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14.8.2. Commentary and Notes to Text 14.8.1

1. ≪частные руки≫ — owners

2. инвестиции оседают — investments accumulate

3. покрывать за счет — cover at the expense of

4. обрабатывающая промышленность — manufacturing (process, processing, secondary) industry

5. валютная устойчивость — stability of currency (currency stability)

6. противоречия глобализации — contradictions of globalization

7. беспрепятственное действие — free (unimpeded) operation

8. право собственности — right of property (of ownership, of possession), property (ownership,

proprietary) right, proprietorship, title of ownership

14.9. Oral Practice. Round Table

Hold a business talk.

We have examined the structure of a nation’s balance of payments. Economists and political

figures often speak of balance of payments deficits and surpluses. They have in mind the balances

on the current account and capital account. In our penal discussion it is interesting to hear your

reasoning of the following:

1. In what way do industrial nations (countries) attain an active balance of payments?

2. Is it correct to consider a trade deficit equally undesirable for both developing and industrial

nations?

3. Why has the United States been having the balance of trade deficit since 1971? Is it due to an

agressive international competition (European countries, Japan, South Korea and other nations)?

4. How would you substantiate the official growth of gold and foreign exchange reserves in the

Central bank of Russia in 2001-2002?

14.10. Written Practice

Summarize the unit in a paragraph of about 300—350 words.

14 Мировая экономика

Part IV

The World Market and the Market

Situation

Unit 15. The Economic Situation

and the Factors Characterizing It

15.1. Preview Basic notions

In this unit we are going to find out what is conjuncture (market sitau,itcenom

included in the concept of the market situation; sitauit)no

we will consider the term “economic situation” adnyiscm

ltednopvmand the factors characterizing it.sacetro f

risk trend (tendency) survey (research)

15.2. Warm-up

Before you start reading the unit think and try to answer the following questions:

1. Do you know what the main aim of analyzing the market situation is?

2. In what way do the risk factor and competitiveness tell upon the market situation?

3. What main factors characterize the market situation?

4. What do you know about the market situation survey?

15.3. Rapid Reading (skimming, scanning, reading for general understanding

o f th e basic Text 15.4)

Work in pairs or small groups.

1. Skim the text to find out what it is about, in general. Do not try to read or understand the text in

detail for this activity.

2. Skim quickly the parts of the text “a” and “b” and try to give a suitable heading to each part.

Make a note of these headings.

3. Find the sentence in the text (item “b”) concerning “commercial risk” and read it again. Discuss

it with a partner.

4. Make comments on the text and say what seems most interesting to you. Compare the information

gained from the text with that you gained at your specialized lectures. Discuss it in a small group.

15.4. Basic Text. The Economic Situation

A specific situation formed in the world market is sometimes characterized by the ancient Latin

term “conjuncture” (economic situation, state of the market, market situation, or economic conditions).

The market situation is varying with many changing parameters. The economic situation

usually involves a great number of concepts.

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a) The first thing is, of course, the demand and supply relation, or the market equilibrium

(balance).

Supply is determined by a number of influences. The first is price itself: the higher the price, the

more profitable it is, other things being equal, for producers to sell a good and the more they will

attempt to sell. The second is the cost of inputs: the lower are costs, the more profitable it is to sell

a good at a given price and more will be offered for sale. The third is the price of other goods: when

the price of other goods rises, the supplier of a good may find it advantageous to switch his production

to the supply of the newly high-priced goods rather than stay in the relatively less profitable