Globalization and International Business Introduction Globalization is the ongoing process that deepens and broadens the relationships and interdependence among countries. International Business is a mechanism to bring about globalization. (The term sometimes refers to the integration of world economies through the reduction of barriers to the movement of trade, capital, technology, and people. Throughout recorded history, human contacts over ever-wider geographic areas have expanded the variety
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other Institution of higher learning.. ________________________ ONWUCHEKWA CHIDI PG/MBA/08/53181 ______________________ CHIEF J. A. EZEH SUPPERVISOR ____________________ DR. UJF EWURUM HEAD OF DEPARTMENT 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would wish to express my profound gratitude to all the people who made it possible for me to conclude my second degree academic pursuit successfully. Special thanks goes to Chief J. A. Eze, my project supervisor/Adviser,
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