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12.8.2. Commentary and Notes to Text 12.8.1

1. лизинг — долгосрочная аренда — leasing is a long-term lease

2. выкуп арендуемого имущества — buy-out of leased property

3. обоюдовыгодная форма — a mutually beneficial form

4. арендодатель — lessor

5. лизинг финансовый и оперативный — financial leasing and operative leasing

6. соглашение — agreement

7. выкуп по остаточной стоимости — residual (written-off) value buy-out

8. пролонгировать — prolong, extend

9. базисный период — basic (base) period (term)

10. факторинг — factoring

11. фактор-фирма — factoring company (firm)

12. инкассирование дебиторской задолженности — collection (payment for collection) of debit

indebtness

13. сконто — anticipation discount

14. форфетирование — forfaiting

12 Мировая экономика

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12.9. Oral Practice. Round Table

a) Hold a discussion.

In our panel discussion let us have a talk about the influence of capital export on world (global)

economy in the form of international credit (lending) and give answers to the following questions:

1. Is the international reproduction of capital secured?

2. What international commercial and financial credits facilitate the effectiveness of economic

relations?

3. Is a considerable import of foreign capital capable of ousting (вытеснить) the national capital?

4. Why do international corporations transfer (переводят) the production (especially labour-consuming

and primary) from industrial nations to developing countries?

b) Presenting graphs and classifications.

1. Prepare your classifications of international credits according to: sources, purposes, currencies,

terms, means of security, forms, and creditors. Compare the results and make a presentation.

2. Analyze the table and present it to the group.

Figure 12.1. Commitments by Region

During FY 2004, commitments of new loans to member countries were $ 11,045 million, ($ 11,231

million — 2003). During both FY 2004 and FY 2003, bating America and the Carribian accounted

for the largest share of commitments. Figure 12.1 presents the regional composition of commitments

from FY 2000 to FY 2004.

12.10. Written Practice

Summarize the unit in a paragraph of about 300—350 words.

Unit 13. Intellectual Capital

13.1. Preview Basic notions

In this unit we are going to examine various forms licenc of trade ine

the results of intellectual labour. In parti c u l a r , w e w i l l dliwceenlsli nogn

trade in licences, a franchising s y s te m , a n d e x c h a n g ep oaft tehen tresults

of intellectual labour ( o f c o m m e r ci a l a n d n obncroammn edrcial

character). royalty

lump sum franchising enginering

13.2. Warm-up

Before you start reading the unit think and try to answer the following questions:

1. What do modern western economists consider the fourth factor of production?

2. What role does technology transfer play in economic development?

3. What is the role of the entrepreneurship for the development of technical progress?

4. What organizations are engaged in working out standards controlling and protecting technology

transfer?

13.3. Rapid Reading (skimming, scanning, reading for general understanding

of the basic Text 13.4)

Work in pairs or small groups.

1. Quickly skim the text to find the information about different kinds of calculation for purchased

licences for inventions or know-how (royalty, lump sum payments). Do not try to understand

the text in detail at this stage.

2. Scan the text quickly to find which part of it deals with the relations between a franchisee and

a franchiser.

3. Scan the text to define the types of licences.

4. Tell the group what information you would like to add to the given issue. Discuss it.

13.4. Basic Text. Business Oriented Scientific and Technological Progress

The 20-th century is the century of science and technological revolution. Technological advances

made possible the efficient realisation and development of new business ideas. Knowledge is complex

and multidimensional. Yet in models of economic growth — whether neoclassical or evolutionary —

knowledge usually gets reduced to a single number: total factor productivity. Knowledge is an input,

which combines with capital, labor, and other inputs to produce goods and services — and is thus a

source of total factor productivity. But knowledge is also an output — the product of existing knowledge

and investments in innovative activity. Information systems became a major tool for improving the costeffectiveness

of investments. They led to higher productivity, particularly in the industrial and service

sectors. Technological innovation has become the major factor behind increases in productivity. Technology