THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON NIGERIA’S ECONOMY The global financial crisis began in the United States of America and the United Kingdom when the global credit market came to a standstill in July 2007 (Avgouleas‚ 2008). The crisis‚ brewing for a while‚ really started to show its effects in the middle of 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen‚ large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out‚ and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FROM FINANCIAL CRASH TO DEBT CRISIS Carmen M. Reinhart Kenneth S. Rogoff Working Paper 15795 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15795 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 March 2010 The authors are grateful to Enrique Mendoza‚ Maurice Obstfeld‚ Vincent Reinhart‚ two anonymous referees and the editor for useful suggestions and the National Science Foundation Grant No. 0849224 for financial support. The views expressed herein
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In the years leading up to the crisis‚ high consumption and low savings rates in the U.S. contributed to significant amounts of foreign money flowing into the U.S. from fast-growing economies in Asia and oil-producing countries. This inflow of funds combined with low U.S. interest rates from 2002-2004 resulted in easy credit conditions‚ which fueled both housing and credit bubbles. Loans of various types (e.g.‚ mortgage‚ credit card‚ and auto) were easy to obtain and consumers assumed an unprecedented
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skyscrapercity.com The global financial crisis will certainly affect Bangladesh as the country is exposed to global economies‚ said Prof Mustafizur Rahman‚ executive director of Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). Bangladesh is an economy worth $84 billion‚ with $21 billion imports and $14 billion exports. Any event in the global economy will certainly affect the country‚ said Rahman. He was speaking as the chief guest at a seminar styled "Global Financial Crisis: Are We Ready?" in Dhaka yesterday
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The Greek Financial Crisis Ever since the end of 2009‚ Greece has been involved in a financial and economic crisis that has been record breaking and shattered world records in terms of its severity and worldwide effects. The Greek government‚ since the beginning of the crisis‚ has attempted to take several governmental measures to try and “stop the bleeding‚” including economy policy changes‚ dramatic government spending and budget cuts and the implementation of new taxes for citizens. In addition
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SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION AS COMPARED TO TODAY’S FINANCIAL CRISIS ABSTRACT The financial crisis which the United States is combating today‚ in many aspects resembles the characteristics and consequences which were the outcome of the Great Depression lasting from the time period 1929 till 1933 (Great Depression). The Great Depression of earlier times and the financial crisis of the current times from 2003-2008 will be studied in depth in the following research work in
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IMPACT OF 2007-2008 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON KENYA’S REAL ESTATE MARKET; A CASE STUDY OF NAIROBI CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Real estate sector is one of the critical pillars in a country’s economic growth and development. Property makes up 5.3% of Kenya’s GDP and has shown positive growth since 2001 (Keeler‚ 2009). It spurs investment in both Formal and informal sectors. The sector provides employment to a big percentage of Kenyans in mortgage companies‚ consultant firms‚
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The Financial Greek Crisis Gunnar MacDougall Macroeconomics Greece has gained a lot of unwanted publicity in the past few years by being at the center of the economic crisis in the Eurozone. In 2009‚ Greece announced that for years they had been understating their deficit figures. It is all speculation on why Greece had been trying to hide its deficit figures‚ but it is pretty obvious that no country wants to announce that are doing extremely poorly. In response to Greece’s release of this information
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CONTRAST OF ASIAN CURRENCY CRISIS 1997‚ AMERICAN SUB-PRIME FINANCIAL OF 2008 AND EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS OF 2010 (MACROECONOMICS TERM PAPER) TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Introduction II. Overview of the ff: A. Asian Financial Crisis 1997 B. American Sub-prime Financial of 2008 C. European Debt-Crisis of 2010 III. Analysis and Solution of the three Crisis IV. Compare & Contrast VI. Conclusion VII. Bibliography I. INTRODUCTION A Crisis is a time of intense difficulty
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The Effects of 1997 Asian Financial Crisis in Thailand and Hong Kong The Asian financial crisis occurred since the beginning of summer 1997 in Thailand and was triggered due to the currency depreciation of Thai baht. Declines in the stock market and exchange rates and the assets prices affected the economies of East Asian countries on a large scale‚ most notably Thailand‚ South Korea and Indonesia. Although Hong Kong was suffered severely in the crisis‚ there was significant impact on its economy
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