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Kanopy Streaming
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To succeed in international business in Argentina, you need proper preparation. Failure to understand this proud culture will cost you time, money, or worse. Doing Business in Argentina is a complete training program with culture tips to help you and your employees be more profitable in one of South America's largest markets. In this expert program, you'll be welcomed into the offices of top executives and discover the essentials of Argentina business...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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With Mexico playing a growing role in business today, it's essential to give your employees proper training to work effectively with Mexicans. Every day corporations are losing business and money because of poor communication and lack of understanding. With the Doing Business in Mexico video training program, you'll get essential insight into this critical market and its diverse people. You'll learn how to see Mexicans as they really are, and how...
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"A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems America's security state first started to weaponize these channels after 9/11, when they seemed like necessities to combat terrorism--but now they're a matter of course. Multinational companies...
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How can we stem the tide of outsourcing? In this comprehensive look at the real, human toll of America's unsound trade policy, Senator Dorgan exposes the myth of "free trade." Indeed, free trade is not free; it is slowly but surely draining away American prosperity. Chinese labor can drive down prices at Wal-Mart; but at the same time, those saved wages--dollars that would have gone to buy these cheaper goods--are gone. Too soon, it will all come...
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Kent E. Calder is Associate Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton University's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. He is the author of Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan (Princeton), for which he won the Hiromi Arisawa and Masayoshi Ohira Awards. He is also the coauthor, with Roy Hofheinz, Jr., of The Eastasia Edge.
Was Japan's...
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An updated look at global trade and why it remains as controversial as everFree trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of numerous U.S. tariffs in 2018, and the retaliation those tariffs have drawn, has thrust trade issues to the top of the policy agenda. Critics contend that free trade brings economic pain, including plant closings and worker layoffs, and that trade agreements serve corporate interests, undercut...
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Our American democracy has metastasized into a corpocracy, with large corporations dominating our government, our economy, much of our culture. This "mad as hell" guide urges the 99% to fight back, rein in big business and restore the corporation to its original, PUBLIC purpose. Includes a special toolkit for reforming corporations including a primer on corporations, proposed Constitutional Amendment abolishing corporate personhood, local ordinance,...
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La historia peruana de los últimos años muestra que el Congreso de la República debe ser reestructurado íntegramente. Este libro pone tal tema en discusión, tanto en materia de su organización como de su funcionamiento. No se limita a sostener que hay que crear el Senado, pues considera que esto solo no mejorará las cosas, sino que plantea cambios profundos e innovadores. Muestra, asimismo, que la reestructuración del Congreso se relaciona...
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Les débats suscités par la signature du CETA, accord économique et commercial entre l'Europe et le Canada, ont révélé une méfiance toujours plus profonde du public à l'égard de tels traités. Négociés dans l'opacité, sans véritable débat démocratique, ces traités sont perçus par une part croissante de la population comme de réelles menaces pour nos législations sociales et environnementales, pour la protection de nos services publics...
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El Reglamento del Registro Mercantil Español describe todos los procedimientos legislativos del registro de actividades mercantiles de España.
Este reglamento se divide en varios títulos, incluyendo el Título II, que trata sobre el Registro Mercantil, el Título III, que trata sobre los libros y la contabilidad del comercio, y el Título IV, que trata sobre las disposiciones generales de los contratos de comercio. También hay un Título V que...
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El mall más grande del mundo nos ofrece una mirada amena a la industria de los centros comerciales. ¿Es casual que frecuentes tal o cual tienda o restaurante? ¿Qué factores inciden para que un local comercial tenga mayor o menor valor? ¿Cuáles son los cambios en los hábitos de consumo, sociodemográficos e innovaciones tecnológicas que están acelerando la evolución de esta industria? A partir de estas simples preguntas, el autor desentraña...
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Se recoge en esta obra el análisis y diagnósticos sobre mipymes de algunos sectores económicos con mucha tradición en Bogotá, que se han visto afectados por los TLC: las fábricas de muebles del barrio Doce de Octubre, las de calzado en el Restrepo, las de prendas de vestir en Policarpa Salavarrieta y los panificadores de Fontibón. Al estudio de estos gremios, se suma el de uno que no tiene un espacio físico -o cluster- en la ciudad: los desarrolladores...
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This magazine of my insights into open publishing sites from Themestream to Amazon KDP includes discussions of management and marketing issues as well as the behavior of "content providers," some of whom disgustedly displayed their genitals as profile pictures on the Written By Me platform.
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Azerbaijan has set the course for the economy to reduce its dependence on oil by promoting new drivers of growth. By 2025, under the government's Strategic Roads Maps, a more diversified economy should take shape led by three sectors: agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing. Bold reforms need to strengthen areas of the economy that could otherwise impede this transition, and policy makers must resolutely stay on the reform path. The core message of...
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Building on robust economic growth since the end of a civil war in 1997, Tajikistan has transformed itself into a service economy driven by consumer spending fueled by strong remittance inflow. Yet the transfer of resources to high value-added sectors has been restrained, and structural change has generated few new jobs. Without sufficient employment opportunities in the services and industrial sectors, agriculture became the fallback for most of...
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Bangladesh has transformed its economy over the last 2 decades, graduating to middle-income status as average annual growth remained strong at 5%–6%. The country's goal to become an upper-middle-income country by 2021 will require even stronger annual growth of 7.5%–8%. This study finds that the most critical constraints to growth are (i) insufficient reliable energy supply, (ii) policies that indirectly stunt development of economic activities...
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Once relatively confined to parts of Europe and North America, commercial societies are now found in many other cultures and continents. Yet despite the international spread and growth of commercial order, the moral, economic, and legal foundations of commercial society remain poorly understood, especially in those countries where it first took root. Guided by the thoughts of Alexis de Tocqueville, Samuel Gregg's The Commercial Society identifies...
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L'électrification des transports apparait intuitivement comme la voie de l'avenir. Lorsqu'on y regarde de plus près, cependant, elle coute cher, n'aide en rien à l'atteinte des objectifs de réduction des GES, et contribuera à la détérioration de la santé de la population comme à l'augmentation des inégalités. Il est temps de court-circuiter cette fausse bonne idée avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.
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"Trade wars affect everyone-from world leaders to young people shopping at the mall. Because of this, it's important for people to have a basic understanding of why trade wars happen and how ordinary citizens can deal with their effects. Readers develop this understanding as they explore this age-appropriate and unbiased introduction to the concept of trade wars. Featuring historical examples that supplement social studies curricula and modern examples...
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