世界经济概论（双语课程）.ppt

世 界 经 济 概 论 (双语课程) 厦门大学经济学院国际经济与贸易系 林季红 编 厦门银禾软件公司 制作 The World Economy Dr Lin Jihong Professor of Economics Xiamen University Contents Lecture 1 Globalization Lecture 2 Regional Economic Integration Lecture 3 MNCs and FDI Lecture 4 American Economy Lecture 5 Japanese Economy Lecture 6 German Economy Lecture 7 Developing Economies Lecture 8 Transitional Economies Lecture 1 Globalization Some Simple Facts About the Global Economy In 2000: World Trade Totaled $7.6 Trillion. About 63,000 Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) Operate in the Global Economy Controlling About 690,000 Foreign Affiliates Employing About 86 Million People. Foreign Direct Investment Totaled $1.3 Trillion. About 30 Countries in Western Europe, North America, and Asia Account for About 75% of this International Economic Activity. The Definition of Globalization An increasingly interconnected world: As a result of very rapid increases in telecommunications and computer-based technologies and products, a dramatic expansion in cross-border financial flows and within countries has emerged. The pace has become truly remarkable. These technology-based developments have so expanded the breadth and depth of markets that governments, even reluctant ones, increasingly have felt they have had little alternative but to deregulate and free up internal credit and financial markets.” ------Alan Greenspan, keynote address at the Cato Institutes 15th Annual Monetary Conference, October 14, 1997. “Drivers” of Globalization: Declining Trade and Investment Barriers Globalization of markets and production the result of lowering of trade barriers enabled by technological change Telecommunications microprocessors High power/low cost computing Increase in information processing capacity The internet and the world-wide web Transportation technology Deregulation of Capital Control In