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| ==Research Questions==
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| Note to group: please add your research questions below.<br><br>
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| '''ECONOMY'''<br>
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| '''Asia'''<br>
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| * What is relative GDP to world economy?
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| * Which countries drive the regional economy?
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| * What are the trade balances of the major economies in region <br>
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| * Are the regional economies in terms of GDP increasing, and how rapidly? <br>
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| '''Middle East<br>'''
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| * What is relative GDP to world economy?
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| * Which countries drive the regional economy?
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| * What are the trade balances of the major economies in region <br>
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| * Are the regional economies in terms of GDP increasing, and how rapidly?
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| '''Europe (incl E Eu & Russia)'''
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| * What is relative GDP to world economy?
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| * Which countries drive the regional economy?
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| * What are the trade balances of the major economies in region <br>
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| * Are the regional economies in terms of GDP increasing, and how rapidly?<br>
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| '''Africa<br>'''
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| * What is relative GDP to world economy?
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| * Which countries drive the regional economy?
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| * What are the trade balances of the major economies in region <br>
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| * Are the regional economies in terms of GDP increasing, and how rapidly?
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| '''North America <br>'''
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| * What is relative GDP to world economy?
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| * Which countries drive the regional economy?
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| * What are the trade balances of the major economies in region <br>
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| * Are the regional economies in terms of GDP increasing, and how rapidly?
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| '''South America<br>'''
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| * What is relative GDP to world economy?
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| * Which countries drive the regional economy?
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| * What are the trade balances of the major economies in region <br>
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| * Are the regional economies in terms of GDP increasing, and how rapidly?<br>
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| '''Global<br>'''
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| * What are the trade balances between of the important economies? What is the size and trend in global trade?<br>
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| * What are the resource constraints with respect to economy? (in terms of natural resources)<br>
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| * What is the strength of the American Dollar compared to the Euro, Yen, Guan,...? Is it declining of increasing in the past 10 years? <br>
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| * ''What other forms of exchange (except) money are used or can be used?''
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| * In the article http://www.ode.nl/article.php?aID=4160 the following exchange forms are mentioned: Communities building Temples in Bali, Elderly Care in Japan, Health insurance companies 'pay' for healthy behahiour, frequent flyer programs and other customer programs.<br>
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| * On the site http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/barter.html links are given of all sorts of other forms of trade without using money.<br>
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| Statistics on barter in 2004: http://www.irta.com/Page.asp?Script=56
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| '''Politics'''<br>
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| PG:* What will be the role of the Central Banks (ECB, FED)to the economy? (in terms of 'mission statements')<br>
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| Article on the role of the central banks: http://www.bis.org/publ/cpss55.pdf<br>
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| Mission of ECB: http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/ecbhistoryrolefunctions2004en.pdf<br>
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| Speech Greenspan 25/8/2005: http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2005/20050826/default.htm<br>
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| PG:* What will be the role of the WTO and UN to the economy? (in terms of 'mission statements')<br>
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| Role of the UN: http://www.un.org/millennium/sg/report/full.htm<br>
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| Article on the role of the WTO: http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/oct03/trade.asp
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| PG: * What will be the role of the NGOs to the economy?
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| Article on the future of NGO's: http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/role/intro/gen/2000/111400.htm<br>
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| * ''What will the effect be of global terrorism on the economy?''
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| The following articles give insight in this topic:
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| * http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~aabadie/twe.pdf. The main theme of this article is that mobility ofproductive capital in an open economy may account for much of the difference between the direct and the equilibrium impact of terrorism.
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| * http://www.cia.gov/nic/speeches_terror_and_econ_sec.html Gives an account of the current situation, but also the uncertainties. The speech introduces the NIC 2020 project.
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| * http://www.odci.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html report of the NIC 2020 project with information on terrorism.
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| * ''How will the (in)stability of the Middle-Eastern states influence the global economy and the relation of nations?''
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| The following articles give insigth in this subject:
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| * http://www.cia.gov/nic/confreports_mideast_future.html (Again) from the NIC side. This is an overview of a one-day conference about the middle east for the scenarios of the NIC 2020 project.
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| * http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/themes/economics/ gives an overview of economy in the middle east and some usefull links to other sites.
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| PG:* What will be the effect of the European Union on the global economy (if any)?<br>
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| Speech Managing Director of the IMF: Towards a stronger Europe in the global economy: http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2003/110303.htm<br>
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| See the NIC report (top of this page)<br>
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| PG:* What are the blocks of power and what was the past development?<br>
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| PG:* What is the global military spending in relation to the global development aid?
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| * Military expenditures - dollar figure: aggregate real expenditure on arms worldwide in 1999 remained at approximately the 1998 level, about $750 billion (1999) Military expenditures - percent of GDP: roughly 2% of gross world product (1999)(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy#Gift_economy)<br>
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| * Global development aid: Yearly economic aid - recipient: official development assistance (ODA) $50 billion )(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy#Gift_economy)<br>
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| '''Society'''<br>
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| * What are the effects of the ageing population in Europe and North America to the economy? <br>
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| * How sustainable is the current social security level and health care per region? <br>
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| * The IMF has published excellent material on how demographic change affect the global economy http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2004/02/pdf/chapter3.pdf <br><br>
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| * What is the effect of increasing education levels on the economy of developing regions? <br>
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| '''Environmental'''<br>
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| * What are alternative energy sources and what is the speed of development?<br>
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| From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_resource (Sep 30,05):Wind power is one of the most cost competitive renewables today. Its long-term technical potential is believed 5 times current global energy consumption or 40 times current electricity demand. This requires 12.7% of all land area, or that land area with Class 3 or greater potential at a height of 80 meters. It assumes that the land is covered with 6 large wind turbines per square kilometer. Offshore resources experience mean wind speeds ~90% greater than that of land, so offshore resources could contribute substantially more energy.[45][46]. This number could also increase with higher altitude ground based or airborne wind turbines
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| * What are the scarce resources? <br>
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| From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_energy_development (Sep 30, 05) World energy production by source: Oil 40%, natural gas 22.5%, coal 23.3%, hydroelectric 7.0%, nuclear 6.5%, biomass and other 0.7% [5]. In the U.S., transportation accounted for 28% of all energy use and 70% of petroleum use in 2001; 97% of transportation fuel was petroleum <br>
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| * What is the effect of climate change on the global economy?
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| * What are the effects of mobility on the environment?<br>
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| Based on http://www.iea.org/Textbase/publications/index.asp: World Economic Outlook 2000
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| '''Technology and business'''<br>
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| PG: * How will the development of ICT increase the access possibilities to markets?<br>
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| See the global Digital Opportunity Initiative:http://www.opt-init.org/framework/pages/contents.html<br>
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| * What are the effects of off shoring production work by rich countries to low wage countries, and what is the trend?
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| PG: * What is the growth rate of E-commerce in the world?
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| * ''How long does it take the OPEC countries to double their refinery capacity''?
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| The OPEC site http://www.opec.org gives information about OPEC and current prices, supply and demand and considerations. The Annual statistical report. <br>
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| http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/sep-2005/22/bnews8.php gives a brief overview of current considerations about refining.<br>
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| http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,610152116,00.html gives the plans for expanding refinery capacity.<br>
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| I still have to call HP for more detailed info!
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| * ''What is the effect of the oil prices on the economy?<''br>
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| http://www.globalization101.org/news.asp?NEWS_ID=84 provides a good overview of this subject with useful links.<br> | |
| http://economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=4321834 to show some factors which help to see what the effect is.<br>
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| http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2005/01/pdf/chapter1.pdf describes how the oil prices can effect global economy.<br>
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| I still have to call HP for more detailed info!
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| * ''What are the effects of the reducing energy supply on the global economy?''
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| good links on the amount of oil that is there: <br>
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| From the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4681935.stm <br>
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| From Exxon Mobil where Colin Campbel is refering to in his interview: http://www.feasta.org/documents/wells/contents.html?one/longwell.html
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