Essays on Economist

The main idea of the article liquid assets is that water is a valuable resource and policies in different countries that govern water resource distribution and sharing play a vital role in proper water usage. Different strategies can be applied to enable equitable and fair access to the precious commodity (The Economist). Advantages of treating water as a commodity include it generates revenue that authorities can use to improve the water supply to other areas and maintain the supply at a steady rate. With proper structures in place, water trading can become an economic activity. Disadvantage of treating water ...

Analyze and discuss the Bretton Woods Agreement and state what the agreement was for and why it was created. Include any difficulties they faced in getting society to agree with their proposal. Briefly describe the 'gold standard' evolution and collapse. Response: World War II was over. Europe and Asia was in shambles, both in term of governance as well as from an economic standpoint. In order to resurrect Europe from the state that it was in, the Bretton Woods Conference took place in July 1, 1944. Apart from replacing the gold standard with the American dollar, the conference also ...

[Submission Date] This paper is written to present a short summary of an article titled “The coming debt bust” that was published on 7th May 2016 in a magazine named “The Economist.” The article presents the concrete reasons for which the Chinese economy has been facing financial troubles. Such problems may continue to rise if the prevailing financial situation (concerning debt and lending practices) in China is not controlled to an optimum level. The article presents that after the global financial and economic crisis of 2008, China’s debt level increased where the debt-to-GDP ratio increased to an alarming ...

Introduction

Pre-Spanish Era Religious Practices Political Structure Material Culture Spanish Occupation Material Culture

The Culture after the Spanish Conquest

Religious Influence of the Catholic Spanish and the Remaining Ethnic Groups Influences of the Protestant Church Religious Fighting between the Roman Catholic and Protestant Church Current Economic and Cultural Development Cultural Development Introduction Argentina is considered by Calvert, Donghi and Eidt (2016) as the eighth largest country in the world but is considered to be only third within Latin America (Buenos, 2014). The reason for this is that the land area of Argentina with 2.78 million square kilometers is larger than Mexico and the Texas state combined ( ...

“If it has ‘science’ in its name, it ain’t (Minnick).” Those words were said to this writer by the smartest person he ever knew personally, a man with PhDs in Mathematics and Physics, a true scientist. He went on to explain that science, if it is science, can be reduced to mathematics and then can predict. “Science can generate electricity or flatten cities,” he said. The problem, of course, is that whenever one deals with the “soft sciences,” political science or economics (the dismal science) or sociology or history or any of the disciplines that are housed in ...

Part 1

Part 2 I agree with Akers & Chingos (2014) that, “increases in lifetime incomes of college-educated Americans have more than kept pace with increase in debt loads.” According to their research, the average household with student debt has experienced an increase in annual income of $7400 while total debt increased by only eighteen thousand dollars. The statistics show that income of educated Americans has been increasing at a faster rate than the increase in student debt and the increased annual income can pay the additional debt within two to three years (Akers & Chingos, 2014). The increase in borrower’s income ...

Spain is regarded as Europe’s next Greece (Flamini, 2012). The political turmoil in the country has significantly been affected by the country's economy. The country had a yearlong economic crisis that propelled the rate of unemployment to rise. This negative economic environment forced some of its labor force to migrate to other countries in search of job opportunities. Additionally, the country experiences an inadequate health care system. A bigger percentage of the children in the country experience malnutrition since their parents cannot afford a balanced diet for their families. Crime is a characteristic of a failing economy. The ...

Current Event Article: How Airlines Cut Cost

Every business organization faces a particular cost structure that determines its total cost. This structure embodies various types of costs that an organization incurs in its different operations. Cost minimization is one of the primary objectives of firms. Thus, organizations must critically evaluate its cost structure to ensure it is able to optimize its objectives with the existing resources. This paper will analyze the article “how airlines cut cost” published by the Economist to demonstrate how technology is effectively applied by business organizations to reduce cost (The Economist, 2015). Technology has a significant impact on the cost structure of ...

Introduction

There are many accounting systems all over the world, which exist in order to help various companies with the management of their businesses. The relative new financial approach is the Activity-Based Costing (ABC). Following Kaplan and Cooper, it is the type of accounting, which helps to solve the financial problems by using different strategies and approaches to each and every separate financial facility on the bases of the consumed materials and information (Kaplan and Cooper). ABC provides proper management of quality for the service industry with mentioning the peculiarities of development and emphasizing activities that conduct the whole businesses. ...

as Environment Policy

Effectiveness of Carbon Tax as Environment Policy

Climate change has emerged as a global challenge because unrestrained rising of global temperature would cause melting of glaciers and rise of sea level that would submerge land masses, change weather patterns with frequent incidence of hurricanes and floods and droughts. As an effective response to the challenge, global leaders have agreed to cut back emission of Green House Gases (GTG) to contain the global rise in temperature below 2 degree Celsius (Symon, 2013). Carbon dioxide, a major constituent of GTG, is released to the atmosphere on combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and ...

Hitler and the Nazi party came to power in 1933 by 1939 they had begun their quest to invade and rule all of Europe. During this time, unknown to the rest of Europe Hitler and the Nazis were also implementing their “final solution” which was the systematic execution of Jews and any others that they deemed not suitable to exist in the ideal society that Hitler had been selling to the German people through his speeches and propaganda (Kershaw, 2008, pgs. 36-43). Once the Allied forces defeated the Nazi forces and Hitler escaped his judicial fate by committing suicide. ...

Fashion and food

1. Executive summary The clothing and the foot ware market in Saudi Arabia performs quite well due to the thriving economy and the high levels of the disposable incomes in the country. The unemployment rates are quite low, a fact which has contributed to the growth of the fashion and food markets. Available information at the end of 2015 indicates that the leading fashion brands in the country increased the number of the fashion brands in their portfolio as the customers raised to demand quality and more luxurious brands. As a result, the retailers have expanded the outlets across ...

The article, named as “The continued need for independent research on prescription drugs” by John F Hoadley talks about the cost pressure being faced by public and purchasers of the private sector in relation to prescription medications. It also discusses the debates over the policies framed by Medicaid and Medicare in regards to the drug benefits covered by them. The cost of Pharmaceutical goods is summing up to huge amounts, and is growing at a rapid pace; it is one of the most worrisome areas for the federal health policy makers. In the last few years, the United States ...

Overview

Technology has both positive and negative implications on the lives of the people. The proliferation and advancement of technology tools have enormous effects on the lives of the people with respect to the odds of space and time thereby influencing the nature of social interactions. In particular, the technological advancements have direct effects on social evolution and social interaction across the globe, especially on the internet. The relationship between technology and social development results in the new realities of the individuals and the society. In particular, the relation between the society and technology encompasses the social networks sites, modern ...

The relationship between wealth and health (Wealth-health gradient)

Economists argue that wealth determines the health outcome of a person or the society. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses the idea of money to implement its health agendas especially in developing countries of Africa (Anonymous, 2008). Money determines the quality of health care offered to a person. Income acts as the driving force that helps people and societies overcome health disparities experienced by many minority groups. According to Woolf et al. (2015), the relationship between wealth and health forms a gradient that places people at different levels of the economic ladder depending on their wealth. People earning low ...

Many coal firms have been closing down as the global demand for the ‘black diamond’ has fallen considerably. The supply is higher than the demand, leading to continuous fall in price. The price of the output is inadequate to cover the cost of production. This means that the firms are not able to meet the marginal costs. The fall in demand for coal is attributed to the changing environmental regulations on pollution (Springfield, 1). The conservative economic views require the government to empower the people so that they can solve their problem. Therefore, it is possible to take care ...

The world today is seeing more immigration than ever before, both legal and illegal. While countries forging solid links with one another in the vein of the European Union (hereafter referred to as EU for brevity) has encouraged legal immigration of all kinds, while war and deprivation in various other parts of the world has led to a burgeoning refugee crisis, with more people entering Western countries than can be adequately or carefully handled at any one time. These forms of immigration can be seen as quite different to each other at face value; however, when looked at in ...

Question 1

In designing a new system for corporate governance, one must consider the principles of integrity, fairness and equity that business advances an ethical business practice towards shareholders and stakeholders (GC-11, 2008). In this sense, the shareholder-centric system, with the unitary board and non-executive directors that oversight the control answers the criteria of fairness towards shareholder, as it is comprised of both members of the companies and of unaffiliated corporations, which met separately to assure righteous oversight (CG-11, 2008). The stakeholder centric system with non-shareholder controlling owners assured a separated oversight from management through its two-tier board, which raises criticism ...

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Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Discussion 4 Conclusion 7

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Executive Summary Quality education is not always equals to a higher budget. This kind of education can be achieved by maximizing the readily available resources and optimizing human resource skills, and using modern technology at human advantage. When environment and human resources, and modern technology are properly used, an excellent quality of education is possible without the fear of workers’ strike and student protests. This study wants to present a possibility of a cost less quality education among the leaders and administrators of St. Vincent Community College. It is a ...

On August 30, 2016, Laura Dimon and Ginger Adams Otis wrote an article for The Daily News under the headline “Protesters gather in NYC to show outrage of skyrocketing EpiPen prices.” The article highlights a controversy that is ongoing as this is typed – the price of potentially life-saving EpiPens has increased fivefold in the decade since Mylan Pharmaceuticals acquired the product. One of the clear economic concepts that the EpiPen controversy demonstrates is elasticity of demand. As Guo (2012) points out discussing price elasticity of demand, the concept is simple. It is intuitive as well. When prices go up ...

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Volkswagen Ethics

Hotten. R. (2015). Volkswagen: The Scandal Explained. BBCNews.com. Retrieved from: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

Volkswagen Ethics

The Automobile industry like many others prides itself in its quality manufacturing processes, adherence to compliance norms, innovation and customer satisfaction. However, over the last few decades the industry is plagued with myriad cases of ethical misdemeanors. Some of the unethical behavior probably arises from pressures of business, profits, shareholder value and competition (Bazerman and Tenbrunsel, 2011). In some cases, leaders turn a blind eye to unethical practices. In one of the older cases from the 1970s, ...

Executive Summary 3

Introduction 4 Theoretical Background 4 Brand Love Scales 4 Definition of Love 5 Personality of Brand 5 Image of the Brand 5 Brand Love’s Elements 6 Brand Romance 7 Brand Attitude 7 Brand Loyalty 7 Fashion Brands Love 8 Brand Love in Cell Phone Industry 8 Brand Love Creation by the Companies 8 Apple/Samsung/Huawei 8 PepsiCo 9 Benetton 9 Conclusion 9

BIBLIOGRAPHY 10

Executive Summary Brand love is a relatively new phenomenon actively discussed by the scholars and marketing professionals. Brand love is necessary for the modern companies to successfully attract and retain their customers. Moreover, it helps to convince ...

Postmodernism is a broad term covering a wide set of ideas that shape various aspects of society based upon postmodern theory. Postmodernism based its way of gaining knowledge on multiple ways rather than just relying on reason and senses, as it was in modernism. It can be said that postmodernism is more skeptic of the previous approaches towards gaining knowledge and questions the existence of objective truth ("An Overview Of Premodernism, Modernism, & Postmodernism"). Cultural postmodernism refers to the effects of postmodernism on music, art, customs, laws, morals, and other aspects of culture. Economic postmodernism, on the other hand, deals ...

Corporate citizenship, or Corporate social responsibility is the way every firm influences on the environmental and social wellbeing. CSR refers not only to the environmental protection groups or social institutions. Every company, large or small is interested in performing CSR. Even though most of the actions do not bring the firm fast financial benefits, still being people oriented is paramount for the business’ success, especially in the innovative market. Based on the company’s approach, there are three main types of CSR defined, namely: (1) Business case model; (2) Social values model; and (3) Syncretic Stewardship model. Thus, CSR ...

Introduction:

We have seen economic progress through the centuries, and we have prized that progress because the same has been making our living standards better and it is giving us access to so many services. That of the United States is an economy which screams progress, but within this progress, the economy also hides a great flaw. In this economy, the rich seems to be getting even richer, while the poor suffer through the worse of the ups and downs, at least this is a question that we are going to prove true or false in this paper. As per ...

Impact of Immigration on the European Economy

YOURSCHOOL Impact of Immigration on the European Economy In the weblog (blog) assignment Hűttl and Alvaro (2015) take the position that the economic impact of immigration in Europe is quite small. The blog article cites ten sources ranging from formal peer reviewed articles such as Műnz, Straubhaar, Vadean and Vadean (2006) to popular websites such as the Huffington Post. The overall conclusion of the assigned blog post, all sources considered, is that immigration is a net benefit and therefore, can be considered healthy for the economy. Labor impacts play an important role in the analysis of impacts ...

Report on the relationship between assets and sales

Executive summary A company’s investment in foreign assets has a bearing on the amount of foreign sales it makes. The regression analysis indicates a positive association between the ratio of foreign sales to total sales and the ratio of foreign assets to total assets. This implies that transnational companies should invest more in foreign assets to improve their foreign sales. They should also consider other factors affecting foreign sales such as international marketing strategies including advertising expenditure, among others. Investment in foreign assets is not the only contributor to foreign sales as indicated by the model’s coefficient ...

A health system entails all programs, institutions, resources, procedures and personnel that are used by a country to meet the health needs of its citizens. The essence of a health system is to promote and restore the health of the population (WHO, 2014). Furthermore, an efficient health care system is always committed to the provision of quality care services to the citizens. According to Amce (2014), health systems vary from country to country. However, we have common elements like training of the physicians, robust funding, policies, health informatics and medical logistics. According to Kalisch (2014), the Australian health system ...

Introduction

The Constitution Act of 1982, which introduced some of the most important changes to the Canadian Constitution since it came into force in 1867; has and continued to play a significant role in changing the framework of Canadian politics (CDOJ, 2016). These changes, on the whole, have had a substantially positive effect on the Canadian political community. In order to understand the benefits of Canadian constitutional reform on the political community, one must first understand how the Constitution had arranged, regulated, and influenced Canadian politics in the past. The Canadian Constitution of 1867 had a number of characteristics that ...

ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: A CASE STUDY ON THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: A CASE STUDY ON THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Introduction

In international business, the organizations also need to consider cultural and social values at individual levels in the present competitive business environment (Mandják et al., 2016; Weinzimmer & Esken, 2016). In this context, China is evidently one of the topmost cradles of civilizations in the world to take into account for a case study. The history of this East Asian nation is really astounding. The People’s Republic of China has developed to become one of the top world powers today, named among the G5 + ...

Introduction

The health care provision differs worldwide. Most industrialized countries offer universal health care except for the United States. A great challenge arises in health provision because of the costs needed and the different cultural, social, economic, and political situations. The alarming state of U.S. health care has triggered business leaders, policymakers, as well as health experts to seek for methods to restructure a system that was in an incomparable crisis. As can be recalled, in 1994, the government participated in a huge conflict over the restructuring of the healthcare system. The U.S. health care is very costly. Hence, the ...

Issues

The Corporation is an investigative report about the wrongdoings of corporations. The issue is about all the evil that corporations do. Corporations are responsible for many problems in the world including poverty and the exploitation of people, toxic chemicals and wastes, genetic manipulated organisms, warped consumer mentality, among other things. Some of the products they produce do not serve society any good but mainly to earn corporations huge profits. Corporations—large, multinational corporations in particular—exist to earn profits for themselves.

Portrayal of Corporations

The documentary portrays corporations mainly as evil. Although the documentary is truthful and the evidences it presents can ...

1. The Financial Crisis: Avoidable but Inevitable Theoretically, the financial crisis could have been avoided as investigation findings revealed . Under the circumstances however, the crisis was an inevitable consequence of everything that was going. The Federal inquiry concluded that the 2008 financial crisis could have been avoided. The crisis was the result of “widespread failures in government regulation, corporate mismanagement and heedless risk-taking by Wall Street”. It was the result of “greed, ineptitude or both” on the part of government and the private sector. Among the persons found responsible for the crisis included Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and, ...

An Analysis of Merger & Acquisition Strategy

Introduction There has been a major fall in the oil prices in past two years from 2014-2016. The decline in oil prices has led to a major impact on the energy sector making it difficult for energy producer companies to survive. However, despite the falling oil prices and damp prospects, there has been a major announcement of merger and acquisition that touched the $300 billion dollar mark in 2016, while the deal announcements in 2015 were in the tune of $3.2 trillion across the globe. Most of the surge in the energy sector is attributed to some of the ...

Surprise ending

A modest proposal is a widely read essay by Jonathan Swift that was written with an aim of providing the solution to the aggravating hunger problem in Ireland. From the beginning of the proposal, Swift adopts a satirical approach which ensures into a surprise ending. The ending comes as a surprise to me because, at the start of the essay, Swift takes the persona of a concerned economist proposing that to alleviate the poverty and overpopulation better in Ireland, the children of the poor should be sold as food to the wealthy. This, he argues, will significantly increase the ...

Abstract

The given case study discusses the rise and fall of Nortel Networks Corporation, which was one of the world’s largest telecommunication corporation. Nortel was a Canadian global organization that was at its peak in the early 2000s and apparently, it botched due to inefficient echelon management, inflated earnings and costs, dysfunctional directors’ board, as well as, illusion of constancy and stability. Although there were numerous possibilities that could have been adopted to prevent the fall and demise of the company; however, those roads were unfortunately not traveled. Nortel’s downfall began when it fails to live up to ...

Introduction

Modern social, political, business and economic contexts make people and groups increasingly aware and concerned with diversity. Access to technology, globalization and growing possibilities in tourism and travel make individuals more mobile and internationalize cultures and societies in general. With that in mind, companies and people face with the complexity of dealing with this personal and professional diversity, focusing on cultural awareness and differences. In view of these trends and growing interest in cultural studies, it is important to define the concept of culture as a whole.

Meaning of Culture

Allan (1998) identifies culture as the set of characteristics and knowledge of ...

Business

2016-07-23

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the issue of the companies of Elon Musk and Tesla and their compliance with the Moral Compass (Elon Musk’s Empire, 2016). The chosen news is related to the personal and corporate integrity. It should be noted that personal interests as well as professional interests can impact on the company. In this case, expression and defending each of own interests by the business entity can lead to a phenomenon that is called a conflict of interests. Entering into transactions with each other, every company seeks to realize selfish interests, which may not coincide ...

The Fall of Tesco Plc 4

Introduction 4 The aim and objectives of the research project 4 Rationale 5 Literature Review 5 Research Methods 7 Research Questions 7 The chosen methods for primary data collection 7 Findings 8 Manipulation of suppliers 8 Accounting Scandal 8 The rise of discounting stores across the United Kingdom 9 Horsemeat outrage 9 Failure to add customer value 9 Discussion and Analysis 10 Conclusions 12 Recommendations 12 Directed at the organization 12 Areas for future research 13 Reflection 13

References 14

The Fall of Tesco Plc Introduction A Statement of the Problem The choice of this research owes its motivation and driving ...

Report

Report Nowadays, the basic knowledge of economic principles is crucial for everyone, even for those who are not professional economists. The economy is the mechanism that affect everyone: the probability of find the desirable job, getting mortgage loan in the bank, the amount of rent payments are all variables that are determined by economic processes. The conscious understanding of economics helps policymakers to take appropriate and timely actions; allows firms and investors correctly forecast interest rates, in order to make profitable investments, to the households and individuals to properly plan their savings, to the scientists – develop actual models and ...

On June 23, 2016, the citizens on the United Kingdom (Great Britain) which includes the nations of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were asked to decide whether or not the kingdom should end its membership in the European Union (UE). The referendum, which was popularly known as the “British Exit” or “Brexit” for short, had been put on the ballot by Prime Minister David Cameron shortly after the 2015 elections which saw Cameron’s conservative Tory Party win an outright majority of seats in the British Parliament (Economist). One of Cameron’s campaign pledges was to generally limit ...

Two of the more frustrating aspects of living in a modern, information society and the constant need to “have internet access” everywhere, all the time are finding a strong, and stable signal to provide access and the power drain to your device that results from the constant searching for and connecting to an accessible signal. One emerging technology that is working hard to resolve these two issues is known as passive Wi-Fi, or as it is more informally known, “backscattering” (Harris, 2016). Passive Wi-Fi refers to a technology that is being developed at the University of Washington that is ...

Introduction

Eastman Kodak Corporation is an American multinational public company that engages in production imaging as well as photographic tools and equipment. It is a renowned market leader that provides photographic products as well as services to customers around the globe either for fun purposes or commercial purposes. The company introduces innovative and up-to-date photography products to the market, hence allowing people to take photos, share them while enjoying the beauty of the picture. The company is among the leading in the world in the provision of the associated products and services, and the company’s management is always inclined ...

Report for McDonalds

Italy and Russia

Figure 1: GDP per Capita at Constant Prices Figure 2: GDP Growth (Annual %) Figure 3: Inflation Rate CPI Figure 4: Unemployment Rates Figure 5: Policy Interest Rate (%) Figure 6: Russia Interest Rate (%) Figure 7: Current Account Balance in Italy (% of GDP) Figure 8: Current Account Balance in Russia (% of GDP) Figure 9: Russia Interest Rate

List of Tables

BUSINESS OVERVIEW McDonald’s Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries across 36,538 outlets. Founded in 1955 by Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, Illinois, 80% of the ...

American Labor Market Overview and Trends

Labor market is one of the most important parts of any national economy, and USA is not an exception. The US Labor market has few significant trends that show how it was developed in the past and how it will be looks like in future. Unemployment rate analysis, job growth rate, and income analysis – these are the major sectors of Labor market that could represent its general overview. First of all, the unemployment rate should be analyzed. If we look on past two decades as for analyzed period, we will definitely see two major period of US Labor market ...

Describe the environment in which Skype competes based on the three characteristics of high-tech markets (Chapter 1).

High technology market is filled with both promise and peril (Mohr, Sengupta, & Slater, 2010, p.4). There are three main characteristics of the high-tech environment, namely (1) market uncertainty, (2) technological uncertainty, and (3) competitive volatility (Mohr, Sengupta, & Slater, 2010, p.11) Analyzing the Skype case, it is clear that company’s greatest uncertainty is competitive volatility, as there emerged a wide range of companies that provide VoIP call services. The other threat the company faced is market uncertainty, as it was reported that only about 20% of the registered customers use their accoutns actively. Thus, charging new fees may not ...

Question 1: What drives the basic economies of the airline industry? The refining industry?

The revenue side of the airline industry is driven by the amount of passengers an airline can carry per flight. A common index is the percentage of filled seats: if it is low on a flight, that flight may be unprofitable. Fuel costs may represent 30 to 50% of total operating costs in the airline industry (Grassbaugh, 2013). For the refining industry, the cost of crude oil is the major driver (Grassbaugh, 2013). Hence, when the price of crude falls, refining margins tend to rise.

Question 2: How is Delta different from other airlines?

Mallikarjun (2015) posits there are so many competitors in the American airline industry, that ...

Issue with the Justice System

Law Enforcement Introduction The terms law enforcement pertains to a government agency that assumes the responsibility of maintaining public order including public safety and enforcement of the law. There are several branches of law enforcement both local and federal that assume the said responsibility. The local police department, the FBI, Sherriff’s department, special jurisdiction police, and among others are inclusive of the term law enforcement because their key function involves, detection, deterrence, and apprehension of criminal activities. The discussion will highlight the key functions and purpose of law enforcement and the current issues facing this branch of the ...

Executive Summary

This section looks into the inception of Disney Store in South Korea, which is the country of interest. Disney Store is a retail outlet that specializes in sales of merchandise that are unique to Disney. Disney Store traces its roots back in 1987, in Glendale, California. A country analysis of South Korea was done with detailed information being noted as far as population, GDP, per capita income, aesthetics, political system, legal system and the living conditions in the country just to name a few of the areas tackled. This was followed by an economic analysis of South Korea where ...

Basic Facts of the Case

The Ethical Issues Involved Under utilitarianism, the GM bailout was certainly ethical because it focused on the maximization of the overall good of the company, the people, and the government. However, when one keenly scrutinizes justice and rights issues involved, there is contention with the bailout. The executives of General Motors were allowed to enjoy the organizational profits for the longest period with the taxpayers bearing the losses. Economist Joseph Stiglitz wrote the debate about whether or not to bail out car manufacturers had been mischaracterized, and that the profits were privatized, and the losses socialized. According to him, ...

I have researched an article «$20 is the new $40», which discuss the changes in prices oo the oil market at the beginning of 2016 year. The energy, obtained from burning oil, is the main driving force of the economy today. Economic growth and oil prices move unidirectionally, and the slowdown in global economic growth is accompanied by a fall in world oil prices. Oil supply in the world market depends on the demand for oil products and, accordingly, the factors that form the demand. At the same time, the volume of supply (production) on oil is affected by ...

In my opinion, climate change presents a fundamental problem in our world, and the species, places, and natural resources that are present in our world. The results of climate change are real as ocean levels have risen, and the planet is becoming warmer. Due to global warming, the world is experiencing intense and longer droughts that threaten wildlife, crops and freshwater. The increased global temperature has significantly altered the planet’s climate, and the result is extreme and highly unpredictable weather conditions. Climate change causes intense heat waves that are melting the polar ice caps and rising ocean levels, ...

Egypt uprising of 2011 occurred after collaborative efforts from various interested groups. The elites and non-elites participated at different scales and levels. The Egyptians had tolerated poverty, political oppression, and corruption for decades. As a result, human rights and labor activists alongside NGOs begun protesting the government. During 2010, just before elections, the Muslim Brotherhood, a group of youths that defied the government and Mohammed ElBaradei’s campaign for reforms got a national attention especially when the Mubarak attempted to install his son Gamal as heir. The government machinations suppressed most of the activist. Police killed Khaled Said triggering ...

Human Resource Management

Introduction Hello and welcome, Francis Jones! My name is John Smith and I am the Human Resources Manager at Blessed Beauty Incorporated. In order to assist with your relocation, the company has prepared the following information, which I hope you will find useful.

Blessed Beauty Incorporated

Blessed Beauty Inc. is a company which specializes in the manufacture and sale of cosmetics and personal beauty products as well as household products. The company, which was established fifteen years ago, has a network of ten individual sites in the United States and is looking to expand internationally, particularly to Latin America. The current organizational ...

Introduction

Some people may be confused when it comes to give the definition of whistleblowing, According to Weimer (2014), whistleblowing is the manifestation of an ethical concept implying spreading information of somebody, who is in danger or in a risky situation among some higher-ranked officials, so in case of being accused a person will be fined or sanctioned. The concern raised may be raised externally or internally in order to inform people about wrongdoings. There are many complaints, which can be viewed as whistleblowing. For such issues the protection by law has to be provided. These complaints are criminal offences ...

Importance of Entrepreneurial Activity to the UK Economy

Assignments 2 Introduction The constant growth and evolution of economic relations, both between countries and between entrepreneurs within a country, are requirements for the creation of new business forms. Entrepreneurship is an important, but not a sufficient factor in economic and social developments of countries (Waschik, Fisher and Prentice, 2010). However, if left uncontrolled by the state, entrepreneurship can become just as harmful as the administrative-command system in an economy. Entrepreneurship is essential for the development of a competitive economic environment; in order to give the final consumers the freedom of choice, but does not content with goods offered ...

McDonalds has come to create a network in both Italy and Russia. Italy seems to have better balance of payment and government balance indices, interest rate, trade policy instruments and not needing to lose over currency rates while dealing with Eurozone importers, and even unemployment and GDP growth rates. However, unemployment and the lack of growth indicating poor economic performance and social welfare situation may advantage the brand in Russia through better low-cost labor availability and consumer reorientation on less expensive restaurant offerings. Overall, neither of the country is the ideal market for the brand, yet both have their ...

Bangladesh is among the world’s most populous nations, but most of its population is poor. Formerly East Pakistan, Bangladesh gained independence in 1971 after the war with West Pakistan. The size of the country whose capital is Dhaka is 143,998 square meters with a population of 161 million people. The main language for the Bangladesh people is Bengali with the major religions being Islam and Hinduism. Life expectancy is 69 years and 70 years for men and women respectively. The population growth rate is estimated at 1.2 % with infant mortality rate of 45/1000. The city of Dhaka ...

The ongoing internationalization process persuaded regulators and businesses worldwide to think of a common global accounting language for business affairs. This move led to the development of IFRS. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), sometimes referred to as International Accounting Standards, is a globally recognized accounting framework for businesses worldwide. The major purpose of this accounting standard is to make company accounts understandable and comparable across international boundaries. Currently, over 110 countries are following the IFRS accounting system in order to address complexities relating to international business affairs. However, the United States has not adopted IFRS yet, and the country ...

The Corn Laws were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1815 to keep the prices of grain high so that British grain farmers would be favored in the market. England had different laws that affected the importation of grains dating back to the 12th century (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica), but it became a serious issue in the 1800s because of the costs of war; England had a rapidly expanding population and had a naval blockade imposed during the Napoleonic era that caused the price of grain to rise. The laws became a big issue between the ...