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    meaning of crisis and economic recessions? Business Dictionary is defining crisis as “a situation in witch an economy experiences a sudden downtown brought on by a financial crisis” (BusinessDictionary.com, 2014). The major sign of an economic crisis is the falling of GDP, the drying up of liquidity and rising or falling of prices generated by inflation or deflation. One form of economic crisis is the recession. The National Bureau of Economic Research is defining economic recessions as "a significant

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    To meet the needs of Canadian people, three fundamental economic questions need to be answered: •What should we produce? •How should we produce it? •For whom should we produce it? Although every country will answer the what, how and for whom questions differently, every country will be confronted with the same fundamental problems: resource allocation and scarcity. Resources are all the ingredients needed for production. The factors of production include land(natural resources, labor (workers

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    The economic problem faced in the market economy is that there are an unlimited amount of wants with a scarce amount of resources. They only current solution is to make decisions as the desire of satisfying all wants is not possible. Economics is the about the allocation of limited resources in the best possible way in order to satisfy needs (items essential for survival – food and shelter) and wants (not necessities, but provide satisfaction and assist achievement of higher standard of living).

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    Nigerian roads: economic problems DEDICATION This work is dedicated to god almighty for his grace upon me through the accomplishment of this work. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I must not fail to acknowledge the immense effort of the following persons who was very instrumental to the successful accomplishment of this term paper. My parents Mr./Mrs. Akwang, my lecturers and finally my exponents who helped in broadening my view on the course. ABSTRAT This write-up aroused that only

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    Economic way of Thinking Alcohol Consumption an Economic Problem Economists assume consumers of alcohol are rational beings capable of responding to incentives and disincentives on decisions about its consumption ADDIN EN.CITE Gwartney2008465(Gwartney, Stroup, Sobel, & Macpherson, 2008)4654656Gwartney, J.D.Stroup, R.L.Sobel, R.S.Macpherson, D.A.Economics: Private and Public Choice2008United StatesSouth-Western Cengage Learning9780324580181http://books.google.co.ke/books?id=yIbH4R77OtMC( HYPERLINK

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    Within the field of economics, the utility maximization problem represents an attempt to quantify the rationale used when consumers attempt to maximize the satisfaction, or utility, they derive from the purchase of goods. With the typical predetermined budgetary restriction imposed on the process, consumers must balance their own limited funds against their desire to obtain certain items. This means that the eventual level of utility received from all potential affordable packages, and thus the consumer's

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    Today’s Economical Problems (An analysis of why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer) The U.S. economy appears to be coming apart at the seams. Unemployment remains at nearly ten percent, the highest level in almost 30 years; foreclosures have forced millions of Americans out of their homes; and real incomes have fallen faster and further than at any time since the Great Depression. Hamilton Nolton says that “In reality, all of the money has gone to the rich” (Nolan). Many

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    Economic dispatch(ED) is basically an optimization problem for economic scheduling of power generating units to meet the forecasted load demand while satisfying all operational constraints [1]. As practical ED is a complex constrained optimization problem, its solution requires robust optimization methods. An extensive study on has been carried out by researchers on small /medium/ large dimension problems related with single area till date [2]-[4]. The ED problem aims to determine the optimum powers

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    UNIT 1 – FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS 1.1 INTRODUCTION In this unit you will get acquainted with the fundamental problems of the economy. The understanding of the concept will help you bring closer to the basic idea of the economy’s problems as well as remedies of such problems. In this unit you will get detailed description of what is an economic system, problems of economic system, factors of production, concept of production possibility curve, and the fundamental of allocation of resources

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    Economics and violence can be seen as closely linked, due to the fact that in news stories today crime is usually associated with poverty. There is hardly a time when I read the news and the headline doesn’t include a story about an area of lower class people being neglected within their own state. When I think about economics the first thing that comes to mind is poverty and inequality. All around the world disparities between the rich and poor, even in the wealthiest of nations is rising quickly

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