One of the major impacts of Globalization in the past few decades is that large companies have become truly global and no longer depend on one country or territory to do business.The strong growth of Multi-National Companies (MNCs) confirms this phenomenon. American MNCs, for example, have established production facilities overseas and employ millions of workers …
The following table shows the Top 15 U.S. Ports by TEU Container Count based on data from 2010: Click to enlarge Note: TEU – Twenty-foot Equivalent container Units The World’s 10 Busiest Ports based on TEU Container Count are: 1.Hong Kong, China 2. Singapore 3. Pusan, So. Korea 4. Kaohsiung, Taiwan 5. Rotterdam, Netherlands 6. …
Foreign stocks have traditionally had higher dividend yields than U.S. stocks due to a variety of reasons. While U.S. firms prefer to retain excess earnings for future growth companies in other countries tend to payout a higher portion of earnings to investors in the form of dividends. In some countries such as Australia favorable tax treatment …
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The decoupling theory implies that the economic growth of emerging countries do not depend on developed countries.This theory failed miserably during the global financial crisis when markets around the world declined simultaneously. In fact emerging markets fell much more than markets in the developed world. In today’s globalized economy, emerging and developed countries are highly …
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Click to enlarge: Source: Key Asian Indicators: A Book of Charts, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation, July 2012