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past 30 years, South Korea's economic growth has been spectacular. During these years, South Korea changed its industrial structure to one that now includes products like: automobiles, petrochemicals, electronics, shipbuilding, textiles and steel. South Korea has the 11th largest economy in the world and has a goal to increase its annual economic growth to 7% and double its per-capita income to $40,000 by 2017. “The International Monetary Fund estimates Korea's economic growth at 4.8% in 2007 and

employment - a vital issue, with a strong economic and humanitarian impact Good working conditions are important for the well-being of European workers. They * contribute to the physical and psychological welfare of Europeans * contribute to the economic performance of the EU. From a humanitarian point of view, the quality of working environment has a strong influence on the overall work and life satisfaction of European workers. From an economic point of view, high-quality job conditions

nation-state? Is globality different from modernity? Is a global culture in the making? Guillén closes with some thoughts on what one of the fields covered in this book – sociology (others include political science, international relations, anthropology, economics, literary theory, geography) – has contributed to our understanding of globalization, as well as on the need for further research and more interdisciplinary work on the topic. Several of the debates outlined by Guillén appear later in this book,

Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”4 The origin of this organization took place in the Brussels Treaty. Indeed, on the 7th of March 1948, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and the United Kingdom signed it. This treaty was an economic, social and cultural collaboration, and collective self-defence. Its aim was to unite the nations against all other threats. All parties who signed it were engaged to assist the other signers in case of aggression by another state. But they knew

les protège ou encore, celle des fonds d’investissement qui conditionnerait les schémas mentaux des dirigeants et imposerait des normes de gestion strictement conformes à leurs intérêts. Le développement récent de l’utilisation des critères d’EVA (Economic Value Added) et de MVA (Market Value Added) peut s’interpréter en ce sens : la formation des dirigeants à ces approches, leur diffusion via les revues scientifiques ou de vulgarisation, et leur usage accru modifient les schémas mentaux et, de ce

The actual state of Australia To discover a country it’s to know the main lines of its economic and political development. I am going to speak to you about Australia with its constitution, its political system and its economic strength. The Australian Constitution Australia is a federal state formed by 6 states (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania), of two territories (Northern territory, Australian Capital Territory). Its political organization

2009. This article is taken from the Voice of America website. Voice of America is a website which published informations about topical issue in the world. It’s reports on French workers who seizures their bosses in the office to demonstrate against economic downturn. The title is quite explicit because they are many key words like “French workers”, “Bossnaping” and “Problems”. This article is well-documented and precise. It’s an informative kind of article. The overall tone of this document is unbiased

recognize as a science too. But, the definition of science, which treats of economy, has a first problem: the very name “science”. Indeed, some people use the word “ economic”, and other the word “ economy” and other again the word “ science of economy “ or “ economics sciences”. To tell the truth, expression the most exactly could be the economic science as we say political science or socials science. But if economy is a science why using these two words? So, we use only the term “ economy” to refer to

financial crisis, IMF Working Paper, WP/02/210. André Cartapanis / Économie internationale 97 (2004), p. 5-48. 41 Arestis, P., Glickman, M., 2002. Financial crisis in Southeast Asia: Dispelling illusion the Minskyan way, Cambridge Journal of Economics 26 (2), mars. Artus, P., 2000. Crises de pays émergents. Faits et modèles explicatifs, Economica, Paris. Artus, P., Cartapanis, A., Legros, F., 2003. Towards a macroeconomics of exchange rate regimes, Revue Économique 53 (4), septembre. Azis, I.

inefficiency of the policy-mix in the Economic and Monetary Union The low inflation aim of the European Central Bank and the constraints imposed by the Stability and Growth Pact are often blamed for being alone responsible for the difficulties of the economic authorities to be able to lead an efficient policy-mix in the European monetary area. Particularly, in case of a negative internal supply shock, the European institutions make the conflict of aims between the economic authorities unavoidable. Indeed