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This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a "borderless world", cities become a more important criteria in prioritizing markets, as opposed to regions, continents, or countries. This report covers the top 2000 cities in over 200 countries. It does so by reporting the estimated market size (in terms of latent demand) for each major city of the world. It then ranks these cities and reports them in terms of their size as a percent of the country where they are located, their geographic region (e.g. Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Latin America), and the total world market.

In performing various economic analyses for its clients, I have been occasionally asked to investigate the market potential for various products and services across cities. The purpose of the studies is to understand the density of demand within a country and the extent to which a city might be used as a point of distribution within its region. From an economic perspective, however, a city does not represent a population within rigid geographical boundaries. To an economist or strategic planner, a city represents an area of dominant influence over markets in adjacent areas. This influence varies from one industry to another, but also from one period of time to another.

In what follows, I summarize the economic potential for the world's major cities for "hardbound edition binding of general consumer and trade books printed elsewhere" for the year 2009. The goal of this report is to report my findings on the real economic potential, or what an economist calls the latent demand, represented by a city when defined as an area of dominant influence. The reader needs to realize that latent demand may or may not represent real sales. ... Read more

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Chapters: Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 589. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), also called the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions or Palestinian Trade Union Federation (and, briefly, General Trade Union Federation in Palestine), is a national trade union center in the Palestinian Territories. It has an estimated membership of 290,000, and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. The union in its current form is historically aligned with Fatah, but other parties have also worked within its organization. The PGFTU traces its modern history to 1965, and its origins to the Palestinian labour movement of the 1920s. Its current general secretary is Shaher Saed, who has held the position for many years. The PGFTU has not held open elections since 1981, for which it has been criticized by outside unionists as well as PGFTU insiders. A 2007 report in al-Jazeera indicates that the PGFTU receives most of its funding from Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt, as well as from organisations such as the Red Cross. Saed argues in the same report that his union has aided more than 250,000 Palestinians with both work and financial support. The early years of the PGFTU were marked by fragmentation and political division. As'ad Ghanem has written that the West Bank General Federation definitively seceded from its parent Jordanian body in 1969. A new General Federation of Palestinian Labour Unions was established in 1973, due in large part to the efforts of the Communist Party, but it was not particularly successful and split into rival factions in 1981. After this period, unions aligned with Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Fro...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5305929 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on June 28, 1993. The length of the article is 575 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Pres Bill Clinton must assume a previously un-demonstrated leadership role on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) or the US insurance industry, and other service industries, will not be able to explore international markets. Unless Clinton can convince Congress to extend US participation in the Uruguay Round, talks on international trade for service industries will cease after the next GATT meeting.

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Title: U.S. leadership needed to push stuck GATT talks. (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) (International Scene) (Column)
Author: John Jennings
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 28, 1993
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n26Page: p9(1)

Article Type: Column

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Curbing the emissions of carbon dioxide has become a major political challenge for the coming decades. The political feasibility of the enterprise is hampered by global disagreement over the preferred level of abatement and its distribution across countries. Because of the close connection between carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuel use, countries that want to pursue a more restrictive policy worry that their energy-intensive industries will suffer from international competition from industries in countries that follow a laxer policy. Abating countries will see their reduction efforts be offset to some extent by increasing emissions in non-abating countries, while income and employment leak away to those countries. Against this background, this book examines the links between climate change policies, international trade, and carbon leakage by means of an applied general equilibrium model of the world economy. The analysis should help professionals in the area of international climate change policies to get a better understanding of the trade linkages and help them to design better policies. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Multinational Monitor, published by Essential Information, Inc. on June 1, 1995. The length of the article is 2101 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) Gen. Sec. Bill Jordan discusses the organization's priorities in the new post-Cold War era. He notes that the ICFTU has gained prominence since the end of the Cold War through its efforts to forge global alliances among the different labor unions. Jordan also enumerates some of the challenges brought about by the increased globalization of labor unions.

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Title: Globalizing trade unions. (interview with International Confederation of Free Trade Unions General Secretary Bill Jordan)(Interview)
Author: Hugh Williamson
Publication: Multinational Monitor (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1995
Publisher: Essential Information, Inc.
Volume: v16Issue: n6Page: p26(3)

Article Type: Interview

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more