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Documentary films have in recent years achieved unprecedented glory and success in the United States. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" not only was named best picture at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, but also made big bucks at the box office. "Bowling for Columbine" attracted a large audience to theatres nationwide, and crystallized a lively debate about violence in schools. Similarly, the documentary "Super Size Me" was yet another U.S. documentary that became a global hit: That orgy of on...
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Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 63 Num. 2, Juin 2008
Austrian Fdi in Central-Eastern Europe and Employment in the Home Market
This paper investigates the impact of Austrian foreign direct investment on domestic employment in five new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS5). It estimates both a static and a dynamic labor demand model using sector data for the period 1993-2004 where domestic employment depends on value added, real wage, the net capital stock and time effects. In particular, we investigate the potential complementary/ substitutive relationship between domestic and foreign affiliate empl...
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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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International Trade Forum - Num. 2/2007, Janvier 2007
As international businesses explore the developing world to find new consumer markets, firms are realizing that long-term prosperity depends on the development of these markets. As a result, more partnerships are springing up between international companies, NGOs and development agencies. They are finding common interests and learning from each other in the process. For years the work of social entrepreneurs often passed unnoticed in the outside world. Now that is changing. Social entrepreneu...
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Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 62 Num. 4, Décembre 2007
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, managed to erase "free and undistorted competition" from the proposed new EU Treaty as a main aim of the European Union. Afterwards, he asked rhetorically what competition has done for Europe. This article is an attempt to reply to that very important question. The view of competition and its effects among decision-makers is likely to affect numerous policy outcomes. Throughout history, there has been a struggle between freedom and control in Europe. Comp...
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