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News and Business
Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 63 Num. 2, Juin 2008
This paper analyses a partial equilibrium outsourcing model with Cournot competition in intermediate good production. Final production is located in Western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how changes in production costs, in particular wages, affect labor input in the two regions in the presence of Cournot competition. The main results are: higher production co...
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News and Business
International Trade Forum - Num. 4/2006, Octobre 2006
... Utz Kapeh, meaning "good coffee" in a Mayan language, is a worldwide certification programme that sets the standard for responsible coffee production and sourcing. Its code of conduct requires ...... Under the agreement, Utz Kapeh will assist coffee farmers to improve the quality of their product by establishing a group management system, distributing producer manuals and ...
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News and Business
International Trade Forum - Num. 2/2004, Avril 2004
The coffee market is over-supplied. With the price of coffee at its lowest in a century, there will be winners and losers in the fierce competition for exports. Getting producers to "add value" to coffee and earn more revenue is a commonly proposed solution. However, this proposal is complex and, for many producers, unrealistic. The collapse of world coffee prices is causing many exporting countries to suffer their worst economic crisis in years. How did this happen to one of the world's larg...
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News and Business
International Trade Forum - Num. 3/2004, Juillet 2004
In the globalizing world of today, export constraints are diminishing: falling trade barriers; declining transport costs; new information and communications technologies; international migration; and fluid investment flows create new business prospects and bring skilled players into new markets. At the same time, products and services - and demand for them - are changing rapidly. New opportunities are matched by new challenges: keeping up with snappy innovation in products and services; inten...
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News and Business
Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 63 Num. 1, Mars 2008
Given the sharp rise in crude oil prices and growing awareness of climate change, the potential of biofuels, particularly of bioethanol, has become an ubiquitous topic of public debate and has induced ambitious policy initiatives. The latter are mostly paired with protectionist measures as the examples of the European Union and the United States show, where domestic producers of energy crops are put at an advantage thanks to subsidisation, direct payments and/or favourable tax schemes. Moreov...
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... Fincantieri will also become the first-choice partner in the management of HDW's production overload relevant to boats ...
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News and Business
Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 64 Num. 1, Mars 2009
This paper analyses the potential for productivity spillovers from inward foreign direct investment using administrative panel data on firms for Hungary. We hypothesise that the potential for spillovers is related to observable characteristics of the production process of foreign affiliates, and evaluate this empirically. We further explore the role of competition in explaining productivity spillovers within industries. Our empirical analysis yields a number of important findings. First, we s...
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News and Business
International Trade Forum - Num. 3-4/2008, Juillet 2008
Traditionally, lenders wouldn't dare offer credit to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) without financial collateral. But since a major Indian bank began doing just that in 2007, the results have been staggering. In just over a year, they have enhanced opportunities for small businesses, women and entire communities. But despite their value in the economy, banks have traditionally been reluctant to loan to SMEs, based on the perception that they present higher risks. Add to that the di...
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In an interview, Paola Ghillani, former head of the Max Havelaar fair trade organization in Switzerland, discussed fair trade as a business model. Ghillani knew that she did not buy fair trade goods herself out of a sense of charity, but because they represented value for money to her. They found a market among people who wanted to buy fresh products and fruit they could safely give to their children. That is how they achieved the target of making Max Havelaar Switzerland self-financing withi...
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News and Business
International Trade Forum - Num. 2/2006, Avril 2006
The story started with an exceedingly modest contribution of $20,000 to improve the new-born Cambodian Silk Fore in 2002. An encouraging on-the-spot survey of market possibilities in Europe for hand-woven Cambodian silk products persuaded International Trade Commission (ITC) in 2003 to put $100,000 in an Export-led Poverty Reduction Programme. The funding enabled 20 rural weavers in the poor village of Tanorn, 80 kilometers from the capital, Phnom Penh, to increase production and marketing of...
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