Human Rights must be Respected as much as the Affairs of State

President Sarkozy is deporting the Roma people from France!

A bold move? A necessary move? A stupid move? A move that contradicts France’s own, old, and famous revolutionary motto: Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood?

Transnational Companies, Global Economies and Global Competition: A Paradox!

It is widely recognized that changes in technology and competition have diminished many of the traditional limitations of business location. Yet clusters or geographic concentrations of interconnected companies are a striking feature of virtually every national, regional, state, and even metropolitan economy.
Michael E. Porter, Professor at Harvard University in the United States defined this phenomenon in 1998, calling it the “globalisation paradox”, which means that in a globalized economy the importance of locally anchored, well established clusters will increase significantly.