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This paper looks at ways in which the first world protects itself from the advantages the third world, by creating a distortion of market forces. It illustrates how political issues are as important as economics issues within the world trade system. This paper examines the rules of economic theory, specifically the free movement of capital investments and the free movement of labor.

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"Over the past three decades, a remarkable internationalisation of the world economy has taken place. Key aspects of this process are free trade and the mobility levels of labour. In an attempt to integrate developing economies into the globalisation process, agencies such as the World Bank and the IMF promote free market ideological policies to poorer countries, sometimes making the implementation of such policies a condition of receiving financial aid. This, they argue, will increase prosperity and levels of development. But do the concepts of free trade and the free movement of labour really exist, let alone increase prosperity? Here we shall examine what these two concepts mean in practice, what their impact on prosperity is, and why objections have been raised towards this kind of liberalisation."

Tags:globalisation, international, trade, labor, world, bank, IMFcapital, investment, first, thrid, world

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This paper examines reasons for the East Asian economic crisis during 1997 and 1998. The World Bank report of 1993 praises many of the practices that ultimately led to the crisis. Currencies, stock markets, 'crony capitalism' and financiers are examined. The paper argues that both economic and cultural reasons are ultimately to blame for the economic crisis.

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"In recent decades international financial institutions, most notably the World Bank, have held up East Asia as a capitalist miracle, a role model for the rest of the world to follow. The Newly Industrializing Countries (NIC's) took off during the 1970's and included countries from around the world. But is was almost exclusively the NIC's of Asia who maintained their high growth rates through the 1980's and 1990's. While the South American NIC's were left behind in the debt crisis of the early 1980's, the Asian 'Tigers' continued to surge ahead. South Korea, for example, maintained a manufacturing growth rate of nearly 9% a year during the 1980's, while exports grew by 10% a year (Hadjor: 1992). Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore also enjoyed such success, and they were soon joined by other Asian countries such as Malaysia and Thailand. By 1987 the combined manufacturing exports of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore totaled about half of all third world exports compared with 6% for Mexico and Brazil combined (ibid). The World Bank firmly believed that the experience of the Asian tigers constituted a viable model for other Third World countries. In 1993, the Bank published its seminal work 'The East Asian Miracle' as a guide to how the Tigers had been so successful. But disaster hit the East Asian region in 1997/98 when the economies in that part of the world took a massive beating from what became the 'Asian Crisis'. Suddenly the World Bank report and hopes for the region looked decidedly inaccurate. Here we will summarize the various views taken by the World Bank on Asian economic development before the crisis hit, together with how the effects of the Asian Crisis threw into doubt the Banks judgment."

Tags:asian, crisis, capitalism, crisis, crony, globalisation, world, bank, asia

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This papers investigates the pros and cons of the various methods used to measure wealth and poverty, such as GDP and others. Each of the four measures investigated has fans and skeptics regarding levels of accuracy. This paper includes tables illustrating how a country's wealth ranking can be altered when different measures are used.

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"It has never been easy to assess the extent of poverty in one part of the world when compared to another. Poverty can mean different things to different people. It is also important to remember that poverty is part of the wider issue of development. We should therefore have at the outset a core perspective or working definition on both poverty and development. Without such a perspective we could not measure poverty. To test the different measures of poverty, the following UN definition will suffice: "The income level below which a minimum nutritionally adequate diet plus essential non-food requirements are not affordable" (UNDP Development Report 1991:95). In other words, people are poor if they cannot afford day to day living. The UN also has the following definition of development: "Development is the process of enlarging the range of peoples choices increasing their opportunities for education, health care, income and employment, and covering the full range of human choices from a sound physical environment to economic and political freedoms" (UNDP Dev. Rep. 1992). Traditionally, there have been two main measures of poverty; Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Product (GNP). There are now, however, more measures, the two principles ones are; the Human Development Index (HDI) and the Human Poverty Index (HPI). All four, together with other indicators, will be evaluated and concluded upon here."

Tags:gdp, gnp, hdi, indicators, undp, wealth, poverty, wealth, un, income, hdi, hpi, development

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This paper explores the pros and cons of Britain joining the euro. It discusses the impact that the euro will have on the British economy, politics and business including its potential impact on interest rates, exchange rates, inflation, trade, foreign investment, jobs and national identity. It concludes with how the author believes, that for the time being, Britain should stay out of the euro since the U.K. currently has a thriving economy and joining when the effects on the euro are unknown is too risky.

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"Currently Britain is enjoying a period of economic growth and stability which has been achieved by being able to adopt the economies appropriate to her circumstances. In particular, the setting of interest rates that are appropriate to the current economic conditions. By joining the single currency, Britain would lose control of monetary policy (interest rates, etc) to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. Therefore in the future Britain could endure rates inappropriate to the current phase in the economic cycle. So interest rates which are suitable for one country may be unsuitable for the economy of another (i.e. one country may be in recession while another is in boom)."

Tags:interest rates exchange inflation trade, foreign investment jobs

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The paper analyzes the free trade theory and reveals that the free trade is anything but fair trade. The paper also looks at the classical and neoclassical modals of the free trade theory and its problems within. The paper reveals that when free trade is applied to the contemporary world economy, developed countries are favored over developing countries.

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"In effect, comparative advantage implied that countries possessing advantage in producing agricultural or other simple products should relocate resources within the economy to focus on producing a specialized set of goods and vice versa. Following this dictate, many developing economies that were mostly agrarian channeled their resources to produce food commodities. On the other hand, their developed peers focused efforts on producing value goods, as they were more skilled at it. This theory had predicted that "trade between dissimilar countries implies a positive welfare effect on both countries since they can exploit their absolute and comparative advantages. Only costs of transporting goods between countries can keep them from exploiting those advantages". However, in practice developing nations focused themselves on producing goods that had lower international market value. Whereas, developed nations focused on further developing their technologies and produced goods with greater international market value. Therefore, developing nations stayed at a comparative disadvantage as compared to their developed counterparts."

Tags:free, trade, fair, trade, classical, neoclassical, problems

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The paper discusses the current global financial crisis in terms of identifying the fundamentals that caused this crisis and the nature of the crisis and the issues at stake. The paper invokes a certain degree of financial and economic theory in an attempt to analyze the pressing concerns in this crisis and the measures being suggested to tackle those concerns.

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"To understand this housing bubble one needs to know that for several years after the dotcom bubble the housing and plot prices in US soared and started seeing a correction in 2005-2006 which led economists to confirm the conclusion that housing prices were rising to unsustainable levels. Yale economist Robert Schiller argued that "Once stocks fell (after the dotcom era), real estate became the primary outlet for the speculative frenzy that the stock market had unleashed" . Now it is imperative to understand that these sub-prime loans are categorized as "sub-prime" for the very reason that they are lent out to borrowers who do not qualify for loans on market interest rates; simple economic theory about risk premium being applied when lending to these types of borrowers."

Tags:simple, economic, theory, mortgaged, houses, psychological, level, investors

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This paper discusses the different types of deforestation and their causes, and suggests various areas in which possible solutions may be found. Both tropical deforestation and dry forest clearing are addressed. Increased population growth, agribusiness, cattle ranching, and small-scale farming and wood collecting are among the reasons given for destruction of forests. Proposed solutions include a discussion of preservation policies, greater economic use of forests currently destroyed, and 'tolerant forest management'.

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"The deforestation of vegetation has been carried out for millennia, in all parts of the world inhabited by man. But in recent decades, with the growth of "green" issues in general, great concern has been raised about deforestation and it's causes, especially in developing countries, which do not safeguard their forests in the way the west usually does. The term deforestation is vague, which makes it difficult to define, record and make comparisons. But deforestation can generally be divided into two broad categories. These are tropical deforestation (the clearing of dense rainforests, usually for agricultural purposes) and dry forest clearing (where trees are generally cut for firewood (Todaro: 1997). We shall look here at the causes of deforestation in developing countries in all it's forms, and then hopefully outline possible solutions to the apparent destruction caused to the bio-diversity of plants and animals, and environmental stability. "

Tags:country, environment, forestry, Budongo, Amazonia, logging

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This essay looks at purpose of the pre-colonial economy in Latin America and the methods employed by the Spaniards to control the natives and production under colonization. It examines the diverse population the Spaniards found upon arrival, and how the Spaniards simply superimposed themselves upon existing structures. The four main labor systems used by the Spanish are outlined. The exploitation based on the economic systems implemented by the Spaniards is explored.

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"The process of colonization within any one country or group of countries was conditioned by the pre-existing historical circumstances and the attractiveness of its resources to the colonizers. In turn, these affected the degree of exploitation and the nature of the developments that took place and consequently the level of marginalization that occurred within the economy and society. The conquest of Latin America was carried out by the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and British. But it was Spain who secured the largest, richest and most diverse territory, and did so with great rapidity. Within 70 years of Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean, Spain had overthrown the Aztec and Inca empires and occupied most of middle and western South America."

Tags:indians, slavery, exploit, colonial, Encomienda, Repartimiento

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The paper first defines diversification, then identifies the positive and negative aspects of diversification as a business plan. The writer looks into the effects of diversification using examples from international companies and industries. The paper studies what strategic management experts write about diversification and discusses whether or not diversification is a successful business strategy.

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"Whether a business should adopt the strategy of diversification or not is a question which brought about considerable debate among the great management thinkers all over the world. While Ansoff and Howe supported the idea thinkers like Kastens and Porter opposed it. Its true that diversification has a lot of advantages and some disadvantages as well. In this assignment I am going to discuss the problems and advantages of the diversification strategy in some detail. However as Mintzberg said, "that no matter what its basis, every related diversification is also fundamentally an unrelated one. That is no matter what is common between two different businesses, many other things are not."(In Mintezberg & Quinn, 1991:79). Hence I am not analyzing the different types of diversification and its merits and demerits separately; instead I am taking diversification as a whole for this analysis."

Tags:company, management, profit, plan, growth

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This paper examines how global economic forces enable sections of third world society to be more easily exploited. It investigates how the first world does not play on a level playing field by using the Multi-Fibre Agreement. The views of protesters, the World Bank, and others are reviewed. The paper ends by touching upon future developments, such as the impact of China becoming a full member of the World Trade Organization.

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"During the past three decades, remarkable internationalisation of the world economy has taken place. This process has become known as globalisation. Globalisation can be defined as "The increasing integration of national economies into expanding international markets" (Todaro: 1997). Neo-liberal authors and institutions, such as the IMF, state that globalisation is driven by four main factors; free market ideology; technological breakthroughs in communication; the shifting of economic activity to the developing world; and the opening up of previously closed borders. These factors of globalisation have inevitably led to changes in conditions of labour in third world employment. Here we will look at what the changes have been. We will then examine the views taken on these conditions by 'anti-sweatshop' campaigners, and the response of the International Labour Organisation and the World Bank."

Tags:globalisation, globilization, labor, trade, world, bank, multi-fibre, arrangement, third, world, china, world, trade, organisation, organikzation, wto