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Econet Wireless
Econet Wireless is a Zimbabwean telecommunications and fintech group founded by Strive Masiyiwa after a five-year legal battle, operating the country's largest mobile network and the EcoCash platform with about 9 million users.
Econic Partners LLC
Econic Partners LLC is an economic consulting firm specializing in antitrust, litigation, and regulatory analysis, founded by Compass Lexecon co-founder Jonathan Orszag and launched in 2025.
Econometrica
Econometrica is the peer-reviewed journal of the Econometric Society, founded in 1933 and edited for its first 22 years by Ragnar Frisch, covering all branches of economics and ranking among the profession's top five journals.
Econometrics
Econometrics, also called econometry, is the field of economics that applies statistical methods, especially linear regression estimated by ordinary least squares, to analyze and test economic relationships in data.
Economic abuse
Economic abuse, also called financial abuse, is control by a partner, ex-partner, or family member over a person's money, credit, employment, and economic resources. Recognized in the UK Domestic Abuse Act 2021; involves control, exploitation, and employment sabotage; affects about 97% of domestic abuse cases.
Economic Adjustment Programme for Greece
The Economic Adjustment Programme for Greece was a series of three rescue-loan agreements, concluded in 2010, 2012, and 2015, between Greece, euro-area institutions, and the IMF.
Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is the EU framework coordinating member states' economic policies while the European Central Bank sets a single monetary policy for the euro.
Economic anthropology
Economic anthropology is the cross-cultural, ethnographic study of how people produce, exchange, and consume goods, a field at the interface of anthropology and economics for almost a century.
Economic bubble
An economic bubble, also called a speculative bubble, is a sustained rise in an asset's price above its fundamental value, sustained by expectations of resale.
Economic calculation problem
The economic calculation problem is Ludwig von Mises's 1920 claim that without market prices for the means of production, a socialist economy cannot perform rational economic calculation.
Economic calendar
An economic calendar is a published schedule of market-moving data releases, central bank decisions, and speeches, listing each event's time, impact rating, forecast, previous value, and actual result.
Economic Census (United States)
The Economic Census is the official five-year measure of American business conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for years ending in 2 and 7, benchmarking GDP and the Producer Price Index.
Economic collapse
Economic collapse, also called economic disaster, is an extremely severe downturn in which GDP falls more than 10 percent, as in Venezuela's 75 percent contraction from 2013 to 2021.
Economic Community of Central African States
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS, French acronym CEEAC) is a regional economic community of eleven Central African states, founded by treaty in Libreville in 1983.
Economic Competition
Economic competition occurs when firms vie for customers on price, quality, and innovation, driving lower prices and innovation; it is protected and shaped by competition law.
Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement
The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) is a preferential trade agreement signed by Taiwan and mainland China in June 2010 that cut tariffs on selected goods.
Economic Cooperation Organization (سازمان همکاری اقتصادی)
The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is a ten-member intergovernmental economic organization headquartered in Tehran, working to remove trade barriers and develop transport and energy cooperation across Eurasia.
Economic D-Day
Economic D-Day, also called Operation Economic Outcast, refers to the massive economics of the 1944 Normandy landings and to the 2026 US Treasury sanctions campaign against Iran.
Economic democracy
Economic democracy, or Wirtschaftsdemokratie, is the extension of democratic principles into the economy, especially workplace democracy via worker cooperatives and co-determination, distinct from social democracy's redistributive approach.
Economic depression
An economic depression is an unusually severe and prolonged downturn in economic activity, worse than a recession; analysts often cite a GDP decline exceeding 10 percent.
Economic development
Economic development is the sustained improvement in living standards, incomes, health, education, and opportunity in a country, broader than growth in output such as GDP.
Economic development in India
Economic development in India is the transformation from a low-income planned economy at independence in 1947 into the world's fifth-largest economy, its fastest-growing major economy, despite weak job creation.
Economic dispatch
Economic dispatch is an optimization method in power systems engineering that allocates scheduled generation among online units to minimize total fuel cost while meeting demand and operating limits.
Economic effects of Brexit
The economic effects of Brexit are the changes to UK trade, investment, and output since the 2016 referendum, estimated to have cut GDP by 4% to 8%.
Economic equilibrium
Economic equilibrium, also called market equilibrium, is the price and quantity at which quantity supplied equals quantity demanded, with no participant having an incentive to change behavior.
Economic Freedom Fighters
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), South African radical left party founded 27 July 2013 in Soweto by Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu after Malema's ANC suspension; advocates land expropriation without compensation, nationalisation of mines and banks, and 'economic freedom in our lifetime'.
Economic geography
Economic geography is the branch of spatial economics that studies where economic activity happens and why it is unevenly distributed, from Krugman's 1991 core–periphery model to the World Bank's density, distance, and division framework.
Economic Geology (journal)
Economic Geology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering mineral deposits and their origin, description, and exploration. Published since 1905, it is the flagship journal of the Society of Economic Geologists.
Economic globalization
Economic globalization, also called the globalized economy, is the growth of cross-border flows of goods, services, and capital, organized through global value chains and offshoring.
Economic growth
Economic growth is a sustained increase in an economy's output, measured as the change in real GDP at constant prices, with productivity the largest per capita driver.