The rise of the US currency depletes their limited foreign exchange reserves and stunts growth by making their exports more expensive. The strengthening of the dollar over the past year due to continued interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve has put severe pressure on many emerging economies, which have seen their national currencies …
Category: Developing Economies
analysis for Developing economies
Debt and Stagnation threaten Developing Economies
The news brought by the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report was not good. First we have the forecast for global growth (https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/global-economic-prospects). This is now down to 1.7%, well below the 3% previously forecast in June. For developed economies, the forecast is for growth of just 0.5% in 2023, just above the typical recession …
Industry and Tax sector
A developing country that wants to continue to provide its citizens and businesses, respectively, with opportunities to expand their digital services and platforms, must continually create easy-to-use tools and platforms and push more citizens and businesses to adopt intact digital way of fulfilling their tax obligations. A typical example of such a service is the …
Development Tips for Developing Economies
A grid of six central policies to improve both the productive activity of enterprises and the institutional framework that defines the underlying economic functions could be as follows: 1. Reduction of frictions from taxes and labor contributions, e.g. reduction of insurance contributions, solidarity contributions, income integration in a single tax scale, etc. 2. Implementation of …
Why China Has a Difficulty Getting Rid of Coal
2020 was a milestone in increasing energy production in China. China has commissioned new lignite plants that produce a total of about 38.4GW of electricity. China is the country that builds factories to increase the use of lignite for electricity generation while at the same time as a country invests most of the capital in …
Innovation as a Leader in Economic Development and What Is Needed to be Successful
Innovation is commonly defined as the “carrying out of new combinations” that include “the introduction of new goods, … new methods of production, … the opening of new markets, … the conquest of new sources of supply … and the carrying out of a new organization of any industry”. (Wikipedia). So, when innovative ideas are …
The Reasons Why Inequality Between Rich and Poor Countries Is Constantly Increasing
As the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has recently pointed out, low-income countries with few resources, weaker public health, social protection, hygiene, and problematic public services than developed countries are facing exceedingly difficult situations in dealing with the health crisis and its economic impact. by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis ©The law of …
The greater the proportion of the population in an economy that does not have a bank account, the more difficult it is to achieve sustainable growth and social well-being
The economies that are underdeveloped and cannot optimise the development of their economy while disseminating economic growth to their entire population are those in which a large part of the population does not have a bank account and access to bank transactions. According to World Bank (data.worldbank.org/indicator) data in most Latin and Central American countries …
The greater the proportion of the population in an economy that does not have a bank account, the more difficult it is to achieve sustainable growth and social well-being
The economies that are underdeveloped and cannot optimise the development of their economy while disseminating economic growth to their entire population are those in which a large part of the population does not have a bank account and access to bank transactions. According to World Bank (data.worldbank.org/indicator) data in most Latin and Central American countries …
The “Red Dragon” (China) Grows Worldwide
While the Covid-19 pandemic was initiated by China (Wuhan Province) and it appeared that the Chinese government was taken by surprise, the subsequent successful management of the response to the pandemic strengthened Chinese citizens’ confidence in the communist regime of China, increased the national confidence and pride of the Chinese (always comparing it to the …