discuss both economic and geo-political/security dimensions, and make reference to at least two historical periods, whether identified by particular doctrines, presidencies, or regimes of international relations. Current state of Latin Ameican international relations with the US— * Emerging independence from US—US is no longer the immediate partner of choice. Regional resentment of US perceived self-serving exercises of power * Economics: * Increased intra-regional economic integration—ALBA
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International Journal of Economics, Management & Accounting 19, no. 1 (2011): 1-26 © 2011 by The International Islamic University Malaysia METHODOLOGY OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS: OVERVIEW OF PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE DIRECTION* Mohamed Aslam Haneefa and Hafas Furqanib Department of Economics, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Email: mdaslam@iiu. edu.my) b Department of Economics, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100
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______________________________________________________________ TUTORIAL 1 (WEEK 2): INTRODUCTION - THE NATURE AND METHOD OF ECONOMICS. THE ECONOMIZING PROBLEM (CHAPTER 1&2) CLASS ACTIVITIES: • Recap Lecture 1 • Tutorial exercises LEARNING OUTCOMES: Understand the meaning and significance of economics. Distinguish between microeconomics and macroeconomics. Explain various types of economic choices and to appreciate the concept of opportunity cost. Understand the marginal concepts and how
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Dr. Zomorrodian | Assignment I | Principles of Economics | | Charles Fitch | 5/6/2011 | | I want to discuss and gives some examples and graphs on price discrimination strategies, price ceiling and what happens when the government regulates prices to give them a price ceiling to protect the consumer. I also want to discuss a perfect competitive market and the short and long term effects if demand rises or falls, also, why some long-run average curves are so steep. Lastly, I will
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Privatization, Regulation and Competition in South Asia T. N. Srinivasan* 1. Introduction It is a great honor to be invited to deliver the Mahbub Ul Haq Memorial Lecture. Mahbub finished his graduate studies in economics and left Yale in 1956, a year before I began my own graduate studies there. He had set an exemplary record that those of us from South Asia who followed him at Yale, such as Bashir Karamali, Parvez Hasan, Syed Nawab Hyder Naqvi, Syed Naseem, and myself included, could only envy.
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Global Financial Crisis Impact and Challenges Shaikh Faisal. Assistant Professor Dr. Rafiq Zakaria Campus Millennium Institute of Management Aurangabad Introduction: The global financial system has undergone a period of unprecedented turmoil. Market confidence dwindled and has remained fragile, leading to the collapse or near-collapse of large, and in some cases systemically important, financial institutions, and calling forth public intervention in the financial system on a scale not
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Journal of International Development J. Int. Dev. 12, 343±369 (2000) PRODUCTIVITY SPILLOVERS FROM TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO INDIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS VINISH KATHURIA* Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR), Gota, Ahmedabad, India Abstract: The present paper employs techniques from stochastic production frontier and panel data literature to test a spillover hypothesis for large sized ®rms that `presence of foreign-owned ®rms and foreign technical capital stock in a sector leads to reduced
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optimism about the economics profession, with which have been associated by occupation for more than 20 years. Historically, economic theory originated in the happy union of Athens and Jerusalem known as “the natural law,” and has always returned to the sanity of its roots—after exhausting the alternatives. As I read its history, economic theory has nearly completed its last great detour away from sanity, and is rapidly running out of alternatives to a renewal of “natural-law economics.” If such a
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Dream Dare Win www.jeywin.com Annual Report 2007-08 Ministry of Finance Government of India Dream Dare Win 1 www.jeywin.com Dream Dare Win www.jeywin.com FOR PUBLIC CONTACT PURPOSE: Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs North Block, New Delhi - 110 001 Phones: 23095120, 23092453 Website: http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_eco_affairs/index.html Department of Expenditure North Block New Delhi - 110 001 Phones: 23095661, 23095613 Website:
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