As banks in the so-called BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India, and China - become larger and more competitive, a few could emerge as challengers to leading Western players, says a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
JETRO's monthly survey of Japanese companies and affiliates operating in 12 countries/regions of East Asia revealed that overall current sentiment remained depressed in the ASEAN region and showed little sign of recovery.
Portugal should raise awareness of foreign bribery in both the public and private sector and be more proactive in detecting, investigating and prosecuting cases of bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions, according to a report by the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery.
Cable operators and Vonage are driving continuing growth in the US residential Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone market, according to In-Stat. According to data from the high-tech market research firm’s US Residential VoIP Market Tracker service, more than 10.6 million US households now have at least one active VoIP user, up from approximately 9 million households at the end of Q3.
AeA released its latest report, We Are Still Losing the Competitive Advantage: Now Is the Time To Act. The report serves as the natural sequel to the AeA report of two years ago: Losing the Competitive Advantage? That report focused on how the United States is at risk of squandering its preeminence in science, technology, and innovation as countries across the globe became more competitive and as America neglected the factors that gave it this lead.
The IT recruitment market has experienced a rollercoaster journey in the past decade, from the peaks of demand in 1999 through the turbulence of 2000 to 2003, before rising again to recovery in 2004 and continued steady growth in 2005 and 2006.
Asia-Pacific remains one of the few high-growth mobile markets in the world. Apart from the vast subscriber base, much of this growth is driven by drastically reduced calling rates, decline in handset prices and the expansion of network infrastructure in the emerging markets of India and Indonesia.
Two years of intensive work finally bear fruit: the European Union has a new set of financial rules to better use EU funds in the 2007-2013 financial framework. The new rules simplify access to funding and reduce administrative procedures to a strict minimum. For the first time the names of the beneficiaries of all EU funds will be made public.
Central Asia’s economic expansion will continue with GDP growth in the region projected at 10.3% in 2007 and 9.4% in 2008, according to a major ADB report . The region grew 12.4% in 2006.
