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Provided by the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute, EurasiaNet is a new daily news and analytic service that covers Central Asia and the Caucasus; it also monitors developments in Russia, the Middle East and Southwest Asia that bear on this region. Features include Today’s Wires, which consolidates numerous stories from various outside sources and organizes them by nation; Eurasia Insight, Environment, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: EurasiaNet | Subjects: International, News / Magazine

neat service that allows you to translate a word, phrase, or entire web page to various languages; is the software that powers AltaVista’s Babelfish

Content: Online Resource | Source: Systran | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, International

Just 20 years ago, China was among the world’s poorest countries, with 80 percent of the population living on incomes of less than $1 a day. Since China launched its economic reform program in 1978, its transition from a centrally planned to a market-based economy has fueled one of the world’s highest growth rates. Most often, a movement to market is about a devolution of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Alwyn M. Young | Source: Capital Ideas | Subject: International – China

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Content: Article | Author: Steve Konicki | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: International

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Exchange rate changes are volatile and difficult to explain. Economists have long suspected that monetary policy shocks might play an important role in accounting for this behavior. This paper combines recent developments in international finance and econometrics to assess what firm conclusions can be drawn about the role of monetary policy shocks in exchange rate behavior.

Content: Article | Authors: John H. Rogers, Jon Faust | Source: Federal Reserve | Subjects: Economics, International

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This IMF working paper analyzes the costs and benefits of full dollarization compared to its closes alternative, a currency board. The paper lists several advantages and disadvantages while reviewing how various country characteristics influence the balance of arguments.

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Berg, Eduardo Borensztein | Source: IMF | Subjects: Economics, International

E-commerce integrated domestic and global markets from its very inception. Negotiating on trade issues related to e-commerce will demand self-inspection of key domestic policies, particularly in telecom, financial services, and distribution and delivery. Furthermore, technical aspect of e-commerce should change the way that developing countries approach the external negotiating process to depend more on cooperative efforts.

Content: Article | Author: Catherine L. Mann | Source: Institute for International Economics | Subjects: International, IT / Technology / E-Business

In light of the torrent of anecdotal evidence suggesting that e-commerce firms may be on the endangered species list, the E-Commerce Times investigated the big picture of the industry. What we found may surprise you.

Content: Article | Author: Mick Brady | Source: E-Commerce Times | Subjects: International, IT / Technology / E-Business

An information-rich resource offering effective trade and market research for businesses. The site is organized into several sections: Services, Market Research, Trade Events, and Exporting Resources. Perhaps the most germane resources can be found under the Exporting Resources section (including a Basic Guide to Exporting, Tariff Rates and Taxes, and an Export Programs Guide) and the Market Research (especially the country commercial guides). {Requires free … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: U.S. Commercial Service | Subjects: International, Trade

Get useful summary information on a large selection of countries, broken into 8 categories: geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues; also has nice reference maps.

Editor’s Note: see a similar site, “BBC News Country Profiles”

Content: Online Resource | Source: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) | Subjects: International, Reference / Search

This 28-pg report, in HTML or .pdf, outlines the concerns and goals for setting the groundwork to reduce global poverty. Loaded with charts, graphs, and images, it allows readers to understand the basic goals of the World Bank. The report offers an overview of 7 of the World Bank’s main issues: poverty, education, gender equality, infant & child mortality, maternal mortality, reproductive health, and the … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: World Bank | Subjects: International, Social Responsibility (ESG)

From the United States Trade Representative (USTR), this report “surveys significant foreign trade barriers to U.S. export.” Created from information collected from government agencies including the USTR and the US Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, the report attempts to classify barriers in foreign trade into ten categories including import policies, government procedures, lack of intellectual property protection, and investment barriers. Reports on US trade … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: United States Trade Representative (USTR) | Subjects: International, Trends / Analysis

Content: Book | Authors: Adrian Wooldridge, John Micklethwait | Subject: International

Paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis examines Int’l capital flows in the context of a simple Diamond-Dybvig model in which there are neither moral hazard nor adverse selection problems, thus isolating exchange rate risk as the propagator of capital flows.

Content: Article | Authors: Patricia S. Pollard, Rowena A. Pecchenino | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | Subjects: Economics, International

excellent article talks about the need to be global and asks and answers 6 fundamental questions in attempt to sort out the issues

Content: Article | Authors: Mohanbir Sawhney, Sumant Mandal | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: International