La Chine connaît depuis la fin des années 70 une croissance économique fulgurante. La
transition vers l’économie de marché a modifié beaucoup d’aspects de la société chinoise.
Depuis les réformes lancées par Deng Xiaoping, la Chine a connu des bouleversements
économiques et sociaux sans précédents. Avec le passage progressif d’une économie
planifiée à une économie de marché, le niveau [...]

Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its second annual ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in 2006. Twenty multinational companies are analyzed in ten major sectors; the top ten performing companies are ranked in each category: Best EthicalQuote Score (positive minus negative news, [...]

The North American Agreement on Labour Conditions (NAALC) is the first of its kind: it is a parallel agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). For the first time, an economic convention is linked to a labour rights accord. First this paper shortly presents the NAFTA. Then we have a look at the [...]

Pas un jour ne passe sans que les médias ne relatent une fermeture d’usine en Europe
Occidentale. La concurrence acharnée à laquelle se livre les industriels, tous secteurs
confondus, oblige les entreprises à se lancer dans des plans de restructurations souvent
accompagnées de suppressions d’emploi et de délocalisations. Dans ce climat difficile,
deux visions s’affrontent quant à l’avenir de [...]

Previous statements can be useful to understand women’s situation on the labour
market. Since the beginning of mankind, division of labour was established: men go
hunting while women collect fruits. Afterward, men had been supposed to bring money
home, occupying the public sphere, and women had to look after the kids and the
household, confined in the private sphere. [...]

In the current century where it is clear that almost everyone is aware of the
important Environmental issues (i.e. Global Warming, Energy Resource Crisis) and
Economical issues around the world especially the poorer regions, individuals and large
corporations find themselves in a position to pledge their effort using any available means
such as cash donations, free use of services, [...]

Characterized by a large and well-developed agricultural, mining, manufacturing and
service sector, Brazil’s economy outweighs that of all other South American countries and
is expanding its presence in world markets. Productivity gains – particularly in agriculture – contributed to the surge in exports, and Brazil in 2005 surpassed the previous year’s record export level. Within the agricultural [...]

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The Caspian Sea is one of the largest oil and gas fields in the world but its potential was
not been exploited under the Soviet Union. Not only did the end of the USSR with the
subsequent independence of the countries around the Caspian Sea lead to its exploitation,
but also modern technology and investments from the West. [...]

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