How the US, Canada, and Mexico economies benefited from NAFTA? Explain how international trade affects economic well-being. Also, who gains and who loses from free trade among countries, and how do the gains compare to the losses? Explain why globalization ...
National Income may be described as the total amounts of all ultimate outcomes and factors that are offered in the national boundaries of an economy and net factor earnings from foreign countries. National income is determined in two ways, the first is Real GDP...
This chapter introduces the four countries under consideration, and provides important background information for readers when later examining these same states' social policy reactions during times of crisis. The focus is on small, open economies of roughly similar size in terms of population and GDP...
The latest story is about the iPhone 6 using glass and not the rumored sapphire crystal. But the story is more than just the material; it’s whether the cover would be made in America or elsewhere. When GT Advanced, the supplier of TouchID’s sapphire crystal,bumped up its facilitiesin ...
Ukraine cannot be compared to Poland.Very different economies.Ukraina mainly sells its production to Russia and gets subsidized gas and oil while Poland sells to the West.Poland has had significantly higher unemployment(before the exodus) because it had to compete against the western products. ...
There are plenty of studies on frontier efficiency methods applied to water distribution systems (e.g., [5,6]). These methods are used to compare the efficiency of water utilities and analyze any drivers affecting this (e.g., economies of scale and scope, public vs. private operation, or...