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(Newser) - The success of High School Musical 3 proves that 293 million tweens can't be wrong. The series’ third installment debuted No. 1 in 19 international markets, confirming Disney's success with a strategy that marries the franchise’s universal themes to local cultures, Time reports. “You weave it together, forming a partnership between programming and marketing,” one exec says. “You go different places to reach different people.” More »

More about:  Walt Disney Co. • cinema • High School Musical • Globalization • High School Musical 3

analysis

 Outsourcing Still Alive and Well 

Rising costs of business are more powerful than 'backshoring' trned

strategy+business Oct 22, 08 9:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Reports of the death of outsourcing have been greatly exaggerated, three specialists in the field write in strategy+business . While a few big companies such as Dell and Apple have scaled back on customer service operations overseas, these decisions remain the exception to the rule, no matter what you read in the mainstream business press. The practice simply makes too much economic sense to disappear. More »

More about:  outsourcing • customer service • Globalization • offshoring

OPINION

Views on the Meltdown
From Across the Pond

How Europe, but mostly England sees the crisis

Financial Times (UK) Financial Times (UK) Sep 30, 08 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The banking crisis isn’t limited to the US—it’s a cross-continental phenomenon. Here’s what the British press saying about the mood: France and Germany are livid, reports Charles Wyplosz of the Financial Times. There, individualism isn’t seen as a virtue, and free markets are greeted with suspicion. Both Nicolas Sarkozy and the German finance minister have "announced the end of Anglo-American financial supremacy." More »

More about:  France • Germany • England • credit market • global economy • Globalization

 Global Trade Talks Collapse

Breakdown halts seven years of progress to hammer out deal

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Jul 30, 08 4:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - World Trade Organization talks to forge a new global trade pact collapsed yesterday after seven years of negotiations. An EU spokesman called the breakdown a "massive blow to the confidence in the global economy." The talks fell apart as China and India demanded the authortity to impose "safeguard" tariffs if imports of key crops exceeded set levels, reports the Wall Street Journal.  More »

More about:  China • India • Brazil • free trade • Max Baucus • subsidies • tariffs • Geneva • Globalization • World Trade Organization. • free trade agreements • global food crisis • Doha Round

House OKs Trade Deal
With Peru

Bill split Dems,
who defied wishes
of labor unions

New York Times New York Times Nov 8, 07 4:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Despite sharp criticism from labor leaders, environmentalists, and free-trade opponents, roughly half of House Democrats joined nearly all Republicans to pass a trade-liberalization agreement with Peru. Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out in favor of the deal, defying expectations that President Bush would find no friends for his trade policy in the current Congress, the New York Times reports. The Senate is expected to pass it, too. More »

More about:  George W. Bush • Nancy Pelosi • Peru • congressional Democrats • free trade • Globalization

Indian 'Success Story' Funded by Migrants

Money mailed home makes possible Kerala's leftist showcase

New York Times New York Times Sep 7, 07 3:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The South Indian state of Kerala, long touted for achieving a high quality of life in the face of dire poverty, relies heavily on earnings sent from menial jobs abroad, the New York Times reports. Offered as a leftist alternative to market-driven development in poor nations, Kerala is famous for the health care and education given to its populace despite a per capita income almost $100 lower than the Indian average. More »

More about:  India • world economy • Globalization • migrant labor

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