The liberal and neo-liberal theories applied to the Kosovo crisis in 1998-1999
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Kosovo is mostly known as a region in the former Yugoslavia where, in 1998 and 1999, there was growing violence between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which sought independence from Serbia, and the Serbian army and police, which were randomly attacking the province of the indigenous Albanian...
The recent economic crisis both confirms and challenges differing views of globalisation
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
Globalization is the process of making businesses, philosophies, cultures and technologies on a worldwide basis, and where the global economy is characterized as being an interconnecting market place. According to George Stonehouse and his co-writers in 'Global and Transnational...
How the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will face the international crisis and its dependence to China?
Case study - 9 pages - Stock exchange
The Honk-Kong Stock Exchange (or HKEX) functions from the last reform of the Hong-Kong stock market undertaken by the Hong-Kong financial secretary in 1999. In Honk-Kong, the first trade of securities began in the middle of the 19th century. But the first formal market appeared only in 1891. It...
How far did the fair value principle contribute to accelerate the credit crisis in France?
Course material - 46 pages - Finance
The IFRS or the International Financial Reporting Standards are one element of the globalization of the world economy. The stated objectives of the IASB or the International Accounting Standards Board are: (a) "to formulate and publish in the public interest, accounting standards to be observed...
"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...
International Finance and Investment-The Greece Debt Crisis
Case study - 21 pages - Educational studies
Human fallibility ripped off Greece the dignity accorded to its rich history as the economy has been marred with endless conflicts, whose effects spreads beyond its national frontiers. The events revealing themselves in the Greece economy have caught the entire Eurozone in denials and bargains of...
The financial crisis and the automobile industry
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
Since the beginning of the world financial crisis in 2008, the automobile industry like all the other industries has been strongly impacted by the situation. The slump of the car sales was a huge setback for the majority of the constructors. During these difficult times, marketing...
The Euro Area Debt Crisis
Case study - 8 pages - Finance
Over the past decade, productivity in most economies, both in central and peripheral countries has doubled beyond the initial estimates. This has partly been the contribution of implementing robust investment tools and informed investor on maximizing returns.However, the implications of the...
The Euro crisis and its impact
Case study - 19 pages - Political science
The Euro crisis is an economic crisis which not only points to the weaknesses of economic integration, but also points at the consequences of poor economic policies at the state level. The aim of this paper is to synthesize literature on the causes, progression and impacts of the...
Chaebols and South Korean government: What are the problems and benefits of their Relationships until the financial crisis?
Essay - 11 pages - International marketing
Chaebols are business groups consisting of large companies in highly diversified business areas, owned and managed by family members or relatives. While their assets comprised over 45% of the total corporate assets in Korea, the total number of chaebols affiliates have persistently increased....
Peugeot Citroën During the Global Crisis
Essay - 5 pages - Automotive marketing
In addition to the rocketed oil prices and triggered by the sub-prime mortgage in the US, almost every industry has been hit. Costs are rising for companies especially for the automotive industry which use a lot of energy and fuel. The industry was focused on rising oil prices, emissions control...
Fiduciary duties and corporate governance failures exposed by the subprime mortgage crisis
Case study - 5 pages - International economy
Corporations' directors are expected to make decisions that produce the best outcome for their businesses. As such, law has a role to play, and it does so differently depending on the legal system concerned. Common law jurisdictions generally refer to directors as fiduciaries . Directors have...
Crisis: are the banks yes or not guilty?
Text commentary - 1 pages - International economy
Banks are not the only reason for the crisis which we live in today. The states have also a share of responsibility by putting in work expansionist economic policies and massively injecting liquidities in the economy to maintain purchasing power by growing debt. The reproach made at the...
How far do you agree that the crisis experienced by China in the late 1980s was due to "the inevitable consequences of the policies of economic liberalization by Deng Xiaoping"?
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
Shortly after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 came the rehabilitation of Deng Xiaoping. During the latter's reign, China experienced a crisis in the late 1980s, the 1989 Tiananmen Crisis, during which the army attacked students who held a demonstration demanding political...
Indian economic crisis
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The roots of the 1991 currency crisis in India can be seen during the entire decades that precede it. As a matter of fact it lies in the large and persistent macroeconomic imbalances that developed over the 1980s. A close examination of the government expenditures, over the 1980s, suggests...
Indian economic crisis - publié le 03/04/2013
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The roots of the 1991 currency crisis in India can be seen during the entire decades that precede it. As a matter of fact it lies in the large and persistent macroeconomic imbalances that developed over the 1980s. A close examination of the government expenditures, over the 1980s, suggests...
Opposing viewpoints: Autism is a serious public health crisis
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
According to Anne McElroy Dachel, Autism is now becoming an epidemic because of the increase of cases now being reported as compared to 20 years ago. Dachel, I feel is biased because her child was diagnosed with Autism almost 20 years ago and at the time of his diagnosis not much was known about...
In your opinion what was the primary cause of the financial crisis/recession of 2008-2009?
Case study - 3 pages - Government finance
I believe that the main reason for the economic depression that happened to United States in 2008-2009 was as a result of failure by the insurance companies and banks. The cri8sis was mainly as a result of a combination of global macroeconomic imbalances and weaknesses that were so sever in the...
The UN and France in the Ivorian crisis
Thesis - 20 pages - International relations
The “oldest daughter” of France did sink in the chaos following the events which have occurred in the night from September 18 to September 19, 2002 simultaneously in Bouake and Abidjan. We need to understand such a complex conflict where there is not enough retreat to seize all the...
The BP oil spill - Macondo Blowout crisis
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
This brief aims to investigate the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 in regards to proper crisis planning, communication and management to ensure smooth business continuity after such a critical incidence. The notion that crises have a recognizable life cycle is a constant...
How responsible is China for the financial crisis, and to what extent is China the solution?
Case study - 5 pages - Finance
The severity of the recent financial crisis is self-evident: it may have started out as a housing market crisis in the US, but today its reach has extended all across the globe. Across the Pacific Ocean, for example, the rising economic giant China has seen its GDP drop from the...
Strategic analysis: Luxury crisis and their economic counterparts
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
Mandeville describes luxury everything beyond the bare necessities. The luxury covers everything that is deemed superfluous and unnecessary. But the usual sense means the splendor and sophistication in the way of life (tableware, toilet elegant, sumptuous decor). We can acquire luxury by large...
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 the Euro...
Darfur crisis
Case study - 28 pages - Educational studies
"Darfur is a little short of hell on earth” and it had asserted the 7th Secretary General of the United-Nations: Kofi Annan in 2005. Here, he described the terrible situation which is occurred the small area of Sudan: a north-western African country. Since 2003, a struggle between the...
The Turkish-Syrian crisis in 1998 and the Adana Agreement
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
In October 1998 the Adana agreement was signed between representatives of the Syrian and Turkish governments, ending an intense escalation of tensions between the two nations throughout the 1990s. This essay aims to discuss this period of escalation and show how both sides attempted to use...
The use of intervention crisis to help individuals suffering from drug, alcohol or substance abuse
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Drugs, alcohol and other substances can have a very significant effect on the homeostasis of the people who consume them. There 3 main approaches to drugs: 1.Drug Use, using drug for health and therapeutic reasons, commonly after medical advice. 2.Drug Misuse refers to the use of drugs for...
The financial crisis: The need for a new system
Dissertation - 54 pages - Theories and economic notions
This thesis is about our monetary and financial system. It starts focusing on the monetary creation, which is the basis of our financial system. After defining the monetary creation process, it is about its control, which has been transferred from the States to the Central Banks to the commercial...
Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) in crisis?
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
The World Trade Organization succeeded the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1995. It aims to dismantle trade barriers and harmonize trade rules to allow all states to benefit from global trade and promote their growth. While at first the advent of the WTO was accompanied by a wave...
'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...
Proposals to face the Euro crisis - publié le 20/03/2011
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
During a certain period, the funny abbreviation “PIIGS” was to be found everywhere in the news; this referred to Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, the five European “sick men”, endangering the survival of the Eurozone itself. While their situation still remains...
