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,...
Economic regulation
Case study - 9 pages - International economy
A regulation is the “employment of legal instruments for the implementation of social-economic policy objectives” (Govender 2008: 10). In this way, according to OECD (2001), regulation “refers to the various instruments (both formal legal and such informal tools as...
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...
Why does the Canadian productivity lag behind that of the US? - published: 07/03/2008
Case study - 8 pages - International economy
"Productivity is our economic destiny," says Andrew Sharpe, Director of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards in Canada. Productivity is indeed important because it is related to the level of living standards (defined as GDP per capita) and the economic well-being of a specific country. As...
International business law (2006)
Course material - 8 pages - International economy
In most parts of the developed countries the economy is regulated through liberal systems. A liberal system means that there exists open markets and competition over these markets. States and governments are not the leaders of these markets. They are only the institutions which have created rules...
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...
