Competitive Advantage of Wine Industry in France
«Wine Industry in France. Background & Current situation. Indicators of competitiveness. History and tradition. Emphasis on quality and label. Differentiation. Terroir. All “Made in France”. Tourism & Communication. An involved...»
«According to Michael Porter, any economic analysis should consider non-quantifiable data. He criticizes the lack of comprehensiveness from the the majority of today's economists regarding the evaluation of competitiveness of industries (Porter,...»
Work, employment and unemployment in the US
«The workforce and the workplace. A more diversified workforce. The shift from manufacturing to services. Unemployment and contingency work. Challenges for the future. Labor unions. Historical background. The organization of labor unions. Unions...»
«The working population is an aging population, becoming increasingly diversified ethnically and racially, increasingly female (women now represent 3/5 of all new entrants in the workplace) - women often work in pink collar jobs, i.e., they are...»
Defined-benefit and defined-contribution pension schemes
«Introduction. Defined-benefit pension schemes. Defined-contribution pension schemes. Increasing importance of defined contribution pension schemes. Conclusion....»
«Nowadays pension funds are actors of the financial market that cannot be ignored; for example, the asset traded by these funds represented $29.5 trillion in 2009 and moreover, as stated by David Dodge , "pension funds have already become the...»
Investing in the pharmaceutical industry: The homeopathy market
«Introduction. The homeopathic market. Boiron and Lehning. Financial Analysis. Conclusion....»
«When deciding to invest in the pharmaceutical industry, several areas represent interesting alternatives. Homeopathy is one of those alternatives. Even if homeopathy is often questioned, several large companies are making profits in this specific...»
Economics & finance
What attitudes were adopted by the...
«Today, most multinational firms are located in Western Europe (EU + Norway + Switzerland), North America (Canada + USA) and Japan, an area which...
Financing Renewable Energy and Energy...
«Modern economies are based on the concept of continuous development, a term that encompasses all aspects of life in society, whether in terms of...
Oil: can it enable Russia to regain a...
«On January 13, 2009, Russia reopened the Druzhba pipeline, which had been closed in 2008. This caused a gas crisis in Ukraine and led to intense...
Perspectives related to e-commerce
«In 2007 the world market of the Internet would have produced about 45 billion dollars in revenue with nearly 25 billion dollars for the American...
The major economic concepts
«This document offers a complete course in economics. It presents a summary of the economic circuit, from the creation of money, to the description...
"A new economic model: Development as...
«"A new economic model" (original title: "Development as Freedom") the work for which Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2003, was...