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This article connects to international economics and development economics. Many know that Zimbabwe is in huge inflation and incritical economic situation. With the connection to China, they are pouring in 10billion dollars into the economic which they feel will be a great help into boosting their economy. But who really knows? I bet they have alot of aid and where is that money going to. Also, why would China do this - another scheme to lower their trade surplus and lower their suspiscons from America that they have a tight control on their money. This investment the Zimbabwe economy would probably help that a lot.

Development Economics

May 2010 - There has been an increasing trend in different parts of the world for countries to engage in economic integration through the formation of trading blocs. Using suitable example, explain the different types of trading bloc that may be formed.

Evaluate a country's decision to join a free trade area (FTA)

Subsidies being given for cheaper coal for power...The subsidy supply diagram

IA 2011 Subsidy Section 4 International Economics

Basically, the tariffs would affect agricultural and industrial products from 40 US states. Mexico placed these tarrifs due to the "protectionism" laws that have been passed in the US. Since the US had passed a protectionism law, that broke one of the rules of NAFTA thus Mexico is retaliating with this.

NAFTA trade section 4

There have been anti-world trade organization protests in Delhi. The people were protests and claiming that WTO have failed to protect their own country's interest. The biggest is that the WTO has been accused of hurting the poor due to economic policies like selling their precious items in order to please the trading policies of the IMF and WTO.

wto protest against delhi real world example section 4

Looks like a good article in terms of diagrams. Explains a lot about using monetary policy to tighten inflation - although not a lot of figures and we can use the business cycle for the lifting up from recession.

IA 2011 Inflation MOnetary Policy Recession

This might be too short but has alot of figures.
Figures - Inflation

IA 2011 Inflation Unemployment

This site allows you to place the topic, like externality or supply, and gives you the articles that have those words or about those words. It gives very recent articles and will be beneficial to the IA

articles IA 2011

This is a possibility for my IA. It attacks the demand and supply determinants for a special event, Ramandan. Possible graphs for this is the shift of the graph, increase of demand as well as the increase of supply due to this even. It has great evaluation of problems with these events as well.

IA 2011

The USA wants more people to spend but without adding to the debts that they have. Therefore, they want the Bush Tax cuts to expire in order for the rich to start spending. Although, this article is lengthy as well as hard to understand at times. Its good to skim through first.

Taxation America Wealthy Equity

It had been confirmed that the growth of Japan is much slower in this financial year than expected, 0.1% of growth. Compared to China's growth over the last eight years, 251%, Japan with only 5% growth. Everyone does believe that China will be taking over as the second biggest economy.

Japan China's Eyes BBC