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  2. Economic impact analysis - Wikipedia

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    An economic impact analysis (EIA) examines the effect of an event on the economy in a specified area, ranging from a single neighborhood to the entire globe. It usually measures changes in business revenue, business profits, personal wages, and/or jobs. The economic event analyzed can include implementation of a new policy or project, or may ...

  3. Economic development - Wikipedia

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    e. In the economics study of the public sector, economic and social development is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals and objectives. The term has been used frequently in the 20th and 21st centuries, but the concept has ...

  4. Socioeconomics - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes. In general it analyzes how modern societies progress, stagnate, or regress because of their local or regional economy, or the global economy.

  5. Economic globalization - Wikipedia

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    It is the increasing economic integration and interdependence of national, regional, and local economies across the world through an intensification of cross-border movement of goods, services, technologies and capital. [2] Economic globalization primarily comprises the globalization of production, finance, markets, technology, organizational ...

  6. World economy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services. [1][2 ...

  7. Economic sanctions - Wikipedia

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    According to a study by Neuenkirch and Neumeier, UN economic sanctions had a statistically significant impact on targeted states by reducing their GDP growth by an average of 2.3–3.5% per year—and more than 5% per year in the case of comprehensive UN embargoes—with the negative effects typically persisting for a period of ten years. By ...

  8. Economic consequences of population decline - Wikipedia

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    Population decline has many potential effects on individual and national economy. The single best gauge of economic success is growth in GDP per capita, not GDP. [1][2] GDP per capita is an approximate indicator of average living standards, for individual prosperity. [3] Therefore, whether population decline has a positive or negative economic ...

  9. Information economics - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Information economics or the economics of information is the branch of microeconomics that studies how information and information systems affect an economy and economic decisions. [1] One application considers information embodied in certain types of commodities that are "expensive to produce but cheap to reproduce." [2]