Rising Food Prices, Poverty, and the Doha Round Sandra Polaski Senior Associate and Director, Trade, Equity and Development Program MAY 2008 Summary This paper examines the issues at stake in the Doha Round in light of rising food prices and their impact on global poverty. It first reviews the causes of high food prices, emphasizing those that are susceptible to action by governments. The author then presents recent evidence on how food prices affect the poor and concludes that, although many
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Problem Solution: Global Communications University of Phoenix Problem Solution: Global Communication While remembering the stakeholders’ rights Global Communication (GC) is facing a myriad of challenges to maintain its competitive edge. A premature attempt to increase the bottom line could result in a worsening of the financial situation due to organization behavior. Global Communication must remember the desired end state while remembering the methodology to achieveing that emd
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The Fast Food Industry The last 50 years or so have been turbulent ones for America. Millions of “Rosies” may have quit riveting but they did not quit working, and the Civil Rights Movement resulted in fundamental changes in American society that have leveled the playing field for most workers today. A costly police action was fought in Korea that is still smoldering today, and the last vestiges of the Vietnam War were finally played out in the most recent presidential election. During the
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Uppsala internationalization process model revisited: From liability of foreignness to liability of outsidership Jan Johanson1 and Jan-Erik Vahlne2 1 2 Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden Correspondence: J Johanson, Uppsala University, PO Box 513, SE-751 20, Uppsala, Sweden. Tel: þ 46 859255215; E-mail: jan.johanson@fek.uu.se Abstract The Uppsala internationalization process model is revisited in the light of changes in business practices and theoretical
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BUYVIP, THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF A SPANISH DOT COM The “Centro Virtual de Experiencias de Internacionalización” (On-line Centre for International Business Cases) is the result of the collaboration of the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade ICEX and AEEDE, the Spanish Association of Business Schools , which includes eleven leading Business Schools. The aim of this project is to promote the internationalisation of Spanish SMEs, drawing on the academic rigour of the business schools that
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examined based on the econometrics benchmarking method Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). Two datasets are used, a panel dataset for 32 container ports in the North Mediterranean Sea over a nine-year period, and a cross-sectional dataset for 165 container terminals worldwide. Net-effect and gross-effect SFA models are applied to both datasets. Technical, scale and overall efficiencies of individual ports/terminals are evaluated. Operation and investment strategies are examined for selected ports
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recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 1-882390-911 The Cultural Orientations Indicator®, COI® and TMC’s graphical depiction of our Cultural Orientations Model are registered trademarks of Training Management Corporation; Registration: 2,329,085 and 2,361,803. 4 Training Management Corporation TABLE OF Preface OF CONTENTS TABLE CONTENTS iii Introduction 1 Negotiation Defined
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CHAPTER 1 ENVIRONMENT AND THEORETICAL STRUCTURE OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Overview The primary function of financial accounting is to provide useful financial information to users external to the business enterprise. The focus of financial accounting is on the information needs of investors and creditors. These users make critical resource allocation decisions that affect the nation’s economy. The primary means of conveying financial information to investors, creditors, and other external users
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CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT Assignment When person from one cultural background, meet, interact with, understand and deal with person from other cultural background. That is cross-cultural management. The unawareness about the culture and beliefs of the people in a country has produced a lot of differences and misunderstandings between them and made their business field too much uncomfortable. In order to overcome this, the need of intercultural training has become very essential. In the intercultural
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