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"Building Long Term Trading Relationships is a Benefit For All " by Marcia Bercot
"Our tragedy lies in the richness of the available alternatives, and in the fact that so few of them are ever serouusly explored." by Tom Athanasiou in "Divided Planet"
Millions of Americans depend on Global Trade for their jobs. In fact there are few companies who are not buying and selling from other countries. Yet, we also know that jobs are being lost to Global competition. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution declaring May 8th a "Fair Trade Day" in San Francisco. This resolution expresses the people of this city's opposition to unregulated Gloalization in its current state and the support for Fair Trade.
World Trade Organization
The WTO is a rules-based, member-driven organization. All decisions are made by the member governments, and the rules are the outcome of negotiations among members. The top decision-making body meets at least once every two years. Their functions include administering WTO trade agreements, forum for trade negotiations, handling trade disputes, monitoring national trade policies, and other cooerative international duties. They can be contacted at: World Trade Organization, rue de Lausanne 154, CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is committed to improving the state of the world. The managing director is Frederic Sicre. This organization for example started community-based centers in South Africa designed to teach ICT and business skills to the unemployed and previously disadvantaged. They have made the digital divide a key global issue. They realize that ICTs are tools that can enable a better quality of life. Economic development is just one of the ways this tool can help disadvantaged countries. http://www.weforum.org/whoweare.nsf/
Staff."CD-ROM of Global Trade Opportunities". Maidan New Delhi. 2001. 5/28/2001. http://www.ncti-india.com/
"World Trade Organization". Encarta. Redmond. Microsoft Corporation. 1994-1998
Microsoft has published an enclopedia that is included in with its software package. I haven't yet found that I could not depend on Microsoft's Encarta for any information I need. The reference gives some history and background into the World Trade Organization. The WTO began on January 1, 1995. WTO replaced GATT and is a much broader organization. This information is crucial to my research. It will be the opening curtain as they say on in the theatre.
"General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade". World BookEncyclopedia. Chicago. 1995
The World Book Encyclopedia was designed for elementary through high school students, but it has an extremely wide cverage and is excellent for reference. I wanted to know more about GATT for my introduction and I found the information I was looking for. WTO took over and eliminated GATT, but not before forty seven years of minimizing tariffs, quotas, preferential trade agreements between countries, and other barriers to internatinal trade.
Sjursen, Katrin. "Globalization". New York: H.W. Wilson, 2000.
Katrin Sjursen is an editor with the H.W. Wilson company. She put together the information for this book from many sources. The book is all about international relations. I chose this book because much of it is dedicated to trade. It especially tells how trade, or lack of it, effects the less diversified countries.
Thomas, Janet. "The Battle of Seattle". New York: Fulcrum Publishing, 2000.
Janet Thomas was born in Wales and lived in Canada before moving to Seattle at the age of sixteen. She has been the editor of Spa Magazine and written a book on hostel travel. She is best known for participating in civic and environmental issues, and being an amateur activist. She is highly recognized as a professional journalist. She gives a breathless eyewitness account of the 1999 anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in her new book. The kind of information Thomas is presenting in the book is exactly what I have been looking for; the people's side of the story leading up to the demonstrations.
Thurow, Lester. "Slowing U.S. Economy Makes Times Tough For The Rest Of The World". Global Viewpoint. New Perspectives Quarterly; 5 May, 2001. 11-19 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb/
Lester Thurow is the Chairman of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His writings, which include three best selling books, contain the factors driving economic change in the global economy that is fast emerging around us, and fast changing the way the economic game is played. The article has some very interesting information on the economics of the U.S., and how it has a global effect on trade. I will be able to utilize this information in my research paper.
Daniels, John D. "Emerging Economies And The Challenge Of Globalization". Advances in International Marketing, 2001, pp 7-14 http://ehostvgw6.epnet.com/
John Daniels is a renowned internatinal expert. Besides writing many articles he co-authored an encyclopedia called "The IEBM Handbook of International Business". The article explores the effects of globalizaion, multi-national firms and emerging economies on the world of business and internaional business. It delves into the problems of definitions for emerging economies and globalization; Role of a multinational enterprise in the process of economic emergence and globalization; Trends and developments affecting the future relationship among internatinal companies, emerging economies and globalization. The article does an excellent job putting this complicated subject into perspective.
Smith, Geri; Stan Crock; and Rose Brady. "For Bush and Fox, The Beginning of A Beautiful Friendship". Business Week, New York; February 19, 2001; pg 57 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb/
Geri Smith, Stan Crock, and Rose Brady are journalists for Business Week. They have all made a name for themselves as respected journalists and work well together. The article discusses the relationship between Mexico and the United States in light of the election of U.S. President George W. Bush. It also includes the goals of Mexican President Vicente Fox, including the expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This current information is a great tie-in with my research on the World Trade Organization.
Danaher, Kevin. "Globalization and the American Dream" 5/21/2000. Global Exchange. San Francisco, CA 5/22/2001 http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/econ101/american Dream.html
Kevin Danaher, Co-founder of Global Exchange, offers grass- roots ways to respond to the global economic forces. Kevin not only provides a detailed analysis of what is wrong, but he also gives inspiring examples of what we can do to make things right. The article is a detailed breakdown of jobs being lost to global competition, inequality getting worse, global economy going awry, and how the globalization of the economy undermines the quality of life in the United States. The majority of this article will definitely be a major player in my research paper. This is the kind of information I have been hoping to find. The information is relevant to what we as American taxpayers should have an strong interest in.
Moberg, David. "Everything you need to know about the WTO". November, 1999. Salon.com. San Francisco, CA. May 22, 2001 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/11/29/wto/
David Moberg is a well-known political writer. He has done hundreds ofarticles for all kinds of publications. He won an Editorial Award in 1997with the Diego Reader. This article I chose gives some insight into the reason for the protest at the Seattle World Trade Organization fiasco. It also gives some background of the disagreement on the wide range of issues among WTO members. These are some of the things of interest involved in this deep topic.
McLaughlin, Lindsay; Brian Davidson. "Supplemental Washington Report". Waterfront Warrior. San Francisco. May 18, 2001
This newsletter is a cooperative printing of news involving trade issues and other waterfront related newsworthy items. The Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific, and the International Longshoreman and Warehouseman's Union have joined forces to keep their members as well as other interested parties abreast of things like "Funds To Combat Child Labor Cut," an article on how at least 250 million children worldwide between the ages of 5 and 14-nearly half work full-time and at least one-third perform dangerous work.
It has become commonplace for public officials to claim that trade has contributed to job creation in the United States in the last decade. Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Richard Fisher argues that "We have created nearly 21 million new jobs natinwide since 1992, whereas Germany lost 700,000 jobs and Japan gained only 830,000....Trade is not the sole cause of this success, but it is a vital component." Others have claimed that up to one-third of all jos created have been due to the growth in exports.
Grassroots development organizations are building alternative economic institutions to provide jos and include workeers in decision making. The Fair Trade Movement helps third world producer groups market their products in rich-country markets so they can work their way out of poverty rather than be dependent on charity.
There are many programs working to build grassroots internationalism. Global Exchange is a internet based organization offering a variety of programs anyone can get involved with. They include: Reality Tours to dozens of countries, a fair trade program with three stores selling third world crafts, country specific campaigns to change U.S. policy toward Cuba, Mexico, Haiti and other countries. They offer a broad range of educational materials and speakers. They can be reached at (800) 497-1994 or http://www.globalexchange.org.
As an American, one of the ways I feel I can help with world problems is to vote. I always pick the candidates that have strong, positive views in world trade. I believe it is important to have a president who can keep relations with other countries on friendly terms. My hope is that the United States economy will stay strong enough to benefit the programs that are out there helping these poor countries to gain diversity, technology, and all other tools they need to help themselves and all of us along the way.
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