Trade
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With trade, there's mutual interdependency and mutual gain between parties.
Being able to tell the gender of a shark is very important for things like policing the
trade
in basking shark and other species through the sightings, because it is illegal to
trade
in these sharks.
In Saskatchewan, as across all of the boreal, home to some of our most famous rivers, an incredible network of rivers and lakes that every school-age child learns about, the Peace, the Athabasca, the Churchill here, the Mackenzie, and these networks were the historical routes for the voyageur and the coureur de bois, the first non-aboriginal explorers of Northern Canada that, taking from the First Nations people, used canoes and paddled to explore for a
trade
route, a Northwest Passage for the fur
trade.
Now we're the country that has full-time lobbyists in the European Union and Washington DC, threatening
trade
wars when these countries talk about wanting to bring in positive legislation to limit the import of high-carbon fuels, of greenhouse gas emissions, anything like this, at international conferences, whether they're in Copenhagen or Cancun, international conferences on climate change, we're the country that gets the dinosaur award every single day, as being the biggest obstacle to progress on this issue.
It will stop because of the end of
trade
resources.
So now you can
trade
in your car for a non-polluting type of transportation: a bicycle!
So obviously, as an economist, I'm deeply familiar with the fact that development, that openness to trade, is really good for developing countries.
But that actually doesn't mean at all that if we gave people more exports, more trade, that that would increase prevalence.
From a forecasting perspective, if we know where
trade
is likely to change, for example, because of the African Growth and Opportunities Act or other policies that encourage trade, we can actually think about which areas are likely to be heavily infected with HIV.
In fact, if you look at polls, they show a declining trend for support for free
trade
in the West.
For example, if you have read — I suspect many of you have done so — read the book by Thomas Friedman called "The World Is Flat," he said, basically, in his book that, you know, this fear for free
trade
is wrong because it assumes, it's based on a mistaken assumption that everything that can be invented has been invented.
Now, I'm sure you all keep a copy of the goals under your pillow, or by the bedside table, but just in case you don't, and your memory needs some jogging, the deal agreed then goes like this: developing countries promised to at least halve extreme poverty, hunger and deaths from disease, alongside some other targets, by 2015, and developed nations promised to help them get that done by dropping debts, increasing smart aid, and
trade
reform.
And it brings us to the debate that has been going on here: aid versus private sector, aid versus trade, etc.
And because of that, it has been the center to the city's drug
trade
and drug use for decades.
And so inside the neighborhood, our library is nestled inside of a park, which has unfortunately garnered a reputation for being a place to find and use drugs, especially heroin, out in the open, putting us and the community in direct contact with the drug
trade
and use on a daily basis.
And this is also what it's like when the drug
trade
and use affects every aspect of life in the neighborhood.
But my kids are now licensed and bonded in
trade.
To hear this dialogue that's just increasing in tenor and velocity, of decisions about
trade
and companies wanting to come.
That's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave
trade.
Cabin restaurants, as they're known in the trade, are venues for forced prostitution.
I visited villages in India where entire families were enslaved in the silk
trade.
This is in Guangzhou, China, and if you go upstairs in this rather sleepy looking electronics mall, you find the Guangzhou Dashatou second-hand
trade
center, and if you go in there, you follow the guys with the muscles who are carrying the boxes, and where are they going?
One well-known illicit
trade
route is that across the border to Rwanda, where Congolese tantalum is disguised as Rwandan.
We're literally beginning to realize that we have wired our world to share, swap, rent, barter or
trade
just about anything.
The difference today is that, with every
trade
we make, comment we leave, person we flag, badge we earn, we leave a reputation trail of how well we can and can't be trusted.
Ladies and gentlemen, the most enterprising people in Africa cannot find opportunities to
trade
and to work in the private sector because the institutional and policy environment is hostile to business.
I'm going to talk a little bit about one kind of information flow, one kind of flow of people, one kind of flow of capital, and, of course,
trade
in products and services.
In West Africa, there's a horrific
trade
of dead vultures to serve the witchcraft and the fetish market.
The good news, again, is that a lot of the things they need we already have, and we are very good at giving: economic assistance, not just money, but expertise, technology, knowhow, private investment, fair terms of trade, medicine, education, technical support for training for their police forces to become more effective, for their anti-terror forces to become more efficient.
Wright points out that in certain circumstances, cooperation or non-violence can benefit both parties in an interaction, such as gains in
trade
when two parties
trade
their surpluses and both come out ahead, or when two parties lay down their arms and split the so-called peace dividend that results in them not having to fight the whole time.
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