Essays on Board Of Governors

Lord Gardiner’s statement is a wonderful example of legislators recognizing that precedent may stifle the appropriate outcome in a legal dispute. Comparisons can be made between other Western countries; for example, the US Supreme Court has reversed precedent that it set itself decades prior, such as the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. Just like these countries, Lord Gardiner believed that Britain should not limit itself to decisions based solely on decisions in the past because the modern day situations that arise often require a more complex and systematic methodology for determining justice. In addition, but not ...

The World Bank and the international monetary fund (IMF) are financial institutions within the system of the United Nations. Their main aim is to improve the living standards of the citizens of their member states. The approach used by these institutions in the achievement of their objectives is complementary. The IMF focuses on microeconomic issues while the World Bank focuses on reduction of poverty as well as long term development of the economy. This paper is set to highlight a brief history of the IMF and the World Bank, compare the two international financial institutions as well as highlight ...

Biography for Janet Yellen

Janet Yellen was born on August 14, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother was a teacher and the father a doctor. She attended Fort Hamilton High school. She excelled in many subjects and became the editor of the institution's newspaper and graduated as a valedictorian in 1963. She then attended Brown University and obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1967. She proceeded to Yale University and received a Ph.D. in 1971. She married George Akerlof, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and an economic noble prize winner in 1978. Yellen has one adult ...