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All About Economics and Business 1 (51:01)
Examining the nature of a market economy and how it works. This program discusses primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors of the economy. It looks at different economic models, from free market to communism and considers the effects of globalization.
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Can AI Supercharge Global Economic Growth? (11:00)
This video discusses about the growing AI influence on the global economic conditions.
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Global Economies (22:00)
Global economies are evolving at different speeds, and they face both opportunities and challenges. Knowing the major markets and the stage of development for each allows businesses to determine how best to enter and expand. Learn how GDP, purchasing power parity, gender and poverty indices, and other economic tools are used to categorize developed, emerging, and developing markets. Explore how businesses use this information to assess markets and opportunities.
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Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy Of Detroit (1:31:39)
Winner of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, this documentary traces how decades of bad decisions and mismanagement led to the decay and eventual bankruptcy of the city of Detroit, a city that was once an engine of the US economy.
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New Trends in Globalization (27:49)
In this program Hazel Henderson and Linda Crompton MBA, CEO of Leadership Women-USA explore the new trends they see in globalization from the nativist popular movements in the USA and Europe led by autocratic politicians to the “Small Is Beautiful” grassroots globalist in the United Nations 195 countries who support their Sustainable Development Goals and climate.
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Series: Global Economics
This four-part series provides a foundation for studying the political economy of international trade, finance, development, and natural resource competition. 4-part series, 33-39 minutes each.
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What Role Does Life Expectancy Play for the Economic Development of Countries? (12:00)
The findings on the relation between economic development and life expectancy at birth have long been contradictory. In the theoretical model and data analysis presented in this video it is shown that prolongation of life expectancy is a turning point for economic development: As UWE SUNDE explains, the effect of life expectancy on income is negative before the transition to low birth and death rates, and positive afterwards. The findings show that investments in health are crucial to trigger the development of countries.