ECONOMIES OF SCALE popularity and ECONOMIES OF SCALE trends

The economies of Fujian province and Taiwan are complementary, and gains from trade across the Taiwan Straits can benefit both sides.

The economies of Fujian province and Taiwan are complementary, and gains from increasing trade across the Taiwan Straits can benefit both sides.

BEIJING - The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea agreed Sunday to start negotiations towards creating a free-trade area this year, saying it would boost the economies of the region in a time of crisis. A free-trade area among Northeast Asia’s three major economies has been on the trilateral agenda for the past decade, beginning with an agreement among the three in late 2002 to launch a ...

Your humble blogger has been banging on about how China's weaknesses are significant and its strengths have been badly overestimated.  So you would think I'd be happy to read this Edward Wong front-pager for the New York Times: After the economies of Western nations imploded in late 2008, Chinese leaders began boasting of their nation’s supremacy. Talk spread, not only in China ...

SHANGHAI (AP) -- Dismal data from China and India signal a weakening of the global recovery, undermining hopes for the dynamic emerging economies of Asia to help prop up growth....

The 'economies of scale' is an appealing concept implying that if we share knowledge in an open way we can create new, healthy economies that do not just depend on 'scale'. As we have seen, over the last decade in particular, some of the companies that are trying to achieve exponential growth can endanger the economy and society in general — the global financial crisis surrounding the large f...

China, Japan, America, the oil powers, and the rising economies of Latin America had a chance to pull Europe back from suicide through IMF pressure but the world dropped the ball.

Four developing countries, including India, have told the WTO they would further open their markets for least-developed countries, a move which will help boost the economies of the poor nations.

ananyo writes "Many of the problems that led to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill have not been addressed, say the members of a commission set up by U.S. President Barack Obama to study the disaster. The group released a report today (PDF) on progress towards its 2011 recommendations for preventing future disasters and improving spill response. The U.S. Congress fares worst in the new rep...

Amid Eurozone crisis and uncertain economic climate, emerging economies of India and Brazil have topped the Business Confidence Index confirming their role as key drivers of the global economy.

A trillion here, a trillion there puts a certain twinkle in the eyes of tech executives.

Amid eurozone crisis and uncertain economic climate, emerging economies of Brazil and India have topped the business confidence index, says a Regus report.

Portugal’s cancelation of the high-speed train project will damage the future of both economies

The high demand for commodities is producing rosy projections for the economies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec

With growth slowing in the large emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, there is growing anxiety that the global financial crisis will finally end up in emerging economies.

The African Ministers' Council says a failure to invest in water infrastructure is holding back the economies of many sub-Saharan countries.

THE GREAT Depression in the 1930s was the last time economies of the developed world experienced a peacetime shock of the kind they have suffered since 2008. Most national economies are smaller than they were four years ago.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's bonuses fell nearly 25 percent in 2011, a New York City fiscal watchdog estimated on Monday, a less severe drop than the industry had anticipated, though still likely to deal a blow to the economies of New York City and New York state.

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — inaugurated a new title format where the topic replaces the date of the show release (it's in the URL). Today's topic: what it always is, Apple's relentless march toward encircling Windows in a sea of HD-quality iOS devices. In the latest update to OS X, push notification, the Twitter social bus and AirPlay come to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy still hopes to find cost savings on its version of Northrop Grumman Corp's unmanned Global Hawk spy plane, despite concerns that the Pentagon's decision to scrap the Air Force model will eliminate promised economies of scale.

Kari Hamerschlag has a post up about the upcoming Farm Bill and its potential to move money away from large scale industrial agriculture and towards smaller producers. For most small farmers producing for local markets, the idea is heady - after all, the economics agriculture are tenuous for many of us - we get all of the burdens of regulation without any of the economies of scale that accompa...

That it can harvest accelerating economies of scale even at its current preposterous size suggests that we have not seen peak profitability

The smartphone application which is being developed by Microsoft has already been nicknamed the 'Avoid The Ghetto' app. But critics fears the app could damage local economies and steer tourists away from historically significant neighbourhoods just because they might have a high crime rate.

by Rajesh Thambala By 2015, the world's mobile worker population will reach 1.3 billion, representing 37.2% of the total workforce. According to an updated forecast from a research company, the most significant gains will again be in the emerging economies of Asia/Pacific thanks to continued, strong economic growth. The Americas will experience a slower growth rate due to a protracted econom...

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said on Monday that the European debt crisis poses a risk for "all economies of the world," as she met officials in Nigeria on her first visit to Africa as head of the fund.

In 2012, Europe will surely leave its mark on the economies of Asia—for all the wrong reasons.

Fresh evidence that the euro-zone crisis is harming the economies of emerging Europe surfaced with surveys of purchasing managers recording a sharp slowdown in former communist states that joined the European Union hoping for economic gains.

An intrusive European body with the power to take over the economies of struggling nations should be set up to tackle the eurozone crisis, according to a leaked German government document.

Motorists were warned to prepare for four years of soaring costs at the petrol pumps, with the price of a full tank expected to top £100 as demand from the fast-growing economies of Asia triggers a boom in oil markets.

After a brief respite, fuel costs will start rising again next year as demand from the fast-growing economies of Asia triggers a boom in oil markets.

A company from the United States that is developing a flying car is eyeing the booming economies of India, Brazil and China as future markets, its co-founder said on Saturday.