...Trade is a big part of today's world but it all had to start somewhere so let's look at it thousands of years ago is actually quite similar to today's trade industry just on a much smaller scale. As of today, products go from one part of the world to the other and back just to make one shirt or phone and in fact this is cheaper for major companies to outsource for example, Apple builds phones in china, apple is based in the USA and when china done making the phone they send it back to the USA to be sold. Trade is cheaper and faster today than it has ever been before. Today's ocean trading routes are larger and faster than ever. These routes can get massive quantities of bulk goods like timber and cotton from one side of the world in a matter...
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...Indian Ocean Trade- This pre-modern system of seaports and trade routes was the maritime version of the Silk Road. This network ran from the Indian Ocean at the rim of Africa to Indonesia. The three main regions where trade took place were in the South China Sea, from the east coast of India to Southeast Asia, and from the west coast of India to the east coast of Africa. This trade system also helped create economic and social ties between these countries. Silk Road- These caravan trade routes were strongly encouraged and used after the rise of the Parthians. The Parthians were an Iranian dynasty that lasted between 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E. The Silk Road connected China and the Middle East by going through Central Asia and Iran. It also helped...
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...International Trade and Finance Keith De Luca ECO/372 March 25, 2013 Dr. Godwin Quashigah International Trade and Finance Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, my name is Keith De Luca, Speaker of the House, United States Senate. The U.S. economy has been hit hard since the attacks on the World Trade Center’s 12 years ago. It’s been one of the worse financial states of our economy since the Great Depression, but as of 2009 we have been on the up side and looking at a growing economy. When there is a surplus of imports brought into the United States, there comes advantages and disadvantages to our economy. “The increased economic activity associated with every stage of the import process helps support millions of jobs in the U.S” (Scissors, Espinoza, & Miller, 2012). This happens by supplying jobs in all aspects of the business market from transportation, construction, retail and it keeps our ports running strong. Providing jobs throughout the United States is a great advantage of having imports coming to our country. On the negative side, the higher number of imports that we have shows a down side in our own manufacturing sector. The cost of materials and manufacturing overseas impacts what we can produce here. “Auto sales since the depths of the recession have increased more than twice as fast as employment in auto parts in part because of the rapid growth in auto parts imported from China—the fastest-growing source of U.S. auto-parts imports” (Scott, 2012)...
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...International Security Research Paper Nate Henneman During the mid 90s, Afghanistan surpassed Myanmar, as the leading producer and exporter of opium in the world. Their rise has been attributed to the increased violence and anti-government organizations giving drug lords the ability to operate without much interference from the government. Afghanistan has extremely fertile lands, which makes growing poppy plants (opium is extracted from the poppy seed) very profitable considering the total opium market value is around $4 billion per year. The lack of governmental intervention coupled with the well suited growing conditions make Afghanistan along with other countries in the Middle East, the perfect manufacturing and shipping or distribution plant of opium in the world. Even though opium is used highly in western medicine when making morphine-based drugs to help relieve pain, opium in the drug trade most often comes in the illegal form of heroin; one of the most abused and highly addictive drugs used recreationally across the globe. Prolonged use causes dependency and constipation, along with the increased risk of contracting blood borne diseases such as HIV or hepatitis. Death by overdose is very prominent as well, around 100,000 per year die from heroin overdose, and around 30,000 of those deaths occur in Russia. “Afghan drug production is an international rather than a local or regional threat,” Russia’s drug control chief, Viktor Ivanov has said. The United States,...
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...the African Slave Trade, in reality, its actions aided in the growth of the trade. Due to a small force, limited funding, refusal to work with Great Britain, diverse duties, lenient punishments, and a lack of value placed on the duty of suppressing the slave trade, Americans allowed more slave ships to pass by than they caught. The benefits of sailing under an American flag far outweighed the potential consequences of getting caught, which was unlikely in and of itself. In 1807, Congress outlawed the importation to the United States of any person of color from foreign kingdoms. In 1820, slave trade was stated to be piracy, which is punishable by the death penalty. Even though technically...
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...The reason I have chosen the trade show industry for my paper is because this is the industry I will be working in after I graduate. This industry is very different from other industry because it has its hands in so many different industries. This is because trade shows are organized for industries to get together and interact. The industry I am focusing on are the companies that put on the trade shows. Along with research I am also knowledgeable about this industry because I interned last summer for a company call Reed Exhibitions which is one of the largest trade show companies world wide. Reed Exhibition is one of the large companies you will find in this market. They have a portfolio of about 500 events and trade shows in 39 different countries. This industry is mostly dominated by companies such as this one. The structure of the trade show Industry can be broken down into three sections, business to business, business to consumer, and a combination of both. Trade shows from the business to business part of the industry function by making deals at the tradeshow. Trade shows are created around a certain industry, examples of this are G2E which is a casino game trade show or Accessories The Show which is a fashion accessories trade show. These shows are set up with exhibits put together by companies that sell products to other companies. These shows are then attending by companies that work with the consumers and they can look and interact with exhibits and companies...
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...Economically, slave trade lost many potential labor necessary for the economic development in Africa. Consequently, slave trade immensely affected the development of African economy and “retarded African commodity production. Additionally, although previously wars had produced tribute from the vanquished and captives to work for the victors, the surplus of captives reduced the incentives to keep the captives. Instead, they were sold for goods which were worth a fraction of what those people might have produced within their own lifetime. Finally, as those being sold were young, aged 14-35, and most productive labor for the continent, the slave trade had seriously impacted on the development of Africa during the 17th and 18th century. [1] Socially...
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...By the early 1800s the transatlantic slave trade was growing out of control. At this time, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch all had stakes in the slave trade. These large powerful countries needed workforce to grow and cultivate their crops. These countries turned to the ever-growing slave trade that is taking place on the west coast of Africa. (The slavers scoured the coasts of Guinea. As they devastated an area they moved westward and then south...” (James 6). One great point that James makes is about how we view Africa at this time. We have been taught that African tribes were leading the slave trade by having these massive wars and capturing opposing tribes and selling them into slavery. The magnitude that we have been taught...
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...It is shocking that there are more slaves today than at any other time in history. That’s the reaction one gets after realizing that there are added slaves today, approximately 27 million, ( according to the U.S State Department) double the total number believed to have been taken from Africa at the helm of the trans-Atlantic trade. Many people still perceive slave trade as a thing of the past, but it exists within different forms on different continents, ranging from labor and sex trade to debt enslavement, where one is forced to work to offset small loans. From Niger within central Africa where females are bought and sold off as unauthorized wives thus exploited for sexual gratification, to quarry slave within northern India, and Ghana where...
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...The Atlantic slave trade, however, was brutal with its high mortality rates. In some cases, such as in the Dutch ship of 1737, only 16 slaves made it out of the 700 on ship. The Atlantic slave trade did not really include many women and children since labor was hard, and death rates, as mentioned from before, are high. Since there was only a few amount of women in the slave importer’s lands, there was a small birth rate of slaves, with British North America as an exception. Africans also wanted to keep women and children as their own slaves or to grow their own kinship groups. Benefits of the slave trade included new crops, such as maize and manioc, which compensated a little bit from the smaller population at Africa since women and children were imprisoned as well. The Dutch were major opponents after taking El Mina against Portugal, who used to control most trade. The Dutch had power over Angola for a short period of time as well during 1637. By the 1660s, the Royal African Company was the result of English excitement to get slaves for Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. The French also made a company as well during that time, but it was not important until the 18th...
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...African Slave Trade. Little did they know they would involuntarily be living a life of servitude and apprenticing. Although the action of slave trade had existed once before throughout Africa, it had never been this large of an epidemic in the Atlantic World - beginning in the 16th century, and effecting more people and places than expected. Colonizers who had discovered land in North and South America, and in the Caribbean Islands were in need for cheap labor. The founders of the land needed slaves to work in the tobacco, sugar, and cotton plantations, gold and silver mines, as well as domestic servants....
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...The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was a time when millions of Africans were taken from their homes to come and work in the Americas as slaves. The Spaniards needed someone to come and work in their plantations and mine their gold and silver, so they went to Africa to get laborers. Africans were taken from their homes and made slaves, slaves were considered property, and America and Africa both suffered in a way. The slave trade is considered one of the worst crimes against humanity. All of this, just because the Spaniards weren’t willing to put in the work on the plantations and in the mines. When the Europeans first discovered the Americas, they knew there was gold and silver to be mined and things to be grown and sold. The Spaniards don’t want...
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...The leading cause of the African American slave trade in the 15th - 19th centuries was that Trade ships profited from the exploitation of the slaves which were used as workers in the Americas in order to produce cheap materials for America. According to document A, The colonization of the Americas created an increased demand for slaves labors. The slaves came from local groups in Africa that raided another tribe and took hostages. These hostages were then sold for main guns or other materials and goods. This made many great powers rise up and gain strength. They even sold some of their own people by corrupting the judicial system. According to document B, Made many rich and brought the world together. The slaves were not happy with the new...
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...[pic][pic]2012 Embassy of Brazil- Islamabad SECOM PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY IN PAKISTAN General information on the Pulp and Paper Industry in Pakistan. Research and Compilation by the Commercial Section of the Embassy of Brazil in Pakistan. [pic]Pulp and Paper Industry in Pakistan Table of Contents 1. Pakistan’s Economy 2 2. Industry overview 2 2.1 Current Status of Pulp and Paper Industry in Pakistan 3 2.2 Types of papers produced 4 2.3 Method of Producing Paper 4 2.4 Raw Material Availability 5 3. Current status of Trade and Potential of Pak- Brazil Trade Cooperation in this sector 7 3.1 Potential of Export to Pakistan 8 4. Future Outlook 10 5. Companies and Useful Links 11 1[pic] SECOM-Islamabad, Pakistan [pic]Pulp and Paper Industry in Pakistan 1. Pakistan’s Economy Pakistan economy is positioned at 27th largest economy with 488 (1) billion USD in term of Purchasing Power Parity. Pakistan has a semi-industrialized economy, which mainly encompasses textiles, chemicals, food processing, agriculture and other industries. Growth poles of Pakistan's economy are situated along the Indus River, diversified economies of Karachi and...
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...point of view. Teacher is a major stickler when it comes to papers and I am willing to pay a good price to have this completed. Research Paper – The research paper should incorporate the concepts and principles related to the study of Human Resource Management covered within the course. The organization, and/or management issue, that you choose must have enough written about it in order for you to do an indepth analysis. All papers should be proofread, free of spelling/grammatical errors, include proper citations, and be in accordance with current APA standards. A minimum of five (5) scholarly references are required. The paper must be uploaded to Moodle (by the required due date) and assembled as follows: • Cover sheet (Subject, Title, Course Number and Name). • A total 56 pages (numbered), doublespaced (12point font:TNR). The paper must be written in “3rd person.” • Margins: Top & Left (1.5 inches); Bottom & Right (1.0). • No newspaper or Internet sources will be accepted, including Wikipedia; professional trade magazines (e.g. Business Week, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, etc.) may be used, but will not count toward the required scholarly references. • A Reference List is required; appropriate tables and figures may be used when warranted. • Additional requirements may be requested at the discretion of the Instructor PowerPoint Presentation A PowerPoint Presentation of the research paper is required during the last week of class. The presentation should...
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