This study is part of an ESCAP/UNCTAD/UNDP regional project. The objectives for the Singapore case-study include identifying the products affected by the GSP withdrawal and assessing how Singapore can regain its competitiveness, which may involve the restructuring of such industries and, if need...

The organization of this study reflects the importance of such strategic factors as determinants of trade and investment. Chapter 2 focuses on the home environment of Japanese firms, and with comparisons drawn wih the US economy, illustrate how, as the economy has restructured and modernized in...

The economies of the six countries of ASEAN are small in comparison to that of the United States; together the ASEAN GDP is about 5 per cent of the US GDP. However, their rapid growth in the 1970s and early 1980s, and outward orientation make them more important than their sall size would...

Auch die deutschen Unternehmen, die keinen Konzernabschluss erstellen und nicht an die Börse wollen, stehen in weltweiter Konkurrenz zu ausländischen Unternehmen: in ihrem Jahresabschluss sollten deshalb Rechnungslegungsgrundsätze zugrundegelegt werden, die eine internationale...

Diese Buch soll eine rigorose und gleichzeitig praktische Verständnishilfe sein, die dazu dient, den Kunden am Markt besser zu begreifen. Durch die Integration von Analyse und Anwendung hilft das Buch sowohl Studenten als auch Praktikern bei der Fokussierung auf den Kunden und dabei, diese...

Adopting a geographic lens to examine the employment of guestworkers in the United States, Be Our Guest offers readers the most comprehensive analysis of guestwork in tourism that has been produced to date. In weaving together the constellation of political and economic factors that exist across...

Innovation. No other concept is so widely celebrated, yet so secretly dreaded. The reason: innovation requires managing through uncertainty. This is hard for any organization whether private or public, small or large. This book provides a roadmap for those who want to understand and manage...

U.S. employers and the federal government devote over 1.5% of GDP annually toward promoting defined contribution (DC) retirement saving. Using a new employer-employee linked dataset covering millions of Americans, we show that this system of saving incentives benefits White workers and those...