Essays and Research Papers on International Finance

This is a 6 page paper discussing the inflation and unemployment rates in Canada over the past thirty years. Inflation reducing policies introduced by the federal government are discussed along with some suggestions for further reductions in inflation and unemployment. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A six page paper which looks at the differences between Keynesian economics and the policies of Milton Friedman in regard to the degree of government intervention which is productive in alleviating unemployment during periods of national recession. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 27 page paper examines the impact of spending decisions by a developing country's government on the performance of the economy. The first part of the paper considers how and why government spending is incurred and has to increase in developing countries paying particular attention to the way government expenditure has occurred in China. The ...

This 12 page paper considers the economic position of the UK in 2012 and the entrance into the double dip recession and assesses whether or not the government polices may have been responsible or contributed to the second recession. The paper examines the polices put into place, the international influences and examines the economic ...

This 7 page paper looks at the argument that governmental economic policies have the main objective of promoting sustained economic growth. The paper considers the way in which this may or may not be correct and how the policies undertaken in terms of structure, monetary and fiscal policy support growth. The paper uses the UK ...

A 5 page paper discussing how governments should react to devaluation of the national currency. The government first needs to determine the standing of its balance of payments and the combined sum of the worth of price elasticities of imports and exports. If the Marshall-Lerner Condition indicates that the initial deficit in balance ...

This 11 page paper examines the global recession and credit crunch of 2008/9 and explores some of the potential causes, including a lack of regulation, irresponsible and imprudent lending, borrowers attitudes and exacerbation by other environmental factors. The policies and potential solutions that are being pursued, to assess how they are projected and working and ...

This 5 page paper considers how the small and medium sized enterprises may be influence by government policy. The paper considers policies of the UK government such as inflation control by the use of interest rates, non intervention in the currency markets, minimum wages and stakeholder pensions. The bibliography cites 11 sources.

A 10 page paper on public policy in Italy concerning bringing the country's economy in line with the standards set in 1992 in Maastricht for membership acceptance in the European Monetary Union (EMU). The EMU will establish a common currency for all member states and eliminate the political barriers of border and exchange rates. Italy ...

This 5 page report discusses the ways in which the development theories and schemes of industrialized nations, especially the United States, have had an impact on strategic industrial development programs in other nations. Too often, broad-based assumptions were made regarding non-economic factors and the true complexity and diversity that exists in the real world of (successful) development were ignored. Ironically, ...

This 12 page paper is a comprehensive look at the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), used by the UK government. The paper consider the advantages and disadvantages as a system such as this, concerns such as control and security as well as the advantages to the government in accounting terms and how this results in the ...

A 5 page essay answering the question of types and numbers of policy instruments necessary to attain the most advantageous position for the US economy, both domestically and internationally. Using Singapore as an example of a blend of a strong central government yet an economy based on totally free entrepreneurism, the paper concludes that (1) ...

This 16 page paper examines how successful has the government in Syria been in running the economy. The paper then describes and evaluates the main macro economic policies used by the government in Syria. The bibliography cites 8 sources.

This 16 page paper looks that the causes of the global credit crisis of 2008/9 considering the causes of the crisis and how these were able too impact the international markets and the way that this impacted on aggregate supply and aggregate demand. The paper then moves on to look at the way that governments’, ...

This 9 page paper examines the use and potential use of accrual accounting for governments and the public sector. The writer considers the take up of accrual counting by non commercial organizations, the way it compares with cash accounting, how the accounting approach is seen internationally and looks at examples of governments adopting ...

An 8 page research paper investigating the wisdom of investing in Italy. Known for its history of tumultuous government, Italy has enjoyed a relative period of calm since early 1996 when Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left Olive Tree Alliance took power with a primary goal of being among the first of the European countries to ...

A 7 page research paper on Chile's society, economy and recent governmental history, in which they moved from parliamentary government, to socialism, to military control, to democracy, and all within a period of less than 20 years. Other countries would have dissolved into civil war with such extreme swings in policies, but Chile's response has ...

A 6 page paper discussing Fidel Castro, his life, and his influence on United States' foreign policy. Castro was, and is, a very unique individual, unlike anyone perhaps, ever maintaining great power. He frightened the American government because of his uniqueness and because he overthrew a government that supported the economy of the Untied States. ...

An 8 page essay examining the economic policies of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Panhellinion Socialistiko Kinima-PASOK), the style of Greek government first put into place in the 1970's but brought to full invasiveness under the leadership of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou beginning in 1982. Originally intended to pull Greece up to the economic levels of ...

5 pages in length. The writer offers suggestions concerning each one's need for economic change. One country is a standard low developed country with good endowments of natural resources but almost no industry, where the GNP per capita is very low. The government wants to speed up development and considers a radical ...

A 14 page paper examining Singapore's rise from one of the world's poorest nations in 1960 to a mature economy in the 1990s, and discussing conditions necessary for other developing nations to be able to effectively adopt the Singapore model. Singapore began with a series of 5-year plans to which the government religiously adhered. As ...

A 5 page paper comparing and contrasting the two different systems in American and Chinese society. China and the United States are two of the largest countries in the world with an enormous population to contend with. There are a few similarities and a vast number of differences between the two countries. Areas under examination ...

This 4 page paper compares the US and Australia by looking that the GDP level growth and profile, unemployment levels, quality of life, environmental issues and the role f the government and the welfare state. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

This 6 page paper explains what actions Malaysia took during the Asian economic crisis of 1997-1998. Unlike its neighbors, Malaysia did no seek assistance from the IMF. Furthermore, some of its actions were considered unorthodox, at best. The IMF was its most vocal and harsh critic. The IMF subsequently apologized to the Malaysian government. Bibliography ...

This 11 page paper considers to what extent Victorian Britain be described could be described as free market economy, including consideration of government policies and the impact that the reduction of tariffs introduced by Peel and Gladstone had on duty and examines did Britain pursued a policy of free trade when other European countries ...