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Increasingly, it has been recognised that in their process of internationalisation multinationals may learn. They may take a strategy not only of exploitation, to leverage existing assets, competencies and products, built up in their home countries, but also, and perhaps even primarily, of...
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For two decades, the share of trade in inputs, also called vertical trade, has been dramatically increasing. In reallocating trade flows to their original input-producing industries and countries, this paper suggests a new measure of international trade: "value-added trade" and makes it possible...
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In this paper we analyse the process of the accelerated growth of the investments by the transnational corporations since the 70s, most of which (almost 90%) are mergers and cross-border purchases. These strategies predominately orientate towards the market, together with the benefit of salary...
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The inculturation process in Kenya has been challenged by internal and external sources. Internally the process has been destabilized by the Kenyan socio-religio cultural structures which are patriarchal: men have been the only proponents of the inculturation progression. Issues of...
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globalization and/or innovation, somewhat modifying the traditional Heckscher–Ohlin model. First, independently of innovation, the … globalization is examined for a country A with two industries (commodities) and four consumers: the (aggregate) worker, the … globalization. Furthermore, when country A is small, the inequality-promoting tendency is stronger. Second, the innovation is …
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From the 1980s onwards the banking sectors in all the industrialised countries have been experiencing intense restructuring, aggregation and consolidation, radically changing their ownership structures and geography. Whatever the reasons behind such restructuring processes, the globalisation of...
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From the 1980s onwards the banking sectors in all the industrialised countries have been experiencing intense restructuring, aggregation and consolidation, radically changing their ownership structures and geography. Whatever the reasons behind such restructuring processes, the globalisation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752539
At a time in history when conflict erupts daily in far-flung corners of the world, ending severe deprivation may be critical to global peace and stability. Yet we are far from reaching the goal of reducing hunger by 2025. The authors of this book bring good news: hunger can be banished in our...
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Globalization is blamed for many socio-economic shortcomings. I discuss the consequences of globalization by surveying … the empirical globalization literature. My focus is on the KOF indices of globalization (Dreher 2006a and Dreher et al … globalization and several outcome variables. Studies published more recently identify causal effects. The evidence shows that …
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The globalization of biopharmaceutical clinical trials and their offshore outsourcing, from the West to low and middle …
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