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“If Congress doesn’t act immediately, countless small businesses will not survive.” (Close, 2020). The fact of life for many small business owners is every dime and penny they own is tied up in their business. Most can not be closed even for the weekend without the risk of having to close the doors for good….

In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s business freedom in Vietnam was repressed and not conducive to a developing economy. Between 2005 and 2006 there was a noticeable increase in business freedom almost matching the average worldwide index value (The Heritage Foundation, 2019). While this could have been attributed to several factors, one particular point…

It is becoming increasingly apparent to world scientific and economic experts, that the predicted effects of climate change will have disastrous effects on both global and national economies. A fact highlighted by the recently issued Fourth National Climate Assessment by the US government, which stated that climate change is likely to effect their economic output…

“Liberalism is a political-economic system, then, is defined by its emphasis on individual freedoms over collective equality and on the power of markets over states” (O’Neil, 2013, p.89). Liberalism assumes that individuals are best suited to take responsibility for their own behavior and well-being.  Adam Smith used “liberal” in a similar sense in The Wealth of…

Globalization is a growing interdependence of the world’s economies, culture, and populations brought about by cross-border trade in goods services, technology, and flow of investment, people and information. Countries have built an economic partnership to facilitate these movements over many centuries. Our world today is becoming much more globalized than it has been at any…

Executive Summary This paper includes the effects of globalization in several aspects, including economic, political, cultural and social. This paper begins with a simple explanation of the workshop and how it was prepared. Followed by a workshop Insight that includes the most important positive and negative points of globalization within what was discussed in the…

The global financial markets relate to stocks, bonds, securities, debt, and many more. The fluctuations in the interest rate of debt and securities depend on the national interest rate of all countries. Changes in interest rates have a significant impact on foreign investment. High-interest rates have a stronger currency value than the country with lower…

Based on our research, we think raising the minimum wage will give rise to job loss, increased prices, and will limit opportunities for college and high school graduates. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the first federal minimum wage in 1938, it was set to $25 cents ($4.45 today). Throughout the history of minimum wage, Congress…

The Human Development Index is a measurement of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. A country scores a higher HDI when the lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the gross national income GNI per capita is higher. It…

South Africa’s economy has been controlled by apartheid and colonialism – racially exclusive economic and political systems predicated on exploitation of natural resources, notably gold and other minerals (Faulkner & Loewald, 2008). A large urban African working class has urbanised in the manufacturing and mining industries, but was subject to high labour supply costs, imposed…