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Please ,can you explain how devaluation of Nigerian Naira with falling oil prices and oil is roughly 75% of Nigeria’s main revenue Will help to improve the exchange rate of Naira to Dollar .
hello sir! my question is from you.
how can producers maximize their profit ? mention it in ten points.
thanks
Hello was wondering why might reliable house prices in the UK be of higher priority for the private and public organisations than in some other countries thanks
If commodity/ raw material prices allow firms to produce for profit and wages hold steady will we see a prolonged period of “good” deflation?
If wages hold steady does deflation affect the real value of domestic borrowing?
This is a simple question but my economics courses were many years ago. It is also a Real Estate question. What is the principle called that causes more desired locations to have higher cost of living and higher pay?
How mercantilist ideas relevant to current economics issue such as currency depreciation, tariff, and international trade
Lets say a poor country wants to grow faster. It can do so by saving and investing the income it has. For now lets say investment from abroad is not possible. Thus, GDP growth will be its own savings divided by ICOR.
But since it is a poor country it does not have much savings. Lets say savings are close to bare minimum. Now in comes the government, so if the government decided it wants to run a deficit (not too much but a little bit) and monetize the deficit (thus printing more money), and use the money for investing in productive assets, will this still be bad economics? Will it cause much inflation? if this is bad then how else a poor country will grow?
Waiting for your reply. Thanks
The proposed levy plan by the government planned to raise tens of millions for recycling purposes of glass bottles served in different products in Hong Kong. This would come as an initiative where importers and distributors pay a fee of about HK$1 per every one-litre bottle. How to analysis the topic with benefit–cost?
Hi Sir,
can you explain what is development sustainbility?
Thank you.
Newspaper companies appear to be under threat of becoming irrelevant as the sale of newspapers has plummeted over the last 20 years. If you were chairman of the board of a newspaper company, how would you respond?
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in his article (Macroeconomic Fluctuations,Inequality, and Human Development) Stiglitz argues that economies with greater volatility typically excerpt a higher average unemployment rate. Unfortunately, he does not explain how this happens (probably because it is way too obvious for any economist, I assume).
Does somebody know the theory behind this mechanism, or could explain to me why volatility leads to a higher average unemployment rate?
Thank you
what is the main debate about ILO and the International Labour Standards
?
Hi, what’s the difference between demerit goods and negative externalities and merit goods and positive externalities – surely for merit goods and positive externalities they would be under produced and have benefits to the society and the diagrams are the same so I’m slightly confused, Thanks
why a monopolist is likely to earn super normal profits in both the short run and the long run.
A monopoly is a sole seller or supplier of a good.There are barriers to entry and exit and also the monopolist is a price setter of the goods.
in the short-run,the monopolist earns super-normal profits. Due to barriers to entry,the abnormal profits are still attainable in the long-run.
What strategies do managers of companies have to keep in mind about elasticity to maximize revenues?