I am wishing to gather information on factors of production for specific products and economic markets of the areas in which they were manufactured but am having difficulty locating information on the following: Is China a planned/market/mixed market economy? Is Brazil a planned/market or mixed market economy? Locate who manufactures FIFA 2007 or The EA Sports Madden 2007 video game

Is China a planned/market/mixed market economy - I have found conflicting information on the topic.

Just refer to the following statement:

"Xiao, also a professor at the prestigious Beijing University, said the booming non-public sector, including foreign-invested firms, provided a strong base for the burgeoning mixed economy.

The total assets of the domestic private economy had exceeded the net assets of the state-owned sector, he said.

By June 2002, there were 2.2152 million private enterprises with registered capital of 2.1 trillion yuan (253 billion US dollars). The two figures in 1978 were both zero.

Fan Gang, another leading Chinese economist, maintained the development of a mixed economy meant that the reform of state-owned enterprises had radically changed ownership patterns."

Thus by this we can conclude that the China is a mixed economy.

http://english.people.com.cn/200301/13/eng20030113_110001.shtml as retrieved on 12 Nov 2006 01:53:59 GMT.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China - 197k - 16 Nov 2006 -
http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/china/structure-of-economy.html

Is Brazil a planned/market or mixed market economy - I have also found conflicting information on this topic.

Brazil is also mixed economy as major reforms has been undertaken and still pursued to liberalize the economy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Brazil
http://brazilbrazil.com/economy.html as retrieved on 30 Oct 2006 12:21:57 GMT.

And I have been unable to locate who manufactures FIFA 2007 or The EA Sports Madden 2007 video game. I have found that is made by EA sports within various locations such as Chicago, Montreal (Canada) and Tokyo (Japan) and boasts a development team that is more than 4,100 people strong but I am unsure if that is where they are manufactured or just where the development of ideas are made??

Yes EA that is Electronic arts is maker of the FIFA 2007 video games. It has got studios in various countries. The major development is done in US but knowledge is shared through out globe.

Moreover the company develops games internally , and also engages third-parties to develop games on its behalf at its development and production studios located near San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orlando, Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, London, Sweden, Tokyo, and Shanghai. Electronic Arts also teams with other game developers who develop their own interactive software games with the company's assistance, which it then publishes, markets, and distributes

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ERTS
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/061102/20061102006166.html as retrieved on 3 Nov 2006 06:33:07 GMT