In addition to sectoral privacy laws, the U.S. is experiencing a massive drive toward pushing privacy legislation at the state level. That’s because the federal government hasn’t been able to find a consensus on how to legislate broadly. Rather than wait, state lawmakers have been nudged ...
More recent evidence from Vietnam (Edmonds, 2003), Brazil (de Carvalho Filho, 2012) and Turkey (Dayioğlu, 2006), among others, corroborates this reasoning. However, this relatively intuitive argument has been questioned.Footnote 6 It has been pointed out that the increase in the real ...
Latin America:In countries such as Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, Mastercard is a standard payment method. The company partners with local banks to offer specialized products tailored to the financial needs of these countries. Middle East and Africa:Mastercard is growing in popularity in places such...
Doing work that’s important to folks on the ground is always researchable and intellectually interesting to me, no matter how far away the problem spaces seem to be from my experiences or current expertise, and no matter how much the field already purports to know. Maybe it’s the ...
What’s next is difficult to predict. Historically, Jamaica has imposed COVID-19 restrictions when strains on the health care system might become unsustainable. Jamaica has been relatively proactive when it comes to preventive Covid measures, balanced with the need to keep their tourism industry ...
With reliance on the US market and transportation costs eating into profits, it is clear that Amazon may have to increase the cost of its Prime membership program. Recent expansion into Brazil, Europe, and Japan has increased revenue somewhat, but as the reach of Amazon’s logisticsplatformincre...
Brazil Australia Mexico Spain What Is a Mixed Economy? Most modern nations considered to be market economies are, strictly speaking, mixed economies. That is, the law of supply and demand is the main driver of the economy. The interactions between consumers and producers are allowed to determine...
If there has been a peace dividend, it has been in the enormous growth of the world economy in the wake ofglobalizationfrom 1991 to the present, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Brazil. Why a Peace Dividend Is Difficult to Realize ...
4. Crises with fiscal deficits: These result from expansionary fiscal policies. When investors perceive that a government is unable to manage its economy effectively, they may withdraw their investments, leading to a currency collapse. Example:Brazil faced a currency crisis in 1999, exacerbated by ...
The U.S., Canada, Western Europe, and Australia are relatively open markets while Brazil, Cuba, and North Korea are relatively closed markets.1 A closed market, which is also called aprotectionistmarket, attempts to protect its domestic producers from international competition. In many Middle East...