Vanderbilt Television News Archive

According to their information, the Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world’s most extensive and complete archive of television news. It operates as a Unit of the Vanderbilt University Libraries.
The collection spans the presidential administrations of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George [...]

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IMF European growth projection for Europe

Europe’s long recession is bottoming is due to strong policy action, a rebound in confidence, and a tentative upswing in global trade according to the IMF’s new regional outlook[1].

Johan Mathisen[2] feels “bolstering potential growth may be the most important element of the strategy to secure a solid recoveryâ€, when looking beyond the short run. [...]

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Asia Leading Global Recovery - IMF

According to Anoop Singh[1] Asia is emerging from the global downturn faster and stronger than any other region.
Growth in the region is expected to reach 2.8 percent this year, increasing to 5.8 percent in 2010, with emerging economies such as China and India turning around even more strongly.
A summary of his remarks about the [...]

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Performance of Islamic Banks in the GCC during the Crisis

Masood Ahmed[1] compares and analyzes in his article: “Did Islamic Banks in the Gulf Do Better Than Conventional Ones in the Crisis?” (Oct. 14, 2009) the performance of Islamic banks in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)[2] with conventional ones during the global financial crisis. The article is based on the IMF’s latest [...]

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Exporting - online module series

The “Exporting” online audio module series on the globalEDGE website has been produced in cooperation with the U.S. Commercial Service based on the 2008 edition of A Basic Guide to Exporting. Each of the first seventeen modules represents one of the book’s chapters and includes a case study. The final bonus module explains the [...]

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Doing Business in China Videos on YouTube

Hundreds of videos on business in China. Interviews, Documentaries, Company Profiles, Seminars, How-To’s. Everything you need to know about China to make a successful market entry.
By Terence: Associate Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing for the past 8 years.
The playlist contains:

Seminars on how to do Business in China (119 Videos).
Documentaries on how [...]

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International Management Blog is Twittering

Finally, the International Management Blog is on Twitter[1] in English and German. It took quite some time until I joined. However, now I don’t like to miss it.
I will provide international business news focusing on Asia-Pacific and links to interesting and useful web resources through Twitter.
Twitter makes it easy to write short messages with a [...]

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Arampur – a Virtual Indian Village

A Virtual Village at the Wesleyan University website, is a free pedagogical tool that allows visitors of the website to interactively explore the social worlds of the pseudonymic ‘Arampur’ village in the northeast Indian state of Bihar through its material culture.

The central feature “Roam†allows visitors to virtually ‘roam’ within this village in the state [...]

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World Clock Meeting Planner

With the World Clock Meeting Planner at time and date.com it is easy to call someone far away, to arrange a video conference, telephone- or net-based meeting with several people spread around the globe.
The World Clock Meeting Planner helps you find a convenient time, so that no one has to be up during the [...]

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European Business in China Position Paper 2009/2010 - EUCCC

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The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC) have published the European Business in China Position Paper 2009/2010 in English and Chinese.

The position paper brings together 40 individual papers prepared by the European Chamber. According to the position paper, China has taken a number of positive steps to improve the market environment for foreign companies since the publication of the last one.

However, many issues remain unresolved and European businesses have encountered new problems as operating conditions in the Chinese market have become increasingly challenging.

Though the issues faced by specific industries become more complex, the overarching theme of this year’s Paper remains clear and simple: European businesses firmly believe that China can – and should – continue the process of opening up its markets and creating a free and fair environment for all businesses operating here.

The members of the European Chamber remain confident in the Chinese market and optimistic about their business prospects here, despite the impact of the economic crisis.

However, right across industries, European businesses are still impeded by issues concerning market access, legal and political transparency and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The spectre of protectionism has also appeared, and European companies are increasingly concerned by the tendency for local companies to be favoured over foreign-invested ones. (European Business in China Position Paper 2009/2010, Executive Summary, p. 6)

The European Business in China Position Paper 2009/2010 can be downloaded from the website of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China as pdf-files[1] or purchased as hard or CD copy.

The paper is divided in six sections and an appendix:

Section One: Executive Summary

Section Two: Horizontal Issues
Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, Finance & Taxation, Human Resources, Intellectual Property Rights, Legal, Public Procurement, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Sourcing, Standards and Conformity Assessment

Section Three: Trade in Goods
Automotive and Automotive Components, Carbon Market, Cosmetics, Energy, Food & Beverage, Healthcare Equipment, Heating, Lighting, Non-Ferrous Metals, Petrochemicals, Chemicals and Refining, Pharmaceutical

Section Four: Trade in Services
Aviation, Construction, Information Technology & Telecommunications, Logistics, Maritime Transport, Travel

Section Five: Trade in Financial Services
Financial Services, Banking & Securities, Consumer Finance, Insurance, Private Equity and Strategic Mergers & Acquisitions

Section Six: Local Focus
Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Nanjing, Pearl River Delta, Shanghai, Shenyang, Tianjin

Appendix
Abbreviations, Economic Data for China

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  1. complete version of the position paper (584 p., 13.8 MB) or individual papers [↩]

Hartmut Buettner @ November 6, 2009

Your Europe - Business

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Your Europe – Business is a multilingual practical information and online government services for companies looking for business in another EU country. It is provided jointly by the European Commission and national authorities.

Website Contents:

Starting in business

  • Setting up a new business
  • Taking over a new business

Managing a business

  • Keeping the accounts
  • Paying taxes
  • Managing staff
  • Submitting statistics
  • Handling financial difficulties

Doing business responsibly

  • Keeping to environmental rules
  • Taking sustainability further

Pofiting from the EU market

  • Selling goods
  • Providing services
  • Competing fairly
  • benefiting from public contracts

Expanding a business

  • Finding business partners
  • Opening a branch
  • Merging with another company
  • Doing business outside the EU

Competing through innovation

  • Sharing new ideas
  • Conducting research
  • Protecting intellectual property

Deciding to stop

  • Transferring ownership of a business
  • Winding up a business
  • Handling bankruptcy and starting afresh

Access to finance

Business support

Information from and about specific member countries can be accessed via an interactive map.

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Hartmut Buettner @ November 4, 2009

Access to legislation in Europe

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The Guide to the legal gazettes and other official information sources in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association (pdf-file, 244 p., 4.5 MB, English) can be downloaded from the EU Bookshop[1]
free of charge.

The guide provides general information on the legislative sources of EU and its 27 member state, the European Economic Area (EEA)[2] and the four Member States of the EFTA.

Each of these 33 descriptions has the following structure:

1. Legal gazette
1.1. Overview
1.2. Details on the legal gazette in general
1.3. Details on the online edition
1.4. Details on the publishing institution
1.5. Drafting and publishing procedures

2. Collections of consolidated legislation

3. Legislative portals and online databases
3.1. Official portals
3.2. Official databases
3.3.Additional information: other commonly used legal databases

You may also like to visit the N-Lex website. There you can query national laws in 23 EU countries via a standard search screen, in 22 of the EU’s official languages.

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  1. EU Bookshop is an online service giving access to publications from the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies. In addition to the online bookshop, this service will offer an online catalogue and archive of all EU publications.
    EU Bookshop will allow users to search for EU publications, order them and where possible, download copies.
    The online EU Bookshop catalogue contains publications issued in the past three years. Earlier publications can be found in the archive. Please note that some older publications are not yet in the archive as it is still under construction. [↩]
  2. The European Economic Area (EEA) was established on 1 January 1994 following an agreement[1] between member states of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the European Community (EC), and all member states of the European Union (EU). It allows these EFTA countries to participate in the European single market without joining the EU. Source: Wikipedia [↩]

Hartmut Buettner @ October 31, 2009

Financial Times Lexicon

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You can browse 12,000 financial & business terms in the new dedicated online Financial Times Lexicon with content sourced from the FT and Longman Business Dictionaries.

Furthermore, you can follow the recent changes made to the lexicon, read the editor’s picks: Term of the day, basics of finance, in the news, or read the latest and most viewed terms.

Hartmut Buettner @ October 31, 2009