The Impact of Tourism on Economy of Singapore Introduction Located in the southern tip of Malay Peninsula‚ Singapore is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. By 2012‚ the population of the country was 5.3 million‚ composed by 62 percent citizens and 38 percent permanent residents or foreigners. As a small country with limited resources‚ it is strategized to develop itself as a trading-based and tourism-based country. In 2013‚ there were 15.6 million tourists visited the country
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Cause of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 During Asian Financial Crisis‚ the Thai baht devaluation‚ the Malaysian ringgit was "attacked" by speculators. The overnight rate jumped from under 8% to over 40%. The factors that triggered the 1997 crisis was negative perceptions of the Malaysian economy following the dramatic collapse of the Thai economy. Foreign investors and international rating agencies had failed to consider underlying risks in the Thai economy‚ and spurred by fear that
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Essay on The Indian Economy India was a direct colony of the British and the impact of this colonial rule over the economy and society of India has been immense. It must be stated at the outset that direct colonial rule leaves a total impact on the colonized society because every aspect of social life is influenced by colonial policies of the colonizers. A direct colony (as was the case with India) is under the complete control of the colonizers and colonial policies and interests influence every
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References: Anaman K.A and Amponsah.C‚ (2007). Analysis of the causality links between the growth of the construction industry and the growth of the macro economy in Ghana‚ Institute of Economic Affairs‚ Ball‚ R. (1981) Employment created by construction‚ expenditures‚ Monthly labour Review‚ 104‚ 38-44. Bon‚ R. (1988). Direct and indirect resource utilization by the construction sector: the case of the USA
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Microfinance – 2014/5 Module: Global Political Economy Assignment: Globalization constrains policy choices of domestic governments This paper examines the overview of the field of global political economy and globalization and the impact of constrain policy choices of the domestic government. I examine the international trading system‚ the international monetary system‚ the international financial system and I argue that political economy and the resulting of globalization
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Spring 2005 Multinational firms are demonised by anti-globalisation campaigners. Yet according to a new book by Tony Venables and colleagues‚ the evidence is that they are generally a force for prosperity in the world economy. Multinationals: heroes or villains of the global economy? F oreign-owned multinationals employ one worker in every five in European manufacturing and one in seven in US manufacturing. They sell one euro in every four of manufactured goods in Europe and one dollar in
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The Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) undertook a countrywide Economic Census‚ for the first time in 1977 to provide a better frame for conducting follow-up surveys for collection of detailed information particularly from unorganized establishments. The basic information‚ relating to the distribution of non-agricultural establishments by activity‚ type of ownership‚ rural/urban break up and by employment size needed for preparation of a frame for conducting detailed surveys was collected in
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A MINSKY-KINDLEBERGER PERSPECTIVE ON THE FINANCIAL CRISIS J. Barkley Rosser‚ Jr. (contact) Professor of Economics‚ James Madison University Tel: 540-568-3212‚ email: rosserjb@jmu.edu Marina V. Rosser‚ Professor of Economics James Madison University Tel: 540-568-3094‚ email: rossermv@jmu.edu Mauro Gallegati‚ Professor of Economics Università Politecnica delle Marche‚ Ancona‚ Italy Email: Mauro.gallegati@gmail.com January‚ 2012 Abstract: Hyman Minsky and Charles Kindleberger discussed
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Macroeconomics Project Does the Economic growth of Philippines impact India Introduction The Economy of the Philippines is the 40th largest in the world according to 2012 International Monetary Fund statistics and it is also one of the emerging markets in the world. The Philippines is considered as a newly industrialized country‚ it has been transitioning from one based on agriculture to one based more on services and manufacturing. According to the CIA Factbook‚ the estimated 2012
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Impact of IPL on Indian Cricket It has been just 6 years since IPL found its way into every Indian Cricket aficionado’s life. It came as a gust of wind and resided inside the heart of each and every Indian for quite long. Let’s have a look upon the Impact of IPL on Indian Cricket. Initially it was a pure marketing tactics employed by BCCI to cash upon the successful triumph of Indian cricket team in the 1st T20 world cup. Fans went crazy as India won a world
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