina Faso and Togo in the west‚ north and east respectively and bordered in the south by the gulf of Guinea. With an estimated population of nearly 24 million of which 70 percent live in rural areas‚ Ghana covers an area of 238‚537 square kilometres with a population density standing at 88/sq. km. (247/sq. mi.) and a population growth rate of 1.9 percent as at 2009
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Kazakhstan’s economy. Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world and also it has the largest level of economy in Central Asia. Kazakhstan has huge reserves of mineral resources such as fossil fuel‚ natural gas‚ coal and etc. Mining‚ machinery manufacture‚ the production of petro-chemicals and agriculture are important sectors of the economy. Agriculture supplies grain‚ fruit‚ cotton‚ tobacco and meat. The south of Kazakhstan provides well-known “Aport” apples. As well‚ Kazakhstan is developed
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| | Philippines - The Economy THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY EXPERIENCED considerable difficulty in the 1980s. Real gross national product (GNP) grew at an annual average of only 1.8 percent‚ less than the 2.5 percent rate of population increase. The US$668 GNP per capita income in 1990 was below the 1978 level‚ and approximately 50 percent of the population lived below the poverty line. The 1988 unemployment rate of 8.3 percent (12.3 percent in urban areas) peaked at 11.4 percent in early 1989‚ and the
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wealth‚ and the means of producing wealth‚ are privately owned and controlled rather than state owned and controlled. Through capitalism‚ the land‚ labor‚ and capital are owned‚ operated‚ and traded by private individuals either singly or jointly‚ and investments‚ distribution‚ income‚ production‚ pricing and supply of goods‚ commodities and services are determined by voluntary private decision in a market economy. A distinguishing feature of capitalism is that each person owns his or her own labor and
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Economy of scale refers to the benefits of producing on a large scale. When firms and industries increase the scale of their operation there can be advantages which reduce the average (unit) cost of their output. Internal economy of scale is the benefit‚ in the form of lower average costs‚ which a firm can gain from increasing its size. Internal economies of scale arise from the growth of the firm itself. One internal economy of scale can be marketing economies. For food retail industry‚ large
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TERM PAPER IN MICROECONOMICS BY: MA. DAYANARA P. MANAIG TO: PROFESSOR JOYCE COLCOL Economy of the Philippines The Philippines is a developing country in South-East Asia. In 2004‚ it was ranked as the 24th largest economy by the World Bank according to purchasing power parity. The Philippines is one of the newly industrializing countries in the world. Important sectors of the Philippine economy include agriculture and industry‚ particularly food processing‚ textiles and garments‚ and electronics
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theoretical representations of economies found throughout the world that demonstrate the distribution of control between people and the government. The economic systems exist on a continuum‚ with command economies on one side and the free markets on the other side. The United States has a free market economy but with a notable amount of government intervention‚ therefore it has a mixed economy. The government acts as a provider and regulator of the United States’ mixed economy through setting legal limits
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) economy The United Arab Emirates economy is one of a kind that is referred as an open economy. The economy has very high per capita income with substantial annual trade surplus. The economy’s GDP that relates to oil and gas output has so far reduced in percentage up to 25%. This reduction has been experienced due to the successful efforts made in diversifying the economy (Katzman‚ 2010). UAE for a long time in the past was known to be a poor economy characterized by fishing
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Barter economy The non-cash exchange of goods and services is known as barter. Bartering was common in earlier societies‚ but is rare in an advanced economy with a stable currency. Barter usually replaces money as the method of exchange in times of monetary crisis. This can occur when the currency may be either unstable or simply unavailable for conducting commerce. A barter exchange operates as a broker and bank. In this type of exchange each participating member has an account that is debited
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