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moyenne de 40 % chaque année pour atteindre près de 2.3 milliards d’euros en 2007. Une certaine confusion persiste pourtant dans les termes utilisés. Fairtrade est le système de certification et de labellisation de l’association Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) dont le but consiste à identifier les biens produits en respectant des normes du travail et environnementales reconnues. Le commerce équitable (Fairtrade) renvoie à l’ensemble du mouvement cherchant à instituer plus de justice

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direct investments’ evolution. 11 1.3. Consequences on the work market. 13 1.3.1. The newcomers situation. 13 1.3.2. The European work market situation. 14 2. The French case study. 17 2.1. Impact of the UE enlargement on the French foreign trade. 17 2.1.1. A French commercial presence below its potential. 17 2.1.2. A significant potential growth of French exports towards the newcomers. 18 2.1.3. General strategy. 18 2.2. Parallel to the exchanges, the French investments have known a

certaine crispation linguistique qui n’est pas nécessairement partagée dans les pays latins. 3 Lors de la conclusion de l’Uruguay Round, si les Etats-Unis se sont opposés à la dénomination de International Trade Organization (qui était celle de la Charte de la Havane de 1948). Le terme de World qui s’est imposé et non celui de Global peut-être parce que le terme choisi a l’avantage de ne pas trancher entre l’international (qui reste la réalité du fonctionnement de l’organisation) et le global (qui

under certain circumstances. The "conditional" view usually argues that aid effectiveness hinges on either recipient characteristics or donor practices. Recipient country characteristics. World Bank researchers Jonathon Isham, Daniel Kaufmann, and Lant Pritchett opened this line of enquiry in 1995 by finding that World Bank projects had higher rates of returns in countries with stronger civil liberties. Craig Burnside and David Dollar followed with their influential study that concluded that aid stimulated

alternative trade, the fair trade movement proposes a new way of making trade. Fair trade claims to fulfill the requirements of sustainable development. The purpose of this article was to evaluate the limits and the contributions of fair trade to sustainable development starting from the case of an organization of fair trade coffee producers of Mexico. On the basis of a tripolar hierarchy definition of sustainable development, we show that fair trade moves away from this design. If fair trade is responsible

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tourists and caused damage estimated at about 3 billion U.S. dollars besides the economic downturn that followed. II. Economics data of Lebanon a. Some Figures i. People  Population: 4,125,247 (July 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 127  Ethnic groups: Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% note: many Christian Lebanese do not identify themselves as Arab but rather as descendents of the ancient Canaanites and prefer to be called Phoenicians Page 7  Religions: Muslim

UNCTAD/ITE/IIT/30 UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT DISPUTE SETTLEMENT: INVESTOR-STATE UNCTAD Series on issues in international investment agreements UNITED NATIONS NOTE UNCTAD serves as the focal point within the United Nations Secretariat for all matters related to foreign direct investment and transnational corporations. In the past, the Programme on Transnational Corporations was carried out by the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (1975–1992)

http://conte.u-bordeaux4.fr Devant les échecs des tentatives institutionnelles de rééquilibrage des échanges NordSud, se sont développées des initiatives marginales impliquant le plus souvent des ONG. Parmi ces initiatives, le commerce équitable (“fair trade” en anglais) se présente comme une approche alternative au commerce international traditionnel caractérisé par l’inégalité. « Au sens strict, (il) s’est donné deux missions principales : à court terme, améliorer la situation des petits producteurs