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

August 27, 2010 Corporate America Begins to Get the Message: U.S. Consumers Do Not Like Dealing with Foreign Telephone Agents, Says CFI Group

Source:BusinessWire

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The percentage of consumers being funneled to call centers located in a foreign country declined for the second straight year, according to CFI Group’s latest Call Center Satisfaction Index...[more]

August 24, 2010 World stock markets fall as economy worries linger

Source:AP

BANGKOK — World stock markets retreated Tuesday as the strong yen knocked Japanese shares and investors anticipated more bad news from U.S. economic reports this week.Markets have spent most of August in the red as economic...

August 23, 2010 Inflation, not deflation, Mr. Bernanke

Source:MarketWatch

BEIJING (Caixin Online) -- In the wake of a barrage of bad economic data, the yield on two-year U.S. Treasury notes has tumbled to 0.5% and the 10-year note to 2.8%, almost reaching the levels after Lehman's collapse. Pundits in...

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Research & Insights

August 27, 2010 Corporate America Begins to Get the Message: U.S. Consumers Do Not Like Dealing with Foreign Telephone Agents, Says CFI Group

Source:BusinessWire

July 22, 2010 US Labor Department publishes updated list of products made with forced or indentured child labor

Source:US Department of Labor

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs has announced the publication of a final list of products that federal contractors must certify under Executive Order 13126 are not produced with...[more]

July 21, 2010 New book looks at globalization's effect on poverty

Source:Western Michigan University News

KALAMAZOO--The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research has published a new book based on papers six leading economists presented during Western Michigan University's 2007-08 Annual Werner Sichel Lecture-Seminar Series. The...

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Commentary & Opinion

September 1, 2010 Turning Water Rights Into Reality

Source:John Sauer, The Huffington Post

Last month the UN General Assembly declared access to water and sanitation a human right. This might seem strange if you live in the US as you are accustomed to having instantaneous access to safe drinking water and the...

August 18, 2010 How American Stimulus Creates Jobs in China Rather Than America

Source:Business Insider

Andy Xie has an interesting angle on why U.S. stimulus won't work this time around, and we've decided to run with it. Essentially, the world is too globalized today, whereby demand remains local but 'supply is global'.

August 10, 2010 6 Reasons to Temporarily Extend the Bush Tax Cuts to the Rich

Source:The Atlantic

The next big battle in Washington will be whether to extend the Bush tax cuts, and if so, how. The Obama administration has made it crystal clear that, while it wants to extend the cuts for the middle class, it intends to let...

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