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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.
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001
The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) was a US federal tax law signed June 7, 2001, the first of the two Bush tax cuts.
Economic history
Economic history is the study of economies and economic life in the past, using economic theory and statistics alongside archives, and asking how past events still shape present outcomes.
Economic history of Algeria
The economic history of Algeria traces an economy built on settler agriculture under French rule until 1962, turned into a state-socialist, oil-financed industrial project, and still hydrocarbon-dependent through crisis and civil war.
Economic history of Argentina
The economic history of Argentina, also called the Argentine paradox, traces its fall from among the world's richest countries around 1913 to repeated defaults and chronic inflation.
Economic history of Australia
The economic history of Australia traces its economy from a 1788 penal colony to the world's richest country per capita by 1890, built on wool, gold, and mining.
Economic history of Austria
The economic history of Austria traces an economy that entered the twentieth century as the industrial core of the Habsburg Empire, then rebuilt into one of postwar Europe's fastest-growing economies.
Economic history of Bangladesh
The economic history of Bangladesh covers its rise from a war-devastated, aid-dependent state in 1971 to a lower-middle-income economy of about $450 billion, built on garment exports and worker remittances.
Economic history of Belgium
The economic history of Belgium records early industrialization led by Wallonia's coal and steel after 1830, the 1960–1974 boom, deindustrialization, and Flanders's rise over Wallonia.
Economic history of Brazil
The economic history of Brazil divides into fast growth with high inflation until 1980, hyperinflation and crisis until 1994, and low inflation after the Real Plan.
Economic history of Canada
The economic history of Canada traces an economy long organized around staple exports, from fish and fur to wheat and petroleum, from colonial times through Confederation to free trade.
Economic history of Chile
The economic history of Chile traces its move from copper dependence and import substitution to free-market reforms under the Chicago Boys, then social backlash in 2019.
Economic history of China (1949–present)
The economic history of China since 1949 traces its shift from central planning to market reforms after 1978, with GDP reaching 223 times its 1952 level by 2023.
Economic history of Colombia
The economic history of Colombia covers its rise from a coffee-led economy in the early 1900s through industrialization, 1990s liberalization, and an oil boom that re-primarized exports.
Economic history of Denmark
The economic history of Denmark traces how a poor, devastated state became one of the world's richest welfare states, through cooperative dairying, industrialization, and postwar prosperity.
Economic history of Egypt
The economic history of Egypt since 1805 traces state-led development from Muhammad Ali's industrialization through a century of raw-cotton exports to Nasser's nationalization and repeated crises.
Economic history of Finland
The economic history of Finland traces its rise from a poor agrarian economy to a wealthy Nordic welfare state and high-tech producer between 1860 and 2000.
Economic history of France
The economic history of France traces the French economy from the agrarian ancien régime through industrialization, the postwar Trente Glorieuses boom, and the post-1973 slowdown to today's state-inflected mixed economy.
Economic history of Germany
The economic history of Germany, also called German economic history, traces the economy from the 1834 Zollverein through rapid industrialization, the postwar Wirtschaftswunder, and reunification after 1990.
Economic history of Greece
The economic history of Greece traces the Greek economy from the 1830s through four sovereign defaults, 1940s hyperinflation, postwar expansion, euro adoption, and the 2010–2018 debt crisis.
Economic history of Hong Kong
The economic history of Hong Kong traces its rise from a British-colonized opium-trade port in 1841 to a refugee-fueled manufacturing economy and finally a services and financial center.