scholarly journals AN EMPIRICAL DATA ANALYSIS TO THE CONTRIBUTION OF TRADE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GDP ON SELECTED EUROZONE COUNTRIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (08) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Stamatis Kontsas
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All

Before the recent economic crisis international trade in goods and services, both for imports and exports, showed a steady increase throughout the OECD area, with the OECD total increasing (on average) by between5 and 6 percentage points for both measures between2004 and 2008, with imports slightly outpacing exports. In 2009 however, in the midst of the recent crisis, the ratio for both imports and exports in GDP fell markedly, wiping out nearly all of the increases recorded after2004. The GDP ratio for exports in 2009 at 24.5%, was significantly below the one for 2008 (27.7%). This pattern was mirrored by the import-to-GDP ratio for the OECD total, which decreased on average from 29.2% in2008 to 24.9% in 2009. In 2010, the shares of both imports and exports regained partly their previous losses. These increases continued in 2011, for almost all countries for which data are available. A majority of these countries has now shares of imports and exports that are larger than the pre-crisis levels. Looking at the balance of exports and imports, Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland and Ireland show large and consistent surpluses of more than 10% of GDP, whereas the Netherlands, Hungary, Iceland, Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic have surpluses of more than 5%. On the other hand Turkey, Greece, the United States, France and the United Kingdom have persistent deficits of more than 2% of GDP.

scholarly journals Necessity and Islamic juristic creativity

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Dawoody
Keyword(s):  
United States Of America ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
The One ◽  
Law Making

This article studies one of the humanitarian challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis: the dignified handling of the mortal remains of individuals that have died from COVID-19 in Muslim contexts. It illustrates the discussion with examples from Sunni Muslim-majority states when relevant, such as Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and Pakistan, and examples from English-speaking non-Muslim majority states such as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and Australia as well as Sri Lanka. The article finds that the case of the management of dead bodies of people who have died from COVID-19 has shown that the creativity and flexibility enshrined in the Islamic law-making logic and methodology, on the one hand, and the cooperation between Muslim jurists and specialised medical and forensic experts, on the other, have contributed to saving people’s lives and mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Muslim contexts.

Dissertations on Hungarian History completed since 1920

1973 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 266-293
Author(s):  
John Komlos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The One ◽  
Academic Degrees

This compilation was conceived as a means of encouraging research in Hungarian history. It is limited to dissertations completed for academic degrees in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Unless otherwise noted, all entries refer to Ph. D. dissertations. In preparing the European entries, no attempt was made to distinguish between the degrees of Doctorat de Spécialité, Doctorat d'État, and Doctorat de l'Université, on the one hand, or Dissertationen and Habilitationsschriften, on the other. The chronological limits of the compilation extend from 1920 to 1972.

scholarly journals Get Americanized? The presidential election in Slovakia

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Viera Žúborová
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Political Policy ◽  
The One ◽  
New Democracy

„Americanisation” in political campaign assumes on the one hand that all changes, techniques and campaign tools were directly taken from the United States. On the other hand, it also reflects general developments in political policy, media and society (modernization). The main objective of this article is to examine these trends by using the example of new democracy – the Slovak Republic? The paper therefore identifies the main characteristics of the process, but also to set an adequate methodological framework and try to explore it in the Slovak environment, specifically in the context of the presidential elections of 2009 and 2014.

scholarly journals Forign Influences on the Geopolitical Evolution of Cyprus

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Ileana-Gentilia Metea
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

Abstract The moments of turning around in Cyprus’ history have long been a source of opportunity for various state actors on the international stage, mentioning, on the one hand, the main stakeholders, Greece, Turkey, on the other, the big players, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia. The way they have taken advantage of certain situations has made a visible influence on the fate of the island’s inhabitants, but has also been a source of dispute at several levels: economic, geopolitical, geostrategic etc.

scholarly journals Life after Debt: The Effects of Overleveraging on Conventional and Islamic Banks

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Samar Issa
Keyword(s):  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Conventional Banks ◽  
The One ◽  
Conventional And Islamic Banks

It is generally argued that Islamic banks are safer than conventional banks. The prime reason is that their product structure is essentially asset-backed financing, while conventional banks rely heavily on leveraging, which was considered one of the main causes of the 2008 global financial crisis. This paper examines the riskiness of Islamic and conventional banks during the 2008 global crisis by measuring overleveraging, defined as the difference between actual and optimal debt. This research conducted empirical analysis on the overleveraging of 20 banks (10 conventional and 10 Islamic banks) from five different countries, namely, Bahrain, Kuwait, Malaysia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The analysis is double-folded: on the one hand, the results in this paper suggest that excess debt, rather than the mere holding of debt, was the reason behind the severe financial meltdown in 2007–2009; on the other hand, this paper shows that Islamic banks, in most of the countries in context, performed better during the recent crisis, but were subject to the second-round effect of the global crisis around the years of 2011–2013.

United States Of America (‘.us’)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R Towns
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Trademark Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Trademark Infringement ◽  
Likelihood Of Confusion ◽  
The One

The standard for trademark infringement in the United States is ‘likelihood of confusion’. Under this standard trademark infringement occurs when, dependent on the attendant circumstances, two parties’ use of the same or similar mark with related goods and services would be likely to cause the public mistakenly to believe: (1) that the goods and services emanate from the same source; or (2) that the parties are in some manner affiliated or that the goods and services of one party have the sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of the other party. In either case, trademark law aims to protect the public from deceit, and to prevent the diversion of reputation and goodwill from the one who has created it to another who has not.

Criminalization, Social Exclusion, and Access to Employment

2020 ◽  
pp. 474-495
Author(s):  
Marilyn J Pittard
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Criminal Convictions ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

This chapter provides a critical analysis of the impact of criminalization practices on access to employment in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As increasing numbers of citizens are subject to criminal conviction, often the very ones who have already experienced social and economic disadvantage, this can create a further barrier to labour market participation and to full integration into society. Thus, the criminal law can be instrumental in creating a stratified precariat based upon ‘discreditable’ statuses, creating structural traps in forms of employment with poor conditions and prospects. The chapter explores the ways in which labour laws may on the one hand aggravate this form of social exclusion, or may on the other hand relieve such social exclusion by allowing past criminal convictions eventually to be concealed and forgotten. The chapter’s normative concern is to find the right balance in this respect between, on the one hand, the necessary safeguarding of the employing enterprise, its workers and the recipients of its services, and, on the other hand, the maximizing of the possibility of rehabilitation into society of those with criminal convictions.

From Scarcity to Abundance: Achieving Quality-Assured Mass Higher Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Secondary System ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One

The United States is in a bind. On the one hand, we need millions of additional citizens with at least one year of successful post-secondary experience to adapt to the knowledge economy. Both the Gates and Lumina Foundations, and our President, have championed this goal in different ways. On the other hand, we have a post-secondary system that is trapped between rising costs and stagnant effectiveness, seemingly unable to respond effectively to this challenge. This paper analyzes several aspects of this problem, describes changes in the society that create the basis for solutions, and offers several examples from Kaplan University of emerging practice that suggests what good practice might look like in a world where quality-assured mass higher education is the norm.

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