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empower several solutions. “I think my position is an ethical position. The truth is that if we do not reduce the population and consumption, then there is an opportunity to move our civilization to collapse." By intervening in September 17th, 2008 at a forum organised by the magazine Salon.com, Paul Ehrlich, in 1968, the author of "The Population Bomb" with a pertinent demographic piece, reiterated his belief…

International Political Economy or IPE is one of social science studies that focusing on the correlation between economy and politics internationally. IPE will be focuses on international economic growth, international welfare, international finance, hegemony, etc. In this subject, it seems like there is no boundaries between economy and politics. They related and influence one another. After the colonial period, Indonesia has experienced a lot of progress for both domestic affairs and foreign…

Income Inequality also known as economic or wealth Inequality is refer to how income and wealth is divided and distributed between the individuals, groups and society .Inequality is one of the biggest challenge and issue of our time. Income Inequality particularly is one of the most observable aspects and more complex issue. As according to world economic forum network’s experts, income Inequality is most notable and remarkable trend of 2015. It is not effecting only one or few country. It is…

IMF provides surveillance over the economic policies of the members by ensuring that all the member states pursue policies consistent to the objectives and aims of IMF. IMF operates as an agency that provides resources that help the member states to meet short and medium term disequilibrium…

In today’s world, there is an imbalance of wealthy and poor states; within these states, there is an even worse imbalance between wealthy and poor people. This imbalance is a result of the capitalistic system that we have in place in Western first-world states. The way that the Western capitalistic system is built, the wealthy owners of large companies hoard the money that is given to them rather than pumping large amounts of it back into the economy. As a result, the state cannot print more…

choose jobs in the field of business and engineering, which generally offer high pay, whereas, females mainly choose jobs in the field of education, which generally offer low pay (Kunze, 2007). The economic sector plays a role as well in widening the gender wage disparity. Men dominate the two major economic sectors worldwide, for-profit organizations and government, allowing them to receive higher pay than women. However, even when these components are controlled, it was found that women made…

and organization in ways that are fueling the formation of a new collaborative economy. ‘Access over ownership’ is becoming the new consumption model and is changing the traditional economic system by expanding the volume of commerce and boosting purchasing power. The sharing economy can be defined as an economic model involving a peer-to-peer marketplace where goods and services are exchanged for a fee, barter or free. Within the past five years, the sharing…

Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: Their bidirectional relationship “Gender inequality is a fact of life in most parts of the world, particularly in developing countries, where significant gaps between men and women are present in the labour market as well as in political representation or bargaining power in the household” (Cubares and Teignier, 2014; 260). In the Global Gender Gap Index 2014 of World Economic Forum, most countries in the bottom of the ranking (or the countries with high…

become a great concern around the world; since it is predicted that the top 1% of the world’s wealthiest people will obtain over half of the world wealth by the end of 2016. This income inequity cannot only cause economic problems (lack of spending power by the majority) but it can also cause political problems (Occupy Wall Street). This income disparity has been growing dramatically over the couple of decades and will continue to grow unless…

HI5003 Economics for Business Tri3 2014 TOPIC • Scarce resources- which resource and in which country/industry are seen as scarce and what is being done in the industry or country. What substitutes have been used to overcome this problem ! 1. INTRODUCTION: (Dan Moynihan, 2000) Resource…