demands for imports and exposure of the country to external shocks are among the factors that have caused the country’s foreign exchange reserves and foreign direct investments to declines. These result in a balance of payment crisis that are further exacerbated by the financial sector that requires comprehensive reforms. There have been numerous economic, social and political changes since the country’s independence that have continued to exert pressure on the country’s ability to sustain its populations’
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profits, and inflation fall, while bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rise. Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending (an adverse demand shock). This may be triggered by various events, such as a financial crisis, an external trade shock, an adverse supply shock or the bursting of an economic bubble. Governments usually respond to recessions by adopting expansionary macroeconomic policies, such as increasing money supply, increasing government spending
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in relate to its size worldwide. It has a large impact to the US’s economic which include attracting tourists travel to US for gambling, creating a large number of job opportunities, paying enormous amount of tax to the government. During the year 2010, the commercial casino industry used to employ about 375000 people earning around $13 billion in wages, making it one of the biggest industries in the US (Investopedia 2011). Casinos are one of the
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The Australian Financial System in the 2000s: Dodging the Bullet Kevin Davis* Abstract The global financial crisis (GFC) occupied only a quarter of the decade of the 2000s but, because of its severity and implications for future financial sector development, dominates the decade. The Australian financial system coped relatively well with the GFC, raising the question of whether there was something special about its structure and prior evolution which explains that experience. This paper reviews
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a flexible exchange rate acts like a “shock absorber” in the face of external economic shocks. Explain what this means and why it is (or might be) true. Flexible exchange rates act as a “shock absorber” - Canada’s experience following the Asian Crisis - commodity prices and the Canadian dollar world price of raw materials fell by 30 percent, world is prepared to pay less for our raw materials. This led to dramatic depreciation of CAD. - compare BC and Ontario situations. BC produced a lot
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. We all have a shared interest in protecting American jobs, a vital American industry and American innovation. As the Committee knows so well, the ongoing economic and credit crisis has affected many Americans – from losing their jobs to losing their homes. The recession also has had very negative ramifications for the U.S. auto industry, which supports five million jobs in all 50 states and spends $12 billion annually on research
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SERIES IZA DP No. 6057 PAPER The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD P.N. (Raja) Junankar DISCUSSION October 2011 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD P.N. (Raja) Junankar University of New South Wales, University of Western Sydney and IZA Discussion Paper No. 6057 October 2011 IZA P.O. Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone: +49-228-3894-0 Fax: +49-228-3894-180
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the relationship between market structure and performance in the banking (NIC Code 6491) and real estate (RE) (NIC Code 6810) sectors using data from the Commercial Banks and RE firms operating in India before the world financial crisis (started in 2008), during the financial crisis, recovery period and beyond. The project would be beneficial for stakeholders /
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especially after the global crisis in 2008 . Advanced economies known as the giant economies of western countries affected very deeply by the crisis. The results of the crisis affected particularly in Europe.Today, many European countries came to the brink of collapsefinancially especially Greece and Portugal.On the other hand, China and India continued to grow without experiencing any problem. For about 10 years, these two giant countries continues to grow were successful in the crisis period. According to
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Country Profile Series United Kingdom In-depth PESTLE insights PESTLE Country Analysis Report: United Kingdom REFERENCE CODE: ML00002-031 PUBLICATION DATE: May 2013 WWW.MARKETLINE.COM MARKETLINE. THIS PROFILE IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED ML00002-031/Published 05/2013 Page 1 © MarketLine. This report is a licensed product and is not to be photocopied OVERVIEW Catalyst This profile analyzes the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental
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