My global readers have long understood the unique factors involved in international business. But here in the US (and to a lesser extent the western world), the “global” in globalization is really not paid attention to. My American colleagues tend to view the world rather ethnocentricaly, often projecting western culture and western values onto the [...]
I wrote about the global food riots last week, but I felt rather strongly that this subject deserves more attention. I am ashamed by the fact that US news stories focus on rising fuel costs here in America when the consequences of rising fuel prices – the rising cost of food – is having enormous [...]
I must say, I’ve been very shocked by the popularity of my blog. I’m getting a fair amount of daily traffic, and I have developed a truly global readership. I’m still fairly new to blogging, but because of that readership I’ve tried to make my articles as professional, relevant and cutting edge as I can. [...]
The rising food and fuel prices, with related social destabilisation, may necessitate a “course correction” in the liberalisation talks on industrial goods and agriculture, the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of nations told World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Pascal Lamy at the end of last week. That was the opening paragraph of an article [...]
I discovered a great resource for business research run by the International Monetary Fund. The IMF’s “Doing Business” Project is a ranking of the business environments of 175 countries. What makes the site paritcularly useful is the fact that the ranking is comparative rather than qualitative, and it ranks countries on a spectrum of important [...]