Summary The retail sector has a major role in the growth of the Australian economy and is the barometer of the economic health of Australia ’s future growth prospects. When the economy is thriving so does the retail industry within an economy – thus‚ the level of demand within the retail industry has a significant impact on other industries as the money within the retail industry goes in a circle complementing the growth of the other industries. The performance of the retail industry is a strong
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SOCIAL ISSUES AMONG TEENAGERS. Teenagers were the future leaders of this day and the next national vision . The rapid economic and technological development has an impact on social and human development of adolescents . Government and other parties also seek to educate young people in shaping adolescent quality to lead the country from the primary to the university level . However ‚ in this cyber era ‚ moral decadence among teens deepened to create fear among the public. If the first social problem
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Kevin Rooney Professor McCarthy Comparative Politics October 7‚ 2012 Current Issues in Greece Greece is a country with a very rich history of tradition‚ from the gods of ancient Greece‚ to the beautiful landscape in the Mediterranean‚ all the way to the development of Democracy. The Greek political system is similar to the United States but also different in many ways. The government type is a parliamentary representative democratic republic. The prime minister is the head of
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whether each of the following statements applies to microeconomics or macroeconomics‚ and why: 12 Marks Total a. The unemployment rate in Canada was 7.0 percent in January 2010 Answer: This is the macroeconomic statement because it describes the unemployment rate of the whole country. b. A Canadian software firm discharged 15 workers last month and transferred the work to India. Answer: This is the microeconomic statement because it focuses in an individual Canadian
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IB/AP Economics Unit 1 Introduction to Economics Introduction to Economics AP and IB Economics Unit 1 Definitions of social science and economics Definitions of microeconomics and macroeconomics Definitions of growth‚ development and sustainable development Positive and normative concepts Ceteris paribus Scarcity • factors of production: land‚ labor‚ capital and management/entrepreneurship • payments to factors of production: rent‚ wages‚ interest‚ profit Choice Utility: basic definition Opportunity
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retail bank overcomes the limitations of thirty-year-old "legacy" microeconomics systems to launch a high-tech operation that offers its customers a complete range of banking services over the telephone. Another bank is able to roll out‚ within three months of an acquisition‚ information systems that deliver the same level of service to all customers at all branches‚ new and old. (Richard 2002‚ 177) For these companies‚ Microeconomics has genuinely become an enabler of change that boosts competitive
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MICROECONOMICS CHAPTER 1 The Market Economy What is to be done? —Lenin When future historians look back on the close of the 20th century‚ one of the most sweeping changes they will note is the collapse of centrally planned economies in Eastern Europe. It is not far off to say that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was won not by the armies of the United States and its allies‚ but by the productive power of Western market economies. Mikhail Gorbachev‚ then leader of the Soviet
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Oil rises above $103 ahead of Iran nuclear talks Published: Thursday‚ 12 Apr 2012 | 5:43 AM ET SINGAPORE - Oil prices rose above $103 a barrel Thursday in Asia as traders looked to negotiations this weekend over Iran’s nuclear program. Benchmark oil for May delivery was up 42 cents to $103.12 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.68 to settle at $102.70 in New York on Wednesday. Brent crude for May delivery
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Section A a. Explain the concept of dominant strategy equilibrium. 1. http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~jkchoi/game4.pdf 2. http://econweb.umd.edu/~borowitz/dominant_strategy_equilibrium.pdf b. Discuss the concept of Nash equilibrium. 1.http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/igt/nash.pdf 2. http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/NashEquilibrium.pdf c. Is every dominant strategy equilibrium a Nash equilibrium? 1. http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/game-theory/nash-equilibrium
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Chapter -1 1. The study of microeconomics includes the study of - Output and employment growth as markets expand in reaction to a rising price level in the economy. - Business investment and government spending in the marketplace. - The number of new jobs and income created as the economy grows. - How firms‚ workers‚ consumers‚ and investors interact and make decisions in the marketplace. Microeconomics is the study of the behavior of individual economic units: consumers‚ firms‚ workers
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