India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is moving to set up a direct sea and air link between India and Latin America, as Indian corporations line up significant investments in the oil, mining, IT and pharmaceutical sectors there.
Brazil's government has yanked down interest rates to record lows and kept the value of the real, the country's currency, in check. The government has even doled out tax cuts in attempts to boost growth. But so far, there's not much evidence those strategies are working "” and key economic data released recently probably won't change things.
International trade and cooperation has become a key driver of small business success, according to an in-depth and wide-ranging study by IHS and DHL Express.
The past decade was extraordinary for Brazil. The country surpassed the $10,000 GDP per capita mark and became the world's sixth-largest economy. The most liquid Brazilian publicly traded companies created substantial value, yielding average annual total shareholder return"”stock price appreciation plus dividends"”of 19 percent from 2004 through 2011. These returns were largely the result of rapid revenue growth in most sectors of the Brazilian economy.
Decisions on what, how much, where, and when to stock product across the extended global CP supply chain directly impact corporate profitability, positively or negatively.
