Historically, Japan has been a very hard market for international companies to enter. ... To begin, World War II and the post war reconstruction phase had a huge impact on foreign direct investment (FDI) restrictions imposed on foreign companies. ... However, government restrictions prevented foreign companies from investing. ... Japanese culture also plays its part when employees stay with the same company for much of their lifetime rendering it much more difficult for foreign companies to recruit talented managers. ... When workers remain at with a company for long periods of time, and when ...

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Reasons for inflation include the current high prices of petrol due to the war in Iraq. ... Recent MER's which have helped lower unemployment is the privatisation of Airlines, Telstra and government companies. ...

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Brief Economic History and Government Policy Korea was one of the poorest countries in world after experiencing two wars. World War II and Korean war (1950 ~ 1953). ... After Koran war, the government in fact had no sense of direction and also due to the unstable political situation, the country didn't have specific economic policy until 1961 when military government came to power and established the major institution guiding its economic planning called Economic Planing Board (EPB). ... After two major wars, the country even with a food shortage experienced lack of capital. ...

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It also brings new jobs and technology to different countries and makes profits for the car company that can be re-invested in making ever better cars. ... Technological change makes the benefits especially large and therefore increases incentives to liberalize trade, particularly as companies will pressure for opening so they can profit from outsourcing production. ... From a political perspective, foreign competition can bankrupt domestic businesses (which may benefit consumers with better value, more efficient goods, but disadvantages domestic companies whose employees face redund...

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For one thing, companies never need to pay private investors back (forgetting dividends). ... They want the company to do as well as it can, because as the company prospers, so does the stock price. ... Companies are driven to lower prices to keep competitive with other companies. ... One problem was that the Reagan Administration was fighting the Cold War, trying to outspend the Soviets in the military, making ours far superior to theirs and giving them no hope for victory. ... Companies are not forced to lower their prices, rather they raise them. ...

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While there have been periods of growth, the fifteen years immediately following World War II and the 1970's showed large economic growth, Brazil has always been a country deep in debt and riddled with poverty. ... The currency change also allowed foreign companies to convert and measure money against the U.S. dollar. ... Foreign companies do not want to take the risk of investing in a country that has unstable economics, and to a degree, unstable politcs. ...

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Removal of state subsidies and tariff barriers may have adversely affected the standard of living of workers and the growth prospects of certain industrial sectors in the periphery, but they were needed medicine in order to get the prices right Western development institutions, notably the IMF, the World Bank and their major members attributed poor records to the prevailing policies and strategies of development which had been pursued in the post-war era. ... As Adrian Leftwich notes, the aim of adjustment was to shutter the dominant post-war, state-led development paradigm and overcome the p...

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Reasons for Current Economy With the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, and the end of the Cold War, the West was eager to support Russia and all of the former Eastern Block countries in the transition to Capitalism and democracy. ... As noted in the article "Can't buy me love" in The Economist, "This would place the world's sixth-most-populous country, a nuclear superpower and a permanent member of the UN Security Council in the company of such countries as Afghanistan and the Congo - poor war-ridden places, some barely existing as states". ...

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World War II was the beginning of the distance between Spain and the rest of the European nations. As a result of Spain never entering into the war, the country never received the benefits from the European recovery plans, keeping it in a situation of complete isolation. Then following the Civil War in Spain, an inward-looking development model known as autarky, was adopted as a result to its isolation with its surrounding neighbors in Europe. ...

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The company blamed for the disaster, Lapindo Brantas, is a subsidiary of the business conglomerate of billionaire Aburizal Bakrie, a Golkar (the largest political group in Indonesia) parliamentarian and major contributor to Yudhoyono's presidential campaign. ... As far back as Rome, which fell to corruption, later Germany, whose government was overzealous in war, and even as recently as Libya, whose lack of freedom led to violent rebellion against their oppressive government in the name of democracy. ...

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Stock market shed to the lowest level, companies try to cut their cost by firing its employee, and corporate institutions had to shut their operation is just inevitable. ... And in around May this year, due to the recent war in Iraq and the SARS outbreak in Asia, Dr. ...

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The company blamed for the disaster, Lapindo Brantas, is a subsidiary of the business conglomerate of billionaire Aburizal Bakrie, a Golkar (the largest political group in Indonesia) parliamentarian and major contributor to Yudhoyono's presidential campaign. ... As far back as Rome, which fell to corruption, later Germany, whose government was overzealous in war, and even as recently as Libya, whose lack of freedom led to violent rebellion against their oppressive government in the name of democracy. ...

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Globalisation The word globalisation has become a buzzword since its inception at the beginning of the 1990s. A cottage industry on globalisation has emerged from which academics and intellectuals make a living by writing articles and travelling the world debating with others. The financial and business sections of broadsheet newspapers are continuously littered with issues concerning globalisation and meetings are frequently held by the superpowers to discuss the state of the global economy, such as the meetings in Doha in Qatar, Cancun in Mexico and the IMF summit in Dubai. As a result of...

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At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing economies play in the global economy. ...

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