Tensions over foreign direct investment (readings summary)
Book review - 2 pages - Economy general
Foreign Direct Investment or FDI appears as a complex mechanism in which numerous and evolving issues are at stake. The first source of complexity lies in the numerous interests that may be pursued by the different actors involved. As the authors underline, the convergence of these interests is...
How does trade globalization affect women working conditions in South America?
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
The international trade agreements have important impact on people living in poverty. But these impacts operate at different levels. In some cases, trade can stimulate the development of these countries, help the economic growth, help employment, give access to local population to variated goods...
Adjustment and External Debt in Low-Income Countries
Presentation - 52 pages - Economy general
The debt crisis of the early 1980s had severe impact in Latin America and several developing countries. Closure of world capital markets led to inflationary financing of fiscal deficits, a slowdown in investment, and low rates of economic growth. Servicing external debt continues to be a key...
Is there a "Bolivarian" alternative to free market integration?
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
Since 1998, voters have elected Hugo Chavez to the presidency three times with increasing margin each time and on August 15, 2004, voters returned to polls to decide whether to remove him from office or not. 59% of voters confirmed the President's mandate and defeated the recall initiative. First...
The Monterrey Consensus The Conference on Financing for Development
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
The International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) took place between the 18 and 22 of March 2002 in Monterrey, Mexico. More than 170 countries adopted a commitment designed to “eradicate poverty, achieve sustained economic growth and promote sustainable development” in the...
Implantation of waffles in Brazil
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
Lotus bakeries is looking for new markets to sell its traditional waffles. Why Brazil would be an appropriate market? Brazil is the 10th most important economy in the world. The financial policies leaded by Lula, established the trust in the Brazilian market. The economic growth was around 0.5%...
Indian electricity, potential market research, doing business in the Indian Subcontinent
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
The following presentation is a first stage proposal in order to establish the firm in the subcontinent. This first stage is a pilot project developed in three years and aims to enter the Indian market. Depending on the results following steps would be figured out in order to plan further...
Market study hotel industry business 2005
Market study - 28 pages - Economy general
Marriott International's Q1 2005 net income was $145 million, a 27% increase compared to the same period last year. Marriott International recorded earnings per share (EPS) of $0.61 in the first quarter of 2005, up 30% from the same period in 2004.Management fees increased 52%, driven by 9.2...
E-Tourism in Europe. The E-CRM and ITCs adoption issues: how to retain customers?
Case study - 37 pages - Economy general
E-tourism offers the potential to make information and booking facilities available to a large number of consumers at a relatively lower cost. Among its several advantages are that it enables the tourism sector to make large scale savings on the production and distribution of print and other...
The Efficiency of the Scandinavian Economic and Social Model
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
?A socioeconomic model is the way in which society functions within a state. There are no set rules that define a social model; only loose definitions characterized by certain attributes like taxation, pension funds and employment'- Wikipedia. The Scandinavian model is often described as a...
From Washington to Post-Washington Consensus: A Global Analysis
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
During the 90s the Washington Consensus was the most popular economic framework used not only by Latin America but by countries all around the world. As Naim (2000) expresses, the term Washington Consensus soon acquired a life of its own, becoming a brand name known worldwide and used...
Business Cycles Analysis; The outlook for real GDP growth
Essay - 35 pages - Economy general
Nowadays, the real GDP growth seems to be the prevailing worry for every economy. We are going to analyze real GDP growth and employment in France in 2006-2007, in the context of the international economy. Our overall objective is to understand and to interpret growth forecasts for a given...
Energy policy
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
While Malthus was already painting a negative picture of the worldwide situation in 1798, he was also drawing up his famous prediction that population would outrun food supply, leading to a decrease in food per person. Indeed, there is a mathematic distortion between human reproduction rate and...
"How should we define globalization?"
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Defining the concept of globalization is very controversial and much disputed among economists, sociologists and political observers. There is no single concept of globalization, and commentators are unable to agree on the empirical evidence for its extent. These divisions are, however,...
The French motor industry in the world
Essay - 37 pages - Economy general
Since more than half a century, the motor industry has represented, in most of industrialized countries a floret of the industry. In spite of the expansion of the service sector, the French motor industry occupies a very great place in our country. The manpower mass has decreased (in France this...
How does globalization affect women?
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
While women are obviously a diverse group, compared to men they are overwhelmingly disadvantaged economically. This is shown starkly with redundancy in U.N. data. The question here, however, is whether globalization improves women's situation or makes them worse. The answer, of course,...
Product and pricing Strategies in China
Worksheets - 2 pages - Economy general
"China has new and efficient factories, an abundance of cheap labor and a willingness to use cutting-edge, lean management approaches in their facilities. This drives costs down substantially while offering reasonable quality." Whereas China is the perfect place to manufacture and sell slashed...
Is the Lisbon strategy an unattainable project?
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
In March 2000, the European Union Heads of States and Governments met at the European council of Lisbon. This statement was the basis to what is called the “Lisbon strategy” or “Lisbon process/agenda”, a politic but mostly economic development plan for the members States of...
The pricing of Discretionary Accruals: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia
Essay - 13 pages - Economy general
The accounting literature is replete with studies on earnings management. In general, these studies suggest that managers mislead the market by manipulating the accrual component of earnings. A few studies, however, suggest that the presence of discretionary accruals does not necessarily imply...
Mahathir's legacy and the stability of Malaysia
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Nowadays, Malaysia is known as a model of rapid development. Indeed, in the middle of the twentieth century, the economy of this country is agriculture-oriented and nothing hints any economic boom to come such as the one which occurs a few years later. The economic growth starts to soar as soon...
The economic power of the Chinese Diaspora
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
China's economic growth is a much debated issue and is said to change the face of the world and presently world economic patterns are being reshaped. A couple of figures can easily help to understand how deep these changes are. Over the past 10 years, the Chinese economy grew by 10% a year on...
The spatial aspects of the modern division of labor and its role in the process of globalization
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
The division of labor in the early 1930s initiated the second industrial revolution. Henry Ford got the idea of splitting tasks between as many people as possible to reduce the time required to go through each stage of the production. Nowadays some argue that we are experiencing a third...
Basic features of the evolution of the world economy
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
Knox bases his analysis on the core-periphery framework, the core mostly being the traditional triad (USA, Europe, Japan) and the periphery, most of the other nations in the world. However, this statement would not be complete if it was not for the semi-periphery highlighted by Knox where changes...
Race and Minorities - Promising Practice
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
The Urban Enterprise Center was created in 1995 to improve the social relations in Seattle after the celebrations dedicated to Martin Luther King two years prior where the offices of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce were stormed and the local citizens made themselves heard. They made...
Globalization and commerce
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Globalization is the production and distribution of products and services of a homogeneous type and quality on a worldwide basis. “Globalization is the activity whereby “distinct” national economies are subsumed and re-articulated into the system by essentially international...
Issues in and around Liberal Theory: What is Liberalism?
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
“In this essay I shall propose a theory about what liberalism is”. Dworkin's project is here clearly exposed. And, as most political thinkers when they try to define a coherent theory at the fundaments of actual political movements, “I face an immediate problem. My project supposes...
Market research firms in Russia: a comparative analysis for the benefit of foreign companies willing to set up there
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
If an international company wants to settle in Russia, it should choose a market research firm to carry out a consumer research study in order to identify market performance and dynamics, solve marketing and sales problems and point out growth opportunities. Such firms operating on the Russian...
Foreign direct investments: Issues and impact for developing countries
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
In the context of globalization, the increasing interconnection of markets and the geographical burst of the production chain can represent an opportunity for developing countries to join the world economy to enhance their growth. The resilience of foreign direct investment (FDI) during financial...
The results of the "Lisbon agenda" - the attempt to make Europe the world's most successful knowledge-based economy are generally thought to have been disappointing. What steps should be taken by the European Union, and by national governments - publié le 20/04/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
In March 2000, the Lisbon Strategy was launched to overcome a series of weaknesses in the European economy: long-term structural unemployment, a poor employment rate, and under-development of the service sector. In an often-quoted sentence, it has therefore assigned the EU "a new strategic goal...
Discuss the shift away from the conglomerate form in the advanced industrial countries, and its persistence in most emerging markets performance? - publié le 20/04/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Western business strategies are often held as models for emerging countries. Despite General Electric being the largest worldwide conglomerate, such success stories have become rather rare nowadays in the United States and Europe, although this is not true in Japan for cultural and historical...
