Canada has the most competitive corporate tax rate now among the G-7 countries. The marginal effective tax rate in Canada at 19.9% is now the lowest among the G-7 countries and the 20th most tax-competitive in the 34-member OECD, according to a research report by Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz of The School of Public Policy, University of …

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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. …

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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

 Click to enlarge     Source: Key Asian Indicators: A Book of Charts, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation, July 2012