Skip to main content

Home/ IB Economics B/ Group items tagged low

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Mitchell B

US Federal Reserve could keep interest rates low for long - 0 views

  •  
    This article discusses how the US Federal Reserve will keep interest rates low, using monetary policy to try and increase spending. It also explains their reasoning for it and the possible times when they will finally rise and to what extent.
Constance D

It world's largest vanilla market on verge of collapse - 1 views

  •  
    The lowering prices of Madagascar's vanilla, lower the wages for the farmers in this industry, which causes some of them to leave their crops. They earn a little over $1.50 per day, due to the new low costs of the crops ($500 per kilo before, and now $30 the kilo). These low prices are essentially caused by competition and the new popularity for synthetically produced spices such as vanilla.
Konstantin Z

price controll - 1 views

  •  
    in my article is vividly shown price control. it is connected to low South African electricity prices
Sondos 2

Development needed in Eastern Turkey - 0 views

  •  
    Although Turkey's economic indicators outpace many countries around the world, major differences in regional development are still an issue in the country and call state policies into question. Turkey has witnessed noteworthy growth in the last decade. At the same time, the country was also successful in lowering the yearly inflation rate to a 41-year low, 6.4 percent, in 2010. But despite these and similar advancements, economic development has not attained the same pace in every region in the country.
Sondos 2

India's Food Inflation Slows to 3-Month Low on Supply Boost After Harvest - 0 views

  •  
    This article discusses how India, as well as most Asian countries are susceptible of experiencing a cost-push inflation in the near future due to the progressively increasing oil prices (which would increase production costs significantly, reduce output, and increase prices). Also, details concerning India's agricultural sector in relation to inflation rates are also discussed.
Sondos 2

UPDATE 2-Mexico annual inflation hits lowest in 14 months - 0 views

  •  
    Since it's not in the government's favor to impose taxes or increase interest so as to gain the people's voices in the case of re-election, some country's central banks have become independent, as in the case of Mexico in this article. With this independence, the central banks opt to impose their control of inflation through the increase and decrease of interest rates with the objective of maintaining a low, stable rate of inflation. Recently, Mexico's annual inflation rate cooled in February to its lowest in 14 months despite some sharp increases in food prices. This kept the pressure off the central bank to raise interest rates soon.
anonymous

China Plans Income Tax Cut - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  •  
    China is planning to raise income tax on the very rich. By changing the minimum income at which the bracket begins from $450 to $315 a month. Even though a nation that has a great disparity between rich and poor the the tax system will have not as large an effect as say in america. This is because only a small amount of chinese file income tax forms at all so the overall lessening of government income willl not take such a direct hit.
Sondos 2

Modest pay rise for low income workers - 0 views

  •  
    Lower income earners will see a small increase in their pay packets from July 1 when the government rushes forward $1.37 billion in tax breaks.The tax cut was to be delivered when people filed their returns at the end of the financial year, but the government is changing the timing in a gesture to cost-of-living pressures and to encourage people into work and to work more.
Sondos 2

A cure for fiscal failure? - 0 views

  •  
    Many rich countries' debt levels are uncomfortably close to 150-year highs, despite relative peace in much of the world. There is a no easy way out. For now, low world interest rates are restraining debt-service costs, but debt levels can be reduced only very gradually over long periods, whereas real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates can rise far more quickly, even for rich countries. More examples regarding indebted countries and whether or not they should reconsider their fiscal policies to relieve their debt are further discussed in the article.
Christopher G

£1 for an album? That's not a bargain, it's an insult - 0 views

  •  
    Rob Dickins, former major-label boss, has sugested to slash the price of CDs to 1 puond each so as to increase the damnd for that product. The main competition of the CD industry is music piracy and downloading it for free from the internet. Cutting down the price of CDs is not the solution because, however small the price might be, it would still be more expensive than downloading it for free. Secondly, reducing the price so drastically for such a product, other than it being an insult to producers and musicians, means a very high production cost, for very low retribution.
Noah F

Demand for diamond picks up globally - 0 views

  •  
    This article discusses the demand for diamonds in the past few years and how the demand for diamonds is finally picking up after several years of low demand. This article talks about how people couldn't afford diamonds as much with the economic meltdown so demand went down.
Noah F

Local food pantry low on food supplies - 2 views

  •  
    This article gives a good example of where the demand for food at a food pantry is greater than the supply which is a problem during these times of economic difficulties.
Mitchell B

Water Scarcity in Europe - 3 views

  •  
    Even though water is not a scarce resource, it is becoming scarce in various regions. These regions tend to be highly populated areas such as countries in Europe including Spain and France. In contrast, areas such as iceland, who have everlasting water, do not have a problem of scarcity because of there low population.
  •  
    Many people believe water scarcity is a problem mainly related to areas such as Africa, Arab Saudi...etc However this problem is affecting Europe as well. Regions such as Spain or France, during summer suffer from lots of fire. This produces lands to become inert in other words, the land becomes unprodutive. This is a problem, but at the same time, the lack of water (rain) is great. This produces rivers, lakes...etc to decrease the amount of water. Finbally all these problems are causing some countries to start having scarce water problems.
Abhinav S

Labour Markets - 0 views

  •  
    The article discusses the reason why India's private sector employment is relatively low given the high economic development and prosperity. Wages are said to not have risen to levels suggested by per capita income figures and this has been attributed to the plethora of cumbersome laws and regulations that govern Indian labour markets. Due to the inflexibility, private sector employers respond by not hiring too many workers in the first place due to fear of disputes. At least 45 laws exist at the national level, and up to 4 times as many at the state level. The author cites a change in government's attitudes to labour market as the remedy to India's unemployment.
Abhinav S

Inflation in Russia tops estimates - 0 views

  •  
    The article discusses a higher than expected growth in the level of inflation, growing 2.4% in January alone. The rise is attributed to a rise in food prices due to the loss of harvest during the smog wildfire issues of summer 2010. Under election pressure, the finance minister has stated that more compensation would be given to low-income earners if inflation continued to rise unimpeded.
Jackson Mote

Transfer payments to top Atlantic Premiers agenda - 0 views

  •  
    This article describes Prince Edward Island Premier Robert Ghiz's anticipation of the talk of transfer payments as a part of the agenda at the Council of Atlantic Premiers meeting Sunday in Sussex, N.B. CBC. It will be necessary for Ottowa to make transfer payments to the atlantic provinces to balance economic activity and keep health care costs low for the government.
Nabil E

U.S. Senate Backs Tough China Trade Moves - 0 views

  •  
    China is intervening in currency markets to make its own currency cheaper, which allows for chinese goods to be less expensive then in the USA. The U.S. Senate is seeking an official investigation into this and if it concludes that China is keeping its currency artificially low then retaliatory tariffs will be set in place.
Nabil E

Beefed up - 1 views

  •  
    BRazilian Beef giant JBS has been allowed massive growth because of low tariffs in and out of BRazil to countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands. Yet, its Fresh Beef has yet to see the outside of Brazil because of many developed nations high health standards. Maybe if JBS can overcome these standards its growth will continue.
Naomi M

U.S. Solar Panel Makers Say China Violated Trade Rules - 1 views

  •  
    The U.S. accuses China of dumping solar panels into the United States on very low cost due to government subsidies. Therefore the seek for tariffs of more than 100% of the whole sale price of the solar panels that come from China.
1 - 19 of 19
Showing 20 items per page