Profiting off the slave trade
Thesis - 8 pages - Modern history
Slavery and the opening up of the New World go hand in hand. Whether it be the mining of the silver and gold caches in the Mexican interior or the farming of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, the riches appropriated by the Europeans from the new world were made possible on a large scale due...
What are the advantages and disadvantages of free trade?
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
Trade is the exchange of goods and services between countries. Domestic goods, which are sold abroad, are referred to as exports. Foreign goods, which are purchased by domestic consumers, are known as imports. Free trade refers to trade, which is allowed to flow freely...
The fair trade debate: Pros and cons and future prospects
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Although most people know readily know of Free Trade, relatively very few have heard of Fair Trade. That being said Fair Trade has been around for decades, in various shapes and structures. This paper will consider the overall Fair Trade debate, and consider both sides...
Financial instruments and documents that facilitate export import trade
Tutorials/exercises - 51 pages - Finance
Exports are vital to any economy, be it developed or developing. No country can isolate itself from exports in some form or other. Export performance is one of the main economic parameter of a nation. However, exports all over the world face tough challenges than before and Indian exporters are...
World trade organization: Understanding its implementation in India
Thesis - 14 pages - Economy general
After making this project I know many important fact about GATT & WTO's origin evaluation objectives principals functions decision making process, organizational structure which is really beneficial for me to know about the current scenario of global trade liberalization & various...
International economics: The World Trade Organization
Thesis - 9 pages - Economy general
Pascal Lamy, General Director of the WTO recently said that “negotiations towards a conclusion to the Doha Trade Round are 70% complete”. Indeed, the WTO trade talks have not been efficient over the last few years. Lowering agricultural and industrial tariffs, reducing...
Fair trade in Europe: overview and perspectives
Essay - 36 pages - Economy general
Fair trade is a movement born after the Globalization. It's a consequence of the growth of exchanges. To develop their economy, countries have been forced to trade with their neighbors and the territories around them, etc…Finally countries have abolished their barriers and...
The complete English tradesman, by Daniel Defoe, 1926
Book review - 3 pages - Economy general
Daniel Defoe was an English fervent supporter of trade: to him, trade was a natural feature of the English nation, and the English people were the best people at trading in the world. Indeed, in the 18th century, the State is a means to promote trade, the English empire is...
Assess the impact of the Hundred Year's War upon Anglo-French trade
Thesis - 4 pages - Medieval history
The Hundred Years War is an important period of the English history and of the French history. The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between France and England, lasting 116 years from 1337 to 1453. It was fought primarily over claims by the English kings to the French throne, and was...
When a famous bank ( Société Générale ) is plunged into the world's largest financial fraud ever known by a simple junior trader
Essay - 8 pages - Finance
In January 2008, the financial world was disrupted by the world's largest financial fraud case known to date. The famous French bank, Société Générale, recorded a loss of 5 billion euros due to false positions taken by a junior trader, Jérôme Kerviel. To fully appreciate how he did this, it's...
Abortion linked to international trade law
Essay - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education
There are different kinds and different methods of abortion nowadays. The spontaneous abortion, caused by natural causes, the elective abortion, the therapeutic abortion, which deals with the safety of the physical or mental health of women and the induced abortion, practices deliberately for...
Salon Vivez Nature: Trade Show of biological agriculture and natural products
Essay - 3 pages - Biology
What is a biological product? A product is considered biological when the producer did not use any pesticide, chemical weedkiller or fertilizer of synthesis. The biological farmers rather use natural manures, original seeds and cultivate the ground thanks to tested methods. In France, the real...
Global trade relations: Opportunities and challenges for direct investment in Brazil
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Business strategy
Brazil is the largest and most populous country in Latin America, and the fifth largest in the world in both area and population. The country possesses a developed agriculture as well as mining and manufacturing resources, Brazil also has a large service sector forces like the banking sector,...
Effects of terrorism on global trade
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Terrorism is becoming a threat to every country and today the world is experiencing a global reawakening of terrorist attacks. Terrorism is the creation of fear and panic among people and the society which adversely affects the everyday lifestyle of an ordinary man. The act of terrorism is...
TMode: Trade show of fashion creators
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The fashion industry includes, in term of activity, the manufacture of clothes, footwear and of sweaters, shoes, perfumes and jewels. An industrial company on 10 works in the field of the fashion. Sector was little concentrated, it groups together almost 2000 companies of more than 20 salaried...
Narcotics control: The permeating aspects of the Narcotic Trade and how history and current policy have affected Canada's ability to regulate illegal Narcotics
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In 1961 the Canadian government passed the Narcotic Control Act. This was Canada's first governmental acknowledgement of a need for federal drug control. Repealed in 1996, the initial act was replaced with the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Detailed and specific, the latter act...
Economic development in Nigeria: The role of agriculture, FDI and trade relations with China, India and the USA
Case study - 15 pages - Economy general
Nigeria is one of the countries in Africa which have a large economy. It is also one of the most populated countries in Africa with the highest number of labor. The country is well endowed with mineral resources compared to other countries in Africa. It is the largest oil producer in Africa and...
The fair trade trend, an explanation
Thesis - 9 pages - Economy general
The current functioning of the world economy suffers from more and more blatant imbalance which affects particularly the producers of tropical farm produces, the victims of the agro-industrial politics based essentially on the returns and the profit. The prices and the conditions of purchase...
What is meant by "globalization" and how has it affected international trade and direct foreign investment?
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
Globalisation can be defined as the trend toward greater interdependence among national institutions and economies (Wild, 2003). It can also be said that globalization is basically the cross-border exchange of economic, social and technological elements. Globalisation has had no shortage of its...
Importance of GATT and WTO for international trade
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
The World Trade Organization (WTO) h?s become the organization of excellence for dealing with international trade. The transformation of the Gener?l ?greement on T?riffs ?nd Tr?de (G?TT) to WTO w?s ? n?tur?l phenomenon th?t led to ch?nges in the intern?tion?l economic scene. The WTO...
Environment and international trade
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The warming of the planet and global climatic change has been the centre of heated debate for the last few years. The environmental problems, by the force of nature, somehow set themselves to the political agenda of the planet. In this paper I'd like to see if the concepts of trade and...
Citizenship status, racism, gender and violence: Aboriginal women in Canada, international sex trade - finding the links and associations
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the forward to Andrea Smith's (2005) book Conquest. Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, Winona LaDuke, writing about Native Women's experience in Minnesota, writes that Native women in the state, which borders Manitoba, have a ten-times higher chance of dying a violent death than a...
Antidumping - The obstacle in free trade
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Many countries are hesitant to sign the draft agreement of World Trade Organization. There has been wide spread protests whenever the conference of World Trade Organization is held. Protests are carried out to demand tighter environmental standards for MNC's and developed countries...
The A to Z of retail trade: Retail management
Thesis - 28 pages - Management
When man started to cultivate and harvest the land, he would occasionally find himself with a surplus of goods. Once the needs of his family and local community were met, he would attempt to trade his goods for different goods produced elsewhere. Thus markets were formed. These early...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) and public contracts
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
The World Trade Organization aims at ensuring “harmony, freedom, equity and security” in trading activities. The organization has the institutional means to control the compatibility of national policies to its requirements. From financial to commercial items, all fields of...
The review of WTO in free trade
Thesis - 4 pages - International relations
Many people would argue that there is no doubt that the GATT/WTO has been relatively successful to an extent in creating global free trade. The figures over their existence have shown a massive movement towards the globalization of markets and thus free trade. Between the...
Critical analysis of the trade marks act of ECJ (European Court of Justice)
Thesis - 3 pages - Business law
The Trade Marks Act 1994 was the result of the European Union's aspiration to approximate the trade mark laws of member states. Section 1 of the legislation defines a trade mark as “any sign capable of being represented graphically which is capable of distinguishing...
The completion of the WTO free trade agenda will produce both winners and losers in the EU: To what extend do you agree?
Thesis - 5 pages - European union
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international body whose purpose is to promote free trade by persuading countries to abolish import tariffs and other barriers. As such, it has become closely associated with globalization. The WTO is the only international agency overseeing...
How does trade globalization affect women working conditions in South America?
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
The international trade agreements have important impact on people living in poverty. But these impacts operate at different levels. In some cases, trade can stimulate the development of these countries, help the economic growth, help employment, give access to local population to...
The role of trade in the economic development of Eastern Asia
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
At the end of the last century, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea attained higher rates of economic growth than other developing countries. It could be because of a close correlation between export expansion and economic growth, but are they automatically associated? What is the...
