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This is an example of perfect competition that we don't normally think of, the banking sector. 

This article talks about the agricultural decline in Uganda. Uganda's economy's backbone is their agricultural sector, but the production has gone downhill for multiple reasons. The rise in population is a major reason. Since they gained their independence, Uganda has gone from 6 million to 35 million and farmers are unable to keep up with the rise. A big reason why they aren't able to keep up is because the youth is more interested in non-agricultural jobs. This makes food more scarce and due to Uganda's heavy reliance on agriculture, the economy has descended continuously. 

Do you think that there is a solution to this problem? To me, the agricultural decline in Uganda seems unlikely to resolve. The land available for farming is not enough for the growing population, not to mention the lack of future farmers.

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.

In the old days there wasnt really monopolies they were mostly quasi-monopolies. The government owned enterprisis and there were not really private sectors and only customers were the one that was suffering but since the old days are gone most of things changed. They believe that monopolies are preffered by consumers and companies instead of competition. The developing technology is a great factor in a way of helping firms to advertise their product to convince people or take people's attention to buy the product. The advertisements and the high prices of products convince people to buy the product because they trust the price and the trusworthiness of the firm.

The article is an analysis of the Tyson Foods company. The article starts by surmising that the company is 30% undervalued. The article also continues into justifying why there might possible be the reduced price. The article also mentions some food products and talks about their elasticity or in-elasticity. According to the article many foods are inelastic because people buy only as much as they want to buy and the foods have a strong consumer base.

Nairobi, Kenya - A new partnership among Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and General Electric Company (GE) will make $10 million in local financing available to small and medium enterprises in Kenya to develop private health facilities such as small clinics, diagnostic centers and hospitals."This first-of-its-kind transaction was designed in response to the lack of local credit for health facilities in Kenya to purchase much-needed medical and diagnostic imaging equipment. The risk-sharing agreement with USAID will allow KCB to take additional lending risks for clients in the health sector seeking to purchase GE equipment," USAID said in a January 28 press release.

A combination of lower imports and increased exports have led to an improvement in the balance of payments of the country of Lebanon. The country has in past years imported several times more the amount that it exports, which had led to a great deficit of trade. Due to a slowing economy, imports have decreased enough to begin to improve the deficit. In addition, an emphasis placed on the service export sector (health care, education, etc.) has contributed to the improvement.