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The freer movement of goods, services, ideas and people around the world
Globalisation is the more or less simultaneous marketing and sale of identical goods and services around the world. So widespread has the phenomenon become over the past two decades that no one is surprised any more to find Coca-Cola in rural Vietnam, Accenture in Tashkent...
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"Emerging markets have been buffeted by the global economic crisis, but are more important than ever as an opportunity for recovery and growth. Rethinking strategy for these markets will be vital for business success." Daniel Franklin, Executive Editor, The Economist
Held on the banks of the River Thames, this two-day event will...
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Since early 2008, business leaders around the world have been battling the worst economic and financial crisis for more than a generation. They have endured gut-wrenching asset prices falls (notwithstanding recent equity rallies), declining customer confidence and log-jammed credit markets, to name just a few. In recent months, we have seen...
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The recession gives parsimonious innovators a chance to go global
COBBLED together from carts, old cars and anything else to hand, the improvised vehicles used by Indian farmers are often known as jugaad. The term also has a much broader meaning—referring to an innovative, low-cost way of doing something—as goods and services are provided in India...
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Chinese firms are finding new ways to buy access to foreign resources
THE government of China and the large natural-resources companies it controls have made little secret of their hunger for foreign assets. But using their overflowing coffers to make acquisitions has not been easy. In 2005 America’s Congress objected to the efforts of the...
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As Indian companies juggle their pricey foreign acquisitions, the country’s largest telephone company embarks on the biggest shopping expedition of them all
INDIANS are fond of shopping abroad, a habit left over from the era of import substitution, when they had to put up with shoddy homespun goods in the name of national self-sufficiency. This...
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The recession makes globalisation more necessary, but more precarious
A FEW years ago, Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick, two economic historians, coined the term “Chimerica” to describe the symbiosis between the world’s two great powers. Chinese people save, they observed, allowing Americans to borrow and spend more than they earn. American...
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2009 has the potential to be a watershed year for climate change. The clock is counting down to the Copenhagen conference in December, where the world's governments will meet with the aim of thrashing out a workable successor to the Kyoto Protocol and bringing both developing and developed countries into the framework in some way. The outcome will...
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Highlights of opening session of 2008 Summit, provided by UKTI
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The Emerging Markets Growth Summit, held in London on September 23rd and 24th, 2008, set out to consider the ingredients for successful investment in emerging markets, and to examine the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for both multinational companies and emerging market champions. Distinguished panellists and invited guests from both...
