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The volume of countertrade is growing. In 1972, it was estimated that countertrade was used by business and governments in 15 countries; in 1979, 27 countries; by the start of the 1990s, around 100 countries (Verzariu, 1992). A large part of countertrade has involved sales of military equipment (weaponry, vehicles and installations).
Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive. Aftermath: World Trade Center is a book that documents the cleanup process after the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was compiled by the photographer Joel Meyerowitz and published by Phaidon Press in 2006, on the fifth anniversary of the attacks. The book includes Meyerowitz's photographs and his personal ...
The Atlantic slave trade was the result of, among other things, labour shortage, itself in turn created by the desire of European colonists to exploit New World land and resources for capital profits. Native peoples were at first utilized as slave labour by Europeans until a large number died from overwork and Old World diseases.
2008-2009 : during the Great Trade Collapse, a drop of world GDP of 1% caused a drop of international trade of 10%. In 2013, China began its economic integration and infrastructure project, called the Belt and Road Initiative. 2014: India launches its Make in India initiative and announces its Act East Policy.
World Trade Center site. Coordinates: 40°42′42″N. The original Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1992. The site as it appeared twelve days after 9/11. The site as it appeared in 2012: The pools lie on the approximate site of each tower. Left is the North Tower and right is the South Tower.
The NIST World Trade Center Disaster Investigation was a report that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted to establish the likely technical causes of the three building failures that occurred at the World Trade Center following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. [2] The report was mandated as part of the ...
Sustainable finance. v. t. e. The bond market (also debt market or credit market) is a financial market in which participants can issue new debt, known as the primary market, or buy and sell debt securities, known as the secondary market. This is usually in the form of bonds, but it may include notes, bills, and so on for public and private ...
