... after major retailers such as Whole Foods, Wal-Mart and Tesco realized that they need to differentiate their services from mainstream food stores by identifying exclusively local sources for the products they sell from their stores. They have introduced labeling systems that define the carbon count of each product, which allows consumers to determine the distance travelled by each food ... . This has often leads to bankruptcy amongst small farmers. Those who are against the Buy Local Movement hold there are several negative impacts such as lesser choice of food products, regionalism and e...

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... low-tech transitional countries. Greece is namely a medium development country instance for such a type facing with competitive threats from developed countries for quality goods, under-developed countries for cheap products and the Balkan area as transitional countries so that Greece, Balkan and UDCs shape up a "triangular manufacturing"" (Labrianidis, 2001). It then follows with the theory of "triangular manufacturing ... for global cultural trade are respectively European, North American and Asian countries where developed territories are more outstanding (Che and Wu, 2012). On the wh...

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... property protection in international trade draws attention of all countries in the world, including China. The western countries headed by U.S.A. are always not willing to only send their knowledge products to each corner of the earth, but they want to bring their culture, values, legal thought and behavior all rules to other countries. So, developed countries, such as ... intellectual property protection. Depending on a certain idea or the things excessively will exert a negative influence usually. As a developing country, our country is the importer of the knowledge products mainly. ...

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... to technological heirarchy across national boundary was reinforced bt the rapid growth of intra-industry trade. Since the mid-1980's, trade in intermediat goods and or semi-finished products dictated the major trade flows between Japand and other developing Asian countries and between the NICs and the ASEAN. Hence, intra-industry trade which dominated the trade flows ... countries for offshore production.HENce, the spatial heirachy of industrial production across national boundaries was rationalized by the sphistication of different stages of production. (11) Therefore, though final pro...

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... to the worsening of lives in developing nations. Multinationals enjoy economies of large scale and can operate at low costs as compared to local industries. Consequently, the prices of their products are services can go to a level that is very low. Since local industries cannot reduce their prices to that extent, they are forced out of business. Closure of local industries ... developing countries. The outsourcing of production activities leads to increased environmental degradation, undue human capital exploitation, increased income inequalities, and unsustainable completion. While dev...

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... liberization for underdeveloped economies have proven to have some serious side effects as it may lead to dumping of cheap and substandard products into the developing countries markets by the developed countries which undermines local industries that produce the same products. The less developed countries industries fails to take off under extensive trade liberization. For instance in Malawi the flooding in of ... ...

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... raised its export volumes and so they pursued a policy of Export Orientated Industrialisation (EOI). EOI involved the rapid development of domestic industries that would be able to sell high quality products at competitive prices in the international market. The success of this strategy depended on the hands on approach taken by the South Korean government who had to use appropriate tariff ... all increase their export volumes at the same time. It would be reasonable to expect that if LDC's were all trying to increase the export of what are mainly primary products then the international...

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