924 Search Results for Trade Deficit
Japan has been, for the past ten or twelve years, a miracle of contradictory economic factors. Japan experienced little inflation, little economic growth, a deterioration in trade, more government spending than previously, and unreliable savings and Continue Reading...
Mexico Expansion
Mexico
Macroeconomic Prospects for Investment
Mexico represents an ideal target for production expansion for many reasons. The country has both low unemployment and low inflation which provides a foundation of stability in the wor Continue Reading...
In most countries, a rise in debt would have a series of economic consequences leading to the devaluation of the currency and a return to an equilibrium. This has not happened with the U.S. dollar because of a unique externality -- its role as the w Continue Reading...
Bush implied unemployment figures were declining and Kerry touted very high unemployment figures. In hindsight, it appears that the labor department statistics concurred with the Kerry camp. When Bush still won, unemployment trend indicators seem to Continue Reading...
China
The Dilemma of a Ethical Practices and Profitability of Trading with China
China continues to have one of the world's strongest and most resilient economies, achieving a 10.3% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate in 2010 compared to the w Continue Reading...
Economic Blocs
What is the basis for support of free trade agreements and what benefits are derived?
The conservative Heritage Foundation takes the position that free trade allows American workers to "specialize in goods and services that they prod Continue Reading...
International Trade
China - United States Trade Analysis
Chinese Economic Development
China's Growing Resource Needs
China and Globalization
Protecting Intellectual Property
Working with Government Bureaucracy
International Management Consider Continue Reading...
Markets
USD/CNY Currency Exchange Relationship
The amount of money passing through a foreign exchange market was pegged at $4.0 trillion per day in April 2010 (Bank for International Settlements, 2010). Among the many currencies traded on the open Continue Reading...
role of innovation in determining long-term economic growth and provide three public policies that are likely to encourage innovation. Provide an example of a recent innovation that has the potential to have a significant impact in one or more indus Continue Reading...
S., which has the potential to widen the already gaping trade gap between the two super economies. The U.S. is really in no position economically to begin to demand that China shape up its currency valuation policies and trade agreements toward the w Continue Reading...
S.A. preferred to move the responsibility of assistance from the arms of the state and pass in unto the ones of the private sectors.
The trade capacity building assistance has its focus upon three main areas. The first area is represented by the rei Continue Reading...
Economic Principles and Purchasing a House
Economics Principles and Purchasing a House
This essay discusses principles of economics as they apply to making decisions about purchasing a home. The essay also reviews the decision making process and ho Continue Reading...
trade relationship that exists between the world's two largest economies has faced trouble and frustration in the past decade. Japan and the United States have had a strong relationship since they became economic powers in the post world war II peri Continue Reading...
08% 2.42% 2.78% 2.57% 2.69% 2.69% 2.54% 2006 3.99% 3.60% 3.36% 3.55% 4.17% 4.32% 4.15% 3.82% 2.06% 1.31% 1.97% 2.54% 3.24% 2005 2.97% 3.01% 3.15% 3.51% 2.80% 2.53% 3.17% 3.64% 4.69% 4.35% 3.46% 3.42% 3.39%
Trade deficit
The United States trade bala Continue Reading...
Cross-Country Capital Flows and Currency
International Project
overseas investment .
GLOBAL INSTITUTES IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE .
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION .
WORLD BANK .
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Alan Greenspan's testimony starts with a comparison between the state of the U.S. economy in July 2004, time of his present testimony, and the state of the economy in February 2004, the time of his previous testimony in front of the U.S. Congress.
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NAFTA
Historical Beginning of NAFTA (with specific bibliography)
NAFTA Objectives
What is NAFTA
The Promise of NAFTA
NAFTA Provisions
Structure of NAFTA
Years of NAFTA (NAFTA not enough, other plus and minuses)..
Environmental Issues
Compar Continue Reading...
The forecast provided by Allen Sinai gave the reader a somewhat accurate analysis of the macroeconomic phenomenon. However, there are also a few problems. Sinai estimates a 0.4% increase in 2005 for the consumer price index, which is not actually c Continue Reading...
Account Deficiency in U.S.
There are consequences when the amount of money a country spends abroad is very different from what the country receives from the outside world. The current account balance is an abstruse economic concept. In countries tha Continue Reading...
Since institutional investors typically hedge their risks by using asset liability management and derivatives instruments against market risk, it is estimated that institutional investors in a representative stock market such as the London Stock Exc Continue Reading...
Economic Integration of GCC Countries: Developments Since
Economic Integration of GCC Countries: Latest Developments Since 2010
It is important to examine the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Key Economic Indicators. Primarily, 2014 Key economic indi Continue Reading...
The Chinese invented gunpowder, but they do not use it to make guns to invade others, the Chinese invented the compass, but they do not use it to make warships to prowl about the four seas. At the United Nations, Chinese leaders once promised to the Continue Reading...
The National Housing Act indirectly promoted the idea of lenders offering much longer-term mortgages with the currently accepted concept of monthly payments with the dual interest and principal payment scale. Amortized real estate mortgages opened t Continue Reading...
It is necessary to underscore this importance given the current fragility of the international trading system amid a global resurgence of protectionist pressures due to the deepening economic crisis (Bown, 2009).
In 2006, and in response to increas Continue Reading...
gov 2010). In recent years (with the exception of 2009, when the deficit was reduced considerably due to a massive slowdown in consumer spending in the United States), this deficit has risen dramatically, from over ten billion dollars in 1990 to well Continue Reading...
Economics of NAFTA
There have been a number of changes in the global economy of the world over the past decade. It is important to examine the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and determine if it has helped and/or hindered the economies o Continue Reading...
The other implication is the impact of the balance of payments on the business. The negative balance of payments represents an outflow of wealth, which slows domestic economic growth. The U.S. becomes less competitive as a result. For most companie Continue Reading...
9 times greater" than the daily average imported in 1973 (www.ecologicinvestor.com). The importation of oil is the "largest single component" in the U.S. annual trade deficit; the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, quoted by Ecologic Investor, points Continue Reading...
Samsung Electronics
Examination and Evaluation of Business Strategies and Frontier Markets: Brazil
The South Korean company Samsung began operations in Brazil in December 1986 when it opened a representation office. Since them Samsung has invested Continue Reading...
Eurozone Maastricht Treaty
Euro zone Treaty
The European Community established the convergence criteria. These criteria was established in order to allow its EU Member states to take part in the Euro Zone, and using the Euro, as an official currenc Continue Reading...
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Industrial/Infrastructural Decline
As has been said before, the UK no longer makes anything, builds anything or sells anything tangible. The decline in industrial production has resulted in an overall decline in empl Continue Reading...
U.S. Macro economy
economy which was considered to be the world's largest has still not been able to recover completely from the financial crisis and resulting recession that hit in 2008. At the national level, spending increase to more than 25% of Continue Reading...
The differences in culture with the American culture will meant the American staff that may go to help open the branches in China will have to take quite some time to learn the culture and the ways of the people there.
The other difficulty will be Continue Reading...
The Dutch and the French followed their example. In England, tea was introduced during Cromwell's rule.
The evolution of tea in the European market followed several periods. In the beginning, the price of tea reached quite high levels. Therefore, t Continue Reading...
International Financial Crises and the IMF
Demand failures are a major economic problem, and one that cannot necessarily be addressed by cutting interest rates as once believed. Small economies, such as those known as the Asian "tigers" are not invu Continue Reading...
As such, we may state that the exchange rate remained significantly stable over the period of time we have been analyzing so far.
On the other hand, it is much simpler to explain this decreasing exchange rate from an investment point-of-view. The A Continue Reading...
Most economists feel that if China's currency were allowed to trade freely, it would be a whole lot more. No one can know for sure how much more, but leading economists put it in a range of 10 to 40% higher value than it is now (Davidson 2006),
By Continue Reading...
Macroeconomics
Discuss within your Learning Team how and why the U.S.'s deficit, surplus and debt have an effect on the following: The United States' financial reputation on an international level
The United States' fiscal position will have an im Continue Reading...
economic advantages for the U.S., Mexico, and Canada of signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
The most obvious, direct impact of NAFTA upon the three signatory nations is the liberalization of international trade between them all Continue Reading...
Growth Rate
Slow model (1992) is an economic tool used to analyze a country economic growth. The principal conclusion of Slow model is that the accumulation of capital could not only account for the growth rate per person. To address the central que Continue Reading...