Trade Barriers and Corruption, business and finance homework help

You work at a pharmaceutical company that is considering entering India, Chile, Canada, China and Turkey. Conduct the appropriate level of research in a trade barriers database to identify information on India’s current requirements (tariffs, duties, non-tariff barriers, investment-related barriers, and intellectual property rights). Also, the company is worrying about potential corruption. Using Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) that is a comparative assessment of a country’s integrity performance, find how the above countries rank. Further, identify the five countries with the lowest and the five with the highest CPI scores according to this index. Do you see any trends between CPI scores and the level of economic and social development of a country? Your report should be a maximum of 1 page, double-spaced, Word or PDF document. However, you can have unlimited number of exhibits that should be put in an Appendix in the same file.

Hint:

Trade Barriers Database:

The quickest way to reach this information would be to search globalEDGE using the phrase “trade barriers database” at http://globaledge.msu.edu/. Select the Market Access Database website. Once there, select “Trade Barriers Database”. Then under sector, select Pharmaceuticals; under country select all (e.g., highlight all countries or just the countries you need), and under measure select all. A series of reports are listed from which those with more general titles will provide adequate insight for the exercise.

Search Phrase: “Trade Barriers Database”
Resource Name: Market Access Database
Direct link to the Website: http://madb.europa.eu/mkaccdb2/indexPubli.htm

Corruption Perception Index

Go to Resource Desk: http://globaledge.msu.edu/ResourceDesk/
Search Phrase: “Corruption Perceptions Index”
Resource Name: Transparency International – Corruption Perceptions Index
globalEDGE™ Category: “Research: Rankings”
Direct link to the Website: http://www.transparency.org/research/cpi
Or for archival data: http://archive.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/

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