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    Question 1The concept of Business EnvironmentBusiness environment can be understood as the combination of all environmental conditions and influences that are capable of affecting or influencing business activities. According to Anyanwu et al (1996) defines the environment of business as the aggregation of the pattern of all the external and internal conditions and influences that affect the existence, growth and development of the business. Opportunities and threats may be associated with external

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    IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION IN THE UK CIRCULAR FLOW OF INCOME The United Nations states that globalisation “is a widely-used term that can be defined in a number of different ways. When used in an economic context, it refers to the reduction and removal of barriers between national borders in order to facilitate the flow of goods, capital, services and labour… although considerable barriers remain to the flow of labour… Globalisation is not a new phenomenon. It began in the late nineteenth century,

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    Econometrics Empirical Project
 THE EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT CONSUMPTION ON THE AVERAGE GROWTH OF REAL GDP PER CAPITA _____________________________________________________________ Heidi Zhuge Content Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Literature Review………………………………………………………………………… 3 Data……………………………………………………………………………………….. 6 Sources……………………………………………………………. 6 Transformation…………………………………………………….6 Description…………………………………………………………6 Regression Models………………………………………………………………………12

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    to get its citizens to make more money. So the government will try to improve the economy by any means it can. Some countries will try to do this by using stimulus packages. The theory behind the stimulus package is, if the government pays its citizens money for doing menial labor the ones paid will start to spend more and more money. The people who in turn receive the money will spend even more and eventually the money will come back to the government in the form of taxes. One of the most famous set

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    progressive, and regressive tax systems as they relate to an economy’s built-in stability? Answer In a phrase, “net tax revenues vary directly with GDP.” When GDP is rising, so are tax collections, both income taxes and sales taxes. At the same time, government payouts—transfer payments such as unemployment compensation and welfare—are decreasing. Since net taxes are taxes less transfer payments, net taxes definitely rise with GDP, which dampens the rise in GDP. On the other hand, when GDP drops in a recession

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    Abstract This research examined and listed some of the evidence demonstrating the long-run consequences of slow economic recovery after periods of recessions in the U.S. economy on wage earners of a four person family. Economy shifts were examined and its effect on the four member family, two adult wage earners, and two children was analyzed. This trend and shift of and within the economy contributed to the overall wholeness and well-being of the family. As a rising economy produced family stability

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    stock market crash that prevents a consensus among them. Even though all economists might have opinions that are slightly different from others’, the explanations can generally be classified into two mainstream hypotheses. The first hypothesis is the spending hypothesis which blames the shocks to the IS (investment-savings) curve as a major contributor to the Great Depression. The

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    The 1920’s were so prosperous for most, people began to spend money just for the sake of spending money. They spent money on things they didn’t need, and often they took risks with their money, usually involving stocks, not even thinking anything could go wrong. During this era, stocks seemed like the a foolproof way to gain money, and many times they were. People thought that buying stock was such a sure way to earn money. They began buying more than they could afford and borrowing money for the

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    seen activity geared towards Congress and the debt ceiling. To begin, the debt ceiling is a statutory limit on the amount of Treasury debt so the legislator can control the spending flows from the programs it has authorized (Murphy, 2011). Almost every fiscal year Congress raises the debt ceiling in order to keep the government operational which has become a frequently reoccurring problem. Between 2009 and 2013, deficits soared to an extraordinary level from $469 billion to $1.4 trillion which is

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    website shows the GDP growth rate per year from 2007 to 2015. GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product and it measures the value of the goods and services produced in the economy, the value of goods and services purchased by the households and by government and the income generated from profits and wages. (BBC News, 2017) this is used to determine the health of the economy As the line graph shows in 2008 the economy had shrunk through the last two quarters which could be the reason why the smartphone

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