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Global Insight is the world's leading provider of economic, industry and trade forecasts, historical data, and consulting services. Global Insight, Inc. (GII) was formed in March 2001 to be the leading organization that provides business leaders, investors and government officials with economic information, analysis and solutions. In May 2001, GII integrated two highly respected economic information companies, DRI (formerly Data Resources, Inc.) and WEFA (formerly Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates). The inclusion of Decision Economics, Primark Poland, and DAFSA rounds out the capabilities of GII. Global Insight's professional expertise spans over 400 industries, 180 countries, and 318 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas.
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Global Insight is an excellent choice for users performing geocoding by place name. The alternative names layer allows an advanced geocoder to pick up many places with a conventional English name or spelt using a national second language. Whether your data contains Geneva / Genève, Helsinki / Helsingfors or Köln / Cologne, Global Insight will match the name to provide superior geocoding hit rates.
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Global Insight has provided The Advertising Coalition with a monumental study of the impact that expenditures on advertising have on the U.S. economy. The study demonstrates that advertising will help generate more than $5.2 trillion in sales and economic activity throughout the U.S. economy in 2005. That represents 20% of the nation’s $25.5 trillion in total economic activity. The total economic activity measurement is approximately twice the nation’s GDP. This economic stimulus will provide support throughout the economy for more than 21 million jobs, or 15.2% of the U.S. work force.
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Global Insight has on many occasions helped clients to carry out detailed financial evaluation of potential capital projects. By identifying which risk events are relevant to a particular project and how they would affect cash flow if they occurred, the event probabilities provided by GRS can be used to estimate potential losses in the country where the project would be located. From these parameters such as "cash flow at risk" and "capital at risk" can be estimated and from them forecasts can be derived for the project's rate of return and value that are adjusted for country risk. Since the same risk events are analyzed in all 117 countries covered by GRS, it is possible to make comparisons of the risk levels for different locations, either for new capital projects or for ongoing business operations, special contracts and ... acquisitions.
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Global Insight offers 1:1,000,000 scale digital mapping for the entire world. With coverage divided by feature over a small number of intermatching layers, it is an ideal data set for global reference mapping. The product provides [U]p-to-date political entities, coastlines, international borders, some first level administrative borders, time zones and over 817,000 named places with urban sprawls. Names are spelt in the local form with a supplement layer providing alternative spellings (English conventional name, foreign language forms, second national language or long/short form). All place names use diacritic (accented) characters where required using a standard ANSI character set (e.g. Arial, Times Roman, etc.) ... known as the Unicode "Latin1" code page.
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Global Insight has examined four levels of economic activity in its analysis. The first tier encompasses dollars spent on developing and implementing advertising activities to stimulate demand for products and services in each industry. The model quantifies the reduction in the growth of advertising expenditures that occurs as the imposition of a sales tax increases the cost of advertising. Slower growth in advertising ... leads to slower growth in advertising employment.
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