Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1, De Montfort University Leicester, course: International Business and Globalisation, language: English, abstract: The recession that hit in 2008 caused huge economic shocks around the globe. Governments such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and those in Europe have spent huge numbers in bailing out banks and funding large fiscal policy plans to help recover economies, not to mention bailing out countries such as Greece. All three of these nations and many of those in the EU are all developed nations who are struggling with a current account deficits due to developing countries and other countries with low cost factors of production. Firstly it is important to define what the economic challenges are to understand and explain how the policies are used to achieve these. Economic challenges are usually associated with a countries economic objectives which generally include sustainable economic growth, low targeted inflation and also the more argued topic of full employment.