Foreign direct investment (FDI) is becoming increasingly critical to the economies of developing countries, in part due to a major expansion in the scope of global value chains (GVCs), whereby lead firms outsource parts of their production and services activities across complex international networks. FDI delivers important contributions including investment, employment, and foreign exchange. However, it is FDI's spillover potential—the productivity gain that may result from the diffusion ...

This toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and practical tools for conducting an analysis of a country's trade competitiveness in terms of growth and share performance, diversification, and quality. It aims to facilitate the identification of the main constraints to improved trade competitiveness and the policy responses to overcome these constraints.

This book designed for policymakers academics and researchers and SEZ program practitioners provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of SEZ programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the result of detailed surveys and case studies conducted during 2009 in ten developing countries including six in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book provides quantitative evidence of the performance of SEZs and of the factors which contribute to that performance highlighting the critical importance not jus...

The International Economic Forum of the Americas / Conference of Montreal was first held 20 years ago with the beginning of a new economic globalization movement, which gained momentum with, among other things, the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the integration of economic and financial management of the European Union, the establishment of free trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada and the advent of the involvement of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, In...

The official guide to making a bundle buying and selling through Alibaba.com, the world's largest online B2B marketplaceAlibaba.com is the world's leading global business-to-business online marketplace. People around the world use it every day to import and export products for big profits. But newcomers are often overwhelmed by the sheer number of products and the quantity of information available.The Official Alibaba.com Success Guide shows you how to ramp up your...

A new generation of food activists has come to believe that "sustainable farming" and "eating local" are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we can also deliver important economic benefits and increase food security within local economies.But after a thorough review of the evidence, economic geographer Pierre Desrochers and policy analys...

In 1920 John Maynard Keynes (British economist – considered the most influential in the 20th century) wrote that "By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." The U.S. Government and the Federal Reserve have successfully inflated prices for a hundred years, and especially since 1971 when Nixon eliminated the gold backing of the Dollar.Inflation is like a hibernating bear; it sleeps for...

A history of coffee from the sixth century to Starbucks that's "good to the last sentence" ( Las Cruces Sun News).One of Library Journal's "Best Business Books"This updated edition of The Coffee Book is jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary covering coffee from its first use in Ethiopia in the sixth century to the rise of Starbucks and the emergence of Fair Trade coffee in the twenty-first. The book explores the ...

Bring Disney-level customer experience to your organization with insider guidanceThe Experience is a unique guide to mastering the art of customer service and service relationships, based on the principles employed at the renowned leader in customer experience — the Walt Disney Company. Co-Author Bruce Loeffler spent ten years at Disney World overseeing service excellence, and has partnered with Brian T. Church in this book, to show you how to bring that s...

This insightful management book introduces an inspirational new ethics-oriented approach to business and leadership for current and future leaders. It argues that the challenges of today's global era require a new, more holistic and ethical leadership approach than conventional concepts suggest. A framework for the concept of "inclusive leadership" is developed by linking leadership challenges and tasks to the transforming world. Based on over thirty years professional experience in variou...

Are you ready to start your business in only 2 months?This book contains a comprehensive guide to aid you in starting up your own import business. Starting an import business can provide you with a huge profit margin even for very minimal investments.In this book you'll find out• Legalities involved• Type of goods you can import• Preparing your business for success• Do's and don'ts to keep in mind to avo...