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&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"173035871"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Despite the 2009 financial crisis&comma; the year 2010 was a point of time that actually shows two decades of strong worldwide economic growth&period; In the 1990-2010 periode&comma; the global economy rose from &dollar;22&period;8 trillion to &dollar;58 trillion&period; The leader and champion of this growth&comma; China now exports more stuff per day than it exported for the whole 1978cyear&period; Since reforms began in China out of poverty has raised 400 million people&period; Country’s economies changed a lot&period; 20 years ago Brazil and Turkey were typical examples of developing countries with huge inflation&comma; poor private sector and a fragile political system&period; Now&comma; these countries show steady growth&period; That the results that we could see&comma; but what are the factors that changed qualitative and led to this results&quest; According to Yulia Latynina there are 3 broad factors&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The world is liquid&period; Everything — people&comma; money&comma; and ideas — always flow to the most attractive and investor-friendly locations&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><b>Money flow<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A long time ago when the world was consistent money’s moving was a hard process&period; Now it is fairly easy to do&period; The global banking system operates and moves about &dollar;2 trillion daily&comma; and that money tend to the country which conditions are most favorable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph">The flow of money closely correlates to regionalism and inequality issues&period; Two main forms of money flow are foreign direct investments came from business firms and investment portfolios&comma; diversified with foreign assets&period; In the Global Economic Prospects 2011 analytics report that the growth rate for the world economy was 3&period;9&percnt; in 2010 and is likely to be to 3&period;3&percnt; this year&comma; then 3&period;6 &percnt; in 2012&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">By the way the losses precipitated by the financial crisis have been enormous&period; Total capitalization of world stock markets halved in 2008 – about &dollar;32 trillion of wealth&period; The losses in household wealth during 2008 were about &dollar;11 trillion in the United States &lpar;&dollar;8&period;5 trillion in financial assets and &dollar;2&period;5 trillion in housing assets&rpar; and were estimated at &dollar;1&period;5 trillion in the United Kingdom &lpar;&dollar;0&period;6 trillion in financial assets and &dollar;0&period;9 trillion in housing assets&rpar;&period; Losses of such magnitude have significant wealth effects on consumption and savings&period; Industrial production fell sharply in many developed and emerging countries and for the first time since 1929&comma; world trade contracted in 2009&period;&lpar; Global Stability Reports&semi; IMF Survey Magazine&rpar;&period; But the main question is where to invest the money in terms of the future economy growth&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In Doing Business 2010&comma; there were the top 10 of reformers&colon; Liberia&comma; the United Arab Emirates&comma; Tajikistan and Moldova&comma; Colombia&comma; Egypt&comma; Belarus&comma; the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia&comma; and the Kyrgyz Republic&period; Colombia and Egypt have been top global reformers in four of the past seven years&period; But those events are timely&period; Most of the firms in those countries’ economies have suffered from lower demand and a drop in private capital flows&period; Start or invest into businesses in low-income economies on average still have unresolved problems&comma; such as transferring property&comma; filing taxes or resolving a commercial dispute through the courts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Moreover there are some problems in the Europe and Central Asia Region&period; While most other countries have to invest in systems expanding and increase access&comma; the challenge in this region trying to find resources to operate and maintain existing assets to ensure reliable service at acceptable quality&period; The financial market situation in parts of the Euro Area still seems suspicious to invest in it&period; And the biggest problem that may appear in the nearest couple years is a huge money flow going into nine middle income countries because of seeking higher yields by large investors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><b>People migration<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">As for the flow of people&comma; an August 2010 survey by analytics revealed that 73 percent of the most economically active citizens from developing countries would like to leave the country&period; By the way the real percentage of immigrants is almost impossible to determine&comma; since no one slams the door&colon; people just live and work in another country&comma; being their own country’s citizens&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;More than 210 million people worldwide are living and working outside their home country&period; Of those&comma; roughly 15 to 20 percent – or as many as 42 million people – are believed to be undocumented guests&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">From one side immigrants willing to take a chance in a new country&comma; that mean high level of motivation and risk taking&comma; their average age is 28&comma; and they contribute to the workforce&period; From other side immigrants fill niches in the labor market where demand is highest relative to supply&comma; 45&percnt; of them have extremely high skill levels that mean higher expectations and lower salary on this area&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The problem is that the unemployment rate in high-level economy countries keep increasing&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">And expecting to grow in 2011-2012 on1&period;2&percnt;&comma; while the similar rate in Asia-Pacific and BRIC region is much smaller and expecting to be the same&period; The World Bank forecast shows that the global economy will slow in 2011&comma; and warned that rising commodity prices could spur a return to the sky-high inflation of 2008&period; The Washington-based development lender estimated the world economy will grow 3&period;3 percent this year compared with 3&period;9 percent in 2010&comma; a year of rebound from the 2009 recession&period; Emerging and developing countries were expected to expand 6&period;0 percent&comma; more than double the 2&period;4 percent annual rate of high-income countries&comma; the bank said in its latest Global Economic Prospects report&period; So&comma; where the people flow will turn&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><b>Rainfall of ideas<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Ideas always were free to move&period; Scientists were the first humans to the XV century who can freely traveled all over Europe&period; Copernicus studied in Krakow and then in Bologna and Padua&period; Tycho Brahe was born in Denmark &lpar;then owned by Sweden&rpar;&comma; studied in Leipzig&comma; worked for the Swedish king&comma; and later moved to Hamburg&period; Kepler worked first in Styria then moved to Prague and then in Silesia&period; As for now&comma; the situation is catastrophic&period; Ideas flow more like gas than liquid&period; Without favorable conditions&comma; they dissipate instantly&period; There are certain places where you expect research to be happening such as prestigious universities&comma; world renowned colleges and institutions&period; UK&comma; India&comma; China&comma; Israel&comma; US&comma; Germany&comma; France&comma; Ireland&comma; Japan are in the top-list of where we will get surprises in the nearest 5 years &lpar;http&colon;&sol;&sol;seedmagazine&period;com&sol;place&sol;&rpar;&period; Most of those countries already raise their tuition fee in 2-3 times&comma; so let’s wait for unexpected discoveries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Finally&comma; the lesson on those years is that in the global world closed economies do not stagnate&semi; they regress&comma; and do it fast&period; From the country with close economy washed away money&comma; people and ideas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&num;business &num;communication &num;Software &num;technology &num;small &num;strategic &num;Support &num;global &num;ecoomics &num;video &num;management &num;pool &num;money &num;Web &num;Services &num;financial<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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