Performance 3 2.1 2001-2007 Economic Performance 4 2.2 2008-2012 Performance 4 2.3 Relationship Between Economic Growth and Productivity Growth 5 3.0 Policies Used to Address Lagging Productivity Growth 7 3.1 Infrastructure 7 3.2 Regulation Reform 8 3.3 Policy Effectiveness 9 4.0 Conclusion 10 5.0 Reference List 11 1.0 Introduction Driven by its dependence on natural resources, Australia’s economy has performed well in the aftermath of the 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis. The relative
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Welfare Abstract Employment and activity rates in the new EU Member States (NMS) declined significantly up to the early 2000s and started to increase along with strong GDP growth thereafter. Job losses following the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis varied substantially across countries and have not been offset yet. Overall, the low educated and the young people are very disadvantaged on the NMS labour markets. With the exception of Poland and Slovenia, non-standard types of employment
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and downgrade to a smaller home or apartment. Often there are times when families are broken up because the husband can’t provide for his family and they end up on the streets. The root cause of being homeless can be explained by economics, it’s said that people who become homeless are going through a financial issue and are unable to obtain or maintain their homes. Research shows that 83% of the homeless population experience episodic, transitional, or temporary periods of homelessness. The challenges
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during financial crisis and outlook for the next years Abstract This work takes into investigation the situation of Italy during the initial phase of the financial crisis that begun in 2008 and next we have gone through the short-term recovery in 2010 till the return of the bad results in 2012 and negative predictions for the future. We have analyzed the background of Italy economy, the main economic measures and the actions taken by the Italian government to recover the financial situation
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Deflation in Japan impacts economical growth and damages the financial health of the banking system. It is a unique phenomenon that intrigues many economists. Japan has the third largest economy in the world, yet it is unable to find effective ways out of stagnation and deflation. There are many opinions regarding deflation, its causes, and affects. However, this paper covers only a few that interested me the most. It covers factors that contribute to deflation such as high corporate rate, strong
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Daniel Bibonge Amsini Econ 412 December 18th, 2014 The US and its Current Account Deficit America's current account deficit has been fluctuating over the past 20 years. From 1991 it rose to a record high of about 6% of GDP in 2006 and it began to fall a year later to finally reach a level of 3% of GDP in 20091. Capital inflows finance the current account deficit. Economists are wondering if such large inflows are sustainable. According to economic theory, a current account deficit is not
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Jingwen Liu 25402323 Part A Introduction With the development of financial market, the technical analysis tools play an important role for the security evaluation. According to Penman (2010), investors estimate the stock future prices and trends by collecting and estimate the past prices and information. However, there are some conflict points on the momentum strategies performance
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bubble. Prior to Lehman Brothers failure, there had already been a bailout by the US government of another large financial institution, Bear Stearns. The bailout involved the Federal Reserve insuring J.P. Morgan Chase against loses of up to $29 billion on the “ill liquid” assets it was obtaining in the purchase of Bear Stearns. This was the beginning of the bailout of the financial sector by the federal government and would reach unprecedented levels by the end of 2008. Ben Bernanke, the chairman
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Managers Professor Victoria Vernon Module 3 Case Study: European Union 7/3/14 The EU is facing a banking crisis. There are insolvent banks in Ireland and Spain, as well as other nations. They lent out too much money, often against real estate. There were real estate bubbles then the value of real estate fell and borrowers could not always pay back the loans. The Greek banking crisis was caused by the government spending too much and borrowing too much money. The economy collapsed causing
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The Eurozone crisis (often referred to as the Euro crisis) is an ongoing crisis that has been affecting the countries of the Eurozone since late 2009. It is a combined sovereign debt crisis, a banking crisis and a growth and competitiveness crisis.[8] The crisis made it difficult or impossible for some countries in the euro area to repay or re-finance their government debt without the assistance of third parties. Moreover, banks in the Eurozone are undercapitalized and have faced liquidity problems
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