posts tagged with Economics

2011 FedEx Global Citizenship Report

bag1_v4.pngWe are pleased to announce that the 2011 FedEx Global Citizenship Report is now available for review and download. When we first started reporting in 2008, we envisioned an all-digital and print on demand platform. But, we were unable to do so at the time. As a result, we chose to publish our report in print, using small print runs, with a goal to transition to an all-digital and print on demand platform.
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Infrastructure Gives Societies the Ability to Connect

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NOTE: This post first appeared as a guest post on the Triple Pundit blog:
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Chinese Consumption Creating Jobs in America? This is the Power of Access.

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This week, the cover story in The Economist is titled, “The Rising Power of China’s Workers.” It explains how the strong pressure for higher wages will shrink China’s trade surplus and boost its spending. “A 20% rise in Chinese consumption might lead to an extra $25 billion of American exports. That could create over 200,000 American jobs,” says the magazine’s leader.
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Frugal Innovation in the Age of Access

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty” – Stephen Jay Gould
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Small Businesses Say They’ve Seen the Signs – 2010 is Looking Up!

Randy Scarborough, Vice President of Marketing for FedEx OfficeFor three years running, the FedEx Office Signs of the Times Survey has polled small business owners around the U.S. to see how they’re feeling about both the broader economy and their businesses – and what approaches they’re taking to grow and thrive in good times and bad.
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