Offshore banks in non-political and economically stable jurisdictions, like Swiss banks, have strict financial regulations that limit the activities they can carry out with the funds they hold. They see themselves, first and foremost, as a place for wealth to be protected rather than for gamblin...
Economically speaking, first world countries tend to have stablecurrenciesand robustfinancial markets, making them attractive to investors from all around the world. While they may not be purely capitalist, first world nations’ economies tend to be characterized byfree markets, private enterprise, and...
Economically important sharks and rays of Indonesia. ACIAR Monograph series, 124: 1–329 Yokota, L. & Lessa, R.P. (2006) A nursery area for sharks and rays in Northeastern Brazil. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 75(3), 349–360 DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-0038-9 de Silva, R.I. (...
The disease is also known as mussel egg disease occurring also in Mytella guyanensis of Brazil and in Western Australian M. galloprovincialis (Bower, 2012). View chapter Review article An approach to the study of the immunity functions of bivalve haemocytes: Physiology and molecular aspects Fish...
“Farmers are expecting reliability and stability — exactly what we are trying to bring in these products. Natural active ingredients, such as microbes, are more fragile and need to be formulated in a smarter way to get stable and performant products whatever the field conditions,” Antoine Dre...
Brazil’s ‘government pensions account for about 7% of GDP, while infrastructure spending accounts for only 1.5%’. ‘In terms of pensions, for example, compared to the average wage, Brazilians’ pensions are equivalent to 97% of their pre-retirement after-tax wage income, well above the 69...
However, the revival of the gold standard was short-lived due to the Great Depression, which began in the late 1920s. The Great Depression was a worldwide phenomenon. By 1928, Germany, Brazil, and the economies of Southeast Asia were depressed. By early 1929, the economies of Poland, Arge...
it’s tempting to think Sea should shutter the experiment for good, focusing the entirety of its resources on Southeast Asia. One source, who believes in Shopee’s Brazilian business, admitted that the market wants consolidation. “If Sea closed down Brazil, the stock would go up 20%,” the...
There are also official guidelines to help developing countries (e.g. South Africa, Brazil and Mexico) overcome the challenges associated with the lack of comparables data available for transfer pricing purposes and the accurate valuation of intangibles. They include: A Toolkit for Addressing ...
A few examples of countries generally considered to have been affected by colonialism during their histories includeAmerica,Australia,New Zealand,Algeria, andBrazil—countries that came to be controlled by a large number of settlers from European powers. Typical examples of imperialism, cases in which...