FDI slowdowns due to sectoral or cyclical determinants rather than long-term trust.There are just some investors who are willing to take on a bit more risk for much larger scale and dynamics in Asia. And there are also frontier countries in Africa and Latin America that offer frontier investment opportunities with potentially high returns. It relates to global themes and the investor's level of objective (income, aggressive capital growth, and/or tax efficiency).
The continuous progression in health economics is the increasing healthcare expenditure, particularly compared to national income. For example, taking US projections for national healthcare spending from the year 2024 to 2033 shows 5.8% of annual growth onaverage, while at a slower pace the GDP is expected to increase at 4.3%. This imbalance is challenging to disregard without elevating the concerns about availability and fiscal stability.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a leading force for economic changes in the world from top technology. Its sharp deployment in areas is reshaping productivity trends, reshaping competition, and forcing governments, businesses, and employees to develop dynamic realities. Some areas are quickly emerging, attracting capital and building new values, while others are fighting to develop because automation and generic AI technologies are harassing traditional jobs.
Credit card fraud losses hit $6.2 billion during 2023 because 62 million Americans were affected, and 92% of these incidents occurred without the physical loss of the card. It is projected that card fraud globally will come to a cost of $49 billion each year by 2030 if the current trends continue. The PYMNTS report mentioned that, in previous years, 28% of consumers were considered victims of credit cards. Forbidden access into credit card accounts worries 37% either very or extremely, furthermore.
Online shopping is a wider market; there are so many pros and cons there. From the economic point of view of preference for online shopping, what are the potential drawbacks? The first one is bargaining power—the bargaining power of the buyer is zero; there is no chance for that in online shopping. The term bargaining means the buyer compares the product and prices it at what it's worth for that product.
The manufacturing industry can be enlarged in two ways: horizontal integration and vertical integration. Let's see what these two are, one by one. Horizontal integration means a merger with another manufacturer that can produce the same product. This will increase the market share. If that's the case, then we will get the customers of that merger manufacturer.
A method that everyone knows is to produce a product at the lowest price, from the price of the product sold in the market, called the minimum cost of production, as well as the maximum profit. How about it? because we produce it at a low cost from our market price but sell it at market price.