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For this assignment, you will choose two topics from the list below. One topic will be from the global economic environment list and one from the trade environment list. For each topic, find a scholarly or peer-reviewed journal article. The article should examine the topic in relation to global marketing.
Global economic environment topics:
Major changes of the world economy in the past twenty years (discussing one major change is enough)
Economic systems (you may choose to discuss one or multiple systems)
Market development stages (discussing one category is enough)
Triad
Merchandise trade and service trade
Hedging
Global trade environment topics:
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Preferential trade agreements (discussing one category is enough)
Trade characteristics in Latin America
Trade characteristics in the Asia-Pacific region
Trade characteristics in the Middle East
Marketing issues in Africa
In your paper,
Write a half a page summary of the article you used for each of the topics.
Each summary must include an introduction, a well-developed body, and a conclusion.
In the introduction of each summary, identify the article used.
· Discuss how each of the topics that you selected can relate to one or some aspects of global marketing as you learned in Chapter 1 of your text (e.g., global marketing and opportunities or threats, marketing mix, competitive advantage, firm's value chain, management orientations, etc.).
· Explain how one or more of those aspects are affected by the economic and the trade environments (one page).
· Summarize the contents of your paper in an executive summary.