IB Econ HL Section B

This article is about the decrease in world trade. As the world has just emerged from a recession, and many countries are still experiencing economic difficulties, aggregate demand is down. This means that people are buying less exports, decreasing world trade--all as a result of the recession.

This article is about the Canadian Government's investment into British Colombia's clean energy sector. This increased government spending is a Keynesian approach to expanding the economy.

As the articles describes the ways in which employment is increasing in the manufacturing sector in the US, it also proves that production is increasing, thus demonstrating the Keynesian view of the LRAS.

This article addresses U.S. consumer spending, an idea that is studied under the Keynesian theory. In the short-run, consumer spending decreased, but it has now begun to increase once again. This demonstrates the idea that we live in the short run. As the article shows, spending is something that fluctuates regularly.

Unemployed immigrants are attending bars at weekly basis to develop skills like making eye contact and promoting themselves to strangers. The Upwardly Global, a NPO established to support job-search for immigrants from developing countries and help immigrant professional find jobs in their own field. This article is relevant to this weeks topic because these immigrants are 'unused factors' in the economy that can produce higher productivity if it were used at its fullest capacity.

This article is about the Obama administration's plan to use the government's buying power to encourage companies to improve wages and benefits for workers. This is an attempt at economic expansion, which is only possible under a Keynesian view of economics.

This artical explains that Norway is going thorough an economic downfall and so what the government is doing, is highering people to first, lower the unemployment rates an This is also a powerful political broadside before the upcoming parliament elections in Norway. The expansion of the budget, heavily focused towards public expenditure gives the package a strong leftist profile as well as allowing the government to support popular causes such as strengthening the economy of municipalities (which are responsible for primary education and care for the elderly among other things), more public building projects and increased spending on education and research.d for 2, to do the Kaynesian way and bring up this economic down fall.

This article is about the unemployment rate in the United States. Seeing as one of the macroeconomic goals is full employment, this article examines how the U.S. is failing to reach those goals.

New studies are targeting the HIV/AIDS virus in Africa, where it is widespread and diminishes lifespan. The new measures in medicine can extend the lifespan of infected individuals, and may also prevent HIV/AIDS from spreading as quickly as it does now. Researchers are looking at options that include HIV screening programs, vaccines, and antiviral treatments. All these measures are helping Africa's development, especially in terms of health and individual lifespan.

This article explains how drug trafficing in columbia and This trend was coupled with a worsening of the armed conflict, which according to Uribe was due to guerrillas' involvement in the drug trade.

This article is about the Mining of Diamonds in Zimbabwe. While the mining of these diamonds may lead to economic growth for the country, it does not lead to economic development. The money falls into the hands of unsavory Mafia types instead of the hands of the people who mine.

This article shows that the practice of Keynesian economics is becoming more heavily sympathsized with than it was in the past due to the tough global economic times. It quotes a report as saying "The world has embraced this Keynesian moment, when greater government intervention in the economy has proven crucial."

This article describes Ahmed's, Somalia's president, intentions to increase the development of the country; this is turning very hard to achieve as the civil war is destroying everything that had been built. Ahmed is now asking foreign countries to help him with is desire to develop the country towards higher standards of living, through first reaching peace.

One of the macroeconomic goals is economic growth. This article discusses Japan losing its title as the second-largest economy in the world to China. Japan however is not worried because their economy is growing after their recession and that is what matters, not the title.

Global Warming is a market failure of all times that is universal to all human population. Barack Obama visited China to negotiate about the promotion of low-carbon emissions. US and China are one of the few countries who haven't signed the Kyoto Protocol and the top emitters of green-house gases. Because of such emissions, negative externalities are starting creep into national economy in various ways, especially the climate change that have severe affect on crop production.

Human trafficking is 3rd largest global crime enterprise, exceded only by drug and arms trafficking, as many of you have heard over and over again " We have some very basic statistic on human trafficking". We've looked at this mainly as a law enforcement issue and as a human rights issue. But it is also an industry. By some estimates, the industry is growing, and the worldwide illegitimate gain from industry is as high as $ 32 billion per year. I think that this topic is relevant to this week "development" topic because it is one of the main worldwide crime, and governments all over the world should be fighting against it and it is one thing to develop.

A macroeconomic goal is on relieving low unemployment. When more people in a country have jobs, that country will grow and produce more economically. People will have more money to spend and use, making them able to buy things that will improve their standard of living.The inflation concern is that productivity is slowing at a time when wage growth is picking up. That's a recipe for faster increases in unit labor costs, which correlate with inflation outside of energy and food.

In this article, China's desire to overcome the crisis through economic growth is shown, as it has increased exports enormously, to increase injections, up to reaching number one in the whole world, on top of Germany.

This article speaks about the United States, and about President Obama's desire to boost employment. He wants banks to increase lending to small businesses as a way to increasing employment.

In this article, Obama's intentions of increasing employment levels and economic growth are being shown through his pressure on banks to increase lending to small businesses.

The Zimbabwean government has warned farmers against employing children as labourers saying those caught doing so will face the full wrath of the law. This is relevant to this week's topic because the Zimbabwean government is attempting improve the standards of society by setting legal instruments against child labor - an aspect of children's rights.