... ties among themselves. Among the advanced economies, two patterns seem to emerge: the United States, Canada, and Japan are expected to grow at a gentle pace, while the prospects for the euro zone are more uncertain, especially as tight credit conditions continue to limit domestic demand. More generally, the new global economic landscape raises questions as to the very distinction between advanced and emerging economies, particularly when ... than 30 years, the World Economic Forum has studied and benchmarked competitiveness. From the outset, our goal has been to provide insight and stim...

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... enforcement agencies in the field of prevention of customs offenses are the following: -Lack of timely exchange of information in the field of foreign trade activities; For example, the lack of important relevant information sometimes leads to the situations when a customs officer has difficulty in carrying out customs control, taking a decision about allowing or forbidding the release of goods under a certain ... procedure. Customs authorities may also have questions about the legitimacy of this of that international economic activity and so on. -Customs Bodies of Republic of Belarus s...

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... acquired a monopoly (or form a cartel, a group of producers that, instead of competing with each other, fix prices) and then use it to inflate international prices or even refuse to sell at all. In the 1970s the oil producing countries joined together to form a cartel called OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) that twice dramatically raised oil prices, with far-reaching consequences ... it is a hotly contested issue and there is powerful political debate concerning what might have happened to these states if they had not been colonized (leaving aside obvious moral questi...

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... those countries in East Asia where development has been touted as a development miracle. What he takes particular offense to is the notion of "alternatives to development," precisely because no post-development theorist provides concrete alternatives. Despite all the criticisms post-development writers have expressed, they fall short in providing actual alternatives and remain in the realm ... while the other is more skeptical of these same topics, employing a more constructivist view on culture. Hence treating all the different strains of post-development as a whole coherent school of ...

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