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The importance of the oceans and seas are essential to running a trade that can bring improvement economy of a country, for trade in goods globally and maritime transport activities. International trade has been increasing the number of negative impact of the increase in the exposure and vulnerability of international shipping. These problems have caused a potential target for piracy, armed robbery and other crimes (Rodrigue, 2013 as cited in United Nation, 2014). Ayto (2005) asserts, “The word…

African market, a deliberate attempt to comply with the legislative framework, a Black Economic Empowerment consortium made a 25.01% equity purchase in Dimension Data South Africa. Following that, was a period of expansion, and the consolidation of international presence across several geographies from 2007-2009. The ongoing progress of their 'Profitable Growth' strategy, first introduced in 2005, was also paying handsome dividends. In the 2009 financial year, Dimension Data showed strong…

profile of consumers has affected their buying behaviors and habits. As a result of this, new marketing strategies have been developed. Additionally, modern marketing concept prevailed the market instead of traditional one. Both in national and international arenas, marketers are always inclined to the areas which will make a difference between them and their rivals. Therefore, in order to be able to understand consumers, marketers need to analyze the consumers’ behaviors and arrange consumer…

Introduction Professor Michael Porter's work on Competitive Advantage of Nations is greatly influential yet tendentious (Davies and Ellis, 2000) which evoked considerable interest and eager debates that was met with contrasting views. This essay will discuss the concept of Porter’s Diamond alongside his theory and framework, accompanied by the academic criticism this model has attracted to find out why so much emphasis was placed on the diamond framework. Porter's Competitive Advantage of…

E INDICES 1. Trade Complementarity Index The trade complementarity (TC) index provides significant information on opportunities for intraregional trade. It shows how well the structures of a country’s imports and exports match. It also has the feature that its values for countries considering the formation of a re-gional trade agreement can be compared with others that have formed or tried to form similar arrangements. Where xij is the share of good i in global exports of country j and mik…

here. The Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone is planned to be the new commercial heart of the whole city, and an extension of the Bund – the financial core of Shanghai that lies across the Huangpu River from Lujiazui (Lang , 2005). In 1992 an international urban design competition was…

opportunities continue to emerge, whereby organizations can leverage new demographics in other parts of the world to expand the reach and marketshare of their product. From sports and entertainment to food products and technological applications, international product and culture exchange is occurring faster and producing subsequent lucrative opportunities for profit. South Asian nations have particularly been targeted in this economic market expansion given the population demographics and the…

The Disparity Between Rich and Poor: The Relationship Between Health and Poverty Due to the transformation of human civilization, the standards of human’s living have been improved speedily. Along with the social and economic developments from an agricultural society to a technological society, most countries have been urbanized into developed countries with advanced technology and better living conditions. In modern society, the vocabulary “social class” is not strange to us anymore, which…

Reece Jones, the author of the book Violent Border bring to light the the mass migrations problem going on in the world today. This is not a new issue, it’s been going on for as long as humans have govern or control land or states. Jones sheds light on the issue by letting us the reader read what factors play into the the migration problems and at the end explains his way of fixing or how to work toward a better future. He brings up problems like global poor, and the failure to address climate…

Violence in Gaza “Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.” Sari Nusseibeh. This quote from Nusseibeh seems almost too good to be true, especially for countries like Gaza. War and violence is something that seems nearly impossible to fix in just 24 hours like Nusseibeh implies. And seems nearly impossible for the citizens of Gaza who are constantly having to deal with the conflict between Palestine and Israel. The novel, Gaza Writes Backs is composed of…