BRICS Characteristics and Evolution
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
The BRICS countries share common economic traits and objectives, but also exhibit significant heterogeneity and divergences, affecting their global influence.
Sustainability in California: Power Dynamics and Economic Interests
Essay - 5 pages - Economic politics
This essay explores how power dynamics, economic interests, and cultural paradigms influence sustainability in California and how they can be reoriented for a more inclusive approach.
A Comparative Study of Keynesian and Rational Expectations Models
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
This document provides a comprehensive analysis of the Keynesian and rational expectations models, highlighting their key differences and implications for macroeconomic balance. From the assumptions of rational expectations to the criticisms of the neoclassical approach, this study offers a...
Could some elements of the Rehn-Meidner model be introduced in Switzerland today? - Low Inflation
Essay - 1 pages - Economic politics
One of the key elements of the Rehn-Meidner model is the control of inflation. Indeed, the model advocates maintaining moderate inflation to avoid negative effects on the competitiveness of businesses. This can be achieved by adopting appropriate monetary and budgetary policies, among other...
What future for the French economy after the Covid-19 crisis? - The "France 2030" investment plan proposed by President Macron
Essay - 6 pages - Economic politics
In 2020, the health crisis caused a recession of -7.9% for France. France had a fairly stable economy before the crisis and the various confinements led to a negative evolution of the economy as well as a recession in GDP. The French economy is growing little but resisting the crisis. For...
How does the measures taken by Erdogan these last two decades impact the lira's exchange rate nowadays?
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
Turkey began the new millennium in 2000 with the most severe economic crisis of its history. This crisis, which followed the currency crisis of 1994, had a strong impact on the Turkish financial system, as it led to a fall in capital inflows coming from foreign investors. This striking event is...
How should Brazil tackle poverty and inequalities?
Essay - 6 pages - Economic politics
In an article written in French and titled "La lutte contre les inégalités au Brésil : une analyse critique de l'action du gouvernement de Lula" (2011), researcher Mylène Gaulard attempts to highlight the chronic inability of Brazilian public authorities to resolve the two most important...
European labor markets: Characteristics and operation (including the role of trade unions and long term unemployment); impact of European integration and migration
Essay - 7 pages - Economic politics
The labor market is truly a special market because labor is not like any goods. Labor market involves particular regulations and arrangements because what is sold is people's time and skills. Besides the economic goal of performance there is also a social requirement to fulfill. This is why labor...
Pubic debt deficit of Greece
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
First of all, it is important to define the three main elements in order to define the public debt sustainability. The first key word is the public debt, which represents the total amount of all the credits that Greece contracted and has to pay in the future. The amount of Greece's public...
A weak dollar
Essay - 2 pages - Economic politics
Advantages and weaknesses of a weak dollar for US trade. Current situation of the monetary policy in USA.
Globalization: Knowledge-based economy in Europe - published: 06/10/2010
Essay - 31 pages - Economic politics
It is a fact that today's European economy is strongly impacted by globalization. European firms have the opportunity to go to the global market. In order to be successful and to achieve a local and international development, those companies have to adapt and to reinvent their strategies. The...
The Statement of Margaret Thatcher social policy
Essay - 2 pages - Economic politics
Margaret Thatcher is not consensual, her policy is voluntarist, often authoritative, sometimes aggressive. Thatcher's strategy concerning social policy consists in favouring the middle and upper classes, which constitutes the conservative electorate, without caring about the working class....
Equality of opportunities - theorical and bevioral public policy
Essay - 4 pages - Economic politics
The subject of equal opportunities has been more and more present in today's modern societies for many decades now. Some use it as a descriptive term for an approach intended to provide a certain social environment in which people are not excluded from the activities of society, such as...
Economic policies and rainwater harvesting - the case of France
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
Rainwater harvesting consists of the implementation of systems to store rainwater for collective or individual reuse. The complexity of the system can vary depending on the quality of the water that is sought (from drinkable to clean water). Type of uses can theoretically go from watering of...
The Euro: Costs & Benefits for France - published: 13/05/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
On the 1st of January 1999, the euro went into circulation as a common currency for eleven of the fifteen European Union countries, with Greece joining in 2001. France joined in 1999. The ratification of the Maastricht treaty in November of 1993 provoked the creation of the European Monetary...
The impact of immigration flows on Welfare regimes of Western European countries from 1950's to nowadays.
Essay - 7 pages - Economic politics
It is generally agreed that the regimes of Welfare States are in crisis. Indeed, several factors of our modern societies led the Welfare State regimes into a general crisis which is more or less accentuated by internal reasons within each State. The link between immigration and welfare state...
Does regionalism contradicts globalization?
Essay - 4 pages - Economic politics
Globalization is a historical process characterized, first by intensification and an acceleration of international exchanges, secondly by the development of transnational and deterritorialized relations and thirdly by the establishment of solidarity systems around the world. Globalization affects...
Macroeconomics - model SARS-LRAS
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
Macro-economics is the part of economics studying regional economy as a whole. By doing so, it uses 'aggregate indicators' such as GDP, unemployment and so on. 'Aggregate supply' is one of these aggregate indicators and it represents the whole supply of an economy, assuming that...
Is the Welfare State the best way to solve social issues?
Essay - 14 pages - Economic politics
All developed countries have adopted, at different levels and in different ways, the Welfare State as an instrument to solve social issues. Despite these differences, the logic of this instrument designed to tackle social problems is fairly the same everywhere. Nevertheless, this choice of a...
« The Weapon of the Weak » for a superpower. Multilateralism and the United States Foreign Policy
Essay - 8 pages - Economic politics
One reads a lot, especially in Europe, about American hegemony, unilateralism and even imperialism. For a lot of observers, that the current United States administration is pursuing an unilateralist foreign policy is obvious. On issues ranging from the Iraqi war to global warming to the...
Regionalization and redistribution of permanent space
Essay - 6 pages - Economic politics
Regionalization is both an administrative procedure for creation of institutional areas and also the establishment of territories more or less defined boundaries, in response to the disintegration of the State-Nation. This corresponds to a permanent division of space over time. This process is...
The economic policies of the ghetto
Essay - 5 pages - Economic politics
Ghetto poverty is still the problem of 7 million of people, among the 30 million poor in the United States. It is a pressing issue, above all when we take into account media coverage that is given to these areas of social and spatial segregation. A mistake would be to consider only Black ghetto...
Was the political economy under Blair best described as neo-liberal or reformed Keynesian?
Essay - 9 pages - Economic politics
In order to answer the question as to whether the political economy of New Labor under Blair was best described as neo liberal or reformed Keynesianism, it is necessary to define the two ideological trajectories. Indeed, neo liberalism sees the markets as self regulating entities and transforms...
The Finnish model of welfare state
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
Like the other Nordic Countries (Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway), Finland is well known for its generous social democracy which influences every citizen from cradle to grave. To start with an example I noticed that the Finns pay nothing for their education irrespective of the level of studies...
Discuss the disincentives on work effort induced by the tax and benefit system, and how the theory of labor supply offers alternative systems to minimize these disincentives
Essay - 7 pages - Economic politics
In the UK, USA or in France, Government is seen from different angles. A State has duties and functions. In order to look after the welfare of their citizens, it tries to improve the reputation through taxation and benefit system. The main problem for most countries is the unemployment. Few...
To what extent can the Thatcher-type reforms be applied in France or adapted to France? - published: 17/02/2009
Essay - 2 pages - Economic politics
"Something seems very wrong with this country. Once the very model of a modern major power, stable, rich and smug, it appears beset now by political and economic instability and by civil unrest and disorder. One observer has even taken to calling it "the sick man of Europe". Hardly a month passes...
2008 is the 30th Anniversary of the China's economic reform program. What is your overall assessment of the major achievement(s) and failure(s) of the post-Mao reforms? What could be done to solve these problems?
Essay - 7 pages - Economic politics
Exactly 30 years ago, China's leaders held the Third Plenary session of the 11th Central Committee and started the Opening-up Reform of China's economy. 30 years have passed since this date, letting time for China to do tremendous changes in its economy and to become an economic model for...
