No. ID -21 (revised) OFFICE OF INDUSTRIES WORKING PAPER U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION How Do Exchange Rates Affect Import Prices? Recent Economic Literature and Data Analysis Cathy L. Jabara Office of Industries U.S. International Trade Commission Revised, October 2009 Cathy Jabara is a Senior Economist with the Office of Industries of the U.S. International Trade Commission. Office of Industries working papers are the result of the ongoing professional research of USITC Staff
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THE MAN OF STEEL AND THE DRAGON: AUSTRALIA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA DURING THE HOWARD ERA PROPOSAL INTRODUCTION On consecutive days in October 2003, President George W Bush of the United States of America and President Hu Jintao of People’s Republic of China addressed joint sittings of both houses of the Australian Parliament. This historic occasion symbolises how Australia conducted its foreign relations with ‘East’ and ‘West’ during the Howard Era. The pragmatic decision to allow Hu Jintao
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the initial collapse of the financial sector. However, in a world that is more integrated within each country as well as across nations, the events in the financial sector have eventually trickled down to the real sector of the economies as well. Finance and financial markets play a dominant role in growth and development of modern economies – hence, any recovery from the current recession must be couched in an overall recovery of the health and performance of the financial sector. In the absence
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the initial collapse of the financial sector. However, in a world that is more integrated within each country as well as across nations, the events in the financial sector have eventually trickled down to the real sector of the economies as well. Finance and financial markets play a dominant role in growth and development of modern economies – hence, any recovery from the current recession must be couched in an overall recovery of the health and performance of the financial sector. In the absence
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The bank possesses a strong corporate clientele and it has set its vision to be a strong regional bank providing superior personal banking services. CBC was adjudged the Best Bank in Sri Lanka for 8 consecutive years up to 2006 by the ‘Global Finance’ Magazine based in US and for 5 consecutive years up to 2005 by ‘The Banker’ magazine based in UK. In Sri Lanka, Commercial Bank of Ceylon Ltd. is known as the largest and fully networked banking environment provider. The bank enjoys the reputation
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prepared for consideration by the High Level Panel on Global Sustainability at its first meeting, 19 September 2010 September 2010 United Nations Headquarters, New York _________________________ *Prepared by John Drexhage and Deborah Murphy, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) GSP1-6 Executive Summary The term, sustainable development, was popularized in Our Common Future, a report published by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. Also known
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name only a few (Barkawi 2006, 130). But those were geographically limited conflicts with localised stakes. If 9/11 had such an impact, it is as the first realisation of a form of terrorism that takes place in what Barkawi (2006) calls “the international as a distinct social space of interconnection and mutual constitution”: a new form of terrorism that knows no borders and wields causes of global range.
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Gordon Brown was keen to avoid successive budget deficits to fund government spending for the expansion of the economy, when New Labour came to power in 1997. As Chancellor he used two fiscal rules to manage the government’s finances, the Golden Rule and the Sustainable Investment Rule. The Golden Rule was a rule contained in The Code for Fiscal Stability introduced by the former Labour government. It stated that over an economic cycle, net government
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toward outsourcing IBISWorld Industry Report 56141 Document Preparation Services in the US June2012 AndrewKrabeepetcharat 2 AboutthisIndustry 2 2 2 3 Industry Definition Main Activities Similar Industries Additional Resources 16 International Trade 17 Business Locations 29 Industry Assistance 30 KeyStatistics 19 CompetitiveLandscape 19 Market Share Concentration 19 Key Success Factors 19 Cost Structure Benchmarks 21 Basis of Competition 30 Industry Data 30 Annual Change 30 Key
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economic slide. The Brookings Institution-Financial Times Tracking Indices for the Global Economic Recovery shows a steep drop in 2012 so far, leading professor Eswar Prasad of Brookings to describe the global economy as “on the ropes”. In the International Monetary Fund’s twice-yearly World Economic Outlook, published this week, Olivier Blanchard, the fund’s chief economist, said the world economy was hamstrung by uncertainty, which was pre- venting companies from investing and households from
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