Unemployment and Inflation
Two of the biggest issues in macroeconomics are inflation and unemployment. Policymakers would like to keep both measures low. Often, however, there is atrade-offbetween the two. A strong economy that lowers unemployment can put upward pressure on prices. A weak economy that lowers inflation can increase unemployment.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, we had both very low unemployment and inflation. Then unemployment rose. In the future, unemployment and inflation could change and its good to have policy plans in place before either of these problems gets too bad.
Imagine that you oversee macroeconomic policy. Answer these questions, being sure to explain your answers.
What are some of the problems, difficulties, or hardships caused by unemployment?
What are some of the problems, difficulties, or hardships caused by inflation?
If you had to make a choice today between a policy that would head off increases in inflation or increases i
Your job is to summarize a special report from The Economist published in last 3 years (2020, 2019, or 2018). The special report you choose must be about globalization, trade, or any international issue.
Pick your paper topic. It is important that you start downloading the *articles* that you will need so you can type up your paper and proof read it.
Your first step is to go to https___www.economist.com_special-reports_
https://www.economist.com/special-reports/
and scroll through to choose one Special Report on an international topic, anything in the past 2-3 year is fine.
Your second step is to print or save *all* the articles you will use. Remember, you must read *all* the articles in the report, not just one article.
Your third step is to go to "Paper Assignment" document to read the instructions on how to formulate the paper.
Please let me know if you have any other questions!
Good job. I see that you have the skill of producing scatter plots and weighted averages. Close to approval, not yet.
I do not understand the logic between air pollution death and sanitation though. Sanitation is directly related to water infection diseases, but I am not sure about its relation to air pollution death. Am I missing something? Can you elaborate more on this?
For weighted averages, you should report both weighted average fors death measure (weighted by total population) and sanitation measure (weighted by total population). It seems that you are using the death rate as a weight for sanitation measures, which is weird. Give me an update when you improve on these. Also remember to give me "edit access." I think only get "view" access now.
Write one page (12 point times new roman, double spaced, one inch margins, citing sources within the text, also provide the link of the websites please) describing the financial and economic crisis over the last 30 years in Rwanda. What caused them? Were there crises in neighboring countries that impacted Rwanda?
(I uploaded the note of developing counties crisis over past years and also the previous assignment: "Trends in balance of payments in Rwanda" for information and citation format references, but the graph is not necessary)
In this assignment, you will critically read and summarize the information in the peer-reviewed articles and/or books from Assignment 1 and the additional references that you have collected. This should not just be a summary of what each paper did and what results they found. Given that you will be reading more papers than the required 6-8 sources for the paper, you will want to think critically about which of the papers that you read best inform your research question. Once you have decided on a set of references to use in this section, you will want to think about how the research fits together to create a cohesive synthesis of the literature as it pertains to your research question. Thus, you will need to think about what are the major themes in the literature and group your discussion of the literature around those themes.
Include an overall summary of the literature
What types of articles are they (empirical/theoretical/policy brief) and what research
Ubers decision to become a public company. Why did they do it, the process that it went through for its initial public offer, and, for a bonus, what investment bank(s) it used to help it in the process.
The history of the Uber/SA stock price since its initial public offering. What is the market cap, EPS, and P/E ratio of Uber/SA?
Examine its balance sheet. What are its total assets and liabilities.
Is Uber making money?
The performance and other issues that have affected
Ubers/SAs stock price since the IPO.
The bulls and the bears Give one reason why some investors are bullish on the company and one reason why others
are bearish. Please quote a securities analyst in supporting these
points. Name the target price of two analysts and provide their
ratings on the stock.
Ubers/SAs communications of its financial results. Specifically, summarize the key messages of its latest earnings
press release. Do the messages m
Select a country of your choice (other than Saudi Arabia) and observe the last balance of payments issued by that country.
Does the country run a current account deficit or surplus?
What are the driving factors for the deficit or surplus?
What are the implications of the current account deficit or surplus for the overall economy?
What actions may better the nations situation? Explain.
Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories, which require supporting citations along with at least 2 scholarly, peer-reviewed reference in supporting your answer
Use and APA style guidelines.
the textbook (9781337558938 ebook: 9781337671224 International economics 17 Cengage Learning. Carbaugh, R. J. 2019)
Guidance on your brief paper/statistical exerciseOne of the goals of this course is for you to become familiar with how to use publicly available data to check facts and satisfy your curiosity about the Middle East. The most general database in which you can look for data is World Development Indicators(http://databank.worldbank.org/data/Databases.aspx), but there are lots of other more specific ones such as those in sections IV and VIII of the course outline. Another goal of this course is to learn how to use data as evidence for a point of view. I assigned the brief paper/statistical exercise with these two goals in mind.Because your outline is due at the end of the sixth week of class, you might miss out on some good ideas for topics that are covered later in the course. We suggest that you read the introductions to the later chapters in the textbook, so you can see if there is something covered there that would make an interesting brief paper/statistical exe
Is Poverty an Economic Problem?
Watch the video Acton Institute- How not to help the poor- Welfare (new window) (5:49).
This is the link: https://criticalcommons.org/view?m=ID4oMkPxt
(1) How do transfer payments to low income households affect the incentive (a) to have a child at an early age, (b) to drop out of high schools, and (c) the abandonment of children by fathers? (2) How do transfer payments impact the incentives of individuals and organizations to engage in effective charitable activities? (3) Evaluate this statement. Income transfers that reduce the current poverty rate will generally increase the future poverty rate.
Please note, you can agree or disagree with the video. It is controversial by construction to promote a lively -- but respectful -- discussion. As always, please make a reference to the video, so I know that you watched it.
Is the earnings difference between men and women the result of employment discrimination?
Watch the video AEI Gender Wage Gap (new window) (3:15)
This is the link: https://criticalcommons.org/view?m=du72ZDEAL
Do the employment choices differ between men and women? If so, why? How do the following productivity-related factors differ between men and women: (i) continuous employment experience, (ii) education, (iii) physical strength? As always, please make reference to the video, so I know that you watched it.
Here is another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13XU4fMlN3w
From Vox which provides an additional layer of analysis on this topic with regards to women in business vs. STEM careers.
