The Yuan under the pressure of the International Community Should we revaluate the Yuan?
Essay - 65 pages - International economy
In three decades, China has transformed from an economy based upon agriculture (low effective and auto centered) to an economy based upon mass industry and export. The wish of Xiaoping to open the country is completely reached (on an economy level) but his wish to develop China from the inside by...
Google, la Chine et ses hackers
Essay - 1 pages - International economy
“We detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.” It's with this sentence that David Drummond the Legal Chief Officer of Google has qualified the attack on the...
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its consequences
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
The agreement NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) defines a free trade area of 430 million inhabitants trained by the United States, Canada and Mexico. Signed by the presidents of these three countries on October 7th, 1992 in San Antonio (Texas), the treaty came into effect on January...
The World Trade Organization (WTO)
Essay - 8 pages - International economy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a multilateral trading system; in other words, it is shaped by multilateral agreements between member states based on four principles. The first principle is transparency on trade exchanges and WTO decisions. Members have a transparency obligation such as...
La Chine : le pouvoir BRIC dans le monde
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
Once upon a time, Jim O'Neill, head of economic research at Goldman Sachs, signed the report which is considered as the birth act of the BRIC's concept. Today, each BRIC countries are not equal. As David Rothkopf wrote in 'Foreign Policy': “Without China, the BRICs are just BRI, a...
Can Gulf investment be a significant driver of economic development in the wider region? - publié le 28/03/2010
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
Countries of the Arab Gulf benefit from the high incomes they get from the mining and the selling of natural oil and gas that the ground offers them. The high incomes, combined with their small population are the reasons that explain why the income per inhabitant is higher than that of the other...
La crise économique et financière
Essay - 2 pages - International economy
In the beginning of last year, everybody knew every day the bad news which were broadcasted by the media about the losses job, recession, insolvency, crisis… People had to wonder on their means of consuming. In fact, the economic crisis has its origins in United States banking institution....
The financial crisis and the automobile industry
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
Since the beginning of the world financial crisis in 2008, the automobile industry like all the other industries has been strongly impacted by the situation. The slump of the car sales was a huge setback for the majority of the constructors. During these difficult times, marketing departments...
Foreign agricultural investments and human development in Africa
Essay - 2 pages - International economy
In a time where feeding the world has become an urgent problem, highly populated countries 'delocalize' their food production in order to feed their populations. Africa is one of the most attractive targets, a phenomenon enhanced by the fact that African countries are thirsty for foreign...
Evaluate the impact of global recession on international trade and investment with respect to the country of your choice.
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
In the last few years, the International Business has been hit by a global recession. Economists were talking about the current situation of some countries, companies or economic issues more or less close to a situation of recession. These comments were relayed by lots of public media and it...
The recent economic crisis both confirms and challenges differing views of globalisation
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
Globalization is the process of making businesses, philosophies, cultures and technologies on a worldwide basis, and where the global economy is characterized as being an interconnecting market place. According to George Stonehouse and his co-writers in 'Global and Transnational...
Can Gulf investment be a significant driver of economic development in the wider region?
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
Countries of the Arab Gulf benefit from the high incomes they get from the mining and the selling of natural oil and gas that the ground offers them. Those high incomes, combined with their small population explains why the income per inhabitant is higher than in the other states. According to...
Regionalization and Globalization: are Regional Blocs and Regional Agreements Obstacles to Globalization?
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
Countries open their borders, that means lower their tariffs and allow foreign investors to come in. As a result, a global market emerges. Nevertheless, we can clearly assert that this global market, without any border does not exist yet. On the contrary many regional blocs are being formed. The...
International Trade and Growth
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
Now, in 2007, international exchanges in the world has become very frequent. Since 1945, we have seen a very strong growth of international exchanges, the world exports has progressed twice as quickly as world production. World trade accounted for 10% of the world wealth in 1960 whereas it...
The origins of the rise of precarious employment
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
Today, manpower is the largest employer in the US. This fact highlights the penetration of temp agencies into job markets in most of the capitalist countries. These companies essentially provide temporary, often part-time and low paid jobs with low protections, job insecurity and few carrier...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Essay - 8 pages - International economy
As we are in a crisis period we thought that it would be interesting to understand the International Monetary Fund. The organization is one of the main elements which can solve the current crisis. Though the development of the IMF during recent years has shown a particular interest in helping the...
Evaluate the impact of global recession on international trade and investment with respect to the country of your choice. Support your arguments with the use of relevant examples whenever possible
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
We assume that prosperity is indivisible and that growth to be sustainable must be shared. We believe that the only sure foundation for a sustainable globalization and increasing prosperity for all, is an open economy based on market principles, effective regulation and stronger global...
Globalisation and international institutions
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
Globally, 'the number of people who live with a daily income of less than $1, about 55 pence has increased by 100 million, standing at 1300 million'. At the same time, the number of armed conflicts increased in the long term period, especially the intra-state conflicts. But what is...
Eleven years after the Asian crisis, what policy lessons ?
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
Year 2008 is remembered, in History books, as the year of a major economic crisis throughout the world. As most papers put it mentioning as, “The worst since the great depression”. But as the world suddenly pays attention to its economic system and its (present) prominent imperfections,...
The Pro's and Con's of Globalization
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
Globalization gives companies access to new markets, thus facilitating a process wherein one can choose to produce, buy resources or sell in different countries according to their specific attributes. Multinational company outsourcing creates jobs in countries where the wages are lower compared...
Objectives and Importance of the WTO to Open and Develop New Commercial Markets
Essay - 15 pages - International economy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization which governs the rules of international trade between countries. Today, new markets are appearing thanks to developing countries, who also want to take part in free trade. Therefore, it is important to know how the WTO will...
China as an innovator, not just an imitator
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
A large number of patents are granted to China in various fields (green energy, space program, 3G mobiles?) underlining the fact that the country that invented paper, gunpowder and the compass many years ago is making a come-back among the international technology inventors. China has many...
How has international trade underdeveloped the Less Developed Countries (LCDs)?
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
Following the decolonization period and the collapse of USSR (1989), a lot of countries gained their independence and entered the arena of international trade, arena previously created by few states known today as the North, or the developed countries. Therefore, the structure of the system is...
Fair Trade
Essay - 17 pages - International economy
Recently, economy organization suffers imbalances which affect agricultural product producers. Price and purchase conditions are imposed without possibility to negotiate and in the majority of the cases, the price of purchase are not sufficient to cover production costs. According to United...
France and China in the world tourist competition
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
By the Socialist Economy of Market in China, started up in 1976 by Deng Xiaoping, China has showed its amazing capacity to recover and to succeed each thing undertaken. In the case of tourism, it's likely to be the same soon. The World Tourism Organization already forecasts that in 2014 the...
Oil and Poverty
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
Oil is the main source of energy in the world. It represents between 36 and 40 per cent of the global energy needs (gas represents between 21 and 24 per cent of the global energy needs and coal around 23 per cent). Four salient features of oil can be pointed out: 1. Oil is not a renewable energy...
Why do foreign aid programs succeeded in some countries and failed in many countries? What should do governments and societies from donor countries to make foreign programs work?
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
In recent years, abundant literature has been released to determine whether or not foreign aid was useful and efficient in eradicating poverty and promoting economic growth in developing countries. Indeed, in the last few decades, the amount of foreign aid provided from developed countries to...
Globalization is a positive force that uniformly bolsters the economic prospects of countries and societies around the globe. Do you agree or disagree?
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
"Another world is possible". This sentence, popularized for the first time during the demonstrations in the Doha Round, aims at denouncing the rising inequalities within countries, and considers the kind of globalization currently implemented being responsible for the prevailing situation....
The economic development of India - An essay
Essay - 2 pages - International economy
India has always been in the shadow of China's influence around the world, and therefore has very often been neglected as a real growing economy, despite its great performances and its huge population. Nevertheless, some phenomena can explain the fact that India has never been seen as a...
Ireland: a booming economy or a flash in the pan?
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
When Ireland gained its independence from Great-Britain it had to face huge economic difficulties. The country was troubled by poverty and emigration until the early 1990s. These problems though virtually disappeared over the course of that decade, which saw the beginning of unprecedented...
