several different types of rewards or incentive systems to compensate employees. Merit pay is the most frequently used system which rewards teachers with base increases or bonuses for acquiring and demonstrating specific knowledge and skills needed to meet educational goals such as improving student achievement. The million dollar question is‚ does merit pay increase teachers’ performance? Those in favor of merit pay argue that teacher performance should be based on a broad range of factors that
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Sanoussi Bilal‚ “Trade blocs”‚ in R. Jones ed.‚ Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy‚ Routledge‚ forthcoming (2001). Trade blocs 1.Definition and examples A trade bloc can be defined as a ‘preferential trade agreement’ (PTA) between a subset of countries‚ designed to significantly reduce or remove trade barriers within member countries. When a trade bloc comprises neighbouring or geographically close countries‚ it is referred to as a ‘regional trade (or integration) agreement’
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AUGUST 2007‚FIRST DRAFT Services provisions in regional trade agreements: stumbling or building blocks for multilateral liberalization? Carsten Fink World Bank Marion Jansen* WTO Paper presented at the Conference on Multilateralising Regionalism Sponsored and organized by WTO - HEI Co-organized by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) 10-12 September 2007 Geneva‚ Switzerland The views expressed in this paper are the authors’ own and cannot be attributed to the World Bank‚ the WTO
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TEST REVISION FREE TRADE Free trade exists between nations when all obstacles to trade such as tariffs are removes Free trade occurs because of differences in the quantity and quality of resources COMPERATIVE ADVANTAGE The advantage one country has over another in the production of a particular good or service. A country has a comparative advantage if it can produce a product at a lower opportunity cost than its trading partner. AUSTRALIA KEY EXPORTS Mining- Iron Ores‚ Coal‚ Gold‚ Natural
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of government trade policy – the interests of producers (businesses and their employees) or those of consumers? Trade policy is a collection of rules and regulations when pertain to trade. Every nation has some form of trade policy‚ to help a nation’s international trade run more smoothly by setting clear standards and goals which can be understood by potential partner. Trade policy is a part of import and export taxes‚ tariffs‚ inspection regulations and quotas. The purpose of trade policy is to
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American Free Trade Agreement‚ one of the largest free trade areas‚ which in 1994 established a free-trade zone between the US‚ Canada‚ and Mexico. NAFTA passed with some important negotiations to protect the environment and labor standards. In 2001‚ President Bush organized the proposal of expanding NAFTA to a Free Trade Area for the Americas‚ surrounding 34 countries and 800 million people by 2005. President Obama continues to push for expansion to CAFTA known as Central America Free Trade Agreement
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Smith Institute (2008) about how ‘The Fair-trade movement achieves virtually nothing in terms of reducing world poverty’. Fair trade is a standard that is set to support the developing countries exports‚ it is to improve the workers in a developing country’s working conditions‚ fair payments which help them towards development and planning of their future that may help poverty. It also helps them to sell products to developing countries. Fair trade products come mostly in products such as coffee
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Terms of trade refers to the measurement of a country’s export-prices with respect to its import prices‚ and is considered advantageous to the dual economies only in the case of it lying somewhere between the two production possibility frontiers. The measurement of terms of trade is specifically expressed through an index number by dividing the price for exports by the price for imports‚ only to ultimately multiply the answer by one hundred. This measurement helps an economy understand where it stands
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Colonialism and Imperialism are one of the core foundations of the Atlantic Trade System that occurred between the 14th and 19th centuries. Colonialism is the process of a group of external settlers‚ in this case settling in Africa and claiming the land for their own. Colonialism is the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country‚ territory‚ or people. Colonialism refers to the set of practices and policies implemented by the imperial agents to obtain and maintain control
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Trade Triangle Trade Route - the main route for trade Introduction This informational essay talks about Background Information‚ New England Colonies Trade‚ Southern Colonies Trade and Middle Colonies Trade. Background Information Before you learn all about the three colonies trade‚ you are going to need to know some background information first. The definition of triangle trade according to Wikipedia is: “Triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions
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