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Global Context of Modern Business
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Tutorial 11
Macroeconomic Stability
Activity 1
• Read the ‘House of Commons Library -Standard Note SN/6385 - 2012’ on unemployment and ethnicity in the UK
• Proceed to synthesise the main descriptive statistics and identify
– Potential social/economic costs of unemployment across ethnicities
– Reflect on how the Coalition could provide mobility opportunities to the marginalised
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Source: ONS 2013
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Activity 2
• Read Mini-case 7.4 ‘Nationalising British Banks’ p199 in Wetherly and Otter (2011)
• Hold a debate within the groups of 5/6 on
– Where half of the group argues for and the other half of the group argues against letting a UK bank such as Northern Rock – go bust
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Activity 2
• Towards the end of 2008
– (result of irresponsible lending)
• Accumulation of bad debt
• Flow of credit ceased
• Financial turmoil
• No inter-bank and bank-consumer lending
• UK authorities poured cash into troubled banks
• Part-nationalisation
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Activity 3
• Read the exerts of ‘Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement 2013 Speech’ and discuss the expected benefits of each fiscal policy
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Assignment
• Introduction
– A clear paragraph to set the background and introduction
• Structure of the essay
• Context of discussion
• Aims and objectives
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• Main body
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• Conclusion
– A clear paragraph to summarise the key points from discussion
– Restating the main question and/or aim of the essay
– Summary of what has been discusses (attributes, relationships and associations discussed)
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