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Ghana's Economy

is at $247 billion (1999, p.PG) U.S. dollars. Several factors have been holding up progress such as the unwillingness for develop...

Birmingham, UK's Architecture

may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...

Promoting Global Trade, Competition and the Role of Canada

but again, Canada is participatory and has been a help, and not a hindrance, as far as international trade is concerned. Canadas r...

Thailand and Japan Economies and Their Recent Trends

their losses (67). Most businessmen and bankers would resist such steps (67). Mr. Thaksin took office early in the twenty-first c...

Economy of China, Taiwan, and the Philippines

and promotion of trade integration within the region (CIA (b), 2003). The countrys inflation rate is 3.1 percent, while about 40 p...

The 2001 and 2002 Collapse of Argentina's Economy

Argentina has suffered many types of economic angst in the past, and flat exports, decreased household demand and high unemploymen...

U.S. Unemployment and its Impact

people immediately thing of their friends or family members who have lost jobs in recent years. They think of their plight and see...

U.S. Economics and Native American Casinos

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

Answering Questions on International Political Economy Issues

war as being "characterized less by its immediate causes...than by the extent and the stakes involved," so that the "inevitable co...

Overview of Kenya in East Africa

Though English is the official language of this nation, the lingua franca is Kiswahili, with Bantu languages comprising more than ...

Advertising Industry Changes

course. The situation meant that the agencies had less freedom and would have to hire employees along with more bean counters. In ...

Politics, Religion, and Language of South America

II. Language South America was settled largely by European immigrants who spoke Spanish and Portuguese, for the most part (Farn...

President George W. Bush and the American Economy

the job market and 1.3 million jobs have been created in 2004, thus far.4 The drawback is that a great many of these new jobs are ...

Education, the Economy, and a Hierarchy of Gender

social hierarchy is damaging to women is a societal pressure, a double standard, if you will. This constant reinforcement of what ...

Positive and Negative Aspects of Globalization

true that there are still numerous problems, injustices and inequalities that stem largely from the greed and self-interest of the...

Foreign Direct Investment Strategies in Africa

Christopher Columbuss time, there was the idea that trade is good. Clearly, using resources from other areas and making gains by i...

Global Economy and the Importance of Inter Organizational Relationships

its customers may be an upstream chain with the wholesaler first in the line upwards and at the source the farmer. The last sale i...

Southern Hemisphere's Political Economy and America's War on Drugs

some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...

Securities Purchasing and the Federal Reserve System

such a move would not be the best idea. For one thing, the Treasury market is large, flexible and liquid (Wheelock, 2002)....

Relationship Between Productivity and Wages

Other factors include uncertainty in job matching quality, industry competition and macroeconomic factors (Bai and Wang, 2003). ...

Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals Performance Incentives

EVA = Net Operating Profit after Taxes - [Capital x Cost of Capital] This approach was intended to encourage managers to lo...

Project Proposal on China's Economic Development

to a more open trading environment. The government made the transition from a communist centralized power following the Russian mo...

Unemployment Rates and the Presidency

create new jobs, the Bush administration has "indelibly identified itself with the performance of the economy" (Beattie, 2003, p. ...

Post Second World War Era and Late Industrialization's Effects

order to develop at a faster pace. However, the neo-liberal perspective argues for less state intervention, and it is argued that ...

Project Proposal for China's Economic Development

place China as the third largest economy in the world, the United States and Japan hold the first two places (Cheng, 2003). To be...

Trade Outlook for Caribbean Nations

Montserrat, the Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago (Barclay and ...

Italian Economic Conditions

as has been found in Italy for some time. Italys left-leaning policies historically have been unfriendly to business in the sense...

Business Investment in Saudi Arabia

it provides 75% of the budget revenues and accounts for 90-% of the countries export earnings, it is understandable why the govern...

The War in Iraq and Economic Ramifications

The beginning of the war marked a time that the federal government became far more active in gathering its supplies partially with...

2003 Year Ending US Economy

economy is developing as well; it is virtually unheard of in an economy the size of that of the US. Mr. Bernanke reports that bot...