Questions tagged [economy]
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Which is the country whose government has the largest public ownership in the world (net worth) over most of its natural resources?
Venezuela is another contemporary example that we have of the
detrimental effects of socialism on the environment. At one point a
couple of decades ago, Venezuela was the wealthiest nation in Latin
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Which country has the highest share of GDP that's attributed to housing? [closed]
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/11/chart-chinas-real-estate-struggles
Why it matters: At its peak, China's residential property sector was
thought to contribute an estimated 25%-30% of the country's ...
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Did the U.S. take any measure to prevent China from benefiting from friendshoring?
China is moving to deepen trade and investment links with nations the
US has prioritized for friend-shoring, a response that may keep—or
even enhance—Beijing’s primacy in global commerce.
President Xi ...
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What was the most succesful military dictatorship in the last 200 years in terms of economic growth?
Military dictatorships are controlled by military officers. I am wondering which military dictatorship was the most economically successful, you can use any figure like GDP growth, GDP per capita, GDP ...
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Is there a correlation between government responsiveness to individual/voter concerns and subsequent reduction in policy demands?
In democratic states, is there a correlation between government responsiveness to individual concerns and subsequent reduction in policy demands?
I am curious because recent polsci papers on ...
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Why are Americans' perceptions about their economy so incorrect?
According to a recent Financial Times article (paywalled), surveys indicate a large disconnect between current economic facts and the public perception, to where the majority polled are mistaken:
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Is there a country that doesn't use imputation, especially for rent, when calculating GDP?
Imputations approximate the price and quantity that would be obtained
for a good or service if it was traded in the market place. The
largest imputation in the GDP accounts is that made to approximate ...
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Why does the US still maintain so many military facilities in Western Europe?
The US maintains a lot of military facilities in countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.
This doesn't make economic sense. The US military expenditure is on trajectory to reach a ...
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Why was the Biden administration reluctant to offer lowering tariffs on goods from member countries when drafting IPEF?
Analysts have compared it to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),
which the United States withdrew from in 2017.[3] However, the
initiative is intended to be a precursor for later negotiations, as it
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Is there a link between fuel shortages in Argentina and the presidential election?
If you make a search on the internet with the keyword argentina fuel shortage you will find a lot of articles about a fuel crisis that started around the first round of the presidential election and ...
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Big mergers in the oil sector what is the opinion of the political world and anti-trust authorities?
Two new mergers in the US (and global) oil sector have just been announced. ExxonMobil is merging with Pioneer Natural and Chevron is buying Hess.
If you sort this list by revenues you will find ...
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Why is the composition of China's foreign exchange reserves classified information?
The exact composition of China's foreign exchange reserves is
classified information.[7][8] In July 2019, China's State
Administration of Foreign Exchange announced that at the end of 2014,
US dollar ...
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Why won't China reduce its exposure to US dollars after all this talk of decoupling?
As Treasury yields soar, however, that thinking may be changing - the
two-year is up 50 basis points this month and close to November's
15-year high of 4.88%, while the 10-year is up 40 basis points ...
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Role of economic developement in political stability?
Often it is given that rapid economic progress is one the things that make the Chinese communist party acceptable to the Chinese people. Can this be accepted as a given fact? Conversely, if there was ...
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Does Japan have any reason to ever repay its debt?
https://fortune.com/2015/02/26/japan-economic-time-bomb/
Takatoshi Ito, an economist at Columbia’s School of International &
Public Affairs, argued at a panel discussion on Monday that unless the
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