housing more efficiently by using less energy and better ways of reusing resources so that it is not as wasteful.By starting with building greener infrastructure in poorer areas of the United States and other countries, it allows the underclass to have adequate housing that is good for the environment. One of the biggest obstacles in going green is the fact that it is so expensive
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EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS – ORIGIN, CONSEQUENCES AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS F RA N TI Š E K N E M E T H Abstract What is the European debt crisis? As the head of the Bank of England referred to it in October 2011, it is “the most serious financial crisis at least since the 1930s, if not ever.”1 In fact, the European debt crisis is the shorthand term for the region’s struggle to pay the debts it has built up in recent decades. Five of the region’s countries – Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain
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markets. As a result of the liberalisation, GDP per capita has been rising by 7% annually, a rate that leads to its doubling in a decade. This contrasts with annual growth of GDP per capita of just 1% in the three decades from 1950 to 1980. Rapid growth turned India into the third largest economy in the world in 2006 (after the United States and China and just ahead of Japan when measured at purchasing power parities), accounting for nearly 7% of world GDP. 1 Although India’s growth rate has been
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EXMBA 2012-14 Sem-2 Economic Environment of Business Faculty : Ms Simirit Kaur Project Report on Major obstacles to India s growth Submitted By: Harish Kumar (S-25) Manoj Paweria (S-36) Kumar Sikander (S-76) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We owe a great many thanks to a great many people who helped and supported me during assignment . Our deepest thanks to professor, Ms. Simrit Kaur for assisting us at every stage of this project from the objectives, techniques and analysis to fine-tuning our entire findings
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CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Tax is an instrument to regulate economic growth and development across every economy. As a result, governments across the world impose one form of tax or the other. The main purpose of imposing tax has been for the government concerned to use the proceeds of the taxation to run the government and to provide essential services. Before a country considers efficient and effective way of administering tax system; it must possess a clear picture
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society. Using a ranking system he was able to compare over 50 countries to Canada in all of these dimensions: power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, career success and planning for the long-term horizon. Power distance This dimension measures the rigidity or flexibility of a country in terms of how organizations structure management and subordinate relationships. If a country has a high power distance, management structures seem to be more rigid or hierarchal and a chain of command system
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Introduction The positive relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction is not automatic. In Bangladesh, development expenditures have been growing in various proportions in agriculture, rural development, water resources, infrastructure, education and health sector. Each of these sectors impacts growth and poverty reduction differently. Allocation on agriculture, rural development, health, education and social safety net impacts poverty reduction at a higher rate and impacts economic
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Abstract Economic indicators are pieces of economic data that are usually of macroeconomic scale. The investors and economists interested in foreseeing the health of the economy can use them. The data is analyzed from many different perspectives and takes many different factors into account. Experts have experience at interpreting numbers and drafting predictions as to how the market will be affected in terms of consumer price indexes, gross domestic products, unemployment rates, and the price of
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intermediation remains the dominant feature. The market capitalization as a percentage of GDP in India is $ 1.03 trillion, which is about 90% of the GDP, while countries like Hong Kong (525% of GDP), Singapore (221%) are way ahead. India s Bond market capitalization also remains low at 50 % (McKinsey report) with the corporate bond market way behind the government debt market. The bank deposits account for 52% of the GDP, and about three fourth of the total assets of the financial system. (Paper by Wharton
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ASSIGNMENT ON Monetary Policy of Course No: 302 Submitted To: Mohammad Shahadat Hossain Assistant Professor Department of Finance & Banking University of Chittagong
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