What accounts for the emergence of external economies of scale? Discuss with reference to two relevant empirical cases Upon speaking about trade and development, it is reasonable to implement economies of scale into their agenda. Economies of scale theories suggest that “production is more efficient the larger the scale at which it takes place. Where there are economies of scale, doubling the inputs to an industry will more than double the industry’s production.” Furthermore, two types of economies
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Contents 1.Population policy of Mongolia…………………………………4 1.1. History and background……………………………………………………4-6 1.2. Population policy:…………………………………………………………..6-7 1.2.1.One. Population growth and health:………………………………………8-9 1.2.2.Two . Food and housing: …………………………………………………9 1.2.3.Three. Education and employment: ………………………………………9 1.2.4.Four. Distribution and migration: ………………………………………...10 1.2.5.Five. Registration, information and research: …………………………….11 1.2.6.Six. Link between population and
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major global commodity consumers and large capital exporters, and were also deeply involved in regional co-operation initiatives. These factors contributed to global disinflation in manufactured goods prices, abundant global liquidity and strong growth in commodity-exporting economies including Australia. (maybe because of 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis) In the coming decade, Asian economies are likely to continue their ascendancy, albeit at a slower pace, which should eventually decouple
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1. Introduction Maotanchang High School is a cramming school located in Maotanchang town, Lu An city of Anhui Province in China. Despite the prosperous cities like Shanghai or Guangzhou near the coast, Maotanchang town is in the middle of China, inside foot hills of Anhui. Maotanchang town did not enjoy the economic growth of China’s opening economy, but instead, it specialised in becoming a Gaokao cramming town. 2. What make Maotanchang a cram
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opportunities and threats the demographical, economic, social, technological, ecological and political factors will be analyzed. In the following we will execute a DESTEP Analysis on the food sector of the Chinese market. Demography Urbanization has been of great influence on the consumption of nuts. According to Yang and Gale (2015) per capita purchases of nuts by urban residents are 2.5 times higher compared to the rural residents. The urban population in China has been increasing annually and is
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Journal Sustainable growth, sometimes referred to as sustainability, was defined by the Brundtland Commission (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) as Economic Growth that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” For decades, GDP and growth in GDP were widely accepted as the measure of economic and well-being. However, this growth has also been accompanied by increased damages to the socio-economic systems. The notion
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Research Paper No. 2009/03 Source of Finance, Growth and Firm Size – Evidence from China Jun Du1 and Sourafel Girma2 January 2009 Abstract Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and financial structure in China, controlling for the endogeneity of the latter. Generally, it finds financing source matters for firms of different size, and the extent
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Censorship and the Chinese Communist Party: Sustainable Progress? The Communist Party of China despite the perceived benefits of Internet freedom has gone to great lengths to censor information and electronic communication of its people. Spending billions of dollars and a staggering amount of manpower, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to filter its Internet causing human rights activists and political dissidents to cry foul. However, the CCP has successfully found an impossible balance
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countries that have been impacted by globalization are India and China. India opened its doors to globalization during the nineteen nineties following an economic crisis in which the country almost defaulted on loans (Balakrishnan, n.d.). Before globalization India purposely isolated itself from world markets and was in a state of economic stagnation (Nayar, 2007). This stagnation left the country in profound poverty with no industrial growth. The people of India faced other challenges as well such
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1 The Impact of China-Africa Trade Relations: The Case of Angola By Dr Ron Sandrey Associate Trade Law Centre of Southern Africa Prepared for the African Economic Research Consortium Nairobi, Kenya November 2009 2 Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Hannah Edinger, Research Fellow, China Africa Network, Centre for Business and Academic Research, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria; and Senior Manager & Head of Research at Frontier Advisory
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