China's Economic Model - The Silk Road
Case study - 1 pages - Economy general
The Silk Road is as ancient as the Roman Empire and was the link between imperial China and the Western world. Chinese products transited overland, through central Asia and Asia minor, as well as on the seas, through the Gulf of Persia and then the Mediterranean Sea, before reaching Europe....
A marxist view of the 2008 banking crisis
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
In 2008, there was a major issue facing the American banking sector and the global financial world right now. A catastrophic loss of confidence stemming from a failure of the securities market has caused a number of banks to suddenly find themselves in danger of collapsing. In a sudden need of...
Electricity/Energy crises of Pakistan and difficulties that it present to the management of textile industry Faisalabad
Case study - 40 pages - Management
Pakistan is an agriculture country and its main source of income is agriculture. Main cities like Karachi Lahore, Peshawar and Faisalabad etc. are industrial cities of Pakistan. Faisalabad is very famous for its textile industry and provides 25billion$ annual export earnings (Shah.S, 2013) and...
Impacts of the mega events in times of crisis: The Olympic Games of London, 2012
Thesis - 29 pages - Economy general
The economic crisis that most countries are experiencing is the largest since 1929. Like other recessions that have hit some countries (Japan's crisis of the 90s) or certain parts of the world (the crisis of communism after the fall of the Berlin Wall), the latest...
Do IFRS have a share of responsibility in the current financial crisis?
Essay - 13 pages - Accounting
The fourth quarter of 2008 witnessed a stock market crisis without precedent, perhaps the most violent ever known in the history of capitalism, as its aftereffects rippled throughout world economy. The implosion of the ‘sub-prime' mortgage market in the US caused major stock market...
The difficulties to stay the leader on a market: The French Wine Industry and its fragile economic position - publié le 29/09/2010
Market study - 34 pages - Business strategy
• Recent events: Numerous violent strikes were organized by the wine growers to draw attention to their difficulties; for instance, they demanded more assistance following the bad weather conditions that ruined the annual harvest. • A succession of demonstrations: It is a traditional...
The Argentina Crisis - The IMF's Guinea Pig
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
In 2001, Argentina, the former model pupil of the International Monetary fund of the nineties, declared default in all its public debt. This is one of the most harrowing economic crises in the history of Argentina. Several crisis-fighting actions like the freezing of bank accounts...
Eleven years after the Asian crisis, what policy lessons ?
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
Year 2008 is remembered, in History books, as the year of a major economic crisis throughout the world. As most papers put it mentioning as, “The worst since the great depression”. But as the world suddenly pays attention to its economic system and its (present)...
'It all comes down to the oil crisis of 1973' - Is this an adequate explanation of the global recession of the later-1970s and 1980s?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The historian Eric Hobsbawm's assertion that ‘any historian who puts major change in the configuration of the world economy down to bad luck and avoidable accidents should think again' provides a useful theoretical objection to the contention that the economic crisis years of...
The difficulties to stay the leader on a market: The French Wine Industry and its fragile economic position
Market study - 34 pages - Business strategy
• Recent events: Numerous violent strikes were organized by the wine growers to draw attention to their difficulties; for instance, they demanded more assistance following the bad weather conditions that ruined the annual harvest. • A succession of demonstrations: It is a traditional...
The different management styles and the consequences of the crisis on human resources
Essay - 9 pages - Human resources
The global economy is floundering. All over the world, companies are struggling, from global corporations with worldwide market shares to mom-and-pop shops that employ a handful of people. This present context has an impact on the management of teams. This situation increases difficulties that...
The Lisbon Strategy and the economic integration - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - European union
On the 23rd and the 24th of March 2000, the European Council settled major goals for the next decade hoping that the European Union will ‘become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and...
Eleven years after the Asian crisis, what are the policy lessons?
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
Year 2008 is remembered, in History books, as the year of a major economic crisis throughout the world. As most papers put it mentioning as, “The worst since the great depression”. But as the world suddenly pays attention to its economic system and its (present)...
Hungary's economic plight, the result of imperfect politics
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
While the international community, business leaders and politicians may have known the degree of Hungary's economic crisis, it wasn't until mid-September, 2006, with the leaking of MSzP (Hungarian Socialist Party) Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's confession of lying “morning,...
Wine Management - Managing a crisis in Champagne
Market study - 3 pages - Luxury marketing
Champagne is a very special product that is only manufactured in local and limited areas. This category of wine has no direct competitors abroad and remains a prized product. The sales volumes are decreasing but the global sales value is on the rise. For now, the consequences of the depression...
Marijuana legalization- Source of value creation and economic growth
Case study - 24 pages - Educational studies
Marijuana legalization may seem as a very unconventional theme for economic research. It really is, but the current economic crisis demands unconventional solutions for conventional problems. This research tries to prove many positive effects of marijuana legalization, both...
La crise économique et financière
Essay - 2 pages - International economy
In the beginning of last year, everybody knew every day the bad news which were broadcasted by the media about the losses job, recession, insolvency, crisis… People had to wonder on their means of consuming. In fact, the economic crisis has its origins in United States...
The Lisbon Strategy and the economic integration
Essay - 4 pages - European union
On the 23rd and the 24th of March 2000, the European Council settled major goals for the next decade hoping that the European Union will ‘become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and...
The 1929 crisis in Latin America
Dissertation - 5 pages - Economy general
Herbert Hoover, when assuming the office of the President of the United States, said in March 1929: "I have no fear for the future, it shines with hope." Unfortunately, Thursday, October 24, 1929 is also called the "Black Thursday", the world economy plunged into the chaos as Wall Street, the...
The European debt crisis, can the world ignore it and keep it European?
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
The European debt crisis brings as a result of how Europe had made an attempt to solve the financial crisis faced by most countries and as a result an immediate end in their prosperity and put them in great debts. In an attempt by the European to defend itself against collapse has...
Economic parallels and self-fulfilling prophecies
Dissertation - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The American culture has always been utterly and completely obsessed with the economy. It envelops us and constantly pushes itself to the forefront of our thoughts. Unfortunately, we can?t always be perfectly in tune with our economy. When we mess up, the economy falls to its knees and can, with...
"Recessionista": Tartuffe of crisis times?
Essay - 6 pages - Luxury marketing
As coined by Recesssionista: Trends on a budget, University Daily Kansan, November 20th 2008, ?With the economy in the gutter, fashionistas have been forced to reform their ways, because spending a fortune on clothes is out, and discount is in.' This sentence rings as a recessionista's...
Eleven years after the Asian crisis, what policy lessons? - publié le 17/05/2009
Case study - 3 pages - International economy
During the thirty years that preceded the financial crisis in Asia, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, there were some remarkable economic performances in terms of fast growth, weak inflation, macroeconomic stability and solid public finances, high savings, opened economy and...
International relations analysis: Germany and France during the Euro crisis resolution
Case study - 9 pages - International relations
Germany and France relations during the Euro crisis implied some disagreements. It started when the European Union decided to manage the global economic crisis at the European stage. It decided to especially manage the case of Greece which is the symbol of the beginning of...
Examining California's prison crisis: Where we're at, how it happened and what we can do
Dissertation - 3 pages - Administrative law
Even without the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression on hand, California's notoriously dysfunctional prison system requires a much needed in-depth examination. More so, California requires much needed action in a very different direction from the consistent...
Michelin and its communication during a crisis
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Our society is experiencing many crises: economic crisis (oil shocks), financial (financial crisis), technological crisis etc. Yet these crises are not unique to the macroeconomic sphere. They affect businesses at a micro level. This was the case with many companies,...
An analysis of the crisis in US economy
Dissertation - 33 pages - Economy general
Until the early 21st century, developments in America seemed to contradict the thesis of "decline". The most famous example is that of Paul Kennedy, who predicted in 'Rise and Decline of Great Powers' (1987), the end of American hegemony. However, the early 21st century is marked by...
Economic Unrest in France: A Twentieth-Century analysis
Dissertation - 10 pages - Economy general
The French Revolution of 1789 is perhaps one of the most well-known and significant revolutions in modern history. The Revolution was not only influential in its establishment of a new regime in France, but, to quote Scott W. Haine, “Not only did the French Revolution produce modern...
International Economics : Japan
Presentation - 38 pages - World geography
The table of contents : 'The general situation in Japan', ' Japan's reconstruction and development', 'Japanese companies', 'the economic crisis in Japan', and the area of its populated land. The population of Japan is 127 millionand its land area...
The downfall of Lehman Brothers and its relation to the current financial crisis
Internship report - 15 pages - Theories and economic notions
In this report, we will study the financial crisis experienced by the Lehman Brothers and its subsequent collapse in 2008. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial-services firm, and one of the most important primary dealers in the U.S. with respect to treasury securities and...
