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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…

Robert Bates explores the connection between politics and economic ways of transformation in his book “Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development”. According to Bates political structure and economics of transformation is equal to the study of prosperity and violence, hence the name. Bates claims that for states to advance from a poor agrarian state to a wealthy industrialized society, they must go through what is called the “great transformation”. While all wealthy states had…

What is Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism? In a world that is ever the more connected today, one might think, where did this advancement come from? Kwame Appiah’s article, Cosmopolitanism, highlights the adaptation that society experienced throughout the centuries, as well as his theory on what the adaption created. Appiah supports his thoughts through examples of the Greek and Roman Empires, the thinkings of philosophers in the Enlightenment period, and then tying all thoughts through applications of…

Michael Porter in his study of national competitive advantage, Michael Porter identified four sources or determinants that can affect the global competitiveness of companies located in particular countries .These four sources are: factor endowments; demand conditions; related and supporting industries; and the strategy, structure and rivalry of the companies located in a country.Porter created a model linking these four sources in a diamond (see figure 1 below) and argued that firms are most…

The Perspective of a Photographer In the documentary, “The Salt of the Earth,” Juliano Salgado gives the audience a look into the life and career of his father, Sebastiao Salgado, a successful photographer. Sebastiao Salgado began his career as an economist who traveled to countries bordering Brazil. While traveling, he studied different societies and the nature that provided the basic needs for these societies. He would take photographs of the people and their ecosystem to give insight into…