The study provides a detailed quantitative analysis, based on standard econometric models, of the trends and the configuration of trade of the CIS countries, with an emphasis on its low income members. It also contains an analysis of the CIS countries' trade potential and its re…
Trade Performance and Regional Integration of the CIS Countries is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. The CIS free trade area is, on balance, a bene…
Brings together in an integrated ananlytical framework how the main WTO adjudicators have construed the WTO law on the domestic regulatory autonomy of WTO members. An analysis identifies the flaws of these quasi-judical solutions and their potential consequences for members.
In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced--complete with Westernized names, accents, habits, and lifestyles that are organized around a foreign culture in a distant time zone. Dead R…
Peter Chapman shows how the pioneering example of the importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of today's multinational companies. The story has its source in United Fruit's nineteenth-century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica. What follows i…
These articles focus on the Far East, which has always been the author's interest, but other regions receive attention too. For nearly two centuries the VOC was the greatest mercantile corporation in the world; a massive organization which confessedly had "trade as its compass a…
Unlike other economies, family businesses in China are greatly affected by the derived Confucian culture, excessive marketization, as well as the seemingly endless institutional supervision by a transitional Chinese government. China has a strong historical legacy, devoted to pa…
This book explores how companies combine technological innovation and competitive actions that create new opportunities for business growth in the international market. The complexity of designing today's technology platforms requires profound knowledge in multiple areas. Techno…
Israel's account of how such a small nation was able to achieve and sustain an ascendancy in world trade for so long emphasizes the connection between Dutch commercial activity in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East, and its penetration of nearby European markets.
