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Business School Daphné ARNAUD 8th November 2010 Reg.No. 2048312 Essay: Poland’s Economy EC3408: Europe and the World Economy Yontem Sonmez The year 1989 symbolizes the end of the Soviet bloc after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November and the beginning of the transformation process of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. For this transformation to be successful the CEE countries must undertake political and economic transition, as did Poland from 1990. Poland, which has inherited

The impact of global warming on the economy [pic] Master 1 LEA Commerce International Anglais Macro-économie SUMMARY INTRODUCTION 3 I. GLOBAL WARMING 4 1. Temperature changes 4 2. Expected effects 4 3. Responses to global warming 5 II. THE IMPACT ON GLOBAL ECONOMY 8 1. Stern Report 8 ▪ Presentation of the Report 8 ▪ The key points 9 2. The most important natural disasters 11 III

17th 2006 From Economist.com One of the most influential economists of the 20th century has died AFP Get article background MILTON FRIEDMAN won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to an outstanding American economist under the age of 40, in 1951. Many consider it harder to win than a Nobel Prize. One of the measures of his greatness is that when he got it, he still had not done any of the work for which he would become most famous. Still to come were the permanent-income hypothesis, his groundbreaking

REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS - A KEY TO INTEGRATION INTO THE EUROPEAN UNION Antonija Petričušić* Summary: Impaired interethnic relations in the Western Balkan countries and the absence of multicultural policies proved to be major obstacles to stability, security and democracy in the 1990s. In attempting to identify what the security implications for enlargement are, the author argues that the EU should develop specific policies towards countries with a higher risk of ethnic tensions (e

Background The Emerging market term is usually used to describe an economy whose GDP per capita is lower than the average of the developed countries but which has, generally, a growth potential higher than the world mean. According to the definition of the World Bank, an emergent country has Growth National Product per capita (GNP) lower than 9.000 US$ even if the emergent countries should realize a growth by 6,3% in 2011 according to the forecasts. [Le Monde, 2011] There exist in this category

was one of the largest airline companies in the world. Today it is a shadow of its former self, having burned massive amounts of taxpayer money before finally entering bankruptcy with few assets remaining. The principal culprit of this debacle was the Italian government. Trying to avoid the political pain a bankruptcy would have caused, the government continued providing subsidized financing to the money-losing airline, delaying the necessary restructuring. Not only was it a gigantic waste of taxpayers’

French Capitalism The end of the XX century is marked as the primacy of capitalism as an economic system. Nevertheless it is not question of one single capitalism, but distinct kind of capitalism according to the development steps reached. In other words capitalism of the Rhineland lived with the Anglo-Saxon and Asian capitalisms. France is not excluded from this phenomenon. Indeed, industry and finance sectors got through very significant changes. That’s why the former structures and organizations

Training Services The Islamic finance industry in Luxembourg: Advantages, opportunities and challenges By Sufian Bataineh, Managing Director, Dananeer, Luxembourg Historical background and recent developments Luxembourg has a long history in Islamic finance that dates back to 1978 when the Islamic Banking System Holdings Limited Luxembourg was established as the first Islamic financial institution in Europe. This was followed by the establishment of Takafol S.A. in 1982, the first Islamic insurance

No. 285 THE EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES by Homi Kharas Research area: Global Development Outlook January 2010 The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries DEV/DOC(2010)2 DEVELOPMENT CENTRE WORKING PAPERS This series of working papers is intended to disseminate the Development Centre’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned. These papers are generally available in the original English or French, with a summary in the other language

time where it seemed to be clear that the development of international exchanges, of all natures, combine with the progressive modernization of economy, politic, and social of the planet, was going to create an obliteration of the differences between the cultures. Some were grieved, with the ideas that their rich traditions, customs, language would be lost in an afflicting uniformity, symbolized by the jeans and Coca Cola. Others were happy to see that a source of division, conflict and sometimes a