The teacher shows always a kind of motivation for what she does. With her attitude she invites to people to discover the culture. In general was really great the course....Concrete topics that permitted us to know about the different regions of the world..THANKS
lunes, 18 de mayo de 2009
COURSE EVALUATION
I thing the time was not really enough to cover deeply topcs which wereextremely funnies and interesting, related with the culture and its role in managenet.
domingo, 17 de mayo de 2009
MAIN ISSUES OF EUROPE
How is the EU leading the fight against climate change?
The EU is committed with the Kyoto protocol to reduce the green house gas emitions.
The organization is also taking some policy actions in the themes of CO2, the energy performance, and the EU emision scheme.
The European Union are expecting to improve in 20% by 2020 in terms of energy efficiency.
They are also developing political actions with organizations and governments in order to implement some policies to fight the climate change
How is Europe managing its migration flows?
with the promotion of legal migration channels like money transfer, wth advices, with promotion of legal work, in other words, job seekers but at the same time they are reinforcing the border security and preventin illegal migrations trough detention centersans assylums
The EU is committed with the Kyoto protocol to reduce the green house gas emitions.
The organization is also taking some policy actions in the themes of CO2, the energy performance, and the EU emision scheme.
The European Union are expecting to improve in 20% by 2020 in terms of energy efficiency.
They are also developing political actions with organizations and governments in order to implement some policies to fight the climate change
How is Europe managing its migration flows?
with the promotion of legal migration channels like money transfer, wth advices, with promotion of legal work, in other words, job seekers but at the same time they are reinforcing the border security and preventin illegal migrations trough detention centersans assylums
What are the main challenges for an ageing workforce in Europe?
The working age population is falling
The life expectancy is getting higher, there is not enough young workforce and it is dropping, so they are worried due to there are not enough people to cover the retired people pensions.
So they are looking for: Maintain and promote the health and working capacity of workers as they age
To develop the skills and employability of older workers
To provide suitable working conditions and employment opportunities for an aging workforce
How European business could overcome the challenges of balancing the interests of cultural diversity and nationalist interests?
INDIA
1. According to Gangury-Scrase & Scrase (1999) had globalisation in India provided significant improvement of living for lower-income workers by 1999? Justify.
The lower-income workers do not receive any kind of benefits from liberalization. The global phenomenon is a kind of contradiction because:
“First, although income levels have risen for the lower middle classes, their purchasing power has remained relatively stagnant due to high inflation and high interest rates. Second, there has emerged easier access to credit for this group, yet this has come at the expense of monthly repayments and high interest rates which they feel traps them in the cycle of consumerism and debt. Third, this group has greater desire to purchase consumer goods but their aspirations are not met due to debt concerns”,
The lower-income workers do not receive any kind of benefits from liberalization. The global phenomenon is a kind of contradiction because:
“First, although income levels have risen for the lower middle classes, their purchasing power has remained relatively stagnant due to high inflation and high interest rates. Second, there has emerged easier access to credit for this group, yet this has come at the expense of monthly repayments and high interest rates which they feel traps them in the cycle of consumerism and debt. Third, this group has greater desire to purchase consumer goods but their aspirations are not met due to debt concerns”,
reference:
Gangury-Scrase & Scrase 1999. http://sociology.snu.ac.kr/isdpr/publication/journal/28-2/5Ruchira.pdf checked on May 17, 2009.
Gangury-Scrase & Scrase 1999. http://sociology.snu.ac.kr/isdpr/publication/journal/28-2/5Ruchira.pdf checked on May 17, 2009.
2. How is the situation for workers in India today? Provide references.
“India has a very large pool of scientific and technical personnel. Around 20 percent of the Fortune 500 companies have research and development operations in India. Most managers and technicians, and many skilled workers, speak English. Most multinationals recruit managerial and engineering staff locally for their Indian operations. Nonetheless, illiteracy acts as a brake on labor productivity in the workforce as a whole. India is a member of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and adheres to 37 ILO conventions that protect workers’ rights. The Industrial Disputes Act of 1947 governs industrial relations. Workers may form or join unions of their choice. The Factories Act regulates working conditions. Other laws regulate employment of women and children and prohibit bonded labor.
Although there are more than 7 million unionized workers, unions represent less than one-fourth of the workers in the organized sector (primarily in state-owned concerns), and less than two percent of the total work force. Most unions are linked to political parties. Worker-days lost to strikes and lockouts have dropped 50 percent during the decade 1991 -2000 from the previous decade. Industrial wages range from about $3.50 per day for unskilled workers, to over $150 per month for skilled production workers”.
India. Political Risk Yearbook: India Country Forecast; 2009, preceding p2-22, 65p
“Workers in the informal economy are not recognized and protected through labour legislation. They do not have fixed hours of work, fixed income or salary, work agreements, compensation etc. They do not have respect in the society and they face harassment in their work place. They do not have the place to represent their views. Neither the social security schemes cover these workers nor do they have access to finance resources through credits from banks and financial institutions. Street vendors face harassment from police and government authority.
Government of India recognized the role of trade unions in the informal economy. Hence trade unions have the right to represent the workers in the informal economy in identifying the worker and the work activities. Major trade unions like Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), and Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) organize the workers in the form of trade unions”.
Informal workers in India: http://www.ycwindia.org/index2.php option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=16. Checked on May 17, 2009.
“India has a very large pool of scientific and technical personnel. Around 20 percent of the Fortune 500 companies have research and development operations in India. Most managers and technicians, and many skilled workers, speak English. Most multinationals recruit managerial and engineering staff locally for their Indian operations. Nonetheless, illiteracy acts as a brake on labor productivity in the workforce as a whole. India is a member of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and adheres to 37 ILO conventions that protect workers’ rights. The Industrial Disputes Act of 1947 governs industrial relations. Workers may form or join unions of their choice. The Factories Act regulates working conditions. Other laws regulate employment of women and children and prohibit bonded labor.
Although there are more than 7 million unionized workers, unions represent less than one-fourth of the workers in the organized sector (primarily in state-owned concerns), and less than two percent of the total work force. Most unions are linked to political parties. Worker-days lost to strikes and lockouts have dropped 50 percent during the decade 1991 -2000 from the previous decade. Industrial wages range from about $3.50 per day for unskilled workers, to over $150 per month for skilled production workers”.
India. Political Risk Yearbook: India Country Forecast; 2009, preceding p2-22, 65p
“Workers in the informal economy are not recognized and protected through labour legislation. They do not have fixed hours of work, fixed income or salary, work agreements, compensation etc. They do not have respect in the society and they face harassment in their work place. They do not have the place to represent their views. Neither the social security schemes cover these workers nor do they have access to finance resources through credits from banks and financial institutions. Street vendors face harassment from police and government authority.
Government of India recognized the role of trade unions in the informal economy. Hence trade unions have the right to represent the workers in the informal economy in identifying the worker and the work activities. Major trade unions like Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), and Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) organize the workers in the form of trade unions”.
Informal workers in India: http://www.ycwindia.org/index2.php option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=16. Checked on May 17, 2009.
3. How cultural globalization has affected Indian in the last 2 decades?
As we can read in the following paragraph, globalization has affected India in a very positive way, opening people mindsets and giving Indians the path for excellence:
“The foreign direct investment (FDI) that India gets today is about US$4 per Indian per year. The direct influence of globalization has not been what is typically believed to be the case in the West: that MNCs are taking over the poor countries. But what this $4 brings is a spark that is catapulting India into a country that most Indians two decades ago would have called a fantasy world. MNCs control a tiny fraction of the economy, but they have set new benchmarks for excellence, not only in terms of technical advancement, but more importantly, in terms of challenging the social mindsets and work ethics of the population”.
Globalization and India.Preview By: Bhandari, Jayant. Canadian Manager, Spring2007, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p10-11, 2p; (AN 25919449
As we can read in the following paragraph, globalization has affected India in a very positive way, opening people mindsets and giving Indians the path for excellence:
“The foreign direct investment (FDI) that India gets today is about US$4 per Indian per year. The direct influence of globalization has not been what is typically believed to be the case in the West: that MNCs are taking over the poor countries. But what this $4 brings is a spark that is catapulting India into a country that most Indians two decades ago would have called a fantasy world. MNCs control a tiny fraction of the economy, but they have set new benchmarks for excellence, not only in terms of technical advancement, but more importantly, in terms of challenging the social mindsets and work ethics of the population”.
Globalization and India.Preview By: Bhandari, Jayant. Canadian Manager, Spring2007, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p10-11, 2p; (AN 25919449
4. Describe India’s Green Revolution.
“The term "Green Revolution" is applied to the period from 1967 to 1978. Between 1947 and 1967, efforts at achieving food self-sufficiency were not entirely successful. Efforts until 1967 largely concentrated on expanding the farming areas. But starvation deaths were still being reported in the newspapers. In a perfect case of Malthusian economics, population was growing at a much faster rate than food production. This called for drastic action to increase yield. The action came in the form of the Green Revolution.
"Green Revolution" is a general term that is applied to successful agricultural experiments in many Third World countries. It is NOT specific to India. But it was most successful in India. There were three basic elements in the method of the India’s Green Revolution: (1) Continued expansion of farming areas; (2) Double-cropping existing farmland; (3) Using seeds with improved genetics.
The Green Revolution created plenty of jobs not only for agricultural workers but also industrial workers by the creation of lateral facilities such as factories and hydro-electric power stations as explained above”.
India's Green Revolution: Economics Gains and Political Costs (Book).Preview By: Blyn, George. Economic Development & Cultural Change, Jan1974, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p358, 7p; (AN 6284686)
5. Did the British Raj enriched or impoversih India? Justify.
There are the 2 sides of the story, each saying what benefits them, for instance, the British say that they “built” India, and the Indians arguing against the theft and abuse committed against them:
Indians point of view:
“There has been a torrent of commentary condemning the pukka sahibs of the Raj -- for their arrogance; for their racial superiority; for mercantilist policies that enriched Britain and impoverished India; for a policy of divide and rule that aggravated tensions between Hindus and Muslims; for Amritsar, of course, and for usurping by conquest what never belonged to them”.
British point of view:
“In the balance of history, Britain may have endowed India with more than it took away, in the form of the country's parliamentary institutions, its administrative system, its railways, its passion for cricket and, perhaps above all, for the gift of the English language. India, through its own failures since 1947, has forfeited the right to be too harsh on its colonial masters, they say”.
The NEW YORK TIMES. “India and England Beg to Differ; Tiptoeing Through the Time of the Raj”. By JOHN F. BURNS. Published: Sunday, October 19, 1997.
“The term "Green Revolution" is applied to the period from 1967 to 1978. Between 1947 and 1967, efforts at achieving food self-sufficiency were not entirely successful. Efforts until 1967 largely concentrated on expanding the farming areas. But starvation deaths were still being reported in the newspapers. In a perfect case of Malthusian economics, population was growing at a much faster rate than food production. This called for drastic action to increase yield. The action came in the form of the Green Revolution.
"Green Revolution" is a general term that is applied to successful agricultural experiments in many Third World countries. It is NOT specific to India. But it was most successful in India. There were three basic elements in the method of the India’s Green Revolution: (1) Continued expansion of farming areas; (2) Double-cropping existing farmland; (3) Using seeds with improved genetics.
The Green Revolution created plenty of jobs not only for agricultural workers but also industrial workers by the creation of lateral facilities such as factories and hydro-electric power stations as explained above”.
India's Green Revolution: Economics Gains and Political Costs (Book).Preview By: Blyn, George. Economic Development & Cultural Change, Jan1974, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p358, 7p; (AN 6284686)
5. Did the British Raj enriched or impoversih India? Justify.
There are the 2 sides of the story, each saying what benefits them, for instance, the British say that they “built” India, and the Indians arguing against the theft and abuse committed against them:
Indians point of view:
“There has been a torrent of commentary condemning the pukka sahibs of the Raj -- for their arrogance; for their racial superiority; for mercantilist policies that enriched Britain and impoverished India; for a policy of divide and rule that aggravated tensions between Hindus and Muslims; for Amritsar, of course, and for usurping by conquest what never belonged to them”.
British point of view:
“In the balance of history, Britain may have endowed India with more than it took away, in the form of the country's parliamentary institutions, its administrative system, its railways, its passion for cricket and, perhaps above all, for the gift of the English language. India, through its own failures since 1947, has forfeited the right to be too harsh on its colonial masters, they say”.
The NEW YORK TIMES. “India and England Beg to Differ; Tiptoeing Through the Time of the Raj”. By JOHN F. BURNS. Published: Sunday, October 19, 1997.
LATIN AMERICA
the mates gave us a particular classification of the presidents acording to their poltical way:
Center- Left:
Brasil: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Argentina: Cristina Fernández
Chile: Michelle Bachelet
Guatemala: Álvaro Colom
Paraguay: Fernando Lugo
República Dominicana: Leonel Fernández
Uruguay: Tabaré Vásquez
Radical- Left:
Venezuela: Hugo Chávez
Cuba: Raúl Castro
Bolivia: Evo Morales
Nicaragua: José Daniel Ortega
Ecuador: Rafael Correa
Center-Right:
Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
Perú: Alan García
México: Felipe Calderón
LATIN AMERICA ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
•ALCA
•ALADI
•CARICOM
•CAN
•MCCA
•MERCOSUR
•AEC
•SELA
Brasil: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Argentina: Cristina Fernández
Chile: Michelle Bachelet
Guatemala: Álvaro Colom
Paraguay: Fernando Lugo
República Dominicana: Leonel Fernández
Uruguay: Tabaré Vásquez
Radical- Left:
Venezuela: Hugo Chávez
Cuba: Raúl Castro
Bolivia: Evo Morales
Nicaragua: José Daniel Ortega
Ecuador: Rafael Correa
Center-Right:
Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
Perú: Alan García
México: Felipe Calderón
LATIN AMERICA ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
•ALCA
•ALADI
•CARICOM
•CAN
•MCCA
•MERCOSUR
•AEC
•SELA
The question:
What is the creative age and what it suposses?
The Creative Age, as we prefer to call it, is one
in which the work being done by creative people in
each economy creates the value-added and drives
economic growth and development. Throughout
U.S. (and anywhere else for that matter) economic
history, the creative processes of technological
change or innovation have been the main catalyst
for growth in each stage of development. This will
certainly continue to be the case as globalization
increases and outsourcing of manufacturing and
services flows to other countries, particularly Asia.
For instance, according to Bill Breen, “Our companies
will continue to prosper only if they push to
the higher ground of innovating and creating ‘elegant,
refined products and services’ – which might
well be produced elsewhere.
IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS LATIN AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN THE UNITED STATES ARTS
Reference:
Nivin, S., & Plettner, D. (2009, Winter2009). arts, culture, and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Economic Development Journal,8(1), 31-41. Retrieved May 19, 2009, from Business Source Premier database.
sábado, 16 de mayo de 2009
domingo, 10 de mayo de 2009
SOUTH ASIA
The topic was so appropiate for this time bacuse the region copntains four of the five tigers and because it covers to India and Auystralia as examples of succesful economies.
These are the south asia countries:
¡Mainland Countries:
§Cambodia
§Laos
§Myanmar
§Thailand
§Vietnam
¡Maritime Countries:
§Brunei
§East Timor
§Indonesia
§Malaysia
§Philippines
§Singapore
§Hong Kong
§Taiwan
Among the common treads they talked about:
§Confucianism
§Buddhism
§Taoism
§China or a strong Chinese expatriate community
§Status
§Karma
The question:
How possible could be a free trade agreement between South east Asian countries?
it cpuld represent a huge trade tie among these coun tries reaching US$260 billion in income
In the last years the nations passed from maintaining a kind of isolation to construct a cooperation in trade esentially
One example of the most succesful countries is India with possitive effects in nations sucha as Srilanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Reference:
East, South Asia Free-Trade Deal Could Generate $260 Billion in Extra Income. (2009, May 13). M2PressWIRE, Retrieved May 14, 2009, from Newspaper Source database.
CHINA
The presentation was very clear, great and full of new things to learn about this amazing country.
THey remarked the totalitarian history of the country driven by rigids political tools with the result of human rights violations.
Theytold us as well about the situation of the country in terms of commerce, exports, dumping, low salaries and child labor among others.
It is one of the countries that most has influenced the development and increase of the capitalism with a "less poor every day" policy which is supported by the rich people paying more taxes.
In the other hand the country maintains a restrictive policy of minimizing the bad national news looking for the defense of the socialism.
a video to introduce us in the country:
The question:
Is there a kind of contradiction among the open of the country in trade terms but not in political terms?...why?
For most politicians of the world China represent if not a threat, a difficult point to develop the campaigns promises but it is not for free that China maintains a rigid foreign policy. The bombing of the chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999 led to a deterioration , by instance, of the realtions among USA and China.
The other issue by which China is very rigid is because Taiwan represents a potential argument for other countries for a diplomatic fight with China.
Finally, it is obvious that the region is mainly represented by China for being the potence in trade, economic success and even in social terms.
reference:
International relations and defence. (2009, December). Country Profile. China, Retrieved May 14, 2009, from Business Source Premier database.
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