The food industry of today is in a constant state of change -- becoming increasingly globalised and consumer driven. Moreover, food consumption patterns in industrialized and many developing nations are changing dramatically, ...

The New Zealand dairy industry has been well placed to take advantage of the relaxing international market barriers that have long plagued the dairy trade. At the same time it is very important to keep the size of New ...

After 1984 the New Zealand economy underwent a radical transformation, moving from, arguably, the most regulated economy in the western world to the world’s freest market economy (Passow, 1992). One aspect of this economic ...

This paper begins by setting out the constitutional framework of the Russian Federation and demonstrates that, over time, Russia's regions are beginning to exert greater control over their internal economic and commercial ...

Export markets for New Zealand lamb have changed rapidly over the past decade. Traditional markets have been in decline, while new markets, in Continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia have grown rapidly. The nature of ...

The strong appreciation of the U.S. Dollar between 1980 and 1985 induced a surge in imports into the United States for a wide variety of products. This, in turn, increased the demand for trade protection. Many of these ...

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 ...

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. ...

A number of environmental factors influence the International Transfer Pricing decision processes of multinational enterprises (MNEs). The extent to which each of these factors affect the process depends on management’s ...

An appropriate objective for trade policy ought to be to maximise imports. Unfortunately, trade policy negotiators get very caught up in the facilitation of this objective by necessarily arguing about access for exports, ...