The IMF's job is to uphold global growth and economic stability by giving aid to developing countries so they can achieve macroeconomic stability and reduce poverty. ... The core mission of IMF is to secure the stability of the international monetary system in three ways, which are keeping track of the global economy and the economies of member countries, lending to countries with balance of payments difficulties, and giving help to members. ... It gives customary appraisal of worldwide prospects in its World Economic Outlook, of budgetary markets in its Global Financial Stability Report,...

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A very important principle states that "The Cost of Something Is What You Give up To Get It", this principle basically says that the cost of an item or service is what you sacrificed (time, labor, money, etc.) in order to produce it or to accomplish it. This principle is used in everyday life, for example: purchasing a new laptop can be very expensive or very cheap, it all depends on the time it took to create it, the materials used in it and the performance that the laptop will give to the person who buys it. ... Understanding these principles will also give us a road-map for unders...

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According to Kanyi (2013) the withdrawal by the aid givers has been an experience in developing countries that are corrupt or are not democratic. ... The loans which are also mainly tied that is they are to be used on specific projects and purchase goods and services from the donor country a situation that gives the donor country to sell their expensive and sometimes substandard goods and weakens the micro economic development of many companies in less developed countries. ... James Sackey, former World Bank country representative in Sierra Leone who was quoted by Jalloh (2007) said that the i...

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1. Give an overview of the issue as to be investigated by you. Barrow Island has a unique place in Western Australia's history, geography and social development. Barrow Island is located in the Carnarvon Basin, 55kms off the North West coast of Western Australia; it is one of the last remainders ...

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Caribbean: The threat looms large Development is a process of growth or advancement. The term "development" however tends to be unclear. Aidan Foster-Carter's study, Development in Sociology (1993), however, identifies four senses of the word development. These are economic development, which is ...

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Continous Improvement A Need for Growth Creation of a learning culture through out the economy is seen as essential for economic growth and to keep up with the changing needs. Firms need to become learning organization that have the capacity to continually learn from their experiences and t...

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" He provides an outline for the tenets of post-development as creating a different discourse not bounded by outdated constructs of development, changing the practices of knowing, and expanding knowledge centers to give salience to the recipients of development. ... What post-development attempts to accomplish is not necessarily giving up on development, per se, but "to imagine and practice development differently by generating new and experimental discourses and practices of development....

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Strategic alliances today play an integral role in setting the pace for strategic competitiveness in the global economy. Despite the fact that more and more business are seeking strategic alliances because of intensified global competition, such firms have failed to benefit fully from such alliances...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and n...

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The connection recognized by Cantillon also gives rise to his beliefs that this activity allocates entrepreneurs across markets in much the same way that goods and resources allocate themselves within the market. ...

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At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing economies play in the global economy. As advanced economies are searching for ways to speed up their economic engines, emerging and developing countries have been important drivers of the global economic recovery. As a result, the nature of the relationship between advanced economies and emerging on...

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