Country Report on the Trade Union Situation in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Office: No.4‚ Adams Avenue‚ Colombo 4‚ Sri Lanka. Phone: 94 1 502 710‚ Fax: 94 1 502727 e-mail: office@fessrilanka.org Website: http://www.fessrilanka.org Sri Lanka Labour force: 7.2 million 25-29 30-39 40+ 15.5 16.8 6.5 . Labour force participation rate by age and sex Age All ages 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-39 40+ Total % 51.7 25.2 68.7 71.6 71.8 54.9 Male % 67.9 30.6 83.3 95.3 96.9 76.5 Female % 35.9 35.9 54.0 51
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CHAPTER 5: INTERNATIONAL TRADE THEORY QUICKNOTES IN GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL TRADE Condensed by: Group 2 7 THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE: 1. Mercantilism 2. Absolute Advantage 3. Comparative Advantage 4. Heckscher-Ohlin Theory 5. Product Life-Cycle Theory 6. New Trade Theory 7. The Theory of National Competitive Advantage 1. Mercantilism -emerged in England in the mid-16th century. The main tenet of mercantilism was that it was in a country’s best interests
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International Trade Theories Mercantilism Mercantilism was a sixteenth-century economic philosophy that maintained that a country’s wealth was measured by its holdings of gold and silver (Mahoney‚ Trigg‚ Griffin‚ & Pustay‚ 1998). This recquired the countries to maximise the difference between its exports and imports by promoting exports and discouraging imports. The logic was transparent to sixteenth-century policy makers-if foreigners buy more goods from you than you buy from them‚ then the foreigners
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International Political Economy Prof. E. Bloodgood Trade vs. Protectionism Trade between countries has been going on for centuries. Movement of goods and services began as a mean for nations to obtain what they couldn’t produce themselves. With the introduction of Ricardo’s “comparative advantage” – which illustrated how all countries that participate in trade benefit from it-‚ trade began to focus on what a country is better at producing a product or a service
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seetha_lexmy@hotmail.com‚ ganesan_711@yahoo.co.in Abstract This paper deals with the trends in carbon trade in the global market as well as in India. Not limiting itself with studying the economic impact of carbon trade‚ the paper also goes on to understand its ecological implications. The paper also reviews the pricing and accounting of carbon credits and its implications. The trends indicate that carbon trade has been increasing over the years. However‚ the project based transactions such as Clean Development
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TRADE UNION MALAYSIAN AIRLINES MUST RESPECT TRADE UNION AND WORKER RIGHTS OVERVIEW OF THE ISSUE Malaysia Airlines (MAS)‚ a government linked company continues to violate worker and trade union rights. Recently‚ MAS commenced disciplinary action against Mohd Akram bin Osman‚ the Secretary General of the National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia (NUFAM)‚ and 30 other NUFAM members. The show cause letter date on or about 14/2/2014 asked why disciplinary action should not be taken against them
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History Term Paper America’s Free Trade Schism: A Dichotomy of Opinions Roman philosopher Cicero once said‚ “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages‚ the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.” At no point is this statement more relevant than today as American consumers are faced with moral decisions affecting their everyday lives. Most arguments against free trade are made by special interest groups
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The Function of International Trade In general‚ the function of international business is exchange of products‚ capitals and services from one nation to another nation‚ in short it is namely as export and import. Global trading gives consumer and countries an opportunity to expose the product and services which cannot derived in their own country. International trade enable a country to participate in global economy and it is also a good chance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) which that the
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International Trade & Foreign Direct Investment – an economic analysis Table of contents |I Introduction |3 | |II International trade |4-7 | |2.1 Benefits of international trade |4-5 | |2.2 Major trends
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INTRODUCTION The World Trade Organization is an International Trading Organization (WTO) which deals with the rules of trade between nations. The main function of the WTO is to ensure that the International trade arrangements partaken by different nations runs as smoothly and predictably as possible. It is a forum for governments to negotiate trade agreements. It is a place for them to settle trade disputes. Essentially‚ the WTO is a place where member governments try to sort out the trade problems they
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