Assignment:
1. A system is based on a very detailed set of laws organized into codes.
- theocratic law
- common law
- traditional law
- civil law
2. Which of the following is the prime reason why Africa has attracted FDI in recent years?
- Growth of the services sector
- Raw material availability
- Wave of privatization
- Complete deregulation of markets
3. _______is the collective term for the legal rights relating to the use to which a resource is put and over the use made of any income that may be derived from that
- Positive rights
- Common rights
- Trade rights
- Property rights
3. Containerization allows:
- buyers and sellers to find each other easily in a global economy.
- reduction of the time needed to get from one location to another.
- enterprise to coordinate and control a globally dispersed production system.
- simplification of transshipment from one mode of transport to another.
4. An international business, unlike a multinational enterprise:
- needs to have manufacturing units in at least two foreign nations.
- need not customize its products to the requirements of national markets.
- need not invest directly in operations in other countries.
- needs to manufacture products or provide services that target a global market.
5. A U.S. investment firm, Fin-Smart, set up a customer service call center in India to take advantage of the lower labor costs. This is called
- horizontal integration
- international outsourcing
- vertical integration
- homogenizing markets
6. _______is seen as a way to stimulate gains in economic efficiency by giving owners a powerful incentive the reward of greater profits to search for increases in productivity, to enter new markets, and to exit losing ones.
- Economic transformation
- Deregulation
- Privatization
- Globalization
7. Which of the following is an impediment that makes it difficult for firms to achieve the optimal dispersion of productive activities to locations around the globe?
- Transportation costs
- Reduction of barriers to trade between countries
- Government deregulations
- Reduction of barriers to foreign direct investment