Contributions and Achievements of Fidel V. Ramos * during his time‚ the Philippines was cited as Asia’s Next Economic Tiger because he brought back economic growth * the Philippines celebrated Centennial Independence in 1998 * he’s the only Filipino who received British Knighthood from the United Kingdom‚ bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George) * he led the 4th APEC Summit held in the Philippines * his “Philippines 2000” vision
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Thailand Economic Report Section I; Factual description The economics of Thailand is a mixed economy which means the combination of capitalism and socialism. The government and private sector both involve in business mechanism of the country. Government support private investors to invest in agricultural‚ industry‚ services and at the same time‚ encourage them to purchase shares in important government business. Although the government gives fully support the competitive in the local and international
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investment may fall and some capital investment projects may be scrapped even when interest rates are fairly low. | Anticipated inflation | Anticipated inflation is expectations about future price rises which households & firms use when planning economic decisions | Automatic stabilisers | Automatic fiscal changes are changes in tax revenues and government spending arising
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where they live; and consumers typically have a very limited set of goods to choose from. As a result‚ many of the tools and concepts of microeconomics are of limited relevance in those countries. •macroeconomics Branch of economics that deals with aggregate economic variables‚ such as the level and growth rate of national output‚ inter· est rates‚ unemployment‚ and inflation. Trade-Offs In modern market economies‚ consumers‚ workers‚ and firms have much more flexibilityand choicewhen
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of Managerial Economics Economics has two major branches namely Microeconomics and Macroeconomics and both are applied to business analysis and decision-making directly or indirectly. Managerial economics comprises all those economic concepts‚ theories‚ and tools of analysis which can be used to analyze the business environment and to find solutions to practical business problems. In other words‚ managerial economics is applied economics The areas of business issues to which economic theories can
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and culture in developed countries‚ but it is barely available in many poor countries. Do you think this technology will widen the economic development gap between rich and poor countries? Why or why not? Is there a way for developing countries to use such technologies as tools for economic development? (From Talk It Over‚ page 134) Technology will widen the economic gap between the rich and poor countries. There is an investment in infrastructure that is required to use technology. There are costs
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| 1966-1972 | Less than 2% | 4000 | 1973-1981 | From 2%-6% | 80‚000 | 1982-1983 | 28% | From 88‚000-189‚000 | The economic recovery in the last 6 months of 1983 became much stronger over a long period of time. Employment grew by almost 1.6 million between August 1983 and August 1990‚ which then left a average annual growth rate of 3% .Because of the strong economic recovery over time it continued until 1988 leaving high levels. Between August 1983 and August 1988‚ employment grew by 1.1
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MBA 5600 Managerial Economics Assignment #1 1. What impact will the prospect of deprivatization have on investment by managers of privatized firms? The impact will be: - Loosing corporate focus; - Missing planned CEO turnover; - Affecting planned managerial objects and strategic efficiency Obviously‚ normal managers invest in long-term projects‚ products and services‚ deprivatization may come up with a different strategy that not aligned with corporate goals and its profit will probably
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Principles of Economics Economics P RINCIP LES OF N. Gregory Mankiw Premium PowerPoint Slides by Ron Cronovich © 2009 South-Western‚ a part of Cengage Learning‚ all rights reserved In this chapter‚ look for the answers to these questions: § What kinds of questions does economics address? § What are the principles of how people make decisions? § What are the principles of how people interact? § What are the principles of how the economy as a whole works? 1 What Economics Is All
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Incentive Matter More stories‚ this time about incentives. Why they matter and why it is hard to fix markets that have bad outcomes because of bad incentive structures. He repeats Steven Levitt’s story about real estate brokers. On p. 33 (bottom) "Economics teaches us how to get incentive right." but the whole chapter is stories about how attempts to change incentives have failed. 3: Government and the Economy Discussion of externalities and how governments can compensate for them. Also the role
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