Without the global market‚ an economy that is substantially export-orientated such as Singapore would not be able to function. The global market plays a vital role in the economic development strategies that Singapore implements. Globalization plays a major role in the concerns all over the world‚ and this is clearly shown in Singapore. Singapore is the economic‚ financial and technological capital of South-East Asia. The country has a highly developed trade-oriented market economy. Singapore’s
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Pre-September 2008: The AIG Crisis Over the years‚ AIG built upon its premier global franchises in life and general insurance by expanding into a range of financial services businesses. One of these‚ created in 1987‚ was AIG Financial Products Corp. (AIGFP)‚ a company that engaged as principal in a wide variety of financial transactions for a global client base. In 1998‚ AIGFP began to sell credit default swaps to other financial institutions to protect against the default of certain securities
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The Effect of Global Warming on the Napa Valley‚ California Wine Economy Global warming will have a negative effect on the Napa Valley‚ California wine economy. This will be caused primarily by the gradual increase in seasonal temperatures and the resulting longer and drier growing seasons. California revenue directly related to the Napa Valley wine industry is $16.5 billion a year (1). With the United States ranking fourth in world wine grape production with over 80% of these grapes coming from
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and Consequences of the Spanish Economic Crisis: Why the Recovery is Taken so Long? Summary: Spain is currently facing its worst crisis in the last fifty years. The crisis began as an extension of the international financial crisis‚ but the internal imbalances accumulated in the pre-crisis period aggravated the situation. At present their incomplete adjustment is making difficult the economic recovery. This paper describes the evolution of the economic crisis in Spain. The real estate sector and the
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Chris Rudy Issue analysis 4/29/20710 The global economy has expanded exponentially since the beginning of the 20th century. A very important issue that has come to develop in the last thirty years is the global economy more or less abandoned a fixed currency system and using the modern floating currency/exchange model in an attempt to regulate markets in the newly developed foreign market economy. But what effects‚ both positive and negative have there been in the adoption of a floating model
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The world economy - a multi-level‚ the global economic system‚ combining the national economies of the world on the basis of the international division of labor through a system of international economic relation. There are global problems such as: - Preventing the threat of another world war‚ - Overcoming the ecological crisis and its effects‚ - Narrowing the gap in economic development between developed Western countries and developing countries of the "third world" . - Stabilization of the
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concept behind a capitalistic economy is that the government does not have any control over the free markets. For this to exist‚ the economic markets should not be allowed to receive (nor should they be allowed to give) monetary support from the government. In 2007 the banking‚ financial‚ and insurance industry corporate giants claimed to be “to big to fail” and pled for a bailout from the U.S. government. Adam Smith‚ a moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy once stated‚ “as soon as government
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soberly reflect on the changing global balance of class forces and imperative of how best to reposition the federation and the whole working class movement in order to deepen the crisis of the capitalist system and simultaneously build a solid foundation for real alternatives. During the recent period we have preoccupied ourselves with a need to understand the global financial crisis‚ which erupted in 2008‚ as a systemic crisis‚ a crisis of a capitalist accumulation‚ a crisis of over accumulation and overproduction
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Rationality Breeds Legitimacy In Jurgen Habermas’‚ Legitimation Crisis‚ Western society is examined through a sociological lens to determine whether society is just. In his work‚ Habermas argues that advanced capitalism in Western societies leads to a legitimation crisis. Advanced capitalism displaces crisis tendencies‚ by means of state action‚ from the economic sphere into the socio-cultural sphere. Therefore‚ the legitimacy provided by the cultural sphere is threatened‚ resulting in a loss
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The Eurozone crisis was not caused by a single factor‚ it was the result of a compound of errors made by member states in different sectors of the European economy. There are three causes that have been identified as directly leading to the crisis. The problems of competitiveness‚ debt and the lack of a comprehensive growth model. There are several other causes‚ but the problems of Greece mirror the problems of the rest of the Eurozone. In order to fully evaluate and understand the causes of the
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