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Direct Investments and Multinational Corporations

A firm directly invests within foreign shores involves with capital, personnel and assets beyond domestic borders. The firm is responsible for the control over …

Factors of Production

An economy owns factors of production which are used in production process. Factors of production are also known as inputs of the production process. Level of …

Barter Economy

Barter economy is where goods are exchanged for goods rather than using money to perform transactions. Barter economy existed in the past where there were no …

Economic Models and Production Possibilities Frontier

The expression of a model can be in the form of words, diagrams, or mathematical equations, depending on the audience and the point of the model. These are the …

Goods vs Services

Goods and services aims at fulfilling customer needs.  Examples of goods are books, foods, clothes and so on. Examples for services would be hair dressing, …

The Multinational Corporations

During its early stages, international business was conducted in the form of enterprises that were owned singly or in partnerships. As the size of …

Present Value of an Annuity

Present Value of an ordinary annuity (Monthly/Annual investments are made to recover a large some of money at the end of n number of periods) can be found …

Needs, Wants and Demand

Needs are basic physical and mental conditions of a human that need to be satisfied using a product or a services. In other hand wants can be defined as ways …

Recent Trends in World Trade

Expanding Volume Increased Competition Increasing Complexity Trade in Services The large volumes of trade, the existence of huge multinational business …

Characteristics of Money

In past people used barter system (exchange goods for goods) [Click here to visit the article on barter economy] to obtain goods and services. But with …