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As they pursue growth opportunities abroad and are encouraged by improved polices at home, emerging-market corporations will play an increasingly prominent role in global business and cross-border investment, while large pools of capital within their borders will allow emerging economies to become key players in financial markets.
Subsequent executions of Jang’s entourage and advisers, the recall of Jang’s associates from posts abroad, and the attempted kidnapping in France of the son of one of his assistants attest to the level of alarm in Kim’s inner circle.
After all, whereas TAA targets individuals directly impacted by foreign competition, much of the competition faced by local economies is not coming from abroad, and many of the jobs being lost are not in the industries directly affected by outside competition, but in the surrounding economy.
But it does illustrate how rapidly in early twenty-first-century Europe democracy has been undermined through the endless application of the economics of austerity, and by the failure of political leadership at home and abroad.
But, after all the happy talk about the European economy, how much credibility will the ECB have if Europe eventually succumbs to recessionary pressures from abroad?
(For example, an exporter under-reports the price received for a foreign shipment, and keeps the extra cash hidden abroad.)
But this is not the same thing as setting monetary policy based on economic conditions abroad.
Economic freedoms that transformed Russia for good and ill brought despair to laboratories and research institutes as budgets were slashed and bright young scientists fled abroad while others (most famously the mathematician turned oligarch Boris Berezovsky) moved into banking and other businesses.
In such dire circumstances, it is easy to lure girls with false prospects of attractive jobs abroad, often in bars, restaurants, and clubs.
But, as globalization transforms the world economy, France must adapt in order to enable its businesses to compete abroad as well as at home.
As we help French businesses to expand abroad, we must also work to encourage inward foreign investment.
None of this excuses or justifies the shortcomings in Chinese behavior at home or abroad, which are many and real.
And Chinese firms – too often state-owned – are seeking greater investment opportunities abroad in major industries, particularly energy.
But such measures will merely worsen the situation: specialization in activities in which unskilled workers are not needed intensifies, even more capital will leave the country, and even more people will be attracted from abroad, driving more domestic residents into the welfare system.
In fact, what is most notable about China’s efforts to spread its influence abroad is not their success, but the ease with which they are exposed.
What is surprising though is the reaction (at home and abroad) to General Makashov’s tantrums and the actions and inactions in the Duma and Communist Party.
Over more than a month every TV show, every newspaper in Russia and abroad has been discussing, condemning, and thus reinforcing the incident.
Lacking in saving and wanting to grow, the United States must import surplus saving from abroad.
Ironically, in the coming era of negative saving, the US will find itself increasingly dependent on surplus saving from abroad.
At a minimum, there could be an adverse impact on the terms by which America borrows from abroad; that could mean higher interest rates – hints of which are already evident – and ultimately downward pressure on the dollar.
As a result of the financial crisis, more risk-averse investors at home and abroad have increased their demand for US Treasury securities.
Other Iranian diplomats also are reportedly resigning from their posts and seeking asylum abroad.
Of those workers still in the private sector, almost 5%, or 5.5 million, are employed by global companies whose headquarters are abroad.
But it wasn’t increasing homicide rates that made officials pay attention; it was the realization that the violence hurt the region’s image abroad and made it difficult to attract foreign investment.
He cited research by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who, more than 20 years ago, warned that as US multinational companies shifted employment and production abroad, their interests were diverging from the country’s economic interests.
Second, during the 2000’s, US multinationals expanded abroad more quickly than they did at home.
Moreover, US multinationals in services increased their employment both at home and abroad – by almost 1.2 million workers in their domestic operations and more than twice as many in their foreign subsidiaries.
At the same time, their growing sales abroad boosted their US employment in such activities as advertising, design, R&D, and management.
Previous research has found that increases in employment in US multinationals’ foreign subsidiaries are positively correlated with increases in employment in their US operations: in other words, employment abroad complements employment at home, rather than substituting for it.
And the facts indicate that, despite decades of globalization, US multinationals continue to make significant contributions to US competitiveness – and to locate most of their economic activity at home, not abroad.
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