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Despite Global Economic Meltdown, Consumers Have Increased Appetite for Green
added: 22-07-2009

A newly released survey, conducted in seven countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Brazil, India, Germany and France - indicates that while many environmental beliefs and behaviors are shared across different consumer cultures, others vary widely. Generally, consumers in the US, UK, Germany and France tend to align in their attitudes, while consumers in Brazil, India, and China have divergent views, and are particularly inclined to seek green products and to favor companies they consider green.
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Economy Still Holding Outsourcing Market Back
added: 22-07-2009

TPI, the largest sourcing data and advisory firm in the world and a unit of Information Services Group Inc. (ISG),released second-quarter and first-half global market data showing that outsourcing activity continues to be constrained by difficult macroeconomic conditions, despite its potential to soften the impact of the recession through cost savings and efficiency gains.
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Forrester Forecast: Global Online Population To Hit 2.2 Billion By 2013
added: 22-07-2009

The number of people online around the world will grow more than 45 percent to 2.2 billion users over the next five years, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. Asia remains the biggest global Internet growth engine: 43 percent of the world’s online population will reside in Asia by 2013, with 17 percent of the global online population in China. Growth rates in the US, Western Europe, and the major industrialized nations in Asia Pacific such as Australia, Japan, and South Korea will slow to between 1 percent and 3 percent.
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New Census Bureau Report: Unprecedented Global Aging
added: 21-07-2009

The average age of the world's population is increasing at an unprecedented rate. The number of people worldwide 65 and older is estimated at 506 million as of midyear 2008; by 2040, that number will hit 1.3 billion. Thus, in just over 30 years, the proportion of older people will double from 7 percent to 14 percent of the total world population, according to a new report, An Aging World: 2008.
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Fitch: Global Oil Refining Faces Significant Challenges
added: 17-07-2009

Fitch Ratings says in a special report that the global oil refining industry faces significant challenges in the near- to medium-term due to a sharp deterioration in the global supply/ demand balance for refined products.
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Trade Flows’ Collapse Continues in First Quarter 2009
added: 16-07-2009

The unprecedented and largely synchronized drop in merchandise trade volumes of the Group of Seven (G7) countries of the last quarter 2008 continued in the first quarter 2009. When compared year-on-year, the steep rate of decline already observed for Q4 2008 reached two-digit levels in Q1 2009 for almost all countries.
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Adults in Five Largest European Countries and the U.S. Say Recession Will Last at Least One More Year
added: 16-07-2009

A new Financial Times/Harris Poll finds that very few adults in the five largest European countries and the U.S. believe the recession in their countries will end in the next six months (between 6% in the U.S. and Germany and 2% in Great Britain). A plurality of Britons (45%), Americans (43%), Spaniards (40%) and French adults (40%) as well as 39% of Italians and 32% of Germans believe the recession will end between 1 to 2 years from now.
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Global Airline Capacity Continues to Stabilise, Reports OAG
added: 16-07-2009

One year on since the world's airlines began to curb their seat capacity in the face of global economic pressures, the cutbacks are starting to stabilise with just over 315 million seats on offer this month, a drop of just one percent over July 2008 levels, reports OAG, the world's leading aviation data business, as it releases its monthly report on trends in the supply of airline flights and seats.
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S&P: Foreign Sales by U.S. Companies Continue to Rise
added: 15-07-2009

Standard & Poor's, the world's leading index provider, announced today that for fiscal year 2008, S&P 500 companies with full reporting information posted 47.9% of their sales from outside of the United States versus 45.8% in 2007 and 43.6% in 2006. The data is derived from the 253 companies within the S&P 500 that have full reporting information.
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Remittance Flows to Developing Countries to Decline By 7.3% in 2009, Predicts World Bank
added: 14-07-2009

Remittance flows to developing countries are expected to be $304 billion in 2009, down from an estimated $328 billion in 2008, said the World Bank.
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