Effects of Foreign Investments on Developing States in Africa

Introduction A close look at the contemporary tendencies in the provision of foreign aid in Africa reveals a deep imbalance since the chief providers of foreign direct investment (FDI) primarily target the extractive industries in the African stat...

A Crisis of Confidence: Understanding Money Markets During the Financial Crisis

Question 1 Money market mutual funds are large financial institutional portfolios that hold money market securities and are comprised of short-term (less than a year) securities that represent high-quality, liquid debts and monetary instruments. T...

Fundamentals of Investing

In order to make the right decision in advising Mr. A the right place to invest his money, we have to analyze the possible returns of each investment, the risks involved and the terms of investment. According to Damodaran (2002), most investors make ...

The Potency of Microfinance in Accelerating Poverty Reduction: The Case of the Grameen Bank

Introduction The term “microcredit or microfinance” is no longer unknown to the world. In the last three decades, the topic of microfinance has captured the imagination of institutions and people working in the area of poverty alleviation. Micro...

International Monetary System

The international Monetary System is responsible for economic stability in the world. Some countries are more developed than others. In order to prevent discrimination of poor countries by rich countries, the IMF funds developments in the smaller cou...

Employees Engagement in Gas and Oil Company

Introduction The employees engagement in the industry basically means that the employees are fully engrossed in the organization’ s work and procedures and are psychologically attached to the goals of the organization. This aspect is enshrined ...

The Impact of Globalization on China and India and their Response

The spinning global economic and political systems and policies can be linked to the rotation of the earth on its own axis; the only difference is that the earth rotates back to the starting point, while the politics and economics of the world move f...

Economic Questions

Question 1 Externalities refer to external effects that are not accounted for by buyers or sellers.  It therefore means that, consumer may be paying be failing to pay for some benefit derived from a good or service; marginal external benefit (ME...

Ford Company

Introduction Ford Company is a renowned worldwide leader in the auto industry. However, in the past few decades, the company has faced drastic decline in its market share. This forced it to cut down on the operational costs by closing down three maj...

The Role of the Government in Market oriented Economy

Introduction Currently, it’s uncountable that Qatar as one of fastest developing country will soon enjoy one of the best transport system globally. However it must meet the economic credential as required by Qatar National vision 2030.In the do...

Economic Models

To begin with, there is truly no person or a group of people from government who runs the economy. The economy is run by laws of supply and demand. Put simply, the market consists of consumers of goods and services and suppliers who provide consumers...

Impact of IT on Productivity

Stiff competition leads to the employment of new technologies for productivity improvement level of firms’ resources. The most vital factor of evaluation concerning growth at the industry and organizational levels is productivity. According to ...

Microeconomics: Price Discrimination

Price discrimination in economics occurs where a firm sells different units of an output at different prices to different markets, and the price differentials are not based on the marginal costs of production (Wilkinson, 2005, pp 398). There are vari...

Discussion of Global Economics

Discussion of Global Economics Globalization is the process in which investment and financial markets are able to operate international due to the improved communication and deregulation in the recent years (McGeehan, 2011). Globalization may be perc...