America’s top entrepreneurial think tank‚ the Kauffman Foundation‚ explain in a interview with the author: “The single most important contributor to a nation’s economic growth is the number of startups that grow to a billion dollars in revenue within 20 years.” The statement made by Carl Schramm suggested that the increase of start ups‚ is the most important contributor to a nation economic growth. (Karlgraard‚2010) Economic growth is an increase in of the Real Gross Domestic Product (Real GDP). And it
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Year 11 Economics Research Task Fiscal policy: 2007- 2013 The government during the period from 2007- 2013 developed a strong Fiscal policy stance. In the years Prior to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC)‚ the government decided to take a countercyclical approach to the economy through Fiscal policy as they had seen the unstable increase in levels of spending and the levels of saving. This is shown in diagram 1‚ government spending was at low point in the previous decade of 31.5 %. In the year
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“Fiscal cliff” is the popular shorthand term used to describe the conundrum that the U.S. government will face at the end of 2012‚ when the terms of the Budget Control Act of 2011 are scheduled to go into effect. Three hours before the midnight deadline on January 1‚ the Senate agreed to a deal to avert the fiscal cliff. The Senate version passed two hours after the deadline‚ and the House of Representatives approved the deal 21 hours later. The government technically went "over the cliff‚" since
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The Fiscal Stimulus‚ Flawed but Valuable But I’m also an empirical economist who’s spent a career trying to estimate the effects of monetary and fiscal policy. So let me put on my empiricist’s hat and evaluate what we know about the legislation’s effects. After listening to Representative Paul Ryan in the vice-presidential debate‚ you might think that careful evaluation isn’t needed. In his view‚ we spent $800 billion on the stimulus‚ yet unemployment still rose to 10 percent — so obviously it
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from the government. The Invisible Hand would work its magic‚ still even today. However‚ the policymakers had to rethink this since they could not afford losing to recession once again. This in turn‚ led them to intervene by implementing fiscal and monetary policies. In recessions‚ the economy lies in a period of poor industries and increasing unemployment rate. This scenario is very unhealthy for the country’s economy and people. Poor industries will lead to unemployment‚ low total output and in
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TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR IN INDIA: POLICIES & REGULATIONS Telecommunication Industry in India: The Indian telecommunication sector has seen something of a swansong in the past decade. It has been one of the fastest growing sectors in India and has grown to become the second biggest telecommunication industry in the world‚ second only to China. It now has a subscriber base of almost 937.7 million as of September 2012 and is expected to service over 1 billion people by 2014. The present cellular
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Fiscal Deficit-Economic Growth Nexus in India: A Cointegration analysis Ranjan Kumar Mohanty1 Abstract The basic aim of the study is to examine both the short run and long run relationship between fiscal deficit and economic growth in India by covering the time period from 1970-71 to 201112. Johansen Cointegration test‚ Granger Causality test‚ And Vector Error correction Model (VECM) technique are adopted in order to examine the objectives of this study. The Johansen methodology confirms the existence
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INTRODUCTION In the post-World War II period India was probably the first non-communist developing country to have instituted a full-fledged industrial policy. The purpose of the policy was to co-ordinate investment decisions both in the public and the private sectors and to seize the ‘commanding heights’ of the economy by bringing certain strategic industries and firms under public ownership. This classical state-directed industrialisation model held sway for three decades‚ from 1950-1980. The
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STRATEGIES FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS Strategies can be divided into two categories in management‚ short term and long term. However what are strategies? The concept of strategy has been borrowed from the military and adapted for use in business. A review of what noted writers about business strategy have to say suggests that adopting the concept was easy because the adaptation required has been modest. In business‚ as in the military‚ strategy bridges the gap between policy and tactics. Together
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civilian transfer of power when Obasanjo had to hand over power to the incumbent president umaru yaradua when his tenure elongation plans failed to materialize. the term nascent is till synonymous with the usage of democracy in Nigeria Despite 10 years of democracy in Nigeria. may be that is the reason for the high rate of undemocratic dividends in the country. 29th may 2009 mark a decade anniversary of democracy in Nigeria. What have we benefited from this concept when compared to other countries
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