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Potential Reasons for Worrying About Outsourcing/Offshoring

[Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] When we get to the stage where distance matters so little that we can be taught our economics by tenured professors at the Universities of Shanghai or Delhi I wonder if tenured US professors will be quite so relaxed about offshoring ....

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India International Trade Fair

[European Trade.european union,wto,international trade,world market,biography] The annual India International Trade Fair is an annual trade fair started in 1980 by an agency of the Government of India called the India Trade...

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March 30, 2007

Potential Reasons for Worrying About Outsourcing/Offshoring

[Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] When we get to the stage where distance matters so little that we can be taught our economics by tenured professors at the Universities of Shanghai or Delhi I wonder if tenured US professors will be quite so relaxed about offshoring ....

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India International Trade Fair

[European Trade.european union,wto,international trade,world market,biography] The annual India International Trade Fair is an annual trade fair started in 1980 by an agency of the Government of India called the India Trade...

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March 27, 2007

“But we’ve always been at war with Eurasia” and other truths”¦

 [ Paulitics] “But we’ve always been at war with Eurasia” and other truths”¦ 25 March, 2007 • No Comments “Always eyes watching you and the voice...

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Japan's friends, kept at arm's length

 [Observing Japan] However, in my opinion, Japan should secure stable food supplies from overseas because of its low food-sufficiency rate. If Japan, through EPAs with Australia and the U.S., has both countries promise to refrain from one-sided restrictions on food exports, it will help strengthen Japan's food security.For that to happen, though, Japan's political system will have to change: as long as rural prefectures are the LDP's power base, and as long as the distribution of power in the political system favors agricultural producers over consumers, any agreement that forces Japan's farmers to face substantially greater competition will be nigh on impossible.

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March 23, 2007

The EU’s free trade agreement strategy in Asia

 [ Global conditions] A few Asian countries have many restrictions to investment, and those targeted by the EU are among them. As reflected by the fact of the conference and the delegates and other speakers (banks, insurers, lawyers, telecoms representatives), Europe’s services sector has a lot of interest in these issues.

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Fred Bergsten Tries (Politely) to Teach the Clown Show That Is the Bush Administration

[Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] If China is a partner rather than an adversary in fifty years, it will not be because of the 101st Airmobile Division, it will be because the economic, social, and cultural links between the U.S. and China are so strong that its politics will have reshaped themselves to some degree in our image and its people will see how much they have to gain from peace and how much we all have to lose from confrontation.

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March 20, 2007

All for the Mango Man

 [The Acorn] What often goes unreported is that it benefits India too. Importing more from the subcontinent—or from anywhere else, for that matter—could better address the Mango Man’s problems than say, a entreaty-disguised-as-a-command by the finance minister to the industry to help hold the price line.

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Agricultural Trade Factors

[FarmPolicy.com] Beattie indicated that, “A series of cases has highlighted the ability of a country - and increasingly, at the Icsid [International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, housed at the World Bank in Washington, which rules on disagreements between governments and private foreign investors] and similar ”˜investor-state’ tribunals, a company - to force a government to act in politically sensitive areas. A succession of cases brought by WTO members including Brazil, the European Union and even tiny Antigua and Barbuda (population 83,000) has forced the US Congress to rewrite corporation tax law, reform subsidies to cotton farmers and revise bans on internet gambling.”

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March 16, 2007

Another Poll Suggests LAC Takes Climate Change Seriously

[The Temas Blog] The recent ACNielsen poll suggested that Latin American nations may take the global climate change issue more seriously than most. A new poll just published on the WorldPublicOpinion.org website appears to confirm it.

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India to become 2nd Largest Economy of World by 2050

[ EPR Network Blog] Myers to Exhibit at 3rd Annual Spring Home and Garden Show March 24th and 25th, RSI still a big issue in UK office, CeBIT 2007 - VASCO Launches aXs GUARD Authentication Appliance, DBA and Sons Enhances Performance with Hyperion System 9">14

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March 13, 2007

Mecalux Logismarket to attend Total Processing and Packaging Exhibition

[ EPR Network Blog] Press Release Summary = Mecalux Logismarket, producers of the popular international online logistics directory of logistics companies and industrial equipment, will  showcase their services at the UK’s largest exhibition for processing and packaging:

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Globalisation, workers and the poor

 [ Global conditions] For more, please read Ben Muse’s posts, and hopefully the new books he cites (hope I’ll find to do so as well very soon!)

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March 09, 2007

Celebrating International Women’s Day

 [ Fair Trade Sports] Today is International Women's Day, the global celebration day connecting all women around the world - inspiring them to achieve their full potential. International Women’s Day celebrates the collective power of women past, present and future.

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Tomorrow Morning at the New School for Social Research...

[Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL ECONOMIC WISDOM: Conventional wisdom suggests that the deficits are too high, personal savings rates are too low, federal government spending is out of control, and too much of our debt is held by foreign governments. But do we know with any confidence when these imbalances become unsustainable?

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March 06, 2007

Supporting Genocide In West Papua

 [ The Heathlander] programme, supported by the World Bank, has resulted in over 750,000 Indonesians, many subsidised, re-settling in West Papua, where they now constitute around 40% of the population, and are the majority in the capital city and many other urban locations. Freeport-McMoRan has been given virtual free rein to resettle indigenous tribes that get in the way of its mining activities - the highland Amungme tribe, in particular, has suffered, with their displacement to the lowlands causing many to die of malaria.

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ASBPE Conference Scholarships Available for International Editors

 [ASBPE Boston Blog] In my earlier post about the Young Leaders Scholarship (YLS) I neglected to mention that in addition to the five Young Leaders Scholarships, there are two International Young Leaders Scholarships (IYLS) available. In addition to the hotel accommodations that the regular YLS covers, the IYLS provides a travel stipend of up to $500 to compensate for the extra expenses incurred by overseas editors travelling to the ASBPE national conference, which this year is in New York City.

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