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The purpose of IMF was to assist in the construction of the world’s international payment system after the Second World War. The IMF members contributes fund through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow many temporarily (Course Material, module 3). The IMF was initially for two primary functions; to oversee the fixed exchange rate arrangements between countries, and to…

“In the early 1800s, an estimated 80 percent of the world’s population lived on today’s equivalent of $1.50 a day or less. It took more than 150 years . . . to cut that share in half (the first time). The miracle is that mankind has managed to cut the ranks of the poor in half again, this time in a mere 25 years” (Griswold 2) But what is this miracle? How did we manage to achieve these astonishing results? The answer lies on the increase in globalization in recent years. Through the use of…

1. The International hotel market 1.1 What is Internationalisation? Internationalization is going something overseas on a continual basis. dunning & McQueen (1982) defined internationalisation as “Internationalisation is taken to mean any form of transaction by an enterprise outside its national boundaries, in which assets, rights or goods are transferred and there is some continuing de facto control over the use of these and, or complementary indigenous resources.” 1.2.…

The advertisement that I selected is a very fresh ad that just came out after the Olympic games. It opens with a girl in her youthful years holding a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge singing the anthem of another country while gazing out into the vast open sea. She commences singing an anthem, soon afterward, the scene shifts and jumps over into another country with another person singing a different anthem. Each anthem comes with a new location which is different from the home of the anthem. At the…

Rise in globalisation and increased in multilateral trade raises issues for balance if trade and differential treatment are involved in nations since the post World War II period (Holmes 2003). The efforts of increasing fair trade practices and gaining the balance of similar multilateral trade rights and obligations for all nations in developed and developing countries become a prominent challenge (Khor 1999). The major change is observed in the trade policies of developing nations since 1980s…

The point Mr. Woods was making in chapter seven was that both the international monetary fund and the World Bank existence is important for a number of reasons. They are instruments that foster global monetary cooperation and financial stability, they facilitate trade, promote high employment and sustain economic growth while working to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives in poor countries. These institutions advance the mentioned causes through lending practices and conditionality in…

The variety of issues that the United States has faced over the last two decades forced the country to focus on its own economic recovery. The United States saw a significant economic turnaround after shifting its focus from “global policeman” to domestic issues. During this period, the United States retook its position as the preeminent world power, recapturing the highest GDP and balancing the national deficit. While the United States scaled back its foreign assistance, states began to fail,…

1. My initial position on trading simulation was to forecast and capture the trends of the ETF market by focusing on the Macroeconomics such as effect of the Presidential Election, GDP rate and foreign currency fluctuation. According to The Washington Post, the committee judges of The Federal Reserve have strengthened the idea of an increase in the interest rate after the election. Since the Presidential Election was scheduled during the trading simulation, I also expected the interest rate to…

Three Days in December: Resistance within the Ministerial “Seattle” had entered the annals of history before the tear gas faded from the skies over Capitol Hill. Yet, on the morning of December 1, as the national news programs were showing scenes of mayhem from the previous night, delegates arrived for the ministerial ensconced within a city effectively under martial law. Curfew had been imposed, the main streets were patrolled by phalanxes of National Guardsmen, and activists that marched…

Within the report the institution noted that funds needed to be funneled into transportation, energy, and communications in the amount of seven trillion dollars order for the continent to grow in a sustainable way. This is a huge problem, not just for China but for most of southeastern asia. The demand for infrastructure is so high that the current institutions cannot provide the funds. The populations of China, India and all the nations in between are developing…