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Instead, Magna is something called a systems supplier. With more than 40,000 employees scattered across Europe, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, China and Brazil, it is one of a growing number of companies making ever larger and more complex parts of cars--like the metal-body exterior of BMW Z3 roadsters manufactured in the U.S., the instrument panel on the Jaguar XK8 and the passenger cell for the cute little Smart Car that German consumer Cerstin Stadeler was eyeing disapprovingly in Bonn. "It looks like one of those kid's toys that come in chocolate eggs," she says. "You know...
...global economy also requires different structures for policy coordination. The enhanced role that emerging-market economies play in the global system calls into question the relevance of the present Group of Seven structure of world economic summitry. As events and decisions in Brazil, China and East Asia contribute heavily to stabilizing the economic system or wreaking havoc on it, it is about time that an economic and monetary policy coordination structure be put in place that integrates the new important players--even if this means that some members of a previously exclusive club will lose their privileges...
...1930s, which had the potential of pulling into that vortex the financial institutions and markets of the core economies," says Kenneth Courtis of Deutsche Bank Group in Tokyo. "The hole was so big, you couldn't see the bottom." But the ho-hum reaction of world markets to Brazil's currency collapse shows, says Courtis, "that the emerging-markets crisis at least in this virulent first phase is over." That means the story of 1999 will be written by the core economies--North America, Japan and Europe--and these should keep global growth on course for the rest...
Last summer Russia's collapse had the peculiar result of spurring foreign banks and money managers to run screaming from Brazil--and Brazil's tumble cascaded through Latin America. "So we are living in this funny interconnected world," says Naim, "where a country that does not trade with Latin America, does not have investments with Latin America, is on the other side of the world from Latin America, crashes and takes down Latin America...
...match up. It's rough--not stylized--but real. Subtitles and film quality make it feel once in a while like documentary, but a good one. The comic voice finds vent on occasion, too, fortunately not through concerted effort, soccer uniform jokes and all (though the line about Brazil's worth it), but a brash sassiness and the primacy of the Scottish idiom enlivens everything...