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Hartmut Buettner @ October 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
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 [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ May 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Federal Statistical Office regularly publishes country profiles (7 pages as PDF-files) for the G-20 advanced industrial and emerging countries based on official international statistics. They give an overview of the main statistical indicators including economy and finance, demography, social conditions and the environment.
The latest editions are those of the Republic of Korea 2009 (South [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ February 9, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Interactive educational tools about International Business for use in the classroom or in executive training are available on the globalEDGEâ„¢ web site of the Michigan State University URL: http://globaledge.msu.edu/…
The modules include audio, a case study or anecdotes, a glossary of terms, quiz questions, and a list of references when applicable.
The modules are grouped into the [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ February 7, 2009 # One Comment
Transparency International (TI) looks at the so-called supply side of corruption with its Bribe Payers Index (BPI) 2008 (pdf-file, 24 pages, 244 KB). It ranks 22 of the world’s most economically influential countries in it according to the likelihood of their firms to bribe abroad.
Companies from Beglium and Canada are least likely to bribe when [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ January 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The transfer of controlled U.S. Technology[1] to a third-country national overseas is often called “deemed re-export”.
This would be the case, for example, if a U.S. exporter would transfer its controlled proprietary technology to a firm in country A, e.g. Germany and later the German company would employ an individual from country B (e.g. China, [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
globalEDGEâ„¢[1] is a knowledge web-portal for international business professionals from around the world. According to their information the site offers:
Global Resources: more than 5,000 online resources, e.g. Database of International Business Statistics (DIBS), Market Potential Index (MPI) and glossary
Countries: executive memos, statistics, historical, economic, and political conditions on 199 countries around the world
US States: [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ December 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Doing Business project of the World Bank Group has been tracking regulatory reforms aimed at improving the ease of doing business and their enforcement across 181 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level by measuring their impact on 10 indicator sets[1] since 2004. Almost 1,000 reforms have been captured until now.
Covering [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The 2008 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, released in October 2008, presents information on 2000 companies from around the world reporting major investments in R&D. The set of companies it covers comprises the top 1000 R&D investors whose registered offices are in the EU and the top 1000 registered elsewhere.
Some of the findings presented in [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The global coalition against corruption Transparency International has issued its Corruption Perception Index 2008 in Berlin on 23 September.
The CPI measures the perceived degree of corruption in the public sector of a country. It is a composite index, which is based on different surveys and analyses. The CPI 2008 compares 180 countries (the same number [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ November 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The World Investment Directory of the UNCTAD[1] provides detailed information about foreign direct investments (FDI) in many countries.
The following information about FDI can searched and downloaded by country/economy as pdf-files from URL: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/…
Country Fact Sheets for 188 economies
Each sheet contains the most recent data on FDI flows and stocks, mergers and acquisitions, largest TNCs and [...]
Hartmut Buettner @ November 3, 2008 # One Comment
International travelers who are seeking to travel to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) are subject to enhanced security requirements when the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) becomes mandatory on January 12, 2009.
All eligible travelers who wish to travel under the VWP will need to receive an electronic [...]