{"title":"Cuba's seaports and airports","authors":"Arlene Alligood","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90037-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90037-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As Cuba's foreign trade with Europe, Canada and Latin America grows, the island must have in place a well-functioning trade infrastructure of seaports and airports connected to a developed ground transportation system to handle its import and export trade. This article explores Cuba's existing port and transportation systems and analyzes the island's shipping operations and its merchant marine. It seeks to answer the question “Can Cuba handle the post-embargo cargo boom?” The findings are somewhat positive, but they do not discount the obvious downsides.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 66-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90037-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's note","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90030-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90030-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Page 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90030-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137161272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The politics of finance in developing countries: Haggard Lee Maxfield, eds. Cornell University Press Ithaca, New York 1993","authors":"Kathryn C. Lavelle","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90038-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90038-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"29 1","pages":"87-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90038-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53336908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of multinationals in economic development","authors":"Ann Harrison","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90028-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90028-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During her five years at the World Bank, Harrison initiated four studies involving multinational enterprises in four developing countries: Ivory Coast, Mexico, Morocco and Venezuela. These studies measure the role of multinational enterprises in promoting technology transfer; test whether multinationals push up wages for local workers; and analyze the validity of the “pollution haven hypothesis,” which states that foreign investors flock to developing countries to take advantage of lax environmental standards. Harrison finds no evidence of pollution havens and shows that multinationals raise wages for local workers. However, she finds that technology transfer has generally been limited to the joint ventures who receive foreign equity participation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"29 4","pages":"Pages 6-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90028-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92107194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index volume 29","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90042-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90042-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"29 4","pages":"Pages 98-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90042-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92150203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing in emerging market economies: Cases from the Czech and Slovak Republics","authors":"Rumen Dobrinsky","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90037-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90037-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"29 4","pages":"Page 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90037-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92150200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Switzerland and its industry in international competition","authors":"Edwin Rühli , Stefan Schuppisser","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90033-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90033-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>International competitiveness is an issue of the highest importance in a nation like Switzerland. The country has population smaller than the city of New York, and therefore a small domestic market, and has a poor endowment of natural resources. As a result, its prosperity depends to a large extent on its industries' performance in foreign markets. In light of the fundamental geopolitical and economic change in the world particularly the further development of European Integration, Switzerland is taking steps to revitalize its international competitiveness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"29 4","pages":"Pages 54-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90033-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53336854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of multinationals in economic development: The benefits of FDI","authors":"A. Harrison","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90028-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90028-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"29 1","pages":"6-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90028-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growing car ownership in LDCs: The impact on the environment and trade","authors":"Matthew E. Kahn","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90029-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90029-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Kahn recently completed a study with Suzi Kerr, sponsored by the Harvard Institute for International Development, on the causes and consequences of air pollution in Santiago, Chile. They explained how local air pollution in Santiago is linked to income growth. Although the rising number of cars indicates that the people of Santiago have become wealthier, the environment and the government are ill prepared for the consequences of increased air pollution, particularly for a lower quality of life, Kahn discusses the problem of growing car ownership rates in LDCs in a larger, global context, and lends insights into its implications for future trade with these countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"29 4","pages":"Pages 12-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90029-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balancing policy, consumer desire and corporate interests: Considerations for market entry in Vietnam","authors":"Clifford J. Shultz","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(94)90032-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90032-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"29 1","pages":"42-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(94)90032-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}