Over the past century, we have seen a dramatic increase in the levels of anthropogenic green house gas emissions, and it has become clear to the international community that the main contributor to these emissions has been the petrochemical industries (IPCC, 2007; World Bank 2010). ... If we look back, we can see a lot of changes in the levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in the past few decades and the international community has come to know that the main contributor to these emissions is none other than the petrochemical industries (IPCC, 2007; World Bank 2010). 2. ... Certai...

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As we all know one of the most crucial and significant elements of globalization is the exchange of products and international trade, through these processes countries have been introduced to many different products, food, and values, that they have never encountered before. ... An unfavorable example of this would be the bubonic plague, where the disease was spread due to the trading of products on the Silk Road and has dispersed throughout the trade routes. ... The Bretton Woods conference of 1944 where nations consulted the international monetary systems is an example of an effect of globa...

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Meanwhile, the common features of economic, political, and cultural style gradually expanded, with a borderless trading, a globally used language, highly promoted democratic way of ruling countries and even forming a "global culture". ... This promotes international regime and international regulatory agencies at the regional and global levels for expansion. Also, the numbers and importance of international system and international organizations are increasing rapidly. Moreover, international organizations have also been given extensive moral responsibility, determining the major in...

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CARICOM is very closely related to Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). ... The purpose of CARIFTA was to include all the Commonwealth countries in the Free Trade. ... It is also responsible for the conclusion of treaties on behalf of the community and relations between the Community and International Organizations and States. ... The councils are "a) The council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) which promote trade and economic development of the Community and oversees the operations of CARICOM Single Market and Economy; b) The Council of Foreign and Community Relations (COFCO...

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Globalization has negatively impacted on Vietnam's external stability as technological advances have allowed for greater trade in goods and services. ... This persistent trade deficit has resulted in the Dong being devalued by 20% since 2008. ... The final impact of globalization on Vietnam's economic development has been closer ties with the regional and international economic community through trade agreements and joining international organizations. In 1995, Vietnam joined ASEAN and implemented a bilateral trade agreement with American in 2001. ... As such, Vietnam's integra...

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Second, O'Neil states "given that globalization deepens and widens international connections, local events, even small ones, can have ripple effects throughout the world". ... The homogenizing influence of globalization creates strong opposition to wholesale adoption of the values and standards of the international community". ... From these perspectives, it is clear that globalization while it has positive benefits of stimulating market growth it essentially can alter democracy within countries such as Canada by adopting values and standards of the international community....

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The NIAAA and the alcohol industry along with the Federal Trade Commission, which reviews alcohol industry efforts to prevent promoting alcohol beverages to underage minors and adults, must work together to invent new ways of gathering alcohol sales data, surveying youths, and then analyzing the data to ensure proper alcohol beverage advertising regulations are established. ... The International Center for Alcohol Policies's comparative studies across countries and other analyses suggest that culture of parental influence and drinking habits, family structure, peer pressure, alcohol exp...

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Diplomacy as the political process by which political entities, generally states, conduct official relations with one another within the international environment, performs distinct functions in foreign policy that makes it indispensable to international society. ... While new diplomacy saw parliamentary diplomacy being practiced in international organizations. ... With the increased complexity of international relations, diplomacy is facing strains from many sources, bringing up the question of whether it is declining, and therefore dispensable to the international community. ... Increase...

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A further ethical issue regarding human rights is the justification of intervention and the international community's 'Responsibility to Protect', and the impact of this intervention, such as that seen in Libya, on state sovereignty. ... Thus human rights are culturally relative and are certainly not universal in many states which have opposing views to the West, despite being international law. ... This mistreatment specifically violates the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which China is party to. ... Under the Chinese Communist P...

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In a more precise way, (Al-Rodhn, et al, 2006) defined globalisation as a process of international integration of global views, products, idea and other aspects of culture. ... This is the way how English language became an international language used in every single industry in the world. Apart from the language, there are more factors resulting globalisation, i.e. an increase in global communication via satellite, ICT and optics; integration and coordination of services, sales and product designs throughout the world; an increase of free trade agreements internationally, as well as progressi...

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The major flaw, they argued, had been the degree of state involvement in economic affair and the curtailment of free markets and liberal trade regimes. ... SAPs benefit a narrow stratum of private sector - those who involved in export production, trade brokering and portfolio finance. ... In agriculture, SAP augment the economic liberalization resulting from free trade agreements, undermining peasant agriculture while reinforcing export-oriented agribusiness. ... Economic development still has two faces, it seems, and the benefits of unregulated access to international financial markets in par...

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Tourism is commonly associated with international travel, but may also refer to travel to another place within the same country. ... According to Mpofu (2009), some international companies have taken advantage of globalization to seek for new opportunities to grow their enterprises, reap the benefits of the economies of scale, increase their market share, suppress competition, and achieve global dominance. With the help of world organizations that have further liberalized global trade through the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) it has been extremely easy for Multinational Corpora...

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Largely, this was due to a shortage of European indentured servants, an end to the Royal African Company's monopoly over the slave trade (competition among slave traders led to a decrease in slave prices), and a realization among the colonists that slaveholding was far more profitable than the employment of indentured servants. ... Similarly, the Indians were seen only as sources of trade, and as useful allies during times of war with other Europeans. ... The rise in international trade of both agricultural and manufactured goods also led some early Americans to become merchants and trade...

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For example, some of these laws include: The Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) 2001, The National Protection Act (Cwlth) 2009, Insurance Contracts Act 1984, Superannuation (Resolution of Complaints) Act 1993, Life Insurance Act 1995, Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997, Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act 2010, The Future of Financial Advice Legislation (FoFA), to name a few. ... The Australian Accounting Standards Board(AASB) makes accounting standards for the private, public and not-for-profit sectors and participates in the formulation of international accounting ...

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Thus thesis is backed by scholars like Mosley et al (1987) who argued that the theoretical case for foreign aid rest on the presumption that the aid could fill the shortage of international capital in developing countries. ... James Sackey, former World Bank country representative in Sierra Leone who was quoted by Jalloh (2007) said that the instructions for giving out loans and grants by the World Bank and the I.M.F include privatization, trade liberization and high interest rates. Trade liberization for underdeveloped economies have proven to have some serious side effects as it may lead to ...

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One solution to this change is creation of extranet that links and allows trading partners "customers, warehouses, suppliers, drivers, rail partners "independent of their internal resources, efficient interaction with the supply chain. ...

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These include not only economic flows of trade and investment in the form of multinational companies also the transmission and mixing of cultural influences, migration and communication" (Wetherly and Otter, 2011). ... Furthermore, Mott, Shapiro and Steindl also show a clear rejection to the more classical/neo-classical opinion in their book "Rethinking capitalist development" as they explain that the monopolisation of big businesses like McDonalds is "endemic" to monopoly capitalism, which in turn causes stagnation within an economy: "The growth of international firms means that stagnation te...

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Prior to the industrial revolution in the century of late eighteenth and early nineteenth which set fire to the capital-based form of production, there was the period when production predominantly relied on man's hand and primary working forces were man labour. During such period, agricultural and industrial activities were not clearly differentiated (Koga, 1968) and many people not only worked in farming but they also generated extra business to get extra earnings while utilising spare labour after farming hours (Hunter, 2008). According to a report from ILO (1955) cited by Koga (1968), ...

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Lothar Elsner also lived in the GDR and has a deep understanding of the period due to long-term research work preferential on the history of international migration and the foreigner policy in the 20th century and his work in the SED Rostock. ... In addition the study is confirmed by the 'Bundesinstitut für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien', the Federal Insitute for studies on international and Eastern countries ,so the source is reliable. ...

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As a concept IMC has become well known on an international scale during the 1990s. ... Few years back , major portion of marketing budgets went to advertising ,but now the scene has changed, it is allocated into various activities such as trade promotions, consumer promotions, branding , PR and advertising. ... The concept of IMC with focused and massive marketing is fairly new to the Indian companies who have traditionally experienced a mixed economy and trade restrictions back home. ...

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As the effects of the Berlin Conference which establish the rules of the partition game became clear, those areas of Africa which had previously been developing significant trade and economies of their own were brought under the control of European economic policies. ... Prior to partition, the European powers had to contend with the varying moods of African governments that, although dependent on international trade, still exercised significant control over their economic development. ... This battle over evaluating highlights the difficulties confronted by poor nations in an undeniably worl...

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Hence, seeing how Soviet actions which constituted aggression had directly challenged the US and caused the US to immediately take the issue to an international organization, Soviet aggression effectively heightened the tensions between the superpowers, leading to the start of the Cold War. ...

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Just as the 21st century, in terms of economic and political development is marked by globalization and free trade and a great stress upon democracy, the developmental aspects of the century have become the defining element of the social paradigm. The proliferation of non-governmental organizations and international institutions with a clear mandate of promoting development and equality in various parts of the globe call for the services of translators and interpreters, since most of the development work is carried out in underdeveloped nations by individuals and groups from economically and p...

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For instance we must take into consideration that the fashion industry is an international business and that the production of a single item of clothing often involves at least three different countries. ... Currently Armani Jeans introduced an even more eco friendly approach that uses 60% recycled material mixed with fair trade and organic cotton projects in South America (Ethical Fashion Forum). ...

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These included: increasing disparities in income, a general lack of sustainable wages, a decline in full-time work, increases in poverty in areas, declining resilience in worker occupations for those who had to change careers from, for example, previously being comfortable in the rural agricultural industry, and family capacities to grow or trade food being entirely eliminated – increasing food costs (Wilmsen, Webber, & Yurfang, 2011). ...

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