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EMBA 510. Global Economics. (3).
This course provides insight into the complex working of macroeconomics from its contemporary theoretical perspective and practice. The course aims at providing an international perspective for the understanding of the subject matter and how current changes have given an ever-increasing reliance on the relevance and the necessity of macroeconomic decisions to be made in a coordinated manner among the nations in the emerging global setting. The course explains the current state of affairs in creating better opportunities for many people and business entities in the global economy. It explores the reasons for the emergence of many of the crises that have brought serious challenges in meeting the needs of balanced and well-functioning economies in many countries and regions of the world. It employs current examples such as the development of the Global Financial Crisis and its outcome in the form of increase in unemployment, high public debt and growing poverty and income gap within a country and among the nations. The class provides ample opportunities for debating the contemporary and prevailing policy initiatives with respect to issues such as inflation, exchange rate regimes, fiscal rules and regulation. Participants are encouraged and assisted to use critical and deductive reasoning, adaptive thinking and ethical judgment in reaching the possible conclusion.