What Causes An Appreciation In The Exchange Rate

An appreciation in the Exchange rate can occur for various reasons. The most significant reasons include higher interest rates and lower inflation. An appreciation of the exchange rate can have a significant impact on a country's economic growth and inflation therefore it is important to understand what can cause an appreciation in the exchange rate.

Mobile Small Business Enterprises In The Urban Slums Of Nairobi Micro-loans & Economic Development

Revitalizing an Urban Slum with 800,000 people in it, will not be easy and that is exactly what Kibera is in Nairobi, Kenya. The Nairobi city officials state that they are illegal settlements and they want them gone. But a plan has been floated by the Online Think Tank to tear down these urban slums in Nairobi and simultaneously build them back up and make them economically viable with small businesses.

Economic Development After Initial Revitalization of Nairobi's Slum

As the local Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya's largest slum is re-vitalized as part of a herculean effort and creates its own wind and small business environment it will be time to push for strong economic development. Once economic plan is initiated it must be maintained.

Ruined Rural Economy - India Have We Part 2

The article deals in depth the effect of the metal industry over agro due to neglected priority of GOI and subsequent lapses in taking care of farming sector and villages.

Problems of Budget Deficits

A budget deficit occurs when Government spending is greater than tax revenues. For political reasons a budget deficit often occurs. Politicians never gain votes by raising taxes and cutting spending. With many major World economies facing a large budget deficit. It is worth considering the main economic disadvantages of Government borrowing.

The Wave of Changing Demographics and the Need for an Intellectual Capital Insurance Policy

As populations age there will be fewer people providing the productivity and more people on the public receiving side of things. This poses a problem for many nations including the United States. Recently, our Online Think Tank considered this and a member William Sheridan mentioned the need for an Intellectual Capital Insurance Policy for Canada and the US.

GM-Chrysler Merger Would Hurt State Budget

Auto industry is bombarded with plant closures, job cuts and vanishing confidences. And with the potential GM-Chrysler merger, it is expected that the financial system of the entire state, not only the industry, would be greatly hurt.

The Future Super Power Struggle for World Domination

In the future both China and India with each well over one-billion in population will be vying for the top status as the great World Economic Power Houses. The United States currently has a comfortable lead with with over 3.3 times the wealth of the next closest nation in GDP. But this will change and we already see China passing Germany in the number five position.

Super Bowl Bets Beat Many Nations Gross Domestic Product

The figures are finally in for the amount of betting that occurred during the Super Bowl. The 41st Super Bowl had more betting than the gross national domestic product of the bottom 100 nations. Are we at the height of decadence as the Romans were at the height of their civilization? Does that mean we are at the top of the Bell Curve and ready to go down and decline as a nation. One would hope not and yet those are the facts.

Is China Kissing Up to the Middle East?

Not long ago I got involved in reading the liberal skewed Foreign Affairs Magazine and talking to some serious minded knowledge based thinkers who study the Middle East. Over time our discussion and dialogues became more in depth and we noted that China is very hungry for resources.

Easy Money – State of the 2007 Economy

How long will the good times last? The economy is still on a roll but don’t take it for granted.

Essential Oils – Alternatives to Afghanistan's Opium Poppy

Essential oils and spices – alternatives to opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan? According to a recent press release by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Afghanistan is currently the world's largest producer of opium, the raw ingredient for heroin.

Race and Social Class

In American society, issues of race and social class are entwined together like a chain of DNA. One cannot have an honest discussion about race without looking at the equally important issue of class since the two are closely linked.

Global Warming Means No More Oil From Middle East Needed

Global warming means that the United States can no longer burn oil, fuel or gasoline that comes from other Middle Eastern countries. We are going to stop buying them altogether and these countries will economically collapse forever and be reduced to roaming nomads in the hot deserts as they run out of water and a scorched earth will not produce any agriculture.

Microeconomics: The Choices We Make

Microeconomics is part of almost everything in our daily lives. It focuses on the individual parts that make up a market for individual goods and services and the sub-elements of those markets, such as the consumers for individual products and the individual companies that produce, manage or transport those products; and how these elements affect and are affected by the market. It determines where we live, the food we eat, our place of employment, education, and our recreation choices.