Economic Growth Case Studies Samples For Students

Introduction

Economics is one of those fields that have its own importance and significance in a broad nutshell. When it comes to businesses all over the world, then the name of economics is the most vital one. There are numerous things and economic indicators that have been found in the countries on that the entire productivity of an organization is dependant.
Economic indicators like low unemployment rate, high Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and others are important from the viewpoint of a country in particular. Economic growth and development are some of the major things from the standpoint ...

Thailand with a population of close to 70 million people and ranked 50th in terms of global land mass is a relative small country economically. On the brighter side of things it is the second largest economy in South East Asia, a member of the new tier. Over the last 45 years, the Thai economy has undergone a substantial transformation. Agriculture was the largest sector in terms of contribution to the GDP though there was an active contribution from the non agricultural sectors as well. The winds of change were seen during the early 1990’s when the Japanese took a labour intensive approach ...

Question a

- Economic growth
Economic growth is the aggregate positive change in an economy’s capacity to produce different goods and services. Economic growth is determined by comparing the economy’s productivity between two or more periods. The measure of economic growth can take different forms such as the real and nominal form. The nominal form of measuring economic growth includes inflation. The real terms of economic growth reflect figures that are adjusted for inflation. Economic growth of different nations can be compared using the gross domestic product or the gross national product per capita.
- Regressive taxes
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The World Bank Organization accounted for foreign direct investment or FDI in Malaysia as the net inflows of investment, i.e., new investment inflows minus disinvestment, in Malaysia made by foreign investors. FDI has been viewedas an important factor that promotes economic growth since it is a source of financing and development, and contributes to productivity gains by creating new investment, better technology, management expertise and export markets (Roy &Mandal, 2012). In particular, empirical studies on the impact of FDI on developing countries revealed that it has favorable impact on productivity and growth (Rodan, 1961; Chenery& Stout, 1966), induces increasing returns ...

The rapid growth economic growth has threatened the stability of the country. It has been noticed that the economy is growing at a much faster rate thereby widening the gap between the average class and the wealthy class. This has resulted to rioting especially by the citizens living in the rural areas. The top leaders are worried that the social unrest being experienced in the country might undermine the communist rule. Therefore it is prudent to note that the critical issue in this case study is the increasing social unrest in the country. This is brought about by the rapid ...

There is a keen interest in the influence of the Internet in the recent years in the Arab World. A particular interest is the impact of Social Media and communication technologies in the Arab World leading to the conflict that began in 2011. However, this paper will focus not on political uses of the Internet, but on the potential economic growth, and how the Internet affects the culture and changes habits of communication, shopping and ways of doing businesses.

The Internet in the Arab World

The whole world has been transformed over the past 15 years by the technology-led transformation. The Internet affected communication and ...

Introduction

In social research methods, inferential statistics has a core role to play in reaching the conclusion of the analysis. There are two types of analysis involved in a research study inferential statistics and the descriptive statistics. The amount of data gathered from different subject groups cannot solely help deduce the outcome and support of the hypothesis. Inferential statistics facilitates the researcher come up with a conclusion that goes beyond the immediate data. On the other hand, descriptive statistics enable the researcher to deduce information from the given group of data. This case study contributes to explain the various tests ...

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Why is improving health important? Give an example of a place that where health has led to economic growth? Why is this? Give an example of a place where this has not happened?
Health is central to a human capital. An individual is not capable of spreading his full potential in fulfilling his task to himself, his family and his surroundings if health is at risk. Improving one’s health leads to a healthy disposition in life and managing daily work, challenges and issues. Furthermore, improved health prevent an individual from experiencing wide ...

Degrading Nature: Rising Sea level in Caribbean Sea

Lately, rising sea level is among the contentious environmental issues and has become more challenging in environmentalism. Rising sea level has various impacts on both the natural environment and human populations, more especially those living on islands and the coastal regions. It is estimated that the sea level rose by about 1.8 yearly in 1950-2010, and this rate keep on increasing with time. There are a number of factors that are associated with the rising sea level. The Caribbean sea-level rise serves as a good illustration of how the sea-level rise is an environmental challenge (Gallagher, 2006). This paper seeks to ...

The Royal Bank of Canada had first tried to venture the financial market in Thailand in 1980. The bank’s ability to survive in third world country economy was limited. The authorities were skeptical about foreign bankers. Nonetheless, the interest rates were high, and the populations’ ability to pay was relatively small. In 1986, the bank had to close shop. The conditions were unbearable, and the bank could not cover the operating costs. The institution had not even become a fully-fledged firm before the unfortunate thing happened. They had been operating as a marketing outlet, an idea that had ...

Bulgaria

1. Key criteria and considerations
The Bertos Financial Services Inc. is a multinational company with subsidiaries in Mexico, United States of America and Canada, all members of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The company has the objective to open a new subsidiary of the company in a new country with the goal to increase the market penetration and sales of the company (Buckley y Casson). The company has considered ten countries to ten countries to be candidates for the new subsidiary of the company. Those countries are Algeria, Argentina, Qatar, Brazil, Romania, Indonesia, Philippines, Slovenia, Ghana and Czech ...

Abstract

Brazil has an economy that is ranked seventh largest in the world as per the 2015 statistics. A normal gross domestic product gives Brazil a high parity of purchasing power with an identification of being the largest economy in the Latin America. The growth of Brazil’s economy is however mentioned to decelerate at times and liquid growth often goes down. The service sector in the economy of Brazil is the largest component, and it is followed by the industrial sector. Agriculture is at 5.5% of the Brazilian economy with labor force estimated to be 10% of the agricultural occupation. ...

Poverty in its numerous forms has progressively attracted the attention in Brazil during the last decade. The government has made commitments extremely to reduce the misery from which many poor citizens suffer in their lives. The attention is an encouraging step, but the actual progress is yet painfully slow, even though the measures to increase the livelihoods of the poor are inexpensive. Poverty and inequality have walked hand in hand in Brazil for years since the country has been the most unequal country. Nevertheless, economic liberalization is the only way the country can implement to save its civilians. The ...

The FIFA World Cup is an international football tournament that takes place after every four years. This event will take place this year (2014) in Brazil. The FIFA World cup is world`s most famous sporting event. The event gets popularity due to broadcast by various television stations. Millions of people travel from their country to the host country to participate in the event. It is expected that the event would boost the economy of Brazil. This paper tries to examine the effects of the World Cup on the Brazilian Hotel businesses.
Several businesses will increase their operations ...

India on the Move

India is a diverse land which is although enriches with resources but still faces the issues of slow economic growth and unemployment. The country got freedom in the year 1947 and since then financial controllers of this developing country have been making every possible effort to increase the pace of growth and prosperity. In the meantime, India has suffered a financial collapse, abandoned import substitution, and also moved very slowly to adopt the Washington Consensus. The turning point came in the year 2003 and after that it seems that there is now not any stoppage to the fiscal pace. But the ...

Introduction:

The global economy’s output has definitely expanded at an unprecedented rate for the past 25 years. In spite of this, the benefits of this growth have only been experienced by the developing world to a limited degree. This cannot be ascribed to any failure of underdeveloped countries as a group to share in the global economic expansion. In fact, their per capita incomes have been rising steadily over the past quarter century than in previous times. The failure lies in the distribution patterns of earlier growth which alienated the poorest groups from the sphere of economic growth and material developments.
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Are there any hidden assumptions or price rigidities in the country or countries that might inhibit market force indicators from revealing the true economic health of the country, thereby either preventing government policy actions from correcting the problems or otherwise making them ineffective and counterproductive?
Hidden assumptions that may have an influence on revealing the true economic health of a country include the level of labor in the countries. Most of wages in an economy are controlled by the market economy, and this determines the growth of the economy. Additionally, foreign investments levels are quite low. Information concerning the ...

Family structure affects the rate of poverty among societies. The number of parents in a family gets linked with the availability of quality economic and human resource available to a child. Families headed by single parents are likely to be economically vulnerable as compared to married couples. Single parent families have only one wage earner and this provides a reason for economic vulnerability (Alesina & Glaesar 42). Poverty caused by the family structure impacts on both the parent and children. The age of children also affects poverty rates. Families composed of young children who are unable to provide labor have higher poverty levels. ...

Apple is a multinational company that is headquartered in the Californian State of the United States of America. The company mainly develops, sells and designs the major apple consumer electronics. The company also develops consumer hardware and software. Among her hardware products include; iPad tablets, iPhone smart phones, iPod media player (portable) introduced in the year 2001, Apple smart watches, Mac personal computers, Apple digital televisions and Mac personal computers. The company has also increased its online services that suite productivity and creativity. Subsequently, the apples consumers’ software’s have been developed to meet customers’ needs and satisfaction. This ...

Strategic Analysis Alacer Gold Corp and Gold and Mining Industry

Introduction
Gold is a precious metal with high ductility and malleability, and it finds application as jewelry and investment. It is considered to be one of the safest bet for investment, especially during economic instabilities. Consequently, rapid political instabilities in the Middle East and financial crisis led to rapid increase in the price of gold worldwide. Technological innovation is also a major factor that affects the gold and mining industry. Therefore, the strategic analysis narrows on the gold industry, with a specific focus on Alacer Gold Corporation. It looks at the trends in the industry and how Alacer Gold ...

Introduction

Public administration revolves around a complex set of correlated ideologies that surmise public administration. Part of the public administration includes the implementation of state policies and public governance. This report focuses on the functioning of public administration with a particular interest in public management and leadership. Various reforms and transformations in the public administration have impacted on the leadership and management of public offices. Extensive research studies have been done on public administration and management in providing an insight on transparency and efficiency. Challenges in public management and leadership have resulted in the enactment of reforms in the administration ...

About the case:

Rodney Chu, the managing director of Sierra Capital Partners is interested in purchasing 60% equity interest in Arcadian Microarray Technologies, a biotechnology firm founded in the year 2003. At present, Sierra Capital Partners have offered $40 million to Arcadian for selling their equity interest. This amount will be used for expansion of the firm. While Arcadian management have forecasted an optimistic projection for their firm’s performance over the period of 11 years, however, Sierra’s projections reveal a conservative outlook. Therefore, Mr. Chu is interested in ascertaining the terminal value and discounting the cash flows and the terminal ...

Carvel Ice Cream, an American multinational entered the premium ice cream segment of the Chinese market in 1992. However, the Chinese Ice cream market was already flooded with stiff competition from foreign and domestic players. The company experienced some issues in attaining the desired market share and revenues and this case analysis focuses on the different aspects of marketing strategy for Carvel Ice Cream in China.

As the growing Chinese market seemed to attract major international companies during the late 20th century, there were some specific factors which attracted the multinational firms towards the country. These factors which created ...

Strategic Issues Faced by Nucor

The operational focus of the Nucor Corporation is to “Take Care of Our Customers.” The company operates under this philosophy by providing the highest quality good at the lowest cost maintaining highest operational standards in the industry. The company has a strong culture and follows environmental stewardess by paying back to the communities where it is operating. However, the corporation I facing some strategic issues that are given below:

Plant Efficiency and Cost reduction effort

New plants construction
International growth through joint ventures
Increased competition
High population and economic growth
Increased bargaining power of buyer.
Cost Reduction Effort
NUCOR is always trying to increase the ...

The hiring of permanent replacement workers during a labor dispute has been at the center of confrontations between labor unions and business owners. While labor unions argue that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) needs to abolish hiring of permanent replacement workers, business owners are of the view that the status quo should be maintained. As such, the argument for or against permanent replacement workers depends on what side one is.
One of the main advantages of hiring a permanent replacement is that it acts as a check to labor unions. If there was no right to hire permanent ...

Malaysia is internationally recognized for its economic performance and the currency crisis it went through in the year 1997. Malaysia is seen as a success story and recognized for its successful management strategy. Prior to the 1997 economic crisis, Malaysia had experienced a recession in the 1980s that led to a negative GDP in the year 1985. Malaysia, however, reversed this negative growth by the year 1987. Malaysia proceeded to grow economically from 1987 through the 1990s up to the year 1996.

In the year 1997, the currency crisis hit the country though it still recorded economic growth in GDP. From ...

The real GDP according to 2005 prices is expected to grow at 3 percent in 2015 according to World Bank forecasts and 3.1 percent according to the IMF forecast. Therefore, modest growth GDP growth is expected in 2015. Inflation is estimated at 1.5 percent and 2.5 percent by different agencies. The unemployment level is also expected to decline below the 6 percent mark. The expected GDP grow will increase general income and improve demand for the company products. This creates a general positive outlook on demand. It is augmented by the decline in unemployment level implying a wider market as more ...

Business operations are usually subject to various forces including the external factors that businesses have no control over. In that respect, businesses need to devise suitable strategies as a means of responding to the forces’ influence. That is applied as a means of enhancing firms’ performance and sustainability. With that view, this case analysis seeks to demonstrate how a region or a country’s economic aspects affects industries and businesses in terms of performance, value and strategies.

Synopsis and objectives

International trade is a key focus for countries in their bid to enhance growth and embrace globalization. In that respect, trade liberalization is increasingly becoming a crucial tool ...

At the dawn of the millennium, the world economy was promising for the majority of the economies in the world. However, between 2001 and 2002 the economy of the United States of American declined rapidly due to increased trade deficit, stock inflation, and terrorism. Such triggered a similar trend in Europe, Latin America, and Japan. Nevertheless, after some time, these economic regions began the process of recovery with the European areas at a reduced rate than the USA. Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil appealed to the IMF and USA to assist them while African remained with the highest debt and experiences economic ...

Answer 1)

Dividing the period of analysis in three periods i.e 1981-1991, 1992-1997, 1998-2011 we could easily interpret the actual trend in the bond ratings by Standard and Poors.
1981-1991: This was the period of slow economic growth and as a result, once could witness that till 1991, number of bonds downgraded had exceeded the number of bonds upgraded.
1992-1997: This was the time of blue chip stocks and when US economy was introduced to the boom of technology. As a result, with the rejuniveation of US economy, the number of bonds upgraded exceeded the number of bonds being downgraded.
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Introduction

Economics is the name of earning and utilizing the money at a place from where the likelihood of earning would be on a higher place. Adam Smith and Alfred Marshal are known as the Father of Economics (FOE) and according to them, Economics is the subject which stated that how to earn the money and how to consume it .
There are two different kinds of economics, which particularly are Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. Microeconomics is the name of economics which relate to individual economics, while the economics concerned with the economy as a whole is known as Macroeconomics. It is one of ...

Introduction

India is a country of multiple ethnicities, religions, and races. Its diversity is not only seen in terms of its people, but also geographically. Despite its diversity in ethnicity and geography, India is able to exist in harmony and peace. After the country got its independence in 1947, different parts of India were at different developmental levels. Through the implementation of Five Year Plan, the Indian government has successfully bridged most of the developmental gaps between states and regions. Although all the Indian states are not doing as good as Punjab and Gujrat economically, but at least each state has ...

Introduction

Family businesses are an important part of economic development and prosperity. Many people have established family enterprises in order to experience economic growth. However, the management of family businesses is not easy. Businesses owned by members who share family relations are very challenging to manage. Apart from the business issues that arise from time to time, there are family issues as well. Some of the most striking challenges in running family businesses include succession disputes, family conflicts, gender disputes in the management position, financial weaknesses, mismanagement, work relationship among others (Davis). It is important to keep i9n mind that ...

Mergers and acquisitions are a popular strategy for businesses both in the United States and, across borders. Although these two terms are often used in the same breath, the terms merger and acquisition bear some slight differences. A merger is an amalgamation of two or more firms whereby the assets and, liabilities of the selling company is absorbed by the buying firm. The buying firm may be a significantly dissimilar organization but after the merger, it holds its original identity. On the other hand, acquisition refers to the buying of an asset, for example, a division, a plant or even a whole company, with ...

Economic Characteristics

Generally, steel market recognizes a relatively static development, being mostly produced in the developed countries, such as United States, Western European countries or Japan (Steel Panel Committee, 1985). However, Miles (2005) observes that the economic characteristics of the steel market are dependent on the general economic environment and in times of crisis the steel market is influenced, recognizing downturn. The demand of steel is, therefore, a reflection of the economic context.
In 2011, the steep production was distributed as follows: 14.5% of the global steel production was employed in mechanical machinery, 12% in automotive industry, 12.5% were directed towards the ...

2. What impact did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have on the black community in Cleveland?
The 1964 civil rights act was of benefit to the blacks in Cleveland. The blacks got the right to vote for the leaders of their choice. The blacks were also allowed to vie for political seats like other citizens of the United States. The act also gave the blacks the right to use public facilities such as hotels and schools that were also attended by the whites. This means that discrimination reduced and more interaction between blacks and whites in public ...

Abstract

This paper is based on an article from The Economist published on June 1st, 2013. In this paper, I will analyze the economic policy against the credit markets fluctuations in the US and try to follow the traces of the failures in this policies due to the reactions of the martkets to this policies. The Fed and the Government implement some macro policies to stable the markets to ensure the growth rate in the US while keeping other macroeconomic variables such as unemployment, inflation, stock exchange markets, foreign exchange rates. However, people’s reaction to these macro policies sometimes ...

Abstract

We discuss deflation and the deflation targets as may be proposed by the financial institutions, the World Bank and the IMF. We also define trade liberalization. We also make notes about the problems that the countries, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone. We also discuss the supply –side economic policies as can be implemented by countries to improve or bring an economy that may be on a decline.
(i) Deflation is defined by economists as the persistent or continuous drop in the general price level of goods and services in a given economy. This also means the change in supply of money ...

The world over, countries look forward and tirelessly work toward improving their economies. A growth in the economy signifies an improvement in the standards of living improved gross domestic product (GDP). In the last three decades, the Middle East has generally experienced tremendous growth in their GDP and with specific emphasis to Japan and China which have grown to be global economic powerhouses (Otsuka, 2011). However, a down spiral has been experienced as regards to the rate of economic growth in the past two decades as a result of economic stagnation experienced by Japan since the burst of the asset price ...

The term intellectual property refers to the sole ownership of ideas, inventions or the processes. The person who came up with such Ideas, inventions or the processes has legal sole ownership of such properties. This means that no one can use such properties without the consent of the person who invented them. Intellectual properties consist of trademarks, patents, copyrights and also trade secrets.

IMPORTANCE OF COPYRIGHTS TO THE WORLD ECONOMY

Intellectual property rights are vital especially at this time when knowledge and immaterial products are increasingly becoming crucial in the world economy. It is crucial to note that patent which is a form of property rights are ...

Introduction

Egypt is one of the major countries in the North Africa and the Middle East. The country has the biggest population in its region; it represents 25% of the total population in Arab population with more than 82 million inhabitants (Tignor, 2011). The majority of the population falls in the bracket of 15-25 years. Egypt enjoys a significant cultural, political and economical influence in the Arab region serving as a trendsetter to the many countries in Middle East. Egypt has affirmed that foreign private capital is welcomed and that foreign investors in the country are therefore welcomed to invest in the ...

In recent years emerging markets are becoming more and more attractive for global companies as target markets, sources of inputs and as global production sites, R&D hubs and opportunities for market development (Khanna and Palepu ). The case “Tata Group: India’s New Global Challenger” illustrates that Indian companies are also becoming more important in the international market (Sirkin and Hemerling).
There are several reasons why international companies and investors should consider emerging countries as strong market players. The first reason is the rate of economic growth in emerging countries that by far exceeds that in the developed world. ...

The European sovereign debt crisis dominated international financial markets during 2010-2012. Economies fell into recession and financial market volatility was high. Critically analyze how the government debt problems initially faced by a few relatively

Introduction

The European financial crisis has extended beyond borders and is now affecting other countries in various condiments. China and United States of America are the most affected nations because they depend a lot on European countries for exports. The world is facing a critical problem brought about by the financial crisis, and financial experts are yet to determine the solution to this problem. The global economic meltdown of ...

Introduction

The European financial crisis has extended beyond borders and is now affecting other countries in various condiments. The world is facing a critical problem brought about by the financial crisis, and financial experts are yet to determine the solution to this problem. The global economic meltdown of 2008 found the European Union struggling with the unshakable financial crisis that has been slowing the growth of European currency, the Euro. As the crisis enters its third year, the European and the whole world is worried whether it would end up affecting the world economy leading to world financial crisis (European Commission ...

The articles are about modern day economists giving alternative ways of measuring the Gross Domestic Product of a country other than by the monetary value of final goods and services in the country. They argue that Gross Domestic product does not take into account adverse economic growth effects like pollution in its accounting. In addition, it does not take into account the informal economy like leisure time and life quality in its accounting of the GDP. Through time, economists have suggested other ways to measure a nation’s economic health by mainly focusing on well-being measures. China and the U.S have ...

PEST analysis is basically used to describe components of the macro environment for strategic planning. It considers the political, economical, social, and technological factors of the external business environment. In context of the paper, there are several political, economical, social, and technological factors that affect Aldi within the retail market. Politically, different governments have different political stability, trade tariffs, trade restrictions, environmental laws, labor laws, and tax policies. Aldi supermarket has presence in three continents, North America, Europe, and Asian Pacific. Government interventions in these regions will affect how it conducts business in the local markets. The interventions within ...

Evolution

The BRICS is an acronym of Brazil, Russia, China and India, according to the case study the grouping of the four countries must have came into existence at the onset of Millennium stage, however according to Jim O’Neil in his paper, “Building Better Global Economic BRICs” it traces it evolution 2001.the BRICs are considered to be in their early economic development.

Investment indicators

Interest rate
Companies should look at the current interest arte and probably the speculated future interest before investing. When interest rate is higher more investment is encouraged as the returns are high, however the lower the ...

Business Globalization

Introduction
Globalization can be defined as the process if interaction and integration of people, organizations and the governments of diverse countries. Globalization is mainly attributed to international trade and global investment, which have been facilitated by information technology such as the advent of the internet and fast data communications (Hill & Cronk, 2010). In the business context, globalization serves to eliminate the variations that exist within the global economy, which implies that global trade is conducted on a universal platform. The concept of globalization is not new to business environment. This business-economic event influence many concerns and issues to the ...

In the context of international trade, the term “Covered Interest Rate Parity” implies to the situation in which there exists equilibrium between interest rates and forward and spot currency values of two economies. Consequently, there are no opportunities for arbitrage between these two currencies. As an illustration, consider nation A, whose currency is trading at par with nation B’s currency, (Robert, 2005, pp. 21-6). However, the rate of interest in A is 5% while in B is 2%. Ceteris paribus, it would be beneficial to borrow currency of nation B, change it in the spot market to the ...

Explain why the financial system crashed in the autumn of 2008, and consider how Keynesian expansionary policy to fight the recession may be held back by problems in rolling over the national debt.
Recession was preceded by perhaps the most significant rise in the near past: in 2003-2008. World GDP grew by its one third (1/3).
U.S. mortgage crisis which happened for one year (from August 2007 to August 2008) has become a deep financial crisis. In III quarter of 2008, the U.S. entered a recession, and it became apparent that the first time since the 1974-1975 crisis. It ...