MACRO ASSIGNMENT – 24/6/13 Section 3 – Group No. 5 The relation between Macroeconomics and the Great Depression The Great Depression The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations‚ but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s.It was the longest‚ most widespread‚ and deepest depression of the 20th century. The popular belief is that the Great
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Advance Macroeconomics 1. Why the rich become richer and poor become poorer? It is because of the rising in inequality. He rich have got richer‚ and the poor have become relatively poorer. It is not that the real incomes of the lowest paid have fallen (though in some cases real incomes have been stagnant) but‚ they have fallen behind higher income earners. The gap between the highest paid and lowest paid has increased. In the past couple of decades it feels like the ‘rich have got richer
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Macroeconomics- Final Project Source: The World Bank & OECD- All figures are annually based. The country of Brazil is the both the largest‚ in terms of territory‚ and most populated country in South America. The country’s largest exports consist of coffee‚ iron ores and concentrates‚ petroleum oil‚ raw sugar‚ and soya beans. Brazil’s largest trade partners (in both import and export) include: China‚ The United States‚ and Argentina. (The Atlas of Economic Complexity‚ 2011) Source: The
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ECON1102 Macroeconomics 1 Course Outline Semester 2‚ 2013 Part A: Course-Specific Information Students are also expected to have read and be familiar with Part B Supplement to All Course Outlines. This contains Policies on Student Responsibilities and Support‚ Including Special Consideration‚ Plagiarism and Key Dates. It also contains the ASB PROGRAM LEARNING GOALS. Table of Contents 1 STAFF CONTACT DETAILS 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 1.1 Communications with
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Macroeconomics Assignment: Unemployment Unemployment Data for August of 2013 Employment (rose/fell/remained unchanged)‚ and the unemployment rate edged (up/down/stayed unchanged) to (?) percent in the last month. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 169‚000 in August‚ and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.3 percent‚ the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in retail trade and health care but declined in information. The jobless rate had
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phrase ‘double-dip recession’ which now commonly used in the West. Macroeconomics is concerned with the study of aggregate economy‚ which embodies all nationally relevant economic indicators. The common indicators are the unemployment rate‚ the rate of inflation‚ the GDP per capita‚ economic growth‚ the economic cycle‚ and the labor force. Since 2003‚ Brazil’s economy has been growing steadily. It has been improving its macroeconomic stability despite a small crisis in 2008 which saw its growth rate
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Benson James ECO 372 Fundamentals of Macroeconomics 08 October 2013 The gross domestic product (GDP) is defined as the market value of all goods in any country at any specific time. The gross domestic product is frequently used to establish a country’s wealth or standard of living. Even though the GDP is supposed to determine a country’s economic health‚ many nonbelievers think the gross domestic product does not account for the underground economy. An underground
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• Micro vs. Macro • Microeconomics – the study of how individual households and firms make decisions and how they interact with one another in markets. • Macroeconomics – the study of the economy as a whole. – Its goal is to explain the economic changes that affect many households‚ firms‚ and markets at once. • The Two Groups of Economists • Macroeconomists • Focus on the economy as a whole. • Spend much time analyzing how total income changes and how changes in income cause changes in
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A Macroeconomic Comparison of the United States of America and Germany (2002-2012) Thomas Edison State College GDP & GDP Growth Rate - USA: GDP is an important measure of the health and wellness of an economy. GDP in short is‚ the total expenditure of an economy through its consumption‚ investment‚ government purchases and net exports. According to data release by the world bank‚ the United States has the largest national GDP on the planet
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U.S. Productivity and Economic Growth during 1980s – 2000s This class is macroeconomics‚ which is a part of economics that is the field of economics that studies the behavior of the aggregate economy. Macroeconomics examines economy-wide phenomena such as changes in unemployment‚ national income‚ rate of growth‚ gross domestic product‚ periods of inflation and price levels. Many changes have occurred in the U.S. productivity and economic growth since the 1980s. There have been periods of
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