a large share of the growing expenditures in South Africa goes toward the remuneration of employees. explain how unbalanced productivity growth. according to baumol unbalanced productivity growth model. affect government expenditures and briefly comment on its relevance to south Africa

Construct a discussion on the different ways that government intervenes in South Africa. Support your discussion by citing real life examples of such intervention from reliable sources (South Africa) ....Please talk about current life examples such as Covid 19 etc...

• What do you think were the reasons why Korea’s economy did not develop in the past?
• What challenges did Korea face?
• How could South Korea overcome these challenges?
• What were some of South Korea’s first exports?

• What do you think were the reasons why Korea’s economy did not develop in the past?
• What challenges did Korea face?
• How could South Korea overcome these challenges?
• What were some of South Korea’s first exports?

The junior web developer in your team is having issues displaying images from the project directory. As the senior web developer, you have identified that the path names been used are wrong. Using examples of each, explain to the junior web developer how absolute and relative file paths can affect the image display.

Suggest an organization of 7 subdirectories for your "Documents" folder. The hierarchy should be at least 2 levels deep. Write and test a PowerShell Script that uses the PowerShell command New-Item (as opposed to using the mkdir command) to create this hierarchy in the current directory, whatever it happens to be. (Hint: for the -Path switch specify a relative, not absolute path)

--> Take a copy of the / etc / passwd file to the root user's home directory.
--> Transfer the username-userID information in this file to the file named user_idler.txt.
--> Export the file named user_idler.txt in alphabetical order to user_list.txt file
--> Show how many lines the file user_idler.txt consists of.
--> Find the number of lines for the letter in the file named user_idler.txt

4.31 Implement function duplicate() that takes as input the name (a string) of a file in the current directory and returns True if the file contains duplicate words and False otherwise. duplicate('Duplicates.txt') True duplicate('noDuplicates.txt') False

Please solve using Python Language and without using str.maketrans please. Just simple programming, Thank youuuuu!!!!!

Mid-South Auto Leasing leases vehicles to consumers. The attraction to customers is that the company can offer competitive prices due to volume buying and requires an interest rate implicit in the lease that is one percent below alternate methods of financing. On September 30, 2018, the company leased a delivery truck to a local florist, Anything Grows.

The lease agreement specified quarterly payments of $3,000 beginning on September 30, 2018, the beginning of the lease, and each quarter (December 31, March 31, and June 30) through June 30, 2021 (three-year lease term). The florist had the option to purchase the truck on September 29, 2020, for $6,000 when it was expected to have a residual value of $10,000. The estimated useful life of the truck is four years. Mid-South Auto Leasing's quarterly interest rate for determining payments is 3% (approximately 12% annually). Mid-South paid $25,000 for the truck. Both companies use straight-line depreciation or amortization. Anything Grows' incremental interest rate is 12%.

Hint: A lease term ends for accounting purposes when an option becomes exercisable if it's expected to be exercised (i.e. a BPO).

1. Calculate the amount of selling profit that Mid-South would recognize in this sales-type lease. (Be careful to note that, although payments occur on the last calendar day of each quarter, since the first payment was at the beginning of the lease, payments represent an annuity due.)

2. Prepare the appropriate entries for Anything Grows and Mid-South on September 30, 2018.

3. Prepare an amortization schedule(s) describing the pattern of interest expense for Anything Grows and interest revenue for Mid-South Auto Leasing over the lease term.

4. Prepare the appropriate entries for Anything Grows and Mid-South Auto Leasing on December 31, 2018.

5. Prepare the appropriate entries for Anything Grows and Mid-South on September 29, 2020, assuming the purchase option was exercised on that date.

Please read the case and answer the question at the end of the case.

Title: Last-chance saloon GM prepares to close five factories, attracting Donald Trump’s ire Mary Barra is responding to customers’ soaring appetite for SUVs and pickups

By: Print edition | Business, The Economist.Nov 29th 2018 | NEW YORK

THE CAR industry’s changing fortunes have left a deep mark on Detroit’s urban landscape. Once-bustling factories such as the Fisher body plant, Ford’s Highland Park and the Packard plant became vast, abandoned graphitized shells—a sad reminder of the former might of America’s “motor city”. Now General Motors’s Hamtramck assembly plant looks likely to join the list of closed facilities. On November 26th GM announced that Hamtramck, along with four other factories in North America, and two more unspecified plants elsewhere, would not be assigned new vehicles or components to put together after next year.

News of the cost-cutting initially sent GM’s shares soaring. In total it will trim its North American workforce by a substantial 15%. Another Michigan plant is among those to be idled, as well as facilities in Ohio and Maryland, and in Ontario, Canada. The day after the announcement, however, criticism from President Donald Trump sent shares the other way. Mr Trump tweeted that he was “very disappointed” in Mary Barra, GM’s chief executive, noting that she was not shutting down plants in Mexico or China: “The US saved General Motors, and this is the THANKS we get!” He threatened to cut off GM’s access to federal subsidies for electric cars (although industry-watchers noted that this is not a concern, since GM has mostly used up its permit. Mr Trump is not the only disgruntled politician. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, tried to reassure workers about the proposed closure of the plant at Oshawa, on the shores of Lake Ontario, where GM started making cars over half a century ago. After trade liberalisation led to tighter integration of the North American car market, cars became Oshawa’s lifeblood. When the financial crisis pushed GM towards bankruptcy, Canada joined America in bailing out the company to save local jobs.

QUESTION:

The swirl of forces upending the industry means GM probably had little choice but to take some action. As an independent economist, do you agree with the action taken by Ms Mary Barra, GM’s chief executive? Your answer must be supported by the appropriate data and information; and discussed using the appropriate concepts, theories and tools you have learned in Managerial Economics.