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Globalization

GLOBALIZATION – World Trade

In his excellent recent works on the themes [of the] nature of globalization and expanding world trade – “The World is Flat,” and the earlier “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” – The New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist and book author Thomas Friedman brilliantly describes and elegantly frames the boundaries and frontiers of the new era that corporations and capital market players have entered, beginning in 1989. 

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News & Updates

July 1, 2009
Chinese makers of faulty products rarely suffer consequences

Source:Miami Herald

Chinese manufacturers made more than half of the goods that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled last year, but few of them paid any price for producing defective wares.

July 1, 2009
Citi to sell NikkoCiti Trust for $197 million

Source:MarketWatch

Citigroup /quotes/comstock/13*!c/quotes/nls/c (C 3.02, +0.05, +1.68%) said it has reached a deal to sell NikkoCiti Trust and Banking Corporation to Nomura Trust & Banking Co. for 19 billion yen, or $197 million. "This transaction...

July 1, 2009
Downturn in Euro-Zone Manufacturing Eases

Source:Wall Street Journal

The contraction in euro-zone manufacturing output moderated for the fourth consecutive month in June, a fresh sign that the severe economic downturn in the currency block is gradually bottoming out, final data from Markit...

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Research & Insights

June 9, 2009
Spain and China in the Age of Globalization

In the first of a three-part series on the history of globalization, Spanish diplomat Luis Martinez Montes describes China’s integral role in the Spanish Empire. Going back as far as the Ming Dynasty, he recalls the great ocean...

May 26, 2009
Finland to publish CSR manual in June

Source:CITMagazine.com

A CSR manual for the Finnish meetings industry is being published in June to help buyers assess the environmental impact of their events. It comes after the Finland Convention Bureau (FCB) launched a pilot project to draw up...

April 23, 2009
The Conference Board Maintains That Global Growth

Source:The Conference Board

The Conference Board reports today that global output growth in 2009 will be slow but remains positive at 1.3% for 2009. As the G-20 gathers in London tomorrow, The Conference Board points at large discrepancies in the global...[more]

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Commentary & Opinion

July 1, 2009
Transformation of Panama

Source:Robert R. McMillan

Panama has a new democratically elected President. The May 3, 2009 Presidential election in Panama was another extremely important event. Would Panama continue to transform into a real democracy? With four democratically...[more]

July 1, 2009
New EU President Sweden To Lead Fight Against Climate Change

Source:Radio Free Europe

Shifts in priorities are a recurrent feature in the way the EU's system of rotating presidencies functions. But Sweden, a country of under 10 million people, has a history of pursuing sweeping agendas despite its small size.

June 26, 2009
Outsourcing: A survival strategy

Source:Business Mirror.com

THE global recession has led many companies, which are not yet into outsourcing, to consider outsourcing some of their functions. Those with existing outsourcing contracts are looking further on what other areas they can...

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