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15 July 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com From a global point of view, the current situation seems a little strange: on the one hand, the so-called advanced industrialized world seems to be stuck in a Japan-like...

14 July 2010 – Happy Bastille Day !!! While the United States and Europe fret over huge deficits and threats to a so-called recovery, this region has a surprise in store. Latin America, beset in the past by debt defaults,...

  13 July 2010. As Europe’s major economies focus on belt-tightening, they are following the path of Ireland. But the once thriving nation is struggling, with no sign of a rapid turnaround in sight. Nearly two years ago, an economic...

12 July 2010. For decades, Turkey has been told it was not ready to join the European Union — that it was too backward economically to qualify for membership in the now 27-nation club. That argument may no longer hold....

5 July 2010 Chanchala Devi always wanted a house. Not a mud-and-stick hut, like her current home in this desolate village in the mineral-rich, corruption-corroded state of Jharkhand, but a proper brick-and-mortar house. When she heard that a government program...

 30 June 2010 For years, Chinese leaders looked to the millions of poor workers from the country’s interior as the engine of a roaring export economy. They would move to coastal provinces, toil in factories and churn out the world’s...

Europe led the development of the Industrial Revolution, and continues to be a leader in world industry. European industry spans several industrial sectors that contribute to high economic valued-added activities and generate mass employment. Europe Industry: Automotive The European Commission...

 India's merchandise exports increased to a record levels across all major commodity groups and destinations during 2005-06 and the trend is continuing during the current year (April-June 2006).Exports have reached a record figure of US $ 102.7 billions during the...

    The special economic zones in India were established with a view to bring expertise for the country's exports sector. For this a policy was introduced on 01.04.2006. As to these policies, the Government has set up SEZ's in...

  Gross domestic product (GDP) may be defined as the currency value of all goods and services produced in an economy within a given time period. GDP is the sum of consumption expenditure [C], total private investments [I], government spending...

Economic Reforms introduced since 1991 have radically changed the course of the Indian economy and led to better growth rates, higher investment and trade flows and accelerated decline in income poverty. The effects of these reforms on trade and investment...

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and will pound the U.S. economy with higher energy prices, commodity shortages--and even steeper coffee prices. Worse, the storm may blast inflation throughout the economy. Storm damage is estimated at $40...

Global growth appears to have improved in the third quarter (Q3) of 2005. The firming up of global economic activity during the third quarter of 2005 and its broadening ambit suggests that the global growth could reach a level higher...

  The concept of Human Development Index (HDI) considers three basic dimensions of human development like Longevity, Knowledge and Standard of living. Australia one among the richest country in the world presently ranks high on the HDI (Second by Norway)...

As per per capita income, poorest nations of the world basically represent underdeveloped nations. These countries account for a low Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as compared to that of the developed and developing countries of the world. As per per...