Japan’s contribution to ASEAN

Nowadays only few people exactly know where East Asia is, what countries organize East Asia, or why such extensive regional identification should signify more than some geographical region. Absolutely it is the nation-state. East Asia specifically means China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. East Asia is tremendously distinct region, as very complicated as the West. There … Read more

Economic theories

History is replete with all kinds of famous economic theories. No one economic theory is the “perfect one.” There are pros and cons to the popular economic theories of mercantilism, economic liberalism, Hamiltonian, and Listian theories. Certain types of economic theories are championed by nations during certain periods of their growth and certain types of … Read more

Public debt difficulties

Introduction: The answer to public debt difficulties is mainly presented as an economic problematic. Individuals and companies can deal with those complications through bankruptcy. It is a legal tool that protects a person under law in order to deal with a solvability problem, namely the incapacity to reimburse outstanding debts. But for states, declaring bankruptcy … Read more

The effect of population growth on the economic development of Pakistan

Different schools of thoughts in economics have analyzed the relationship between population growth and economic development. The debate on the relationship was pointed in Malthusian population trap (1798). Population increases was bound to stop Life-sustaining resources increases at arithmetic rate, would be insufficient to support Population increases at geometric rate Generally, there are two strands … Read more

The Asian Financial Crisis

Corsetti, Pesenti, and Roubini (1999) document the causes of the Asian financial crisis. In their study, there are three key concepts that characterize the eve of the financial crisis: overlending, current account imbalances, and the maturity structure of capital inflows. According to their study, the fragile banking and financial systems in Asian countries led to … Read more

The impact of minimum wage policy in New Zealand

Introduction Ever since the introduction of the minimum wage policy by New Zealand, there has been a vivid debate about its economic consequences. The policy aims to protect employees at the bottom end of the labour market from wage exploitation, yet it is simultaneously linked to increased unemployment. In the Netherlands the debate’s focus recently … Read more

Economics theories

My research of Classical Economics and Keynesian Economics has given me the opportunity to form an opinion on this greatly debated topic in economics. After researching this topic in great lengths, I have determined the Keynesian Economics far exceeds greatness for America compared to that of Classical Economics. I will begin my paper by first … Read more

The BRICS Fallacy

The emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China came into vogue in 2001, with South Africa joining in 2010, were first collectively known as the BRICs, today currently as the BRICS. A Goldman Sachs research paper predicted the weight of the BRICs, led by China, would grow the global GDP by 2011. In conjunction … Read more

Definition of emerging markets

An emerging economy also known as (EME) can be defined as an economy that has low to middle per capita income. The term was first coined by Antoine W. Van Atmel of the international Finance Cooperation of the World Bank. The term is loosely defined by some countries. Countries that fall into this category are … Read more

Russia

The boycott On the 7th of august 2014, Russia announced a ban off food from western countries. The ban included a boycott of all meat, diary, fruits and vegetables originated from the United States, European Union, Canada, Australia and Norway. The boycott is imposed for a period of one year. The Russian Federation announced that … Read more

The Functions of Money

Just what is money? There is an old saying that ”’money is what money does .”’ In a general sense, anything that performs the functions of money is money. Here are those functions: ”’ Medium of exchange First and foremost, money is a medium of exchange that is usable for buying and selling goods and … Read more

Precious stones and economic theories

How can it be that precious stones, sparkling and decent as a design explanation, are esteemed more exceptionally than water, an essential for managing life? Would it be able to be that water’s less-important employments of cleaning the auto or washing down the garage have a hosing impact on its quality? Economic analysts let us … Read more

Global unemployment, forced labour, inequality

Hameed and Nazir (2014) argue that liberalization neutralises unemployment, citing Pakistan, as one of nations where trade liberalization has helped reduce job losses. Complementing the argument, Siddiqui and Kemal (2002) state that after liberalization, employment and production increased, generating demand for labour and imports. This dropped unemployment and reduced poverty, as economic and living standards … Read more

Agency theory – the Principal-Agent Model

1. Introduction 1.1 Behavioral Economics Many of the assumptions on which economic models and theories are based are often wrong when we critically look at them from the perspective of social sciences. Thinking about yourself, do you always make fully rational choices that are only self-interested? Are your preferences time-consistent? Most of you will answer … Read more