State of the Nation and Company Review (Microsoft)
Market study - 2 pages - Economic politics
Individual economic figures and their changes represent a complete and precise picture of the current economy. The real GDP jumped at an annual rate of 3.4% during the fourth quarter of 2023 after a substantial 4.9 percent rise in the third quarter (Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023). This...
Population Health Project - The Case of African American Women in Urban Areas
Case study - 6 pages - Economic politics
There is an urgent need to set a target that enables all people, regardless of financial status, to access quality healthcare and prohibit any forms of impartiality. Different characters create different experiences, yet sometimes the effect of demographics on the people who are suffering from...
Public health - The speech to Taru's Parliament
Creative writing - 1 pages - Economic politics
First of all, we must fully consider the threat posed by the virus circulating in our nation. When we know that about 25% of the population is infected and that this figure is tending to increase rapidly; distributing a remedy quickly seems to be indispensable. So we all agree that the entire...
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...
Is America in decline? - The Economist (2021) - How has the American superpower evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century?
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Economic politics
The video we are introducing today is a video from the economist entitled "Is America in decline?" posted on YouTube on September 7, 2021. It is an interview led by an editor, John Prudeau, who is interacting with 2 guests: a Washington bureau chief, James Astill, and an American senior editor...
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...
Middlemarch, Part 6, Chapter 56 - George Eliot (1871-1872) - How does George Eliot, through a posterior view and a description of fictitious events, manage to present the prejudices of the time on the progress?
Text commentary - 3 pages - Economic politics
In 1919, Virginia Woolf writes, about Eliot's contribution to English literature, that her masterpiece Middlemarch is "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people". Indeed, Eliot's novel is known for its realism and its psychological insights on its different characters from...
Financial Market Offenses and Crimes Against the State in the US
Course material - 6 pages - Economic politics
The French AMF is an independent public authority. It is made of two distinct bodies (the board and the enforcement committee), there is no hierarchy, board members cannot be members of the enforcement committee at the same time. The AMF is in charge of overseeing the protection of savings...
Counterfeiting - Business process and government response
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Economic politics
The creation of a fake replica to replace an original form of an object is illegal and referred to as counterfeiting. This action is often perpetrated to take advantage of the monetary gain by exchanging an object of greater quality with something of inferior quality. Counterfeiting has been...
The treatment of killing acquisitions by GAFAM : Antitrust implications
Case study - 5 pages - Economic politics
In recent years, antitrust authorities have identified "killer" acquisitions as a particular problem for the tech industry. A "killer" acquisition is often described as the acquisition of a small, innovative startup by a large, well-established company. Typically, a startup has limited or no...
Country Risk: Fiscal Policy and Public Debt
Course material - 6 pages - Economic politics
Governments refer to (elected) people who form the administrative body of a country. They are important because they take into account externalities and finance public goods (which the private sector would not want/manage to finance). Their objectives are : education, national defense, low crime,...
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...
Impact of Monetary Policy on South African inequality
Case study - 5 pages - Economic politics
In 1994 the first democratic elections in South Africa brought about the promise of equal opportunity and overall improvement of living standards. However, 26 years later the high levels of South African inequality still remain. This level of inequality has been institutionalised in the economy...
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...
Pharmaceutical industry (ex of GSK)
Case study - 2 pages - Economic politics
This document summarizes the functionning of the Pharmaceutical industry by explaining the high cost of implementing a drug on the market. (time to market very long). High level of uncertainty. Thus, the companies have to be powerful and wealthy in order to resist and succeed in this particular...
Study of the London 2012 Olympic Games Strategy
Case study - 6 pages - Economic politics
This report aim to analyse the London 2012 Olympic Strategy. Indeed, it allows to understand how UK government tries to stimulate the economy thanks to this mega event. This Strategy is evaluated throughout 10 years. The report highlights how organiser aim to improve tourism with the Olympic Games
Is the Negative Globalization on the Move?
Dissertation - 10 pages - Economic politics
Since about twenty years, the globalization has been characterized by the spreading of the multinationals, a huge development of worldwide networks, of international commerce, the explosion of the foreign direct investments' volume, the increase in power of the Asiatic countries in the global...
Irish ICT Cluster
Worksheets - 2 pages - Economic politics
Ireland has one of the highest concentrations of information and communications technology (ICT) activity and employment in the OECD (organisation for economic co-operation and development) and in the world. This Cluster is largely concentrated in the Dublin area, with smaller regions in Cork,...
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...
BOOK REVIEW - Globalization and its discontents, Joseph Stiglitz (2002)
Book review - 2 pages - Economic politics
The author's anterior life plays an important part in the book. It has influenced his way of thinking; all of his books are based on his own life experiences. That is why it is important to specify a few elements of his biography before beginning the summary of the book. Professor Stiglitz is...
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...
