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Vocabulary Units 42- 47 / 54-58 / 60-62

Vocabulary Units 42- 47 / 54-58 / 60-62


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soft landing

when the economy is growing faster, commentators starts to talk about the risk or sings of overheating.

they talk about the need for a soft landing, with the government aiming to bring economic activity back to more sustainable levels.

recession

technically,  a period  of decling activity lasting two consecutive quarters or more.

severe recession is a depression  or a slump.

bubble

is a period when demand for something grows too fast

demand

the number of people who want to buy it

economic  bubble = financial bubble

Finanzblase

speculative bubble

Spekulationsblase

real estate bubble = prosperty bubble = housing bubble

Immobielienblase

mortgage bubble

Hypothekenblase

bubble bursts

demand falling very fast.

Die Blase platzt.

at the top of the market

when prices were highest

credit crunch

Kreditkrise

is a part of banking crisis.

securities

 

lending

default on

stop repaying

toxic assets

worthless (Wertlos) assets

light-touch regulation

Lichtregulierung

ratings agencies

commercial organizations that publish risk levels for different securities

rescue

retten

full-blown economic crisis

total economic crisis

full-blown=in voller Blüte

deflation

a period of falling prices and falling demand, which would be very dificult to end.

stimulus packages

actions designed to increase economy activity, for exemple lowering taxes in order to give people more money to spend.

printing money

put more money into the economy than really existed.

galloping inflation

prices rising very fast

stagflation

inflation with no economic growth.

industrialized countries = advanced economies

The west ist taken to include countries such as Japan and Australia

developing countries = less-developed contries (LDCs) at various stages of industrialization

  newly industrialized countries (NICs)

  middle-income countries

  Asian tigers (fast growing economies in SE Asia like Taiwan and Singapore)

  BRIC countries (Brazil, Russland, India, China)

income per head

the money earned and the welth possessed by each person

rural economies

based on agriculture

Third World

countries with rural economies and very little industry, where most people are very poor.

industrialized and the less-developed countries

refer to the North and the South.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

is the value of its economic output

economic output

all the goods and services produced there in a year

GDP per capita

is the total output of a particular country divided by the number of people living there.

living standards

high level of wealth for people

income distribution

the way that money is divided among the people of a country.

Gross national income (GNP) = Gross Natianal Product (GNP).

this include money coming into a country from investments abroad, minus money leaving the country to go to investors from aboard.

Globalization

is the tendency for the global economy to function as one unit, with increasing interdependence between different parts of the world.

interdependence

what happens in one place affects what happens in another

these are some of the factors that are driving globalization. Its supporters say that growth and prosperity will continue to spread thanks to?

  • free movement of capital (money for inverstment ca be easily moved around the world)
  • trade liberalization or free trade (obstacles to international trade are gradually being removed)
  • shipping costs (Versandskosten) that are ever-declining thanks to teh efficiency of containnerization.
  • telecommunications and computing costs that have fallen dramatically

Protectionism

protection for particular companies from foreign competition

for exemple with tariffs (taxes on imprted goods).

Foreign direct investment (FDI)

is when companies put monesy into investment projects in other countries.