Globalization's winners and losers
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
Globalization has been good to North Americans over the past few decades. As Fishlow and Parker argue, “Television sets, microwaves, automobiles, and computers have become less expensive and more reliable,” a reality that speaks to the greater fact that our collective quality of life...
The global auto industry: Dire on some fronts; Better on others
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
The auto industry, especially in North America and Europe, seems to have nothing but bad news these days. Whether the subject is government bailouts, downsizing, labor relations, job losses, bankruptcy, mergers, or the price of gasoline, it appears to be one depressing piece of news after the...
The rich dad & poor debt: An Indian perspective
Thesis - 10 pages - Economy general
Today the world is facing heat due to sub-prime crisis. All the developed countries and developing countries have caught recessionary fever. Even the powerful economy of china has also felt ‘D' factor (downturn in the economic activities). The epicenter of the crisis is U.S.A. It is all...
Indian economy and how it has managed the global crisis
Thesis - 11 pages - Economy general
“Money which is the source of unlimited benefits, becomes the cause of calamity and unhappiness if not controlled” - Robert Shan The above quotation by Robert Shan exactly describes the reason of current global financial crisis. The current global financial crises are the cause of...
Global crisis and its impact on the Indian economy
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
After a long spell of growth, the Indian economy is experiencing a downturn. Industrial growth is faltering, inflation remains at high levees, the current account deficit is widening, foreign exchange reserves are depleting and the rupee is depreciating, these features can related to the current...
Effect of global crisis on the Indian economy
Thesis - 8 pages - Economy general
India a fastest developing country, also not excluded from the list of affected economies from the global crisis. Before 3-4 months everything was all right even our growth rate was reflecting the story of our growth, but suddenly major developed country so called super power nation U.S trapped...
Disinvestment of equity shares in public sector undertaking
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
Public sector undertakings (PSUs) are companies established by the central government under the Companies Act or as statutory corporations under specific statues of parliament. PSUs were established in the early 1950s for rapid industrial and economic growth, to create necessary infrastructure,...
The Abu Sayyaf holds the raging Philippines' economy captive
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
The Philippines finds itself in Southeast Asia, in a wondrous archipelago of seven thousand islands in the Western Pacific. It began as a Spanish colony but was ceded first by the Spanish to the Americans, and subsequently by the Americans to the Japanese; it eventually achieved independence on...
A study on the origin and effect of the industrial revolution in England
Thesis - 12 pages - Economy general
The Industrial Revolution refers to the first breakthrough from a rural handicraft economy to a urban machine driven manufacturing economy that took place in England around 1780 C.E., and which, in the course of the next one hundred years, spread and established itself over much of Europe and...
The impact of Al Qaeda's attacks on the financial sector
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
“Five-and-a-half years ago, 19 terrorists hijacked four airplanes and changed the course of history. Just as we underestimated Al Qaeda then, we risk repeating the same mistake now.” (Hoffman 2007, 44). First, the question itself merits a two or so sentences - it is interesting by...
A critique of dividend policy of UK firms
Dissertation - 10 pages - Economy general
The times are changing for both business managers and investors. Probably the most important task for business managers today is the effective management of the company's portfolio of resources, and identifying, implementing and managing a strategy to leverage these resources to achieve...
A study on the major wage theories and their relevance
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
Wages are income derived from human labor. Salaries are similar to wages, but denote a more routine and constant payment on a time bound basis, as opposed to a work-bound payment association of wages. The term Wage and Salary encompass remuneration and fringe benefits sponsored by the employer,...
A study on export performance, challenges and prospects of IT industry in India
Tutorials/exercises - 32 pages - Economy general
My dissertation titled “A study on Export Performance, Challenges and Prospects of Information Technology Industry in India” mainly deals with exporting performance Information Technology industry in India. It also deals with various problems faced by the IT industry and also...
Foreign institutional investors and the stock exchange
Thesis - 28 pages - Economy general
India has struggled financially since independence, experiencing slow economic growth and economic setbacks due to climatic extremes or political disturbances. The country has been gradually transforming its economic base from agrarian to industrial and commercial. Under British rule in the 19th...
Study on foreign exchange function
Tutorials/exercises - 30 pages - Economy general
The front office in a hotel is the department responsible for the sale of hotel rooms through systematic method of reservation, followed by registration and assigning rooms to customers. The term sale of rooms may appear misleading to those unfamiliar with the industry. 'Sale here means the...
Differences in communication between men and women
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” touts the cover of an American bestseller. The instant success of this book (over 14 million copies sold) hints at a polarized population eager to bridge the gender gap. Yet some readers feel that it is writing such as these that exacerbate...
The study on security analysis for selecting the appropriate security through analyzing economy and industry
Tutorials/exercises - 80 pages - Economy general
An investment refers to the commitment of funds at present, in anticipation of some positive rate of return in future. Today the spectrum of investment is indeed wide. An investor is confronted with array of investment avenues. Among all investment, investment in equity is best high proportion....
Impact of FDI on the industrial development in India
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Economy general
Foreign direct investments (FDI) are investment of foreign assets into domestic structures, equipments and organization. FDI reflects the objectives of obtaining a lasting interest by a resident entity in one economy (Direct Investor) in entity resident in an economy other than that of the...
Sensitivity of Indian fertilizer industry to crude oil
Presentation - 17 pages - Economy general
Agriculture accounts for the 27 percent of the Gross Domestic Product and the fertilizer industry is a crucial contributor to the agricultural sector and the Indian agricultural sector is very much dependent on the fertilizers. Fertilizer is defined as - any material, organic or inorganic,...
An overview of job satisfaction theories
Case study - 12 pages - Economy general
The relationship between man and work has always attracted the attention of philosophers, scientists and novelists. A major part of man's life is spent at work. Work is a social reality and social expectation to which men seem to confirm. It not only provides status to the individual but also...
International strategic frameworks: A case study of Unilever 2008
Thesis - 8 pages - Economy general
According to Stonehouse and al (2004: 142) ‘the macro environment is the part of the environment over which the business can rarely exert any direct influence but to which it must respond'. The essential framework to critically analyzed Unilever's external business environment is the PESTEL...
Economic regulation
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
A regulation is the “employment of legal instruments for the implementation of social-economic policy objectives” (Govender 2008: 10). In this way, according to OECD (2001), regulation “refers to the various instruments (both formal legal and such informal tools as...
An in-depth analysis of the role of the Brazilian state in its economic development
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
The third world is a subject which has caused much ink. Several features can be found as economic problems, political instability, authoritarian regimes. However, some countries as the tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong-Kong) succeed in dealing with their economic and political...
To what extent is Brazil and its development typical of a country of South America?
Thesis - 8 pages - Economy general
In 1952 when the demographer Alfred Sauvy first used the expression “Third World” in an article titled “Three worlds, one planet” to designate the poor, recently decolonized countries or those due to soon break free of their colonized past, this new world struggled to define...
Comparison between the economic cycles and the growth rates in the USA and France
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
The business cycle is a constant in all the world economies since the Industrial Revolution occurred. By “business cycle”, we mean the fluctuations of the growth rate of the economy, which always works on the “Peak - Recession - Trough - Recovery” scheme. The main cycle is the...
How can the change in demand following an increase in the price of goods can be broken into a substitution effect and an income effect?
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
We expect people to change their consuming behaviour when the price of a good change, but on what is this change going to be based on? Preferences are determined by the tastes of a person, so they do not depend on the person's real income. If the price of a good changes, the person will make a...
Is becoming global the way or not
Thesis - 2 pages - Economy general
This report is going to present the importance of globalization in today's society. I will try to answer your question like should our company try to enter the global market? Globalization is an incontrovertible phenomenon that can't be overridden. “The world needs and desires have been...
The complete English tradesman, by Daniel Defoe, 1926
Book review - 3 pages - Economy general
Daniel Defoe was an English fervent supporter of trade: to him, trade was a natural feature of the English nation, and the English people were the best people at trading in the world. Indeed, in the 18th century, the State is a means to promote trade, the English empire is all about trade; the...
How has the political economy of French capitalism evolved in the face of increasing global economic pressures?
Thesis - 10 pages - Economy general
‘The work was standardized, rigid; it has become adaptable, flexible. The institutions were paternalist, authoritarian; they have become permissive, liberal. A feeling of security reigned on the world. It is now the insecurity which is dominant' (Cohen, 2002) This international economic...
Economic consequences of the last European union enlargement
Thesis - 20 pages - Economy general
The idea of a united Europe was once just a dream in the minds of philosophers and visionaries. Already in 1620, the Duke of Sully imagined "a body politics of all the States of Europe which could produce between its members an unalterable peace and a perpetual trade". In The 19th Century, Victor...
