Free Trade and American Innovation; Can We Compete in the Future?

Many say that treaties like NAFTA and CAFTA hurt our industries and specifically our manufacturing sector. It is hard to debate this on further review due to the number of textile jobs lost over the years in the Northeast and South.

Ineffectiveness of Development Aid for Developing Countries

In this article it is argued that development aid for development countries is not effective because it is only serving the most powerful countries and it is based on subjective factors rather than an universal theory which does not exist yet

Carpet Weavers and Poverty Crisis

Lack of demand has created extensive unemployment and discouraging weaving income that from 45-50 looms now has only 5-6 looms. Most of the technical master weavers have left to urban cities in search of jobs. The weavers who left the villages to urban cities due to lack of other rural employment opportunities would mess up cities. Reaching urban cities only adds up urban poverty because they do not get the suitable jobs there too.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets - A New Way of Creating Value Horizontally

Most businesses, especially small companies or villages in rural locations, don’t have the know-how, or can’t afford to manage a complex supply chain of the scale and scope of the larger local and international industry players on their own.

Free-Market Economy and Free-Market University

Bringing you to the drawbacks of today's world: a profound spiritual mix.

How Do They Do It?

China's economy is forecasted to expand 8 percent in 2006 – again.

President Bush Goes Solar

Environmentalists throughout the world are still in shock. Who would’ve every thought President Bush would push solar energy?

About Spain, Subtitles, Dubbing and Predicting a Change

Some potential changes are not in fact changes yet and the question is: will they ever be? As a foreigner in Spain used to read subtitles rather than listen to a voiceover – in case of foreign languages -- you would certainly hope that they will. A change from dubbing to subtitles would be a welcome one. But will this situation change?

Economics and the Ranting Public

Today you can go on any Blog and hear the critics criticizing economic policy and the Bush Administration. Yet, our unemployment rates are so low and our GDP so high it is hard to find fault. Of course one could perhaps call question to the trade deficit

Insourcing of Foreign Students & Engineers Top U.S. Priority

Much like all other sectors of our government as well as commercial industry, both lawmakers and CEO’s myopically concentrate on the bottom line, while the U.S. educational system is being systematically abandoned and essentially dismantled.

Mortgage Lending: Growth Eases

The British Bankers Association stated on Monday that underlying mortgage lending rose by 4.6 billion pounds in January, down from 5.3 billion pounds rise in December

Economics of USA Airline Deregulation

It is well known that market economics is driven by consumers. In such conditions consumers benefit is maximized. With the development of air transport in the twentieth century this carriers were unaffordable for most people because of its high prices. Nowadays almost every US citizens fly and it means that airlines' fares became available for people because of deregulation of US airlines and positioning them in conditions of free competition or market economics.

Illegal Immigrants are Needed to Pick Our Crops

One of the debates for pro-illegal aliens being allowed to stay and get amnesty is that they are doing jobs Americans will not do and if we kick all of them out for illegally entering our nation, who will pick all our crops then?

Tomorrow Belongs to Asia's Entrepreneurs

In Asia attention to detail and outstanding service simply runs in the blood - and Singapore is simply the world leader. Singapore has a multicultural population of 4.5 million, no natural resources and no history of empire but it has a GNP per head almost identical to that of the European Union and growing. This then is the background out of which Asia's entrepreneurs are growing - and growing fast. A background quite simply of living in customers’ shoes and striving to delight them each and every time you impact with them.