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... has the additional effect of increasing income both directly and through the consumption multiplier. It is beyond doubt that South Africa moved into a period of countercyclical policy in response to the global recession that began in the US housing and financial sectors in 2008. Figure 1 shows total ... economy shrinking by a total of 1.5% in 2009. From 2010 onward growth steadily recovered, reaching 3% in 2011. Over the 2001 to 2007 period, it seems that growth and government expenditure were positively related. The second difference of GDP roughly matched the rate of growth of governm...
... interference (Haggard, 26). Well, in fact the loan decisions in Korea mostly were affected by political interference rather than bank themselves until recent time, but during the 1948 ~ 1961 period, the rent generated by low interest rate was used for its political activities rather than economic growth. Government's Export Promotion Policies In the economic development, the government's creation of economic ... major contents of fiscal and financial policies as stated in the plan document were largely about the tax, budget, and monetary system, financial market and foreign exchange syste...
... ). The Anglo-American economies were dominated by Fordist mass-production in the fifties and sixties in which identical products were manufactured to meet the demands of wealthier consumers. During this period economic geography was concerned with industry and the spatial and regional aspects of industrial economic development (Bryson, et al., 1999). For example large industrial firms, such as Imperial Chemical ... and regional methodologies and some researched the conflicts which had arisen between management and labour, most notably the 1972 and 1974 UK miners' strike (Wheeler, et al.,...
... 's overall reform from 1970 till the present can be divided into two distinct periods (Figure 1 below), each with its objectives, forces and mechanisms driving the process . The first period known as hard reform is between 1976, after the reunification, up to 1986. The central authorities maintain its tough stance against private sector and continue to control markets to defend ... level (e.g cooperatives and state-owned enterprises), and the government took a reactive attitude to ease the pressures of the shortage economy with the objective to achieve socialist transformation. The secon...
... and Urry (1987) typify this as a transition from "organised" to "disorganised capitalism" involving major changes in the social, cultural, economic and political characteristics of Western societies. Thus, the period since the 1970's is both "qualitatively and quantitatively different from that typical of most of the twentieth century." (Pahl, 1988: 4) In outlining their evidence in support of such a chronological ... describe the post-1970's economic order. Reich (1991), for example, argues that since the 1970's economic relations between countries have become more "global" than they we...
... between countries and they are not able to make effective use of their comparative advantages. Thus resources are not allocated efficiently. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, and after a period of relative disfavor, rigid nominal exchange rates made a comeback in policy and academic circles. After time and a lot of political economy arguments, a lot of economic experts agreed that a fixed ... policies. 3. Technology has caused the volume and speed of transactions to increase significantly, thus the level of risk within an institution, market or financial sector can change dramatically...
... rate averaged close to 11% in real terms for the decade of the 1960s. This compared with 4.6% for the Federal Republic of Germany and 4.3% for the United States in the period from 1960 to 1972. And it was well above twice Japan's own average prewar growth rate of about 4% a year. "It is generally agreed that the rapid expansion of Japan's economy ... the world market, created new products, and brought Japanese enterprises the benefits of mass production and improved productivity per worker" (Abe, 1995). Another factor behind Japan's economic growth during this period was the availabilit...
... for the development of the country itself; thus, the region outside of the colonial region was totally disregarded. This can be illustrated by the infrastructure that was built during colonial period. Infrastructure, notably roads and railways, was only opened to satisfy the need of the export/import activities. All of them led down to the sea. There were only some ... had no access to acquire the "modern" skills from the westerners. This created the problem of mass unskilled labor force, and it subsequently hampered Ghana's economic growth after the colonial period. The problems brough...
... terms, study the factors influencing economic growth and development, and show what role the One Child Policy had played. The overall impact of the One Child Policy during the time period of 1980 to 1990 is what I will be primarily looking at. But in addition I will also briefly comment on the future consequences of this policy. Introduction Economics is the study ... increase in total real output (real GDP) produced by an economy per head of the population (per capita) over a time period. Real GDP is defined as the total value of all the goods and services produced in an economy over a...
... meaning everyone's happy. Consequently, Marshall emphasized that time was an important factor in how the markets adjust to demand and supply. So, he introduced the idea of time periods (market period, short run, long run, and secular period) assuming that the condition for equilibrium is that the market be cleared meaning that demand is equal to supply. The market ... period is a very short period in which the producers of a product are unable to change the quantity produced in response to a change in its price and there is perfect supply inelastic. In short run, only ... and to the r...
... comes to the 4 special events throughout the year. This is an area that may evoke competitive actions, as these special events are seasonal, therefore occurring around the same time period. In competitive situations like this is where elements of the marketing mix work collaboratively in order to ensure the business is as profitable and successful as possible. For Ocean Park ... to compete effectively during the special event promotional period, the business's promotional methods and pricing strategy are vital and must effectively target the chosen market. According to the competitive a...
... big bang or shock therapy approach implements various reforms on (monetary policy, privatization, trade and exchange rates etc.) quickly, whereas the gradualist approach spreads various reforms over an extended period of time. There are several arguments in support of big-bang approach to various types of reform. First, in the context of privatization, a big-bang approach provides a critical ... of planned and market economy to a socialist market economy. In Vietnam, economic reforms started in 1986 and they resembled very much Gorbachev-type marginal reforms in the same period. Vietnames...
... fight the unemployment, a gradual adjustment policy was created to reduce inflation, the public debt, the foreign debt, and unemployment. In this three-year period of change, authorities established the foundation for continued growth and prepared the Spanish economy for future entry into the European Economic Community, also known as EEC ... gross formation of capital increased to an annual average rate of 14.1%, which doubled the average growth of investment in the OECD countries during this period. From 1985-1989, the gross formation of capital grew from 19% to 26% of the GDP. However...
... May 1999 Nigeria has been under military dictatorship (Adebariwi). Nigeria has had a history of political instability, which goes as far back as the pre-colonial period (around 1700's). I would say it really began when Fulani Islamic clerics forced the spread of Islam on Nigerians. Islam taught its followers to use war ... and violence as a tool to spread the religion. Even during the colonial period many of the southern Nigerian groups disagreed with the political structure and began to riot and commit other acts of disobedience. The only way the ... north could sustain its dominance w...
... used, for example, in numerous studies concerned with the analysing the profit squeeze that occurred in the advanced countries during part of the post-war period. However, the impression may be given that somehow the critique depends upon this method of calculating r explicitly from the accounting identity. It clearly does ... necessary to construct a measure of the total capital stock. Fisher does this by weighting the Kit by , the average rate of return over the 20-year period (and hence a constant), before summing the series to gain a measure of the aggregate capital stock. Thus Jit ...
... industrial and trade policy, where the opening of the economy would be the primary focus . Those economic policies resulted in a trendless, but generally high inflow of foreign direct investment. The period registering the lowest levels of foreign direct investment was 1985 through 1993, due partly to high inflation and fiscal problems and partly to the restrictions for foreign investors. The business ... environment of this period enhanced the situation due to the macroeconomic conditions and the growing importance of the British economy, which, by that time, experienced an industrial r...
... assimilation of the British business classes to the social pattern of the gentry and aristocracy had proceeded very rapidly from the mid nineteenth century, the period when so many of the so called ` public schools ` were founded, or reformed by finally excluding the poor for whom they had originally been ... lacked enterprise . On the other hand, neither must one adopt an unduly complacent attitude when discussing the performance of British business in this period. As we have already seen there was considerable room for improvement in many branches of British industry .But the problem w...
... time." The following essay is going to attempt to assess the above proposition and try to find if it is possible to add value continually over a period of time. I will first discuss what competitive advantage is and what it means to a firm. Then I will explain the sources of competitive advantage ... However, it is not enough for that characteristic to be distinctive. It is also necessary for it to be sustainable over a period of time. As Oster (1994) points out, " The key success factors in an industry are those assets that allow a firm to outperform it's rivals ... out an incumbent fi...
... the exchange rate to deteriorate. At the same time annual OECD growth had risen to 3,5 percent and inflation had moderated to 3,7 percent from 8,3 percent in the 1970s. During this period the Rand depreciated by a huge 34,9 percent against a trade-weighted basket of currencies. South Africa's economic performance in the 1980s and the early 1990s was severely hampered by a ... sanctions. These balance of payments constraints had a negative influence on the growth potential of the South African economy during the eighties and early nineties. Double digit inflation during this period erased...
... steeply as investor confidence grew, thus starting off that rare occurrence in modern economics, an expansionary fiscal contraction. Unquestionably without the dramatic, unequally-borne fiscal corrections of the 1982-7 period, DFI would have gone elsewhere and the Tiger would not have roared. However, had the economy not almost self-destructed from the late 1970s the corrections would have not been ... wage restraint in return for income tax cuts and ongoing participation in economic decision-making through social partnership committees. National pay agreements kept the lid on pay claims ...
... anti-depression weapon by the rapid depreciation of the notes. Many of the anti-bank, ultra hard money leaders of the Jackson-Van Buren period first came to a hard money position during this depression. Andrew Jackson himself foreshadowed his later opposition to banking by making himself the fervent leader ... House and later to establish the ultra hard money Independent Treasury system, began his political career in Tennessee in this period by urging return to specie payment. Amos Kendall, later Jackson's top adviser and confidant in the bank war, became an implacable enemy of banks .....
... took the first steps to industrialization, well ahead of the rest of the world. Prior to Britain's industrialization, European states were technologically equivalent. The benchmark for technological development in this period can be found in the military. States were equally developed in that they all had knowledge of ironworking, gun powder and mathematics. Proficiencies in areas varied but all had a ... resources. Each country possessed numerous coastal cities allowing them access to the world markets, but France's industrialization was doomed to fail for events and situations unique ...
... out by Dyson (1994), the growth of a monetary system enabled more sophisticated methods to be developed. It then became possible to calculate the increase or decrease in individual wealth over a period of time. Glautier & Underdown (1991) draw our attention to the fact that accounting is in an age of rapid transition. Its environment has undergone vast changes in the last two ... Venice in 1494. Financial accounting is concerned with classifying and measuring the transactions of a business and recording them. At the end of a period of time, usually a year but possibly more frequently, a...
... Since the African peoples were not allowed to engage in cash crop farming, to pay this tax they had perforce to seek wage employment. Another notable development during this period was the establishment of trading, other service industries and manufacturing. Accompanying these developments was the introduction of money and banking. However, the non-agricultural industries did not show ... much expansion because during the colonial period the emphasis was on the production of primary agricultural commodities, which were needed as raw materials for industries in Europe. The colonial gover...