vrijdag 24 juli 2009
Idea: Globalisation
Globalisation is the more or less simultaneous marketing and sale of identical goods and services around the world. So widespread has the phenomenon become over the past two decades that no one is surprised any more to find Coca-Cola in rural Vietnam, Accenture in Tashkent and Nike shoes in Nigeria. The statistic that perhaps best reflects the growth of globalisation is the value of cross-border world trade expressed as a percentage of total global GDP: it was around 15% in 1990, is some 20% today and is expected by McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, to rise to 30% by 2015. Read the complete article in The Economist here.
Lines in the sand
Climate change could ignite wars in volatile regions. Read the complete article in The Economist here.
Should the rich finance healthcare reform?
Comments from Greg Mankiw's blog on Obama's healthcare reforms here.
Can he make it better?
Barack Obama pushes plans for reforming health care in America.
To read the article from the Economist, click here.
To read the article from the Economist, click here.
Mieux partager les fruits de la croissance
LE MONDE_ Le débat sur un partage plus équilibré de la valeur ajoutée et des fruits de la croissance a été récemment ranimé par la remise des rapports de l'Insee, de Jean-Philippe Cotis au président de la République, et du Conseil d'analyse économique (CAE), de Gilbert Cette, Jacques Delpha et Arnaud Sylvain au premier ministre. Le diagnostic est désormais posé. Mais quelles propositions faire sur cette base ? Comment assurer une meilleure redistribution aux salariés des richesses produites par l'économie tout en assurant un financement adéquat des entreprises ?
Lisez l'article complet ici.
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