IB Economics B

This article shows that the European bank seems to follow a demand-side policy on dealing with the economic situation. They are lowering interest rates so that the demand to borrow will rise and therefore, the revenue will rise and we'll find a way out of this recession. They are attempting expansionary policies of their own to increase demand. Their main issue is that they might be losing their consumers to other markets because of the issues concerning the exchange rate.

The article explains how Germany's inflation has fallen to 1% only in 2006, due to high eurozone interest rates and a fall in the oil prices. Together with the World Cup football tournament, which helped increase consumer spending, Germany's economy is recovering.

Paraguayan Government wants to renationalize Acepar, a steelmaker company.

For the first time in 3 years Japan worries about deflation. Reasons for this are the global crisis which also affect unemployment level and cause wage cuts.

This acticle show how Global recession had affected remittances. It shows staticts where we can see comparison between this year and to previous years.

It talks about how it is not economically viable for house investors to invest on very expensive land to build low-end houses.

Government pledges to increase consumer safeguards as holy-month food expenses soar. Government control on prices in a market.

This article is about Kenya losing close to Sh40 billion every year to ccounterfeit and sub-standard goods. According to the article, hundreds of workers in local companies have lost their jobs due to stiff competition from the products.

This article discusses about basically, how some countries are increasing their interest rate, and their economies are growing. Economically growing countries (LEDC) were not affected as much by the recession than the already developed countries. The article claims that "most big developed economies have barely emerged from severe recession." this clearly tells that (MEDC) countries are slowly increasing than growing countries.

this article published in November 3rd, 2009, discusses about a 2% of failure in late corporate loan in September, on the back of a intensification Rouble, has supported to reduce the non performing loans of Russian banks for the first time in a year. This article also showed that home loan lending fell to 91.5 billion rubles for the first nine months of 2009, with September lending also down 78% on the same month a year earlier which that caused a bad result. It represents the recession of the economic recession.

This article discusses about "the modernist box that won this year's Solar Decathlon, a contest for solar-powered houses sponsored by America's Department of Energy, had solar panels of the conventional, crystalline sort on its roof. But the walls were covered in solar cells made with thin coatings of silicon and other materials in the place of expensive slices of crystal. Thin film, as this technology is known, is still less popular than crystalline cells and its move to the mainstream has been a year or two away for a decade. But its time may have come at last."

It also introduces of development, how important fo economies to keep delievering improved standards of living and a lot of the economics we or they cover looks at policies to achieve higher growth. In this extract, (I'm not sure if I have understood it right,) it definds the occurs where there is an increase in the productive potential of the economy and is best measured by the increase in a country's real level of output over a period of time. For instance, the increase in real Gross Product.

In the article, as the Chinese GDP growth has been accelerated dramatically earlier this year, the government has permitted them to build more factories and employee people who has no job because there are still plenty of people who are not employed. So, the government has given them opportunities to provide service of work and goods in all economies.

This article seems to tell that the prices help to allocate the same degree (of the price) to make it cheaper and make it as a better quality of electronic car. Basically, to spend money well so that the companies will need to get their less expensive cars.

This article that I have chosen is about lack of water, transportation, energy and food. Therefore, Nigerian companies had to stop manufacturing cocoa-plants.

This article tells about the climate change in Himalayas to the Maldives is highly damaged. The article writer claims that the white water has turned to a dark brown water. also the speed of the pollution is very fast damaging.

This article discusses about unemployment. That the representative Barney Frank claimed that he will 'give loans to unemployed homeowners who are struggling to pay the mortgage.' Because of the reason why so many people do not have jobs or experienced failure of their job, the representative is willing to seek for mortgage aid. It is not said in the article but in my opinion, if more people are employed the country and the industry's economy will grow.

This article posted on November 26th-09 discusses about 'BENDIGO residents will be forced to pay more for their water in order to keep their water supplier afloat'. This article talks about serious stragedy that they have to face of this economic problem to improve Coliban's financial future. Thus, these concepts relates to our studied topics because it represents the means of inflation, as a persistent increase int he general level of prices, as well as the effects of inflation.

It is a good sign that the rates of inflation are rising in the UK. Mortgagte interest rates and housing costs rose. A reason for this inflation is "...mainly because fuel prices fell by a lot less than they did in the same period a year ago." The inflation rates were expected to rise, so the people were expecting this. There are also controls regulate the inflation, "The committee sets interest rates which are the main policy tool available to control inflation."

This article relates to how the CPI (Consumer Prices Index) has risen in the past couple of months. However, it is implied that such a rise is not severe, and will not need to be reported to the chancellor. This is expected to be a "temporary spike", and it is unlikely that it will continue or grow for any extensive length of time.

Dubai's financial market was struck hard this past Thursday. Certain types of goods, such as gold, were at record high but the stocks hit worst daily losses and the dollar value was driven higher. As the article days, "Gold climbed to a new record high but fell back as the dollar rose" this means inflation. With the recession and inflation, Dubai is not getting any outside income. Dubai's economist will have to re-evaluate plans to improve the economic slump.

Dubai's financial market was struck hard this past Thursday. Certain types of goods, such as gold, were at record high but the stocks hit worst daily losses and the dollar value was driven higher. As the article days, "Gold climbed to a new record high but fell back as the dollar rose" this means inflation. With the recession and inflation, Dubai is not getting any outside income. Dubai's economist will have to re-evaluate plans to improve the economic slump.