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...
Crisis: are the banks yes or not guilty?
Text commentary - 1 pages - International economy
Banks are not the only reason for the crisis which we live in today. The states have also a share of responsibility by putting in work expansionist economic policies and massively injecting liquidities in the economy to maintain purchasing power by growing debt. The reproach made at the banks...
The Tax Haven
Worksheets - 2 pages - International economy
The history of the tax havens is parallel to that of taxation. In fact, 2000 years ago, the first Greek storekeepers sent emissaries to some harbors to exchange the merchandise secretly with the buyer, and so, avoid the harbor taxes. But it was during the 30's and the glorious thirty that the...
The principle of non-discrimination in the world trade organization
Worksheets - 7 pages - International economy
The principle of non discrimination in the frame of the WTO is one of the core principles at its base. Indeed, two ideas are at the heart of the WTO: liberalization of the market, and no discrimination of the trade partners herein. However, the notion of discrimination should first be defined, so...
Economic investigation : variations of the prices of flights
Case study - 6 pages - International economy
By analyzing the graphs, some factors which influence the price of flights can be found: - The distance: longer the distance between the departure airports from the arrival airports is, the greater the price of the ticket will be. This factor could be considered as logic because longer the...
Can India be called: « The future superpower »?
Case study - 4 pages - International economy
Nowadays, Western countries are facing the ascendance of new economic rivals, especially the two Asian giants: China and India. India is described as an emerging global power through the eyes of the journalists in the financial press, who emphasize its successful Bollywood movie industry, its...
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...
China and foreign direct investments: policies and strategies
Case study - 8 pages - International economy
China experimented 25 years of soviet dogma leading to its isolation from global trade. The turn-around initiated in 1978, along the strategies of four modernisations, introduces a set of policies to attract FDI, but also to control, monitor, and manage them. FDI has been used as a vehicle of...
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...
Can Fair Trade and corporate social responsibility become a competitive advantage ? The Example Of Max Havelaar
Market study - 16 pages - International economy
In our presentation, we have decided to present to you Max Havelaar, which is one of the most famous stamps of Fair Trade. Max Havelaar is present around the world under three different names: Max Havelaar, Fairtrade and Transfair. Max Havelaar doesn't sell any product. It is just an...
Free trade agreement in the wine sector
Dissertation - 19 pages - International economy
Nowadays, Australia is dealing with some new free trade agreements, such as the Australian-Chinese free trade agreements. We will be looking on how can it benefit to Australia and can change the economic situation of the country. To support this theory, we choose to focus our analysis on a...
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...
Impact of the economic boom on Irish society (2006)
Case study - 16 pages - International economy
"To be Irish in 2006 is to be living through an unprecedented social experiment" (Holmquist 2006). This statement exemplifies the Irish economic performance in the 1990s. It puts an end to the years of high spending and taxes, an increasing inflation, low growth and soaring unemployment. Since...
The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China)
Worksheets - 2 pages - International economy
GNI per capita is the dollar value of a country's Gross National Income. It is a country's final income in a year, divided by its population. Although the BRICs (countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China) are likely to become larger and more powerful force in the world economy,...
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...
Study in English and French of a Guardian article on the current economic crisis and the G20 (2009)
Text commentary - 3 pages - International economy
The current economic failure offers us a unique opportunity to put the world on a new and sustainable track. This is an extract from an article which was written by Oliver Tickell, who probably specialized in economics. This article was published in the famous British newspapers "THE GUARDIAN"....
Asian crisis - context, factors, phases and exit
Course material - 8 pages - International economy
After thirty years of sustained growth, the four "Dragons" (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan) and the "Tigers" (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines) have almost reached the economic performances of Western countries. Based on high savings, high investment rates,...
Keidanren
Course material - 2 pages - International economy
Keidanren is the abbreviation for the Japanese "Keizai Dantai Rengokai", the federation of economic organizations. It is one of the most important national federations in Japan. It is essentially a defense organization for important companies. It is said that Japan made its industry development...
What kind of lessons can we draw from recent international financial crises in Asia and in Latin America ?
Case study - 5 pages - International economy
It was nearly a decade ago that is probably sometime in July 1997, that the financial markets found themselves in a mess. It was understood that the consequence was the aftermath of two major crises. The baht (Thai currency) collapsed, and in its wake, the Indonesian rupiah, the Malaysian ringitt...
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...
Japan and Korea in globalization: why and how Japan and Korea can be key partners for European players
Worksheets - 1 pages - International economy
The PowerPoint presents a lot of schemes, tables and data about economical relationships between Asian countries and their European partners. One of the main questions is, which country will be the leader of the Asian growth? Which will lead Asia in the future?
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...
The Development of the Chinese Economy & How It Affects The Rest of The World
Case study - 7 pages - International economy
This document presents some interesting facts about the People's Republic of China. Located in Eastern Asia, it occupies an area of 3,705,406 sq. miles. Beijing is its capital city. China's population is 1,321,851,888 as on July 2007. Its currency is the Yuan and the official languages...
