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Since the establishment of the first central bank in Sweden in 1668, the number of central banks has increased to 178 (in 2008). The emergence of new sovereign states saw a corresponding increase in the number of central banks. Central banks have legitimate power to create national currency, …
Centralization in the context of an organization relates to the concentration of decision-making authority at the higher levels of management. Its converse, decentralization, is the dispersal of authority from the higher levels to the lower levels of management. If more authority to make decisions is concentrated at the …
Centralized control, in the context of organizations, means control exercised by a central authority such as top management. Contrary to centralized control, we have the concept of decentralized control where the function of control is delegated to lower levels of management. In reality, there is no absolute centralized …
A Certificate of Origin is a formal document that authenticates the country of origin of merchandise. The Certificate of Origin (CO) is an import document; the import authority of a country establishes the requirements for it. While Certificates of Origin vary across countries, they have a common set …
The Korean word chaebol is used to refer to the highly diversified business groups contributing to the post– World War II industrialization in South Korea. Family ownership has not been significant in chaebols; despite this, the control of chaebols by founding families is typically due to cross-shareholding. For …
A channel means a narrow but deep route connecting two entities. Business entities use channels to connect themselves with their customers. Most businesses today use two broad categories of channels: communication channels and distribution channels. They use communication channels to carry various kinds of information and messages to …
Chevron Corporation, one of the world’s leading energy companies, is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and operates in more than 100 countries. Among its major business activities are exploration and production of oil and gas, refining, transport, and marketing of oil and oil products, manufacturing and sales of …
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is an American financial trading place based in Chicago. Often called MERC, it was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board. When the CME began it was a not-for-profit organization. Its purpose was to trade futures contracts on agricultural products. …
The Chicago School was a group of highly influential economists affiliated with the University of Chicago in the last century. The heyday of this group was in the 1950s when economists teaching in the economics department joined forces with professors in other academic areas in the graduate school …
Children have been used as cheap labor from the earliest times of human existence. Historically children were viewed by parents as a source of labor on farms or in areas of “woman’s work.” Grown children were the “social security” of their parents for whom they would provide. In …
Chile is a country on the western coast of South America with a distinctive geography and rich natural resources. After decades of import substitution industrialization policies, the country has been pursing an export-led growth strategy since the late 1970s. Its economy is integrated with the rest of the …
China is one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations. The history of China as recorded in traditional historical records extends back as far as 5,000 years. Recorded history is supplemented by archaeological records dating back to the 16th century b.c. Turtle shells with markings reminiscent of ancient Chinese …
China Life Insurance Company Limited (“China Life”) is China’s largest life insurance company and the second-largest by market value globally (US$129 billion; RMB 1,032 billion). With a market share of approximately 40 percent with less than 4 percent of the population insured, China Life—and the China insurance market …
China Mobile Limited (“China Mobile”) is China’s leading mobile services provider, having developed the largest mobile phone network and subscriber base in the world. The combination of continued rapid growth in China’s economy, rising consumer purchasing power, the development of the rural economy, and the acceleration of consumer …
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is a state-owned fuel-producing corporation in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). CNPC’s core businesses include oil exploration and production, natural gas and pipelines, refining and marketing, and chemicals and marketing. The company’s origin can be traced to its beginning as a …
As global trade increases so does the number of contracts between parties in different countries. If, as may easily happen, a dispute arises out of a contract it is very important to both parties to know which court or body has the authority to decide that dispute. A …
Citigroup is one of the most diversified financial services companies in the world. It was incorporated in 1998 through a merger between Citicorp and Travelers Group. It operates globally and has established competitive advantage in its global presence, broad distribution, valuable brands, unmatched scale, and efficiency and product …
The City commonly refers to the City of London (a small district within Greater London), and by way of metonymy, to the financial industry operating there, and the culture thereof—just as Wall Street is used to refer to more than simply the street and what is on it. …
A clearing house for Britain’s large-value time-sensitive interbank, business-to-business, and home purchase transactions in pound sterling, the Clearing House Automated Payments System (CHAPS) facilitates low volume, high-value transactions. CHAPS uses a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) process similar to that of Fedwire whereby transactions are quickly cleared and settled …
A wire transfer system for large-value wholesale real-time interbank settlements, the Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is the largest private-sector global clearing house for cross-border dollar transactions, accounting for 95 percent of all international payments conducted in dollars. Wholesale payments are large interbank payments for purposes such …