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This article ties in very well with the theme of economic growth because it discusses a variety of the components that determine economic growth, for example job numbers and GDP. It is also worth noting how economists arrive at their ultimate assessment of the nation's economic health, because it truly is quite complex. Also, the stocks and shares portion of the article on the right hand side are also quite telling.

I felt that this was a good article, although rather lengthy, that has a discussion about the brazil's economic growth, is it real or just a "mirage" as they put it. Brazil has seen rather staggering economic growth in the last few years, however it is also being said that the country's leaders are not looking out of the citizens of brazil, and are in fact putting them at risk of economic downfall.

This article talks about how the mobile market is driving economic growth in not only the U.S, but also in Asia markets. 

This article is interesting due to the fact that it not only states the economic growth of Chile, but it lists the reasons for the changes. It mentions demand and its role as well which is interesting

Ekurhuleni, a city in South Africa, is currently carrying out an agenda to fuel economic development in the city. The primary aim is to encourage investment in certain city-owned facilities, mainly a new airport, to combat unemployment, poverty, and inequality. The city is already in position to achieve economic growth, as it has several advantages including convenient location and highway access. This, combined with the ideas of the mayor Mondli Gungubele, are very good signs that Ekurhuleni will be able to gain investors and develop over time.

The Lompoc City Council and Planning Commission has had a "discussion about adding an economic development element to the city's 2030 General Plan."

Very interesting article on one how a goal of economic development hinders economic growth

sorry I forgot to publish the article in correct way. The demand for Iran's currency, Rials, is decreased due to economic uncertainties. 

This is a great article because it discusses how aggregate demand relates to other barometers of economic health when it comes to a nation, such as the unemployment rate. 

I found this article to be very interesting, because i think it is important to stay up to date with all the current events around the world in terms of politics and the economy etc... However for the past few years i had always thought of Brazil being a very big economic growth country seeing as it was part of the "B.R.I.C." s but in this article from the LA times they say that Brazil fell short of their projections and are looking for a way to regain their original growth rate.

The article is a really interesting article that explains an interesting fact about how the employment level change in developing and developed nations. It is interesting that in developed nations the unemployment level is more than developing nations. It should be the opposite because developed nations are developed in every way but developing countries are not fully developed yet they still have a lot of improvements they have to achieve as a country politically and especially economically. The average unemployment rate in OECD countries was 6.7%. During the nineties, the average unemployment rate was 7.7% in UK, 9.3% in Canada, 11.7% in Finland and 11.3% in Ireland.The countries such as UK, Finland and Ireland has lower employment rates when you compare with India which was 6-7%. But if developing countries have close to full employment why do they have greater economic misery and lower GDPs you may ask? The answer to this puzzle of full employment, yet low GDP and greater economic misery, is not quite straightforward. In developing countries is that most of them have few programmes to provide relief to the unemployed. the people in developing countries do not have the luxury to remain unemployed.They take whatever jobs they get. Most European countries are welfare states with generous unemployment insurance programmes. During recession, many people in European countries do not find it worthwhile to work at minimum wage. They accept jobs that pay less or they accept jobs in the informal market, with lower or no benefits and little protection.

For most businesses, rather than the other four factors of economic development, human capital is the greatest asset.

The governor of the bank of Thailand, Prasarn Trairatvorakul, has stated in a speech that the bank will pursue supply-side policies in order to fuel additional economic growth. Trairatvorakul believed that the country must dedicate more resources towards upgrading the "engine" of the economy. Somkiat Tangkitvanich, the president of the Thailand Development Research Institute, believes the country must spend more on research in development in order to fuel economic growth,

The article is talking about the federal government which has shut down today because of an impasse over the budge and in two weeks, the nation is set to hit its borrowing limit.The major problem in the articles is that there is an oversupply of global labor, an oversupply of global productive capacity and an oversupply of global capital. The jobs created low wages and part time. Growth in domestic manufacturing is still slow which will prevent the development of a country in their own production and prevent the large amount of profit they will get as a result of the domestic production.Business spending has fallen, rents of the houses falling where home prices have increased. The reason why its hard to get out from the rut is because they are no longer faced with a world in which supply-side economic remedies, easy money, reduced taxation, fiscal belt-tightening and deregulation can spur new capacity and the creation of well-paying private sector jobs.Countries that were recently poor find themselves with huge surpluses and sovereign wealth funds. The rich countries of the world, while still rich, struggle with monumental levels of debt, both private and public, and unsettling questions about whether they can compete globally.Also to clear this mess,developed nations need to put the huge surplus of underemployed workers back to work by any means, including big public sector investments to improve infrastructure and competitiveness.Moreover, a new economic multilateral ism with the developing world, to encourage them to re balance their economics away from savings and toward consumption, while we in the West must curb our addiction to credit and consumption is necessary.

This article mainly considers the idea that perhaps the european union necessitates reforms to increase demand, however because of their existing economic policies relying too heavily on supply side economics its would be "counter productive" and overall worse.

Louis Hobeika, an economics and finance professor, has stated that "the slowdown in economic activities this year was translated into lower imports and therefore a lower deficit in the balance of trade, which resulted in the shrinking in the balance of payments deficit."

The article is about the giant West German Daimler- Benz group which tries to decrease the cost of production to avoid the future economic breakdown the cost of technology which was the main concept for Daimler and the number of workers decreased according to the such find of economic collapse of the company.

The article is talking about the national income rises according to the development and improvement of the country from back then until now. The boost of national income in India was 8.2 per cent GDP between 2003-2008. The prime minister of economic advisory council lowered the economic growth.However, the GDP per capita was higher than the national income in India which is better because it showed the amount of money that individuals have and how they improved.

This article talks about the concern of food supply to China and the rest of the world. Lester Brown claimed that food production was not growing fast enough to feed China's increasing population, which could result in rising food prices in China and the rest of the world.