...Lecturers name: Dr Antony (Tony) Drew Your name: Saif Ibn Sharif Student number: c3123892 Assignment-1 GSBS6003 Introduction and Overview In this assignment I have selected Poland to discuss its political economy and attractiveness to FDI. Poland alongside a populace of 38 million, a fully liberalized marketplace economy in the center of E urope and presently as a maximum associate of the E.U., has come to be a main recipient of FDI inflows. As a tinier growing marketplace, analyzing its accomplishment in the marketplace for FDI is instructive and relevant for countless supplementary countries. FDI has grown quickly in present years in an increasingly consolidated globe economy. The growing be forehand Collectivist asserts of Central Europe have transitioned to marketplace economies across the l ast twenty years, as in the alike era, globe flows of FDI have increased extra quickly than each suppleme ntary global commercial or commercial transactions. Melodramatic adjustments in the globe commerci al and governmental nature have endowed both the opportunity and momentum to these commercial flows. Globe FDI inflows in 1985 were approximated to be $53 billion. By 1990, aggregate FDI had graspe d $234 billion and preliminary guesstimate for 2006 indicate globe FDI is $1,340 billion1 . This rise in nominal words of extra than twenty periods 1985 level transpired above a twenty year era, even though eras of inactivity and plummet due to governmental unpredictability and commercial...
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...SHANGHAI – China’s economy is at a crossroads. As 2013 begins, foreign and domestic observers alike are asking which path the country’s economic development should take in the next decade. How can China ensure stable and sustainable growth in the face of significant internal and external challenges, including slowing medium- and long-term growth, rising labor costs, and growing inflationary pressure? After the global economic crisis weakened external demand, which sustained China’s unprecedented economic growth for three decades, the authorities agreed that internal demand, especially domestic consumption, must become the country’s new growth engine. At the Chinese Communist Party’s congress in November, China’s leaders declared their intention to double per capita income by 2020, unleashing 64 trillion renminbi ($10.2 trillion) of purchasing power. Indeed, with roughly 130 million middle-class consumers, China’s domestic market holds significant potential. The Boston Consulting Group estimates that, with an average annual GDP growth rate of 7% in China and 2% in the United States, Chinese domestic consumption will rise to half of America’s by 2015, and 80% in 2020 (assuming that the renminbi appreciates at an average rate of 3% against the US dollar over the next few years). Moreover, the current-account surplus plummeted from more than 10% of GDP in 2007 to 2.8% in 2011, reflecting China’s decreasing reliance on exports to drive economic growth. In 2010, China’s imports ranked...
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...I. Introduction 1.1 Significance of the Study The comparison between China and India is a popular topic in social sciences. Since these two very similar countries gained independence around the same time, one democratic in 1947 and another communist in 1949, many world leaders and scholars have come to view the economic, social and political performance of the two Asian giants as the best testimony of which is the better approach to modernity for developing countries (Gilley 21). Current scholarly interest tends to focus more on evaluating the different development models that China and India embrace. It is easy to find works contrasting the two countries’ economic reforms, political systems, social progress and human development, yet direct comparison between China and India’s building of soft power is lacking. However, the understanding of how China and India build their soft power strength is essential as the two Asian giants, both of which have splendid cultures and a long history, are on the rise and eager to shine in the world stage. To address such inadequacy, this paper intends to present an assessment on China and India’s soft power building and find out who has the lead in the race. 1.2 Structure of the Study The paper is divided into several sections. It begins with a literature review that goes over studies on China and India’s soft power strength. Then, it proceeds to explain the key concept “soft power” using Nye’s classic theoretical framework. Concerning...
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...economic stories has been the rise of India and China, two of Jim O’Neill’s “BRIC” countries (FT Magazine, 2010). Despite the implementation of different economic policies (Gupta, 2008) both countries have emerged as major economic forces in the global economy (Bosworth and Collins, 2007), most notably since 1980. Since then, India and China have experienced a significant reduction in poverty with China lifting 500 million out of social deprivation. According to the World Bank (2013), China has had an average GDP of 10% each year while India has seen her GDP double over a similar period. The countries are often compared due to their large population and geographical vastness as well as climbing from third world countries to major economic forces in a relatively short time. However, despite a significant increase in GDP, India has failed to demonstrate the same rates of growth as China. Although both countries were in a similar position during the early nineties, China’s GDP has increased 7 fold since this time; whereas India, although steady, GDP has doubled. The average annual rate is by 10% in China compared to 5-6% in India (see Figure 1). The purpose of this paper is to compare the rates of growth of India and China over the past 30 years and examine possible explanations for this phenomenon. The economies of these countries are underpinned by social, economic and political issues which have all been relevant to their growth. China has placed emphasis on investment...
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...After attaining freedom in 1949 china followed the principles of independence and self reliance and then later started economic and trade exchanges with foreign countries. Initially foreign trade development was relatively slow because of international politics. Before 1978 china’s trade was conducted under system of state trading where approximately a dozen foreign trade corporations monopolised all foreign trade. under this central plan regime imports were not encouraged much and also exports were allowed only to pay for the imports. its share of world trade has risen three times and its expected that will get tripled by 2020. But since the last 20 years china has witnessed a drastic change in its trade policies and patterns and china has expanded itself tremendously. many foreign trade corporations and some retain rights on some of the products. Licenses and quotas in agriculture and food products, machinery and electronics. China has recently become a trading nation and its tremendous potential has attracted developed and newly emerging economies which became evident when china joined WTO in 2000. China’s trade strategy has changed over the years, from primary to manufacturing in 1980’s and 90’s was the decade of mechanical and electronic products. This is the century of high tech IT products rapidly grabbing the market and which are highly in demand , also along with state enterprise private enterprise also engaging in foreign trade. From 80’s to 21st century china’s...
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... | |Tuan |Pham |2023027 | Table of contents 1. Why does Dell think it should expand globally? 3 2. What is the competitive advantage of Dell? 4 3- Describe the Business Model (way of working of Dell). Is this model, built by Dell in the 80's, willing able to adapt to country specific preferences? 6 4- Is Dell business model suited for the Chinese market? 7 5- What distance is the most endangering for Dell? 9 6- What did Dell do to neutralize this distance? 11 7. Make an analysis of India based on the article of Ghemawat. 12 8. Make an analysis of Russia based on the article of Lovett/ Simons & Kali. 13 9. What would be your advice if your group was the management team and had to decide between entering Russia or China? What will be your group’s primal basis for choosing? 15 Conclusion 17 Sources 18 1. Why does Dell think it should expand globally? The company’s decision whether to enter international markets or not cannot be made easily. It is often the case that a firm going into an export adventure should have stayed in the home market because it did not...
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...June 2014 Total Word Count : 3500 Executive Summary This report plan is written proposal for “Ministry of Crab” (MOC) restaurant to launch overseas. Situated at Dutch hospital, a prominent tourist location in Colombo city, MOC is currently a popular restaurant in Sri Lankan food industry. Author has analysed all the strategies that are available to go international evaluating their pros and cons. Franchising is introduced as the best option to go international for MOC in this report and facts are justified with relevant examples. Next author has looked at the market attractiveness proposing the two places which MOC should approach first in developed and developing countries. Geographical and historical facts are researched and analysed to find why MOC should approach these countries first. Next author has focused on country comparative analysis and discussed barriers to entry common to international trade. Non tariff barriers are identified related to two chosen countries that is United Kingdom and Bangladesh. In the final question author has discussed the product life cycle and international product life cycle with examples. Concluding the question author has identified the importance of Product Life Cycle for MOC to go international with franchising. The report is concluded with a conclusion chapter with relevant recommendations to MOC to enter overseas market using business format franchising. Introduction ...
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...year). An example of foreign direct investment would be an American company taking a majority stake in a company in China. Stock of foreign direct investment: The total accumulated value of foreign-owned assets at a given time. For example, French enterprises have been significant foreign investors for McDonald’s; some 1,100 French multinationals account for around 8 percent of the global stock of foreign direct investment Common law system is based on tradition, precedent, and custom. Tradition refers to a country’s legal history, precedent to cases that have come before the courts in the past, and custom to the ways in which laws are applied in specific situations. It differs from a civil law system which is based on a detailed set of laws organized into codes. When law courts interpret civil law, they do so with regard to these codes. Factor endowments are the extent to which a country is endowed with such resources as land, labor, and capital. A simple example of a factor endowment with respect to land would be the presence of natural resources such as oil. Countries with abundant oil tend to export oil, focusing internal resources toward producing the factor they have in quantity. Angola is an extreme example of such specialization: oil accounts for 98% of its exports or for instance, as China's labor force has grown more skilled, wages have risen and China has begun specializing in more complex manufactured goods. Local content requirement is a requirement that some specific...
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...BHP BILLITON Petroleum Sector BHP Billiton is one of Australia’s greatest corporate success stories; having grown from humble beginnings in Melbourne, BHP is now a multinational commodities powerhouse and claims to be the world’s largest national resources company. (Annual Report, 2009 pp. B) The BHP Billiton Petroleum sector has been the focus of big BHP investment dollars of late as the company looks to expand their operations. BHP-B Petroleum produced over 376,000 barrels of oil per day in 2009 and has maintained an impressive 9% annual growth rate since 2007. (Petroleum Annual Review, 2009 pp 5) BHP Petroleum operates in many countries across the world and is currently undertaking oil and gas projects in Australia, The Gulf of Mexico, Algeria, the UK, Pakistan and Trinidad and Tobago with the intention to expand into Malaysia, the Fawklands and Canada in the near future. (PAR, 2009 pp 5) The market for petroleum and indeed the mining industry as a whole was unsure what effect the global financial crisis would have and what action affected parties would take during the period. Regardless of the changes, such a large and important company as BHP would have to study the potential changes and start, if necessary, reformatting their financial planning/strategies and other control processes. These would have to be looked at on a whole organisational level; ranging from the BHP hierarchy all the way down to the smaller subsidiaries in order to accurately gauge the potential...
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...International Business Linked to globalization Globalization 1. What is it ? It is a process where the world is moving away from independent countries to interconnected counties 2. Status ( where we are + measurements) Wave of globalization after WOII * 50 – 60 domination of the US (“free market wave”) The trade rules are set by the US * Now domination China, Asia US domination is gone, different countries dominate the world The demographics of the world economy has changed How do you measure globalization? * University of zurich * http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/ The KOF Index of Globalization measures the three main dimensions of globalization: 1. Economic globalization * Actual flows (37%) * Trade (percentage of GDP) * Foreign direct investement, flows (percentage of GDP) * Portfolio investement (percentage of GDP) * Income payments of foreign nationals (percentage of GDP) * Restrictions * Hidden import barriers * Mean tariff rate * Taxes on international trade (percentage of current revenue) 2. Social (39%) * Data on personal contact * Data on information flows 3. political. (25%) * Embassieses 3. Types of globalization 1. Globalization of products 2. Globalization of markets Active vs passive globalization Globalization can also be passive. Companies that do not want to globalize...
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...POTENTIALITY OF FDI INFLOW IN BANGLADESH 1. INTRODUCTION Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered as one of the crucial ingredients for fostering economic development of a developing country. Countries that are lagging behind to attract FDI are formulating and implementing new policies for attracting more investment. Even compared to other South Asian countries, FDI inflow to Bangladesh has traditionally been lower. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is investment directly into production in a country by a company located in another country, either by buying a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country. Foreign direct investment is done for many reasons including to take advantage of cheaper wages in the country, special investment privileges such as tax exemptions offered by the country as an incentive to gain tariff-free access to the markets of the country or the region. Foreign direct investment is in contrast to portfolio investment which is a passive investment in the securities of another country such as stocks and bonds. 2. TYPES OF FDI As a part of the national accounts of a country FDI refers to the net inflows of investment. There are two types of FDI: inward foreign direct investment and outward foreign direct investment, resulting in a net FDI inflow (positive or negative). Inward FDI occurs when foreign capital is invested in local resources. The factors propelling the growth of inward...
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...1) INTRODUCTION India’s development strategy was based on protection, self-reliance & import substitution before the liberalization policy was accepted & initiated. Foreign capital flows were not looked upon favorably & therefore not encouraged. If there is a deficit in the current account it was financed mainly through deft flows & official development assistance. The policy followed was one which discouraged foreign investment. However, the adverse balance of payment & the economic crisis faced by India forced India to adopt economic reforms. Government restrictions can often result in a currency with a low convertibility. For example, a government with low reserves of hard foreign currency often restrict currency convertibility because the government would not be in a position to intervene in the foreign exchange market (i.e. revalue, devalue) to support their own currency if and when necessary. Convertibility is the quality that allows money or other financial instruments to be converted into other liquid stores of value. Convertibility is an important factor in international trade, where instruments valued in different currencies must be exchanged.1 Currency Convertibility means the ability to freely exchange the currency of one Member State into the currency of another Member State. For example, a Barbadian should be able to easily purchase goods in a store in Port of Spain with his Barbadian dollars and receive his change in Trinidad and Tobago...
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...Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 3 FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT 5 MAJOR IMPACTS OF FDI 8 EXPORTS 8 TREND IN EXPORT IN INDIA 9 MAJOR FACTORS THAT AFFECT EXPORTS 10 EXPORT TRENDS AND THE WAY AHEAD 12 IMPACT OF FDI ON EXPORT 12 HOW FDI DRIVES EXPORT 12 IMPACT ON SERVICE INDUSTRY 13 METHEDOLOGY 14 PERIOD OF STUDY 14 SOURCES OF DATA 14 HYPOTHESIS 14 RESULT 15 ANALYSIS 16 IMPLICATION 16 CONCLUSION 16 REFERENCES 18 EXHIBITS 20 FIGURES 23 INTRODUCTION Foreign direct investment is an important part of the economy of every country.It helps expedite the globalisation process. Firms across the world interact with other firms situated in different countries. This results in mutual growth of firms and states. Over the years FDI as a percentage of GDP of world has increased significantly. In 1980 the total stock of FDI equalled only 6.6 per cent of world gross domestic product, while in 2003 the share had increased to close to 23 per cent. This implies that the world economy is getting increasingly interconnected resulting into the flow of goods and capital into developing nations. India has seen tremendous growth in the FDI inflow over the past two decades. By 1997 India became the ninth largest recipient of such investment among the developing economies. Flow of capital and goods has impacted various macroeconomic variables of the economy. Export is one of the variables that gets affected due to the increase in FDI.It has seen...
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...Catarina Barata | Guillermo Simoes | Inês Sousa | Iris Neto | José Aleixo Maria Osório | Pedro Castro STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SMARTPHONES Professor Francesco Castellaneta FIND INSIDE Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION 2 o II. Mission, Vision, Core Values 2 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 3 o o o o Pest analysis 3 Porter’s Five Forces of Competition Framework 4 Market Segmentation 5 Key success factors 8 III. COMPETITVE ADVANTAGE ANALYSIS 9 o o o Emergence of Competitive Advantage 9 Porter’s Value Chain 12 Porter’s Generic Strategies 15 IV. CORPORATE STRATEGY 16 o o o The scope of the firm 16 Vertical and Horizontal Diversification 20 Managing the corporate portfolio 23 V. GLOBAL STRATEGY AND THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS 25 o o o o o Patterns of internationalization 25 Analyzing competitive advantage in an international context 25 International Location of Production 27 Global integration vs. National differentiation 27 Strategy and organization within the multinational corporation 28 VI. VII. VIII. CONCLUSION 28 APPENDIX 29 BIBLIOGRAPHY 30 I. Introduction COMPANY PROFILE Nokia is a Multinational communications and information technology Corporation, with headquarters in Finland. Even though, their product portfolio is quite diverse, their main products are mobile phones and IT devices. Nokia occupied the leadership position in the mobile phones’ industry for more than a decade; however in 2011 this position was lost. The introduction of the...
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...ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FDI IN INDIA PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE | | | |PROFESSOR Pushan DUTT |TEAM MEMBERS | | | | | |Ajay BANSAL | |INSEAD |Gurjeet SINGH | |SINGAPORE CAMPUS | | | | | Introduction to FDI Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) broadly encompasses any long-term investments by an entity that is not a resident of the host country. Typically, the investment is over a long duration of time and the idea is to make an initial investment and then subsequently keep investing to leverage the host country’s advantages which could be in the form of access to better (and cheaper)...
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