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States Bring Business
From Tallahassee to Sacramento, lawmakers in state capitals around the United States heeded business leaders? call to ?run government more like a business.? The result: lower taxes, higher revenue surpluses, more incentives for new business, a rush of ?e-government? and information technology initiatives, and greater investment in needed infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, public schools […]
A Very Busy Two-Way Street
President Obama's visit to Mexico City in May had an interesting and surprisingly novel focus on the two nations' very positive economic relations, now at an amazing $536 billion dollars in two-way goods and services trade for 2012.
The Pelepas Free Zone: More Than Just Cost Advantages
Among the companies to have found both advantages in the Pelepas Free Zone at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) are Flextronics, JST Connectors, Schenker Logistics, CIBA Vision and many others. MNCs with locations at PTP, in the Iskandar Development Region in Malaysia’s southernmost point, seek a southeast Asian base from which to serve the region cost-effectively and efficiently.
State of Contradictions
Tax credits, infrastructure projects and funding, and innovation top the news from the Golden State.