Investment, an exact science

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Identifikator:: 865521182

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-48767

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lowenfeld, Henry

Title:: Investment, an exact science

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: The Financial Review of Reviews

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 160 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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189 Indies, British Guiana, Newfoundland, Costa Rica. Ten countries, stated in the order of their importance. Asia.—British India, China, Straits Settlements, Japan, Ceylon, Aden, Mauritius. Seven countries, stated in the order of their importance. Australasia. — Australian Commonwealth, New Zealand. Two countries, stated in the order of their importance. Africa.—Egypt, British South Africa (Cape of Good Hope, Natal, &c.), British West Africa (Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, &c.). Three countries, stated in the order of their importance. Thus, the facts for forty different parts of the world have been examined during fifteen years. In some countries, such as Brazil and Turkey, the necessary records do not exist. And some countries where the trade is trivial or where the facts are wanting, such as British Honduras and Cyprus, have not been included. The first thing that had to be done was to summarise the export trade for each of these forty parts of the world for each of the fifteen years 1890-1904. This has been done, and the net result of these 600 tabulations may be condensed as follows. Taking the world’s exports (from my work ing sheets) and summing them up in successive periods of five years and of ten years, so as to show the course of trade, I find that the world’s export trade is not absolutely immune from fluc tuation. It is nearly constantly increasing, but not quite, as the following statement shows :—

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