Economics Professor Jim Stodder October 15, 2014 The Economic Impact of the Single-Child Policy in China Thesis Statement: The single-child policy implemented in China more than thirty years ago to slow the rate of population growth, not only had a marginal effect on the growth of the population, but also had the unintended consequence of a long-lasting negative impact on the Chinese economy. Abstract: The Chinese government imposed a single-child policy 34 years ago in response to a rapidly increasing
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Submitted to Udara Wickramasinghe Submitted by Deepak Kumar Sreeramula (Student ID: 350) ICNZ 2015 Executive Summary China's spectacular economic growth-averaging 8% or more annually over the past two decades-has produced an impressive increase in the standard of living for hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens. At the same time, this economic development has had severe ramifications for the natural
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................. 6 Global Insurance Industry Overview ............................................................................................................. 7 Non-life growth is still weak in the industrialized countries, but strong in Asia ...................................... 8 Non-life insurance premium growth ........................................................................................................ 8 SWOT Analysis of Pakistan Insurance Industry ........................
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SELLING AND MARKETING In general we use „marketing‟ and „selling‟ as synonyms but there is a substantial difference between both the concepts. It is necessary to understand the differences between them for a successful marketing manager. Selling has a product focus and mostly producer driven. It is the action part of marketing only and has short – term goal of achieving market share. The emphasis is on price variation for closing the sale where the objective can be stated, as “I
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Emerging Markets Review 13 (2012) 516–547 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Emerging Markets Review journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/emr Corporate governance, agency problems and international cross-listings: A defense of the bonding hypothesis☆ G. Andrew Karolyi ⁎ Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 348 Sage Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 30 June 2011 Received in revised form 6 August
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• Urbanisation is increasing most rapidly in Africa and Asia. • This trend is expected to continue so that by 2025 almost half the population of these continents will live in urban areas and 80% of urban dwellers will live in developing countries. • Increased global urbanisation has resulted in the development of many millionaire cities. • There is also a significant number of enormous megacities, some of which are classed as world cities. ❖ Millionaire cities are
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housing market is one of the main determinants of the rates of economic growth and consumer spending. There were different factors that made house prices to increase very faster than the consumer income, and therefore it resulted into overvalued assets. In references to Taylor, an economic specialist, he observed that the United States house prices were increasing rapidly until the year 2006 and thereafter experienced a decline
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The slowdown in China’s growth has had a rippling effect with consequences seen in the Australian Government, Domestic Firms and even Multinational Firms. Due to the slowdown, implications that have been placed on the Australian Government have been ones such as a need for the restructuring of certain policies to be able to handle the increased exposure to the volatility of the commodity market. The government should ensure appropriate policies are in place to facilitate the management of risk
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2011 Market Share 1. Cebu Pacific 42.9% 2. Philippine Airline 25.7% 3. Zest Air 19.0% 4. Air Philippines 10.5% Concentration Ratio 98.1% Average Concentration Ratio of Airline industry 97.14% The steady decline in PAL’s market share indicates that competition has intensified. The four-firm concentration ratio (CR4) measures the revenue share of the four largest firms to total industry. The annual CR4 ratio indicates that the industry is basically an oligopoly
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Department Inflation, Disinflation, and Growth Prepared by Atish Ghosh and Steven Phillips1 Authorized for distribution by Timothy Lane May 1998 Abstract Although few would doubt that very high inflation is bad for growth, there is much less agreement about moderate inflation's effects. Using panel regressions and a nonlinear specification, this paper finds a statistically and economically significant negative relationship between inflation and growth. This relationship holds at all but the
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