Upper Intermediate Business English

CONTENTS
SOCIAL ISSUES ................................................................................................. 5
Environment ..................................................................................................... 5
Poverty ............................................................................................................. 14
Education ......................................................................................................... 23
Life style – The House of the Future................................................................. 30
THE JOB MARKET ............................................................................................. 38
Interviews and getting a job ............................................................................. 38
Early retirement ............................................................................................... 46
Cheap Labour vs. Human Rights ....................................................................... 53
Labour and Globalisation ................................................................................. 66
MANAGEMENT AND NEGOTIATIONS .............................................................. 75
The Concept of Management .......................................................................... 75
Negotiations skills ............................................................................................ 84
The Concept of Assertiveness .......................................................................... 97
INTERNATIONAL BANKING .............................................................................. 109
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) ............................................................ 109
Banking crises ................................................................................................... 119
U.S. Banks ......................................................................................................... 127
UK Banks .......................................................................................................... 135
GEOPOLITICS.................................................................................................... 143
The geography of war ...................................................................................... 143
Ethnic conflicts ................................................................................................. 150
Natural resources and their owners ................................................................. 159
The fall of the last empire ................................................................................ 164
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