productive sector After a decade of anemic growth‚ the Jamaican economy moved into recession towards the end of 2007 on the back of the global economic meltdown. The crisis was particularly felt in Jamaica due to the existence of structural impediments such as declining productivity‚ high debt‚ and crime. In July 2009‚ the Government of Jamaica announced its intention to borrow from the International Monetary Fund‚ (IMF). The Jamaican economy would have had to adjust their level of spending in order
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balancing international payments‚ and generating long-term economic growth. The Federal Reserve controls the amount of money that circulates in the economy in order to avoid inflation and deflation‚ and keep the balance between supply and demand. This is known as the Monetary Policy. The four economic goals of the Federal Reserve to achieve its monetary policy are Open Market Operations‚ Reserve Requirements‚
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The history of port development in Nigeria dates back to the middle of 19th century. This was long after the onset of sea borne trade and transactions which followed the adventures of early explorations on the African coasts. Initial efforts towards provision of facilities for ocean going vessels were the attempts to open up the entrance to the Lagos Lagoon. Considerable littoral drift occurred along this coast; and the constantly shifting channels in the bar at the entrance
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PROJECT PROPOSAL The research investigation will be focused on the use of cost-volume-profit analysis as a management tool for decision making using Nigerian Breweries Plc as a case study. Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) analysis narrowly called break-even analysis‚ is the application of marginal costing and seeks to study the relationship between costs‚ volume and profits at differing activity levels and can be a useful guide for short-term planning and decision making. There are
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by following the macroeconomic policies of its member countries‚ in particular those with an impact on exchange rates and the balance of payments. It is an organization formed to stabilize international exchange rates and facilitate development.[2] It also offers financial and technical assistance to its members‚ making it an international lender of last resort. Its headquarters are located
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TITLE OF RESEARCH Unregulated Financial Institutions and their impact on the Jamaican Economy. PROBLEM STATEMENT The Jamaican Society has been overrun by an unprecedented proliferation of unregulated financial institutions; what are the effects of these institutions on the Jamaican economy? PURPOSE OF STUDY The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of these institutions on the Jamaican economy/society (individuals‚ regulated banking institutions‚ government). The objective
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Dissertation AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON IMPACT OF DIVIDEND POLICY ON CAPITAL STRUCTURE (A report submitted towards the partial fulfillment of the requirement of the two years full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Management.) DECLARATION I‚ student of Post Graduate Diploma in Management from hereby declare that I have completed dissertation on “IMPACT OF DIVIDEND POLICY ON CAPITAL STRUCTURE ” a part of the course requirement. I further declare that the information presented in this project
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ones you are losing‚ you are going to build a stronger connection with them and you will be able to overcome your issues as a team. Remind your employees that you have also lost friends due to the downsizing process and that it does impact you just as painfully as it impacts them. This will allow them to see that you are human and you do care about the people that are working for you. Employees left behind often complain about a few of the following problems: * Lack of respect for their mangers
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important function of bringing together deficit and surplus units of an economy. The lack of this function renders the capital market useless as the opportunity for investment and production of goods and services for development is eliminated. This creates a gap where surplus units have idle funds and the deficit units are in search of funds for investment. The capital market thus provides services that are essential to a modern economy‚ mainly by contributing to capital formation through financial intermediation
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Journal of Monetary Economics 6 (1980) 213- 239. 0 North-Holland Publishing Company DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN AN OPEN ECONOMY 1 Robert J. HODRICK* The effects of three government policies. an increase in the provision of government services. an open market operation‚ and an increase in the rate of growth of governmerit liabilities‚ are studied in a long-run model of a small open economy with flexible exchange rates. The government budget constraint. the degree to which
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