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A firm whose business consists mainly of international trade: buying goods in one country and selling them in another, thus both exporting and importing. Same as import-export company.
Industry:Economy
1. Balance of payments equilibrium. 2. Any target value for the balance on current account, balance on capital account, or balance of payments. Contrasts with internal balance.
Industry:Economy
1. In anti-dumping cases, the price to which the export price is compared, which is either the price charged in the exporter's own domestic market or some measure of their cost, both adjusted to include any transportation cost and tariff needed to enter the importing country's market. See dumping. 2. In the context of the Fair Trade Movement, a fair price is a price that, when paid to the individual producers of a product such as coffee or handicrafts, gives them access to a viable standard of living, including nutrition, health care, education, and cultural autonomy.
Industry:Economy
A system overseen by several international NGOs, in which products of developing countries are purchased at a fair price from individual producers and sold with a fair trade label to consumers in developed countries. These intermediaries also seek to promote other objectives, including environmental sustainability and capacity building, while keeping prices to consumers low by bypassing more conventional intermediaries.
Industry:Economy
A U. S. -based coalition of organizations committed to the transformation of the IMF and the World Bank. Its more formal name is U. S. Network for Global Economic Justice. Its demands include debt cancellation, end of structural adjustment, and payment of various reparations.
Industry:Economy
A U. S. -based coalition of organizations committed to the transformation of the IMF and the World Bank. Its more formal name is U. S. Network for Global Economic Justice. Its demands include debt cancellation, end of structural adjustment, and payment of various reparations.
Industry:Economy
An asset whose value arises not from its physical embodiment (as would a building or a piece of land or capital equipment) but from a contractual relationship: stocks, bonds, bank deposits, currency, etc.
Industry:Economy
A loss of confidence in a country's currency or other financial assets causing international investors to withdraw their funds from the country.
Industry:Economy
A document, real or virtual, having legal force and embodying or conveying monetary value.
Industry:Economy
