The study of linguistics and its relationship to communication is a well developed discipline. Communication across cultural boundaries is also a subject of interest to many social scientists. The study of cross-cultural ...

The trade and wages debate worldwide, over the last decade has focused attention on the possible relationships between trade liberalisation and the factor distribution of income. In Australia real wages in manufacturing ...

New Zealand embarked on major unilateral trade policy changes as part of the economic reform packages from 1984. Since that time there has been some evidence that unskilled wages have fallen relative to skilled workers ...

The crisis in Asia has dominated economic, financial, and much business thinking for more than seven months. It looks set to continue to do so for an extended period. The effects on the countries concerned, on the region, ...

Modern agricultural marketing systems are often highly complex structures with a range of inter-linking players operating within diverse trading environments. To compare the effectiveness of one agricultural marketing ...

The most common non tariff barriers that affect New Zealand (NZ) trade in apples are phytosanitary ones. This research focused on the economic analysis of this type of barrier. It especially refers to the potential apple ...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) have a major influence on contemporary world trade and business. Their dominance is predicted to grow in the future, as greater convergence and integration is achieved in world economies. ...

Since the early eighties there has been a marked change in the way New Zealand producers export lamb, in terms of the additional processing of lamb for export and the markets to which these products are sold. Most notable ...

This study provides empirical evidence on the relative performances of Foreign Controlled Domestic Companies operating in the United Kingdom as compared to those of United Kingdom Controlled Domestic Dompanies. One hundred ...

The Sanitary Phytosanitary Code (SPS) is an effort to reduce the technical barriers to trade created by phytosanitary regulations, or trade barriers related to plant and animal health. A key feature of SPS is risk assessment ...