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A trade indicator can be any sort of data, or even an anecdote, that suggests how the volume or composition of trade compares across time or across countries. Trade indicators are published by the World Bank and the OECD, among others.
Industry:Economy
A service that is an input to an act of international trade. Examples include transportation to, from, or between ports; insurance; or the provision of trade credit.
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1. Any choice among three options, each which is unsatisfactory. 2. Three desirable objectives, any two of which preclude the third.
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A synonym, not usually used today, for less developed country.
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1. The condition of being unemployed. Types of unemployment include frictional unemployment, structural unemployment, and cyclical unemployment. 2. A measure of the number of workers who are unemployed. Contrasts with employment.
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1. Under the GATT this refers only to exports that are subsidized or dumped 2. Under U. S. Law, this also includes various actions that interfere with U. S. Exports. See Section 301 and Super 301. 3. Also used to refer to almost any trade that the speaker objects to, sometimes including that based on low wages or weak regulations.
Industry:Economy
A tax that is levied only on the value added of a firm. A VAT is usually subject to border tax adjustment.
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A measure of how much an economic or statistical variable varies across values or observations. Its calculation is the same as that of the covariance, being the covariance of the variable with itself.
Industry:Economy
A group of five closely associated international institutions providing loans and other development assistance to developing countries. The five institutions are IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID. As of July 2010, the largest of these, IBRD, had 187 member countries.
Industry:Economy
Суму, що відбувся в банк або інша фінансова установа за умови мінімальний строк, або термін, перш ніж можуть бути зняті без штрафних санкцій. Також називається Строковий депозит.
Industry:Economy