Word: exportability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concludes Wilson: "We have learned, I should think, that there are limits to what government can accomplish in human affairs generally and in criminal affairs particularly. It cannot export democracy, remold human character, revitalize families; nor can it rehabilitate in large number thieves and muggers...
Tackling Barriers. At the same time, delegates must tackle an even tougher issue: nontariff barriers (NTBs), which have taken on increased importance as countries cut duties. NTBs include export subsidies, safety standards, customs procedures, packing and labeling regulations, import quotas and other means by which governments can bar imports. GATT experts have drawn up a list of 850 NTBS to be discussed, but no one expects that the negotiators will be able to eliminate more than...
...BECOME apparent that contemporary European capitalism derives a great deal of its vitality from the fact that economic and political conflicts take place within different borders. Developed countries must be able to exploit a politically disen-franchised sector of the labor force more intensely, and to export the economic and political costs of unemployment to underdeveloped countries, both of which migratory labor makes possible. Thus political stability and economic growth in the industrial centers of western Europe depend on the political divisions between countries within a continent which is at once economically integrated and unevenly developed...
Later, she explained, the metropolitan countries sought markets for their goods in the developing countries where the previous export of natural resources had created some wealth...
...said western firms export the products made by the workers and reap the profits of their production without leaving any of the economic gain in the third world...