Is it possible to apply moral theory in today's business world?
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
Fifty-six percent of the world's population currently lives in poverty. Indeed, 1.2 billion people live on less than 1.05 Euros per day and 2.8 billion live on 2.10 Euros per day. For a few years, fair trade has been essential as an effective alternative for reducing inequalities. In the...
Japanese Foreign Trade and Economic Relations with the Rest of the World from the Tokugawa Times to the Present
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
The history of modern Japan is history by itself. It reflects around the increasing contact with the outside world. As opposed to previous Japanese historic periods, modern Japan as a whole can be characterized as an era in which the country interferes with foreign nations more than ever before....
What are the causes and what is the significance of the global financial crisis that began in August 2007?
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
The predictions by analysts seems to have dwindled down. This can be observed through the worst hit financial crisis that began in August 2007. The reports depicting the crisis differs in many ways from previous ones. The characteristics of the previous financial downturns were that they always...
The fair trade trend, an explanation
Essay - 13 pages - International economy
The current functioning of the world economy suffers from more and more blatant imbalance which affects particularly the producers of tropical farm produces, the victims of the agro-industrial politics based essentially on the returns and the profit. The prices and the conditions of purchase...
The Mediterranean exclusive economic zones
Essay - 13 pages - International economy
Water is the most vital and essential element on earth. Water is synonymous to life as it is this liquid that controls life especially on planet Earth. As water composes nearly everything on planet earth, it is most often believed that water constitutes nearly 70% on earth. The 70% is covered up...
What is the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment?
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
One question that has been undermining the formulation of economic and financial politics in developing countries is related to the importance of foreign direct investments in financial growth. Not only is there a certain dependency on direct investment of the growth of these countries, but these...
Impacts of multinational firms in world economy
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
Nowadays, there are about 65 000 Multinational Firms (MNF). A firm is called multinational when it realizes Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), like the creation, or the repurchase of a production plant, or the creation of a subsidiary. Thus, a FDI represents a capital transfer. Moreover, all...
Delocalization: Advantages, inconveniences and consequences
Essay - 11 pages - International economy
Economic delocalization is a transfer of activities, of capital and of employment in areas of a country or of the world which have competitive advantages. Delocalization consists of separating fabrication areas and transformation products areas of consummation country. The production is...
Is India as developed as China?
Essay - 17 pages - International economy
China is currently catching everyone's attention. Being the host of the Olympic Games, places it in the midst of every discussion. The development of the country is fascinating, but criticism against Beijing is getting violent. This leaves another fast developing country, almost as crowded...
Failures and benefits of free trade and the role of World Trade Organization (WTO)
Essay - 10 pages - International economy
The free flow of international trade gained significance after the Second World War when the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was tabled. The GATT was followed by the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. The WTO was formed to establish rules for international...
What were the drivers of US economic growth in the long run?
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
The economic history of the United States is a story of impressive economic growth and development. The USA, as we know it today, is the result of major alterations, among which is the successful transformation of high levels of economic growth and major improvements in the well-being of its...
Essay: What should Asia Pacific gov-ernments do to support their adher-ence to 'good' corporate governance principle and sustainable develop-ment?
Essay - 7 pages - International economy
According to The World Bank (2006), ‘good' corporate governance (CG) refers to the structures and processes for the direction and control of companies. This involves the relationships among the management, board of directors, controlling and minority shareholders as well as stakeholders....
Environment of international trade: The United States of America
Essay - 7 pages - International economy
The United States of America does hold a position of economic supremacy in the world. Its economy is particularly large and complex to define. According to the Central Intelligence Agency's website (C.I.A., 2007), the U.S has the world's largest and most powerful economy with a gross...
International economics: The World Trade Organization
Essay - 10 pages - International economy
Pascal Lamy, General Director of the WTO recently said that “negotiations towards a conclusion to the Doha Trade Round are 70% complete”. Indeed, the WTO trade talks have not been efficient over the last few years. Lowering agricultural and industrial tariffs, reducing subsidies in...
International economics: essay on the advantages and disadvantages of globalisation
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
‘We are living a transformation which is going to reconstruct population and economy for the coming century. There will be no more national products and technologies, no more national firms, no more national industries, no more national economies. Only individuals, which constitute nations,...
Are regionalism and globalisation compatible or contradictory trends?
Essay - 8 pages - International economy
Nowadays, it is paradoxical to see the development, in a global world, of several types of regions. This process began after the Second World War, with the development of the international trade flows between economies. The creation in 1957 of the European Economic Community, by the Treaty of...
The completion of the WTO free trade agenda will produce both winners and losers in the EU - To what extend do you agree? - publié le 06/05/2008
Essay - 11 pages - International economy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international body, the purpose of which is to promote free trade by persuading countries to abolish import tariffs and other barriers. It has little by little become closely associated with globalisation. The WTO is the only international institution...
Capital markets and systems
Essay - 14 pages - International economy
Capital markets and systems: The capital market is the market for securities where companies and the government can raise long-term funds. The capital market includes the stock market and the bond market. Financial regulators, such as the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission, and Financial...
Is international cooperation for poor countries' development still efficient today ?
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
According to a recent official report of the OECD, the poor and very indebted countries are poorer today than twenty years ago. A second fact is that in the 1980's - twenty years ago - international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the WTO...
Evaluate the evolution of the world trade system
Essay - 7 pages - International economy
Before the creation of a world trade system in 1947, the countries had protectionist economic policies or preferential trade agreements for the Empires as the one of Britain and France. In the 1930s, these policies clearly showed their limits with the economic depression and the World War II. As...
The impact of multinational economic development of firms on countries in process of development
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
Since about twenty years, globalization has resulted in a display of multinationals, a development of the global networks, the international trade, the explosion of the volume of the foreign direct investments, the ascent in power of the Asian countries in the world economy. Certain countries...
The International Monetary system: history and characteristics
Essay - 9 pages - International economy
The International Monetary System' is an expression indicating all the rules elaborated by the countries to ensure, thanks to currency, a stabilization of the exchanges, and indicating the whole of the institutions charged to control and organize the monetary exchanges between the countries....
Importance of GATT and WTO for international trade
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) h?s become the organization of excellence for dealing with international trade. The transformation of the Gener?l ?greement on T?riffs ?nd Tr?de (G?TT) to WTO w?s ? n?tur?l phenomenon th?t led to ch?nges in the intern?tion?l economic scene. The WTO is, without...
International Business Environment and Strategy
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
"You have been asked by a major oil company to analyze the likely developments in the oil market over the next five years. Carefully explain the theoretical underpinnings to any predictions you make. How might your predictions influence the future strategic direction of the oil company? Explain...
