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• global macro hedge funds
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Inside of these folders, we will compile information about the world wide market for money flows, both in FDI (permanent money), and in portfolios (fast money).

 

• ADR - American Depository Receipt
• Currency
• Carry Trade
• Eurobonds
• Eurocurrency, Eurodollars
• Foreign bonds
• FDI - Foreign Direct Investment
• foreign currency trading - FX market
• global macro hedge funds
• interest rates

• International Finance Decision

• International Finance markets
• LIBOR - London Interbank Offered Rate
• macro economics - national & international level (fiscal & monetary policy)
• Microfinance
• offshore banking
• Private Banking

 

 

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• foreign currency trading

• The US Dollar
• Currency  
• Eurocurrency  
• currency hedging  
• Carry Trade
• ADR  
• Futures market
• forward exchange rate
• foreign exchange Swaps
• foreign exchange Swaps

• Foreign exchange Options 
• fixed exchange rate 
• floating exchange rate 
• spot exchange rate 

 

 

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• Country Analysis
• International Business
• International Money issues
• Currency
• global trends
• World Clock

 

 

 

External Links for finding FX info

 

My favorite:  OANDA.com

 

Others:

 

• http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/ 
• www.exchangerate.com

   

•  

  WWW.EXIM.GOV

   

•  

  WWW.SECURITIES.COM

   

• WWW.IMF.ORG

   

• www.forextrading.com

   

• www.cme.com    (Chicago Mercantile Exchange futures contract exchange rates)

   

•  

  www.phlx.com  (Philadelphia Stock Exchange options contract exchange rates)

   

• http://www.ino.com/

   

• ^{http://quotes.ino.com/}

   

•  

  www.barchart.com

• www.forexgestion.com
• http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory

 

 

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• International Business
• International perspectives
• international trade
• languages
• TRIPS Trade related intellectual propery rights

 

 

Global Institutions

 

 

• International Monetary Fund - IMF
• International institutions

 

 

Favorite International websites (links)

• Time Magazine Global Business
• http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn more: 

 

Here is a series of videos from the Annenberg foundation discussing international trade & currency issues.  Each video is about 1 hour long, and gives an excellent background...

 

 

1. Trade—An Introduction

Why nations trade and what determines trade’s basis and direction. Case studies: IBM’s computer production in Japan; Australia’s mineral export boom and domestic car production.

 

2. Protectionism vs. Free Trade

Tariff and nontariff trade barriers and the beneficiaries of protectionism. Case studies: French agricultural subsidies and conflict in the Uruguay Round; voluntary export restraints on Japanese cars into the U.S.

 

3. Trade Policy

Subsidies, regulatory policies, import-competing, and export-promotion. Case studies: Airbus; the Chilean wine industry.

 

4. Trade Liberalization and Regional Trade Blocs

Multilateral trade liberalization and preferential trading arrangements. Case studies: the Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement; the U.K.’s entry into the EC. Updated 2003.

 

5. Labor and Capital Mobility

The mobility of capital, labor, and technology, including what drives and inhibits labor migration. Case studies: guest workers in the Netherlands; Mexican immigration to the U.S. and maquiladoras.

 

6. Multinational Corporations

How capital moves, transfer technology, and the surrounding controversies. Case studies: investment by Ericsson in Hungary; a comparison of Smith-Corona and Brother.

 

7. Fixed vs. Floating Exchange Rates

The strengths and weaknesses of each type of rate, along with their role as shock absorbers. Case studies: Komatsu vs. Caterpillar; petrodollar recycling in the 1970s.

 

8. Managing Currencies and Policy Coordination

What motivates governments to manage currencies and coordinate policies. Case studies: the Plaza and Louvre Accords; the cost to the U.K. of joining the European Monetary System.

 

9. Exchange Rates, Capital Flight, and Hyperinflation

How international capital flows, inflation, and trade flows affect exchange rates. Case studies: Mexico and the money center banks; hyperinflation in Argentina. Updated 2003.

 

10. Developing Countries

How these nations have been helped or hurt by the rapid growth since WWII. Case studies: comparing South Korea and Sri Lanka; aid vs. trade in Tanzania.

 

11. Economies in Transition

Transforming former Communist countries into market economies. Case studies: state industries vs. private entrepreneurs in Russia; the success of Poland’s “shock therapy.”

 

12. Environment

Transnational pollution and international property rights. Case studies: the U.S.-Mexico agreement on dolphin-safe tuna fishing; trans-national pollution along the Rhine River.

 

13. The Evolving World Economy

The importance of human capital and the shift away from manufacturing to services and knowledge-intensive industries. Case studies: the rise of East Asia, especially China; Microsoft and U.S. dominance of the software market. Updated 2003.

 

 

 

 

 

The E-Book on International Finance and Development

Table of Contents

Preface

By Professor Enrique Carrasco

 

Part One

Pursuing The Good Life: The Meaning of Development As It Relates To The World Bank and The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

 

I. How the Concept of Development Got Started

[outline]

 

II. The Functions of the IMF and the World Bank

[outline]

 

III. Competing Theories of Economic Development

[outline]

 

IV. The 1960s and 1970s: The World Bank Attacks Poverty;

Developing Countries Attack the IMF

[outline]

 

V. The 1980's: The Debt Crisis and the Lost Decade

[outline]

Part Two

Citizens, National Governments, & International Financial Institutions:

Changing Conceptions of Development in The 1990s

 

I. Development in the 1990s

[outline]

 

II. 50th Anniversary of the World Bank and the IMF Prompts Criticisms

[outline]

 

III. The IMF and the World Bank Respond to Criticisms

[outline]

 

IV. Participatory Development and NGOs: A Look at the World Bank in the 1990s

[outline]

 

V. Good Governance and Transparency: Their Impact on Development

[outline]

Part Three

Private Capital and Development:

Challenges Facing International Financial Institutions in a Globalized Economy in the Late 1990s

 

I. Globalization in the 1990s

[outline]

 

II. International Capital Markets and Their Importance

[outline]

 

III. Development, the IMF, and Institutional Investors:

The Mexican Financial Crisis

[outline]

 

IV. The Promises and Perils of Globalization:

The Asian Financial Crisis

[outline]

 

V. Coping With Private Capital Markets

[outline]

 

VI. 1998/1999 Update: The Asian Crisis Goes Global

[outline]

Part Four

The Advent of the 21st Century:

Major Developments in International Finance and Development

 

I. Foreign Debt: Forgiveness and Repudiation

[outline]

I. Remittances and Development

[outline]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio or video clips from BBC archives. Select a country, territory or international organisation from the menus below.

Choose a country Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Chad Comoros Rep of Congo Dem Rep Congo Djibouti Egypt Equator'l Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome/Princip Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe     Find a territory Ceuta, Melilla Puntland Reunion Somaliland St Helena, Ascen Western Sahara Zanzibar       Choose a country Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia-Herceg Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg FYR Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican     Find a territory Abkhazia Ajaria Ceuta, Melilla Chechnya Corsica Crimea Dagestan Faroe Islands Gibraltar Greenland Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkar Kaliningrad Kalmykia Karachay-Cherkes Kosovo Nagorno-Karabakh North Ossetia Northern Ireland South Ossetia Trans-Dniester Wales

Choose a country Antigua/Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Rep Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Surinam St Kitts & Nevis St Lucia St Vincent/Gren Trinidad/Tobago USA Uruguay Venezuela     Find a territory Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Brit Virgin Isl Cayman Islands Falkland Islands French Guiana Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Neth Antilles Puerto Rico St Pierre & Miq Turks and Caicos       Choose a country Algeria Bahrain Egypt Iran Iraq Israel/Pal areas Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan Syria Tunisia UAE Yemen     Find a territory Golan Heights Western Sahara

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Country profiles are compiled by BBC Monitoring

 

Economist.com  Country Reviews:

 

Algeria Angola Argentina Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Britain Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan

Kazakhstan Kuwait Latvia Libya Lithuania Malaysia Mexico Morocco Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Norway Pakistan Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia

Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Tunisia Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates United States Venezuela Vietnam

 

 

 List of companies by Country

 

 

A [+] Companies of Afghanistan by industry [+] Companies of Albania by industry [+] Companies of Algeria by industry [+] Companies of Angola by industry [+] Companies of Antigua and Barbuda by industry [+] Companies of Argentina by industry [+] Companies of Armenia by industry [+] Companies of Aruba by industry [+] Companies of Australia by industry [+] Companies of Austria by industry [+] Companies of Azerbaijan by industry B [+] Companies of the Bahamas by industry [+] Companies of Bahrain by industry [+] Companies of Bangladesh by industry [+] Companies of Barbados by industry [+] Companies of Belarus by industry [+] Companies of Belgium by industry [+] Companies of Belize by industry [+] Companies of Benin by industry [+] Companies of Bermuda by industry [+] Companies of Bhutan by industry [+] Companies of Bolivia by industry [+] Companies of Bosnia and Herzegovina by industry [+] Companies of Botswana by industry [+] Companies of Brazil by industry [+] Companies of Brunei by industry [+] Companies of Bulgaria by industry [+] Companies of Burkina Faso by industry [+] Companies of Burma by industry [+] Companies of Burundi by industry C [+] Companies of Cambodia by industry [+] Companies of Cameroon by industry [+] Companies of Canada by industry [+] Companies of Cape Verde by industry [+] Companies of the Cayman Islands by industry [+] Companies of the Central African Republic by industry [+] Companies of Chad by industry [+] Companies of Chile by industry [+] Companies of China by industry [+] Companies of the People's Republic of China by industry [+] Companies of Colombia by industry [+] Companies of the Republic of the Congo by industry [+] Companies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by industry [+] Companies of Costa Rica by industry [+] Companies of Croatia by industry [+] Companies of Cuba by industry [+] Companies of Cyprus by industry [+] Companies of the Czech Republic by industry [+] Companies of Czechoslovakia by industry [+] Companies of Côte d'Ivoire by industry D [+] Companies of Denmark by industry [+] Companies of Djibouti by industry [+] Companies of the Dominican Republic by industry E [+] Companies of Ecuador by industry [+] Companies of Egypt by industry [+] Companies of El Salvador by industry [+] Companies of Equatorial Guinea by industry [+] Companies of Eritrea by industry [+] Companies of Estonia by industry [+] Companies of Ethiopia by industry F [+] Companies of the Faroe Islands by industry

F cont. [+] Companies of Fiji by industry [+] Companies of Finland by industry [+] Companies of France by industry G [+] Companies of Gabon by industry [+] Companies of the Gambia by industry [+] Companies of Georgia (country) by industry [+] Companies of Germany by industry [+] Companies of Ghana by industry [+] Companies of Greece by industry [+] Companies of Guatemala by industry [+] Companies of Guinea by industry [+] Companies of Guinea-Bissau by industry [+] Companies of Guyana by industry H [+] Companies of Haiti by industry [+] Companies of Honduras by industry [+] Companies of Hungary by industry I [+] Companies of Iceland by industry [+] Companies of India by industry [+] Companies of Indonesia by industry [+] Companies of Iran by industry [+] Companies of Iraq by industry [+] Companies of Ireland by industry [+] Companies of the Republic of Ireland by industry [+] Companies of Israel by industry [+] Companies of Italy by industry J [+] Companies of Jamaica by industry [+] Companies of Japan by industry [+] Companies of Jordan by industry K [+] Companies of Kazakhstan by industry [+] Companies of Kenya by industry [+] Companies of South Korea by industry [+] Companies of North Korea by industry [+] Companies of Kuwait by industry [+] Companies of Kyrgyzstan by industry L [+] Companies of Laos by industry [+] Companies of Latvia by industry [+] Companies of Lebanon by industry [+] Companies of Liberia by industry [+] Companies of Liechtenstein by industry [+] Companies of Luxembourg by industry [+] Companies of Libya by industry M [+] Companies of Macau by industry [+] Companies of the Republic of Macedonia by industry [+] Companies of Madagascar by industry [+] Companies of Malawi by industry [+] Companies of Malaysia by industry [+] Companies of the Maldives by industry [+] Companies of Mali by industry [+] Companies of Malta by industry [+] Companies of Mauritania by industry [+] Companies of Mauritius by industry [+] Companies of Mexico by industry [+] Companies of Moldova by industry [+] Companies of Mongolia by industry [+] Companies of Montenegro by industry [+] Companies of Morocco by industry [+] Companies of Mozambique by industry N [+] Companies of Namibia by industry [+] Companies of Nauru by industry [+] Companies of Nepal by industry [+] Companies of the Netherlands by industry [+] Companies of New Zealand by industry

N cont. [+] Companies of Nicaragua by industry [+] Companies of Niger by industry [+] Companies of Nigeria by industry [+] Companies of Norway by industry O [+] Companies of Oman by industry P [+] Companies of Pakistan by industry [+] Companies of Panama by industry [+] Companies of Papua New Guinea by industry [+] Companies of Paraguay by industry [+] Companies of Peru by industry [+] Companies of the Philippines by industry [+] Companies of Poland by industry [+] Companies of Portugal by industry [+] Companies of Puerto Rico by industry Q [+] Companies of Qatar by industry R [+] Companies of Romania by industry [+] Companies of Russia by industry [+] Companies of Rwanda by industry S [+] Companies of Samoa by industry [+] Companies of Saudi Arabia by industry [+] Companies of Scotland by industry [+] Companies of Senegal by industry [+] Companies of Serbia by industry [+] Companies of Seychelles by industry [+] Companies of Sierra Leone by industry [+] Companies of Singapore by industry [+] Companies of Slovakia by industry [+] Companies of Slovenia by industry [+] Companies of the Solomon Islands by industry [+] Companies of Somalia by industry [+] Companies of South Africa by industry [+] Companies of the Soviet Union by industry [+] Companies of Spain by industry [+] Companies of Sri Lanka by industry [+] Companies of Sudan by industry [+] Companies of Suriname by industry [+] Companies of Swaziland by industry [+] Companies of Sweden by industry [+] Companies of Switzerland by industry [+] Companies of Syria by industry [+] Companies of São Tomé and Príncipe by industry T [+] Companies of Tajikistan by industry [+] Companies of Tanzania by industry [+] Companies of Thailand by industry [+] Companies of Togo by industry [+] Companies of Tonga by industry [+] Companies of Trinidad and Tobago by industry [+] Companies of Tunisia by industry [+] Companies of Turkey by industry [+] Companies of Turkmenistan by industry U [+] Companies of Uganda by industry [+] Companies of Ukraine by industry [+] Companies of the United Arab Emirates by industry [+] Companies of the United Kingdom by industry [+] Companies of the United States by industry [+] Companies of Uruguay by industry [+] Companies of Uzbekistan by industry V [+] Companies of Venezuela by industry [+] Companies of Vietnam by industry Y [+] Companies of Yemen by industry Z [+] Companies of Zambia by industry [+] Companies of Zimbabwe by industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

Country Information

IMF reports and publications arranged by country.

For country information, select from the list below

 

A
	Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of		Armenia, Republic of
	Albania		Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands
	Algeria		Australia
	Angola		Austria
	Antigua and Barbuda		Azerbaijan, Republic of
	Argentina
B
	Bahamas, The		Bolivia
	Bahrain, Kingdom of		Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Bangladesh		Botswana
	Barbados		Brazil
	Belarus, Republic of		Brunei Darussalam
	Belgium		Bulgaria
	Belize		Burkina Faso
	Benin		Burundi
	Bhutan
C
	Cambodia		Comoros
	Cameroon		Congo, Democratic Republic of the
	Canada		Congo, Republic of
	Cape Verde		Costa Rica
	Central African Republic		Côte d’Ivoire
	Chad		Croatia, Republic of
	Chile		Cyprus
	China, People’s Republic of		Czech Republic
	Colombia
D
	Denmark		Dominica
	Djibouti		Dominican Republic
E
	Ecuador		Eritrea
	Egypt, Arab Republic of		Estonia, Republic of
	El Salvador		Ethiopia
	Equatorial Guinea
F
	Fiji		France
	Finland
G
	Gabon		Grenada
	Gambia, The		Guatemala
	Georgia		Guinea
	Germany		Guinea-Bissau
	Ghana		Guyana
	Greece
H
	Haiti		Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China
	Honduras		Hungary
I
	Iceland		Iraq
	India		Ireland
	Indonesia		Israel
	Iran, Islamic Republic of		Italy
J
	Jamaica		Jordan
	Japan
K
	Kazakhstan, Republic of		Korea, Republic of
	Kenya		Kuwait
	Kiribati		Kyrgyz Republic
L
	Lao People’s Democratic Republic		Liberia
	Latvia, Republic of		Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Socialist People’s
	Lebanon		Lithuania, Republic of
	Lesotho		Luxembourg
M
	Macao Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China		Mauritius
	Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of		Mexico
	Madagascar		Micronesia, Federated States of
	Malawi		Moldova, Republic of
	Malaysia		Mongolia
	Maldives		Montenegro, Republic of
	Mali		Morocco
	Malta		Mozambique, Republic of
	Marshall Islands, Republic of the		Myanmar
	Mauritania
N
	Namibia		Nicaragua
	Nepal		Niger
	Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands		Nigeria
	Netherlands Antilles, Kingdom of the		Norway
	New Zealand
O
	Oman
P
	Pakistan		Peru
	Palau, Republic of		Philippines
	Panama		Poland, Republic of
	Papua New Guinea		Portugal
	Paraguay
Q
	Qatar
R
	Romania		Rwanda
	Russian Federation
S
	Samoa		South Africa
	San Marino		Spain
	São Tomé and Príncipe		Sri Lanka
	Saudi Arabia		St. Kitts and Nevis
	Senegal		St. Lucia
	Serbia, Republic of		St. Vincent and the Grenadines
	Seychelles		Sudan
	Sierra Leone		Suriname
	Singapore		Swaziland, Kingdom of
	Slovak Republic		Sweden
	Slovenia, Republic of		Switzerland
	Solomon Islands		Syrian Arab Republic
	Somalia
T
	Tajikistan, Republic of		Tonga
	Tanzania		Trinidad and Tobago
	Thailand		Tunisia
	Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of		Turkey
	Togo		Turkmenistan
U
	Uganda		United States
	Ukraine		Uruguay
	United Arab Emirates		Uzbekistan, Republic of
	United Kingdom
V
	Vanuatu		Vietnam
	Venezuela, República Bolivariana de
Y
	Yemen, Republic of
Z
	Zambia		Zimbabwe

 

 

 

 

Funniest Geography Quiz ever!

 

 

 

 

Video of international translation (humor)

 

 

 

 

Books

 

Books on Global Business