This comprehensive study examines the recent development of the three major gas resource countries in Central Asia. The author assesses the strategies likely to be taken by the Central Asian gas industry, especially with regard to pipeline construction.
A guide to total system approaches to all the topics needed for the information systems security professional, starting with defining the position of the information systems security officer, to establishing and managing information security programmes.
Gestion de Carteras de Acciones Internacionales (Coleccion "Economia y Gestion Internacional")
by Prosper Lamothe Fernandez
America Latina En China
by Juan Antonio Fernandez, Javier Cunat, and Maria Puyuelo
Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century. Cesar Ayala analyzes and compares the explosive growth of sugar production in the three nations following the War of 1898--when the U.S. acquired Cuba and Puerto Rico--to show how closely the development of...
Shadow economy; cross-border exchanges; informality; connectivity; New Silk Road[-]Tags website: Interdisciplinary studies, cross-border, Silk Road[-]
Global Marketing Management
by Robert D. Buzzell, John A Quelch, and Christopher A. Bartlett
This revised edition provides a wide collection of case studies and ratings in international marketing. The authors, authorities in the field, focus on companies - such as Hoover, Fisher-Price and The Body Shop International - with bases around the world. Taking a global approach, features of this edition include: new cases covering corporate social responsibility in an international context and in a hyper inflation economy; cases and readings on marketing products in Eastern Europe; and coverag...
Doing Business in Poland (CBI Initiative Eastern Europe)
by Nadine Kettaneh
Data for the book and the website is supplied by the local offices of Deloitte & Touche, Bank Austria and CMS Cameron McKenna. Information on Risk is supplied by Coface, and Grey Area Dynamics by Merchant International Group. Links to their web sites and offices in Poland are included.
Una Extrana Dictadura (Seccion Obras de Sociologia)
by Viviane Forrester
Forget Raising Hell; Raise Capital Instead Something has changed the business world. Big business has lost its allure for the new generation. Where once youthful employees pursued corporate goals, generation entrepreneur dream their own dreams. Corporate man is dead. Long live generation entrepreneur This is the age of the entrepreneur. What began in Silicon Valley as a dream for a select few has become a worldwide phenomenon. For growing numbers of young business people, creating a business has...
Handbook of deep trade agreements
by Aaditya Mattoo, Nadia Rocha, and Michele Ruta
Deep trade agreements (DTAs) cover not just trade but additional policy areas, such as international flows of investment and labor and the protection of intellectual property rights and the environment. Their goal is integration beyond trade or deep integration.These agreements matter for economic development. Their rules influence how countries (and hence, the people and firms that live and operate within them) transact, invest, work, and ultimately, develop. Trade and investment regimes determ...
2016 Top Markets Report Cloud Computing
by U S Department of Commerce and International Trade Administration
The crisis in Ukraine and the Russian annexation of Crimea have prompted the United States and the European Union to examine their energy options. While Europe's dependence on Russian natural gas supplies looms large as a major liability for Europe, Russia's dependence on the $100 billion income from gas exports may deal Europe a stronger hand. Seeking clarity about the current conflict and its energy implications - and responding to the urgent need to critically analyze Europe's short-to-medium...
This text offers a synthesis of current thinking on transnational corporations. It collects together key thinkers in international business, summarizing the theoretical developments in topics such as strategy, economic development, financial management, organization, government policy, industrialization, human resources, innovation and technology. This text should be of use to students of international business.
El Mercosur En El Siglo XXI (Biblioteca Mercosur)
by - Accioly Almeida, Ciuro Caldani, and Silva Da
UK Energy Policy and the World Market
The papers in this collection are drawn from the 1999 British Institute for Energy Economics academic conference. A main theme is the regulation of energy markets. The leading contributions are by Callum McCarthy, the UK Gas and Electricity Regulator, who considers the history of UK regulation, and by Dieter Helm of Oxford University, who details UK energy policy under the Conservative and Labour governments of the 1980s and 90s. Other contributions cover oil markets, natural gas, electricity, n...
Price-Forecasting Models for Digirad Corporation DRAD Stock (NASDAQ Composite Components, #1214)
by Ton Viet Ta
Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of "taxation without representation" was to reject Great Britain as master of the American economy and government. But tea played a longer and far more complicated role in American economic history than the events at Boston suggest. In The...
The United States and the European Union are negotiating a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This ambitious bilateral economic agreement would incorporate a free transatlantic free trade agreement yet go far beyond it to forge understandings regarding mutual investment, open services markets, nontariff and regulatory barriers, basic ground rules of the international economic order, and new agreements in areas not yet covered by multilateral regimes. While the...