World Trade Organization
(proper noun)
an international organization designed by its founders to supervise and liberalize international trade
Examples of World Trade Organization in the following topics:
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Trade
- During World War II, 44 countries signed the Bretton Woods Agreement.
- Currently, the Doha round of World Trade Organization negotiations aims to lower barriers to trade around the world, with a focus on making trade more favorable for so-called "developing" countries, though talks have faced a divide between "developed" countries and the major "developing" countries.
- The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that was formed in 1995 to supervise and liberalize international trade .
- International trade greatly contributes to the process of globalization, the processes of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.
- Common targets include the World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement (TPPA), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
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The International Monetary Structure
- The most prominent international institutions are the International Monetary Fund (IMF) , the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
- The World Trade Organization settles trade disputes and negotiates international trade agreements in its rounds of talks (currently the Doha Round) .
- This map depicts the member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
- In this picture, President Bill Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement into law.
- NAFTA, a free trade area between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico, is an example of the importance of regional trade blocs to the international monetary structure.
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World War I and the League of Nations
- The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Talks that ended the First World War.
- The League was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
- Other issues in this and related treaties included labor conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, human and drug trafficking, arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe.
- The onset of World War II showed that the League had failed its primary purpose, which was to prevent any future world war.
- Explain the historical rise and fall of the League of Nations after World War I
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The United Nations
- After World War II, most government leaders recognized that humankind could not afford a third world war.
- Some of the most well-known agencies are the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF).
- The UN is a world leader in human rights protection and humanitarian assistance.
- This conference took place in 1944, and its goal was "to create a new international monetary and trade regime that was stable and predictable."
- This new system opened world markets, promoted a liberal economy and was implemented through different institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Models of Bureaucracy
- Bureaucracies have different type of models, depending upon their governmental organizational structure.
- The fate of our time is characterized by rationalization, intellectualization and, above all, the "disenchantment of the world. "
- New structures of society were marked by two intermeshing systems that had taken shape around the organizational cores of capitalist enterprise and bureaucratic state apparatus.
- To the degree that everyday life was affected by cultural and societal rationalization, traditional forms of life differentiated primarily according to one's trade were dissolved.
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United States in the World
- It is a member of the G8, G20, and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- It works closely with fellow NATO members on military and security issues and with its neighbors through the Organization of American States and free trade agreements such as the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
- In 2008, the United States spent a net $25.4 billion on official development assistance, the most in the world.
- Discuss the role and influence of the United States on world politics
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Maintaining a Strong Economy
- Organizations within the Department of Commerce include the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the International Trade Administration.
- The Office of the United States Trade Representative is the government agency responsible for developing and recommending U.S. trade policy to the President, conducting trade negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels, and coordinating trade policy within the government through the interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) and Trade Policy Review Group (TPRG).
- The Federal Trade Commission promotes consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anti-competitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly.The Small Business Administration provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses by providing loans, contracts, and counseling.
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The Gallup Organization
- World headquarters are in Washington, D.C.
- In 1958 the modern Gallup Organization was formed from a merger of several polling organizations.
- In 2005, Gallup began its World Poll, which continually surveys citizens in more than 140 countries, representing 95% of the world's adult population.
- General and regional-specific questions, developed in collaboration with the world's leading behavioral economists, are organized into powerful indexes and topic areas that correlate with real-world outcomes.
- Locate the historical origins and significance of the Gallup Organization for public opinion research in the United States
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The Act of Organizing: Constitutive Decisions
- Organizations can be seen as collections of offices or roles, and roles in turn can be seen as sets of rules regarding proper and improper actions by the occupants of these roles.
- While most such decisions are not as dramatic as the above examples, taken as a whole they are a very important part of the decisions and actions going on in the world.
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Organization of Interest Groups
- Organizations may also have Special Interest Groups which are normally focused on a mutual interest or shared characteristic of a subset of members of the organization.
- An important example for this are trade unions, educational unions, and labor unions .