Cradle-to-cradle design - published: 11/02/2006
Thesis - 45 pages - Economy general
Faced with the increasing damage inflicted on the planet by industrial development, environmentalists have traditionally argued that we need to put a halt on economic growth. This approach has neither been realistic nor efficient. Fortunately, a new way of thinking has emerged with respect to the...
Comparison between the ports of Antwerp, Le Havre and Rotterdam
Presentation - 46 pages - Economy general
Le Havre harbor is simple in meaning and it represents a harbor. Le Havre Harbor occupies a predominant position in the European terrain. In fact, Le Havre is believed to be ?The European Door'. A door through which trade is facilitated globally. Le Havre is articulated by complex and varied...
Comparison between the US and Japanese banking systems
Thesis - 11 pages - Economy general
The Japanese and the Americans have different perceptions of time. This difference exists as part of their culture and the values they advocate. The cultural, political and historical background consequently leads to two different banking forms: the bank-based and the market-based systems. Until...
Environmental Regulation and its Effect on Competition
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
The following text provides a brief discussion of the development of new technologies and how they affect the environment. After explaining the effects, the focus shifts to response mechanisms, which the society has created, to limit the impact of innovations on environmental factors. These...
National systems of innovation: comparison of France and USA
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
We are going to see through this essay several point of comparison in national system of innovation between France and USA. We will focus on several points in order to explain the differences between both countries. We will talk about the role of the system of education, then the government...
What are the major problems inherent in the Common Agricultural Policy? Assess the extent to which the 2003 reforms have dealt with these problems.
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
The Common Agricultural Policy was, together with competition policy, the great early success story of the EU. It is perhaps the aspect of European integration which has most impressed itself on public consciousness. Indeed, the “CAP is one of the most pervasive of all EU policies, one of...
The Sustainable Development Policy within the European Union
Thesis - 27 pages - Economy general
In this dissertation, we are going to focus especially on political aspects of the given concept, especially within the EU. The ways and means by which this theory can be turned into a reality is one of the themes of this dissertation. It also evaluates the ambiguities inherent in the concept and...
Europe versus America
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
There exists a wide gap between European and American economies. The GDP, GDP per capita as well as productivity levels are much higher in the US than in Europe. These figures show the extent of American dynamism which cannot be denied. And after the 9/11 events, many felt that the American...
In order to promote the wealth of nations, what should be the relationship between the visible hand of the state and the invisible hand of the market?
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
The decline of social democracy in Europe during the last decade is one of the examples which seem to show that there is no other global alternative for a state regulation under the market in the globalisation context. The predominance of the market in a political economy is not recent. Adam...
Should Britain join the European Single Currency?
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
The history of Britain's integration into the European Union has always been very complex. Its first attempt to join was vetoed in 1963. Britain joined finally in 1973 with the departure of the French president Charles De Gaulle who was opposed to the presence of an Anglo-Saxon "Trojan horse"...
The European Monetary Union. Why and how it has happened?
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
The idea of creating a huge integrated area in Europe, known as the European Economic Community, was born in 1954. Almost half a century later, the European Monetary Union became the most well-known example of financial and monetary integration in the world. According to Bela Belassa, a Hungarian...
Why Africa can not reach sustained development. What kind of Future for Africa.
Essay - 16 pages - Economy general
Africa, a continent endowed with immense natural and human resources as well as great cultural, ecological and economic diversity, remains underdeveloped for many years. Almost all the African nations suffered (and still suffer) from military dictatorships, corruption, civil unrest and war,...
The current situation of small scale coffee production in Latin America - published: 22/01/2005
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Recently, the global coffee market has fallen into a profound crisis. Prices paid to coffee producers in real dollar terms, have fallen to a hundred year low. Many families have been forced to abandon traditional farming. There is consequently an important wave of unemployment in the farming...
The current situation of small scale coffee production in Latin America
Dissertation - 7 pages - Economy general
Recently, the global coffee market has fallen into a profound crisis. Prices paid to coffee producers in real dollar terms, have fallen to a hundred year low. Many families have been forced to abandon traditional farming. There is consequently an important wave of unemployment in the farming...
Poverty and Income Inequality - Impacts of the EU-enlargement on social unprivileged population groups in the EU-15 Countries
Essay - 14 pages - Economy general
The European Union is a community of 15 sovereign countries. In the year 1952 France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg decided to establish the European Coal and Steel Community. The aim of this paper is to discuss the two problems with regard to the expansion of the European...
Why didn't Sweden, Denmark and England abandon their national currency and opt for the Euro?
Essay - 13 pages - Economy general
The adoption of the single Euro currency by twelve countries is an unprecedented event in the history of The European Union. In fact the loss of its own currency as a symbol of sovereignty and the giving up of the pursuit of an independent economic and budgetary policy represents a major change....
Free movement of people after EU enlargement : threat or necessity?
Study guide - 11 pages - Economy general
Free movement of individuals is one of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by Community law and includes the right to live and work in another Member State. The right to free movement within the Community does not only address the workers, as it relates to other categories of the public like...
Examine why employment policy in the EU operates via the open method of coordination - Assess the merits of this method of coordination as applied to the European Employment Strategy.
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
Many have argued that the creation of a common European framework in the area of employment policy could influence and transform existing domestic legislations, policies, politics, and administrative structures. For example, European member States may have to restructure existing institutions,...
Pros and cons for the UK to join the Single currency
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
For many people, in favour of the EMU and the sceptics of EMU alike, the single currency points is inescapably part of the political union. Looking at past history, monetary unions linking independent states of dissimilar size and power (like that of Belgium and Luxembourg today) have not been...
The debt crisis
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
The debt crisis was triggered exactly 20 years ago when Mexico suspended its payments in 1982. This started off the worst financial crisis since 1931. Other than being a serious problem for developing countries whose Foreign Reserves and foreign investments withered away it also became a threat...
Nuclear energy
Study guide - 6 pages - Economy general
Nuclear energy has far to many negative problems than advantages. From the mining of uranium to disposal of nuclear waist there are problems of such magnitude that no scientist on this earth has an answer for. Nuclear energy has so many problems associated to it that it should be banned from the...
The European System of Central Banks
Study guide - 4 pages - Economy general
The European System of Central Banks (ESCB) is composed of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the National Central Banks (NCB's) of all 15 EU Member States. The "Eurosystem" is the term used to refer to the ECB and the NCBs of the Member States who have euro as their national currency. The...
Based on the evolution of traditional and hi-tech industries in the last twenty years in the US, to what extent would you say that American capitalism has reshaped and reinvented itself in the 1980s-1990s?
Study guide - 3 pages - Economy general
After the end of the Second World War, US emerged as the first economic super power. Despite of the tragic events that the US encountered, it still remains as one of the leading economies in twenty first century. During the time between the 1980s-1990s, the country redefined its capitalism to...
Can growth take place and inflation remain unaffected ?
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
For a long time, nobody thought that inflation would be a serious matter of concern. Apart from a few cases of hyperinflation in the 1920s, there was no big concern with regard to inflation. The period of economic boom after the Second World War witnessed high rates of inflation which had...
Globalization: Good or Bad?
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
Globalization and deglobalization refers to the increase or decline of globalism. Globalism has two special characteristics (Keohane, R. and Nye, J. 2000): Globalization refers to the minimizing distance on a large scale. It can be contrasted with localization, nationalization, or...
Sports, money and politics
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
?Sport' has become a significant central activity in the modern day life. Everyone is either directly or indirectly influenced by sports! Results of competitions and impressive performances of sportsmen (for example Z. Zidane's goal in a football match or M. Jordan's feat in...
The future of financial centres in the European Union
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
The working of European Union was expected to be similar to the United States of America. Theorists believed that Europe will have a financial hub similiar to the Wall Street in the United Sates and questioned the future of the European Union. Establishing inter-market deals among the European...
The impact of e-commerce
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
What exactly is e-commerce ? It's an example of one of the many buzzwords that are used concerning the internet that no one really knows the definition. E-commerce refers to selling, advertising and marketing products, all done over the internet. In other words, the e-commerce allows to...
The new Labour government stance on the Economic and Monetary Union (1997)
Essay - 23 pages - Economy general
In this dissertation we will focus on how the government mustered the largest possible support on a very risky issue. This was done by examining the political, economic and European background of Britain, which had a definitive influence on the government's decision. In the second half of...
Garten (Jeffrey E.), the Big Ten
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Jeffrey E. Garten is a Washington executive who entered the Clinton administration in the summer of 1993 as the ?Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade'. During his tenure, he decided to launch the Big Emerging Markets' project ('BEMs' project). This project flagged...
