Part I: Pandemic ScenarioImagine that your group is a decision-making team of civil servants in a department of health. Over the past few months, your medical and public health advisors have been tracking reported cases of an unknown illness at hospitals in your jurisdiction. The illness, respiratory in nature and transmitted by close contact, appears to be caused by an unknown coronavirus strain. They have reached out to the Centers for D...
Beer lovers hit with 2.5% pint price increaseThe price of a pint of beer has risen by 2.5% since last year – but here’s where costs have fallen A postcode lottery means there's a £1.07 price difference between the cheapest and most expensive pints depending on where in Britain you drink By Olivia Feld, Digital Consumer Reporter 6th September 2018, 12:01 am Updated: 6th September 2018, 2:23 am From The Sun available at...
Final Case Study – Overview: Next week, you will complete a 200-point Final Case Study. Current assignment is 60 points. After you finish this, I will ask next part another assignment extending this outline for my portion. This week, you will complete a high-level outline assignment. This week’s outline, and the corresponding peer review discussion this week will both be very useful to you as preparation. The final...
Assignment DescriptionGdp represents the total output and the total income in the economy. The source of GDP is the production by various producers and industries. As such, each industry has a share in GDP. This means that, if the industry grows, then its share as a percentage of GDP grows as well. Moreover, when GDP grows, income level in the economy increases. As a result, some industries in the economy expand when GDP and the income level r...
Task Assignment Brief Working individually, conduct research on the economic performance of one (1) country over the last ten years, from 2005 to 2018, applying the macroeconomic indicators of real GDP, real GDP growth rate, real GDP per capita, unemployment rate and inflation rate to argue whether you think the performance to be strong or weak. Discuss the performance of the economy over those ten years and provide evidence and explanations f...
Extract the data for GDP per capita of all sovereign countries for selected years of 1960, 1990 and 2015 from global databases (like the IMF or World Bank) and perform a convergence data analysis based on the following questions. You can use any data analysis programming language that you are convenient with for this term paper. You can also use the programing language which we used in the class, Gretl, accessible for free download at?http://...
Task: This assignment covers the four course learning outcomes: 1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of how indigenous knowledge and cultural responsiveness inform practice.2. Critique and evaluate practice in the context of different audiences (local, national and/or international) and their perspectives.3. Critically analyse issues of ethics, society, culture and professional environments contextualised to professional practice.4. Critiq...
Task Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding tested in this assignment Successful students will typically be able to: • Discuss the changes in the world economy since the 1970s. • Highlight and assess the factors and developments which contributed to the process of globalisation Assignment Title: Individual presentation with narrated (audio) Power Points discussing “The concept and the process of globalisation&rdquo...
TaskA major component of your grade for this course will be a research paper. Imagine you have been asked by the central government in Beijing to advise them on an important problem facing China today and suggest a policy intervention. Your paper must be persuasive and well-researched, drawing primarily on articles from the academic literature in political science, economics, sociology, etc. You can also use some material from popular media (m...
ObjectiveThe objective of the research paper is to provide students with the opportunity to undertake a critical review and analysis of a theoretical, policy or general economic issue of personal interest. To ensure a robust analysis, the subject chosen must be both controversial in the economic academic and/or policy literature and easily researched. The instructor will provide a list of suggested topics from which an interesting pro...
Question 1) Perfect Competition and TradeQuestion 1) Perfect Competition and TradeConsider the perfectly competitive market of quinoa (a type of grain), in the country of Peru. Peru is currently close to trade to the rest of the world. In the domestic market for quinoa in Peru, the equilibrium price is 5 per kilo, customers purchase 5 million kilos, and the elasticity of demand and supply are -6 and 2 respectively.a) Suppose that the gove...
Task 1: Factors Affecting Private Housing Prices in the UKAssessment Question Supply and demand analysis allows us to investigate and understand how the operation of markets, or sometimes the failure of markets. Task 1 (1250-words) Using supply and demand analysis identify the main factors in determining the price of private housing in the UK. Support your analysis with the use of supply and demand graphs. (50 marks) T...
Question 1: Production Possibility FrontierBrazil produces ethanol from sugar, and the land used to grow sugar can be used to grow food crops the right sets out Brazil’s production possibilities for ethanol and food crops. 1. a. Draw a graph of Brazil’s PPF and explain how your graph illustrates scarcity. b. If Brazil produces 40 barrels of ethanol a day, how much food must it produce to achieve production efficiency? 2. a...
Voter views of the economy are split along partisan linesWhy the Economy Might Not Sway 2020 VotersViews of the economy are starkly split along partisan lines, and have barely budged as growth has slowed. That could make the economy matter less in 2020 than in past elections. Americans’ views of the economy have become so hardened along partisan lines that the economy may matter less in next year’s presidential election than in ...
Q1: Calculating Total Revenue and Identifying Economic Situation Q1 A local shop orders 400 cases of Coca Cola each week and sells them at a price of $5.00 per case. At the end of the first week, they have only sold 160 cases. 1.What is the total revenue received from sales? 2.What economic situation is the shop facing, surplus or shortage? Why? 3.What will have to happen to price in order for equilibrium to be attained? 4. If the pric...