ONE INTROUDCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY The current period in the world economy is regarded as period of globalization and trade liberalization. In this period‚ one the crucial issues in development and international economics is to know whether trade openness indeed promotes growth. With globalization‚ two major trends are noticeable: first is the emergence of multinational firms with strong presence in different‚ strategically located markets; and secondly‚ convergence of consumer tastes for the
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Relationships between Entrepreneurship and Economics Oyvin Kyvik1 - 16.06.2009 The following is written as an introduction to the role as co-chair for the track on Entrepreneurship and Economics at the ICSB World Congress‚ Seoul‚ Korea – 2009. 1. Entrepreneurship and Economics – An Economic Perspective This is written based on the conviction that both entrepreneurship and economics are important phenomena‚ both in theory and in practice. It is further deduced that less entrepreneurship has as
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FINAL RESEARCH PAPER The Rise of China: Understanding its Economic Growth Since 1987’s Economic Reform By Francia‚ Niña Luz V. Julio‚ Hilarie Claire L. I. Introduction A. China’s emerging economy for the past 30 years During the 1800 ’s‚ China was economically and politically dominant in the world. However‚ it was during 1850 when China ’s economy started to decline and Britain took the economic lead. China ’s economic and political power weakened. It maintained a centrally
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first proponent of the economic value of education. He emphasized on how education helps to increase the productivity of the labour force in various ways‚ including both general education and technical training. He was the one who introduced for the first time the concept of human capital. Later other well known economists (Malthus‚ 1798; Mill‚ 1848; Marx‚ 1878; Marshall‚ 1890; Schumpeter‚ 1934; Harrod‚ 1939 & Domar 1946; et al) placed special attention to the economic growth process. During the second
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The ultimate engine of economic growth is new technology. According to economists‚ the growth of output per capita is a fairly recent phenomenon. This can be attributed to all the new technology people have discovered in the past few centuries‚ causing output growth to surge and accelerate faster than ever before in history. The result of all these ingenious‚ innovative inventions has been a total revolution in the way people live their lives. After examining the multitude of invention descriptions
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and Economic Growth in India –An Empirical Analysis Prasanna V Salian1‚ Gopakumar. K2 Abstract This paper seeks to examine the relationship between inflation and GDP growth in India. An empirical evidence is obtained from the cointegration and error correction models using annual data collected from the Reserve Bank of India. The result shows that there is a long-run negative relationship between inflation and GDP growth rate in India. Inflation is harmful rather than helpful to growth. These
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The relationship between the economic growth and environment is and may always remain a complex matter. Some perceive the emergence of new pollution problems unsuccessful when dealing with global warming. There are others however‚ that have a more optimistic view. They see tremendous progress made in improving air quality in major cities and note ever improving human condition which was made possible by the advances of technology. The limited natural resources of the planet had many years been
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THE SCHUMPETERIAN THEORY OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Schumpeter assumes a perfectly competitive economy‚ which is in stationary equilibrium. In such a stationary state‚ there is perfect competitive equilibrium‚ no profits no interest rates‚ no saving‚ no investment and no involuntary unemployment. This equilibrium is characterized by what Schumpeter terms as “circular flow” which continues to repeat itself in the same manner year after year. In the circular flow‚ the same products are produced
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KEY GROWTH SECTORS OF THE KENYAS ECONOMY Economic growth is the increase in the amount of the goods and services produced by an economy over time. It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product i.e. real GDP. In Kenya the key main sectors to achieve economic growth are agriculture which is the mainstay economic growth drivers‚ energy sector‚ manufacturing and industry‚ service sector which is mainly tourism‚ financial services and banking and also the
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1 China’s economic growth and poverty reduction (1978-2002) By Hu Angang，Hu Linlin and Chang Zhixiao1 [Abstract] This article has summarized and evaluated the trend of China’s poverty decrease in the period of 1978-2002‚ considering that China has obtained great achievements in the area of poverty decrease sine 1978 and made great contributions to the world; however‚ poverty decrease has not corresponded to the economic growth and it has slowed down the pace since the middle of 1980s; in addition
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