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This article is about an export-promotion strategy the government is going to follow to promote the telecom sector. Increases in the revenue from this sector are expected, and I found the article very interesting since India is one of the developing countries developing at the fastests rates.

this article is very interesting. It illustrates how the government could affect the private business. This could be by imposing taxes on them. This article is talking about the American Federal government. In this case, the government is imposing more and more taxes which is increasing the cost on businesses. This affects negatively their ability to supply and global combativeness. What i also liked about the article, is the amount of measured data it contains. there are many numbers that help you understand what happened and what will happen.

This article is about the economy in Malta. The macroeconomic challenges Malta have been facing are now no longer risks and imbalances in the economy. This is due to, among others, that the housing market has stabilized and the private dept is on the decrease. 

this is a very interesting article that demonstrates the total revenues and how they can fall or raise, it also compares different years' revenues and shows us how intel plans to overcome the fall in revenue. 

This article discusses Germany's GDP in detail

The attached article compares and contrasts the contribution made to aggregate demand by varying foreign and domestic demand. It states, that despite relative increases in demand overall (especially in public opinion), domestic demand figures are still low. Instead, foreign trade appears to make up the majority of aggregate demand in the overall economy.

This article relates to subsidies since the government of Morocco has raised energy prices to save subsidy money that is needed for the International Monetary Fund requirements. Protests have been made from the government's junior partner party over the raise in price of energy. Higher taxes for energy will cause higher price for transportation for tourists and higher costs of production for agriculture. The government though, said they will return parts of the increase of energy prices for professional drivers to avoid a "snowball" effect on prices. But is the raise in price of energy due to the save of subsidy money rational for the country, looking upon the people's use of energy and the agriculture?

This article describes how every year the government places a price floor to ensure the farmers interest as prices increase. This article concerns the fact that the government has not yet set a minimum price for the purchase of the sugarcane. This leads to problems for the farmers, because the mills decide the price of the sugarcane without considering the cost of the farmers.

I wasn't able to take this article from the Newsstand but I found it on the web. This may increase the Demand and therefore the supply because of the Government Intervention. If the US force launches in Libya the supply in the weapons sector and all the complementary products because the Us's army will need some supplies.

This article talks about five important economical problems

("Growth in 2013-14 is likely...) NEW DELHI: In its macroeconomic Review of the economy, the Reserve Bank of India has underlined various risks to a sustained recovery for the economy. RBI is of the opinion that a durable domestic recovery remains contingent on addressing persistent inflation and bottlenecks facing the mining and infrastructure sectors.

From Al Jazeera I chose this article about the poor state of the economy in South Africa, 20 years after Nelson Mandela and the ANC came to power, ending the system of political, social and economic segregation, Apartheid. Despite reforms in the 90's the majority of wealth and power is still held by rich whites. With around 30% unemployment rate and young people struggling to find work many feel only anger and resentment to the current ANC government led by Jacob Zuma. Economically speaking South Africa's imports are up and exports down, reducing GDP as AS is shifted left. This is especially evident in industries like mining and banking which many are now calling for to be nationalised. 20 years on from Nelson Mandela's historic victory in the 1994 general election, South Africa, despite being free of the shackles of segregation is not in the boom many predict. The ANC must be careful in there actions, should they, following the death of Madiba lose contact with his legacy and what he stood for.

What's going on in New Delhi is that as the telecommunication companies (telecom) have to pay increasingly higher tariffs for their services, the cost that the customers have to pay has increased accordingly. The problem with this is that the tariffs continue to rise - if the tariffs rose, say, from 5%-7% over the course of two years, it would be somewhat reasonable and manageable, as times change. What is not manageable, however, is that there is no end in sight for the rising tariffs, meaning that it could rise to ridiculous levels, losing customers and devastating the telecom industry.