Foreign policy analysis

Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund) and neoliberalism or market fundamentalism. The former tend to describe the policies of those institutions along those of the US towards client countries. The later does not seem to reflect the original meaning and it only remains for Williamson to add that the term “should surely refer to a set of policies that command or commanded a consensus in some significant part of Washington, either the US government or the IFIs or both, or…

William Easterly’s article “Was Development Assistance a Mistake?” (2007) seeks to contribute to an ongoing discussion regarding the efficiency of the foreign aid provided to low-income countries. Easterly is a Professor of Economics at New York University, specializing in economic development. He has held some prestigious posts as an economist and researcher at the World Bank, Journal of Development Economics and Aid Watch, to name but a few. One of his books The White Man’s Burden: Why the…

This forecasting analysis makes use of a structural model (NEMO), but this model is primarily suited for medium term analysis of the effects of monetary policy on the macroeconomy. Norges Bank’s forecasts for the first few quarters are largely based on current statistics, information from Norges Bank’s regional network and forecasts obtained from a number of short-term statistical and econometric models. The published projections in the monetary policy reports are the result of an overall…

influential Mudell-Fleming model and the Dornbusch overshooting model play significant roles in practical monetary policies for more than thirty years. Nowadays these significant economic models are still the fundamental theories to build up the monetary policy and to interpret the functions of modern monetary expansion in macroeconomics. However, in view of dynamical complication of the foreign exchange rates, the behaviour of exchange rates still could not be expected directly. The essay…

One of the first notable things said in the documentary was 14 year old, Perla, stating that many people will tell her family that they don 't belong in this country. They tell her that she is not an American citizen, even though she was born here. Her family works extremely hard to keep their family afloat and to pay their bills. Her parents are legal citizens, as is Perla and her siblings. There is nothing illegal about them. This visibly upsets her during her one-on-one interview with the…

First, I believe it is important to remember that each student is different. Although it seems obvious, I think I should not think that students are all the same as well as give things for granted. Some students never studied a foreign language before, therefore they need guidance from the teacher about how to study the material correctly so they can be successful. Other students may have prejudices and a distorted idea of other cultures. I think it is my job as a teacher to show…

slower, more loudly, and enunciate their words more when speaking to a person who has trouble understanding them in their normal conversational prosody. This resulting ease in speech segmentation may especially aid in learning foreign languages, particularly when the foreign language has phonemes not normally present in one’s native…

for America to teach foreign languages with immersion programs starting in preschool. A language immersion program is a…

Different from the first exhibition, the following three locations have intimate relations with the aura of Phoenixes, because of their characteristic interior surroundings. In 2012, Phoenixes started their foreign journey from MASS MoCa in North Adams. At a time, it was a flourishing textile mill in Massachusetts and working as a telegraph site in World War II. Then, because of various reasons, it has been reconstructed as a gallery, which is full of industrial…

United States have made a large contribution to the agricultural economy of the United States. Relations and agreements between the U.S. and Mexico have greatly influenced the migration of rural workers through policies such as guest worker programs. The Bracero program, an example of such policies, was an agreement between the U.S and Mexico that allowed for the importing of Mexican workers through the use of contracts. Despite the opportunity that many believed was to come from the system, it…