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Wholesale capital markets are international exchanges, formal and informal, where banks, nonbank financial intermediaries, and other large institutions such as multinational corporations borrow from and lend funds to one another; also referred to as wholesale credit and wholesale funds markets and distinguished from retail capital markets where individuals …
Wholesaling bridges the gap between manufacturers and retailers or companies processing goods further, such as food producers. Wholesalers offer services similar to those of retailers but do not serve the end customer. For manufacturers, wholesalers offer access to the markets for selling goods and services, many by offering …
While we define women’s work as paid and unpaid labor, whether at home, in the community, or in the formal or informal economy, not all work is captured by statisticians. The United Nations Statistics Division does capture both full-time and part-time paid employment. According to the United Nations …
Working hours refers to the time spent by individuals in paid market work. Differences in working hours across populations arise from difference in the share of individuals that are employed (the extensive margin) and the number of hours worked by each employed individual (the intensive margin). Over recent …
Managing the demands of both work and personal life has become an important challenge facing most people today, and there has emerged a growing focus on workplace policies geared toward enhanced work/ personal life balance. During the span of the past quarter to half century, rapid change in …
The World Bank has more than 60 years of experience in aiding developing countries and is a primary institution in governing the globalization process. In 2007 the World Bank provided US$23.6 billion for 279 projects in developing countries all over the world. The bank is currently involved in …
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an intergovernmental organization that helps members (governments usually represented by customs administrations from 173 countries) communicate and cooperate on customs issues. It was established in 1952 as the Customs Cooperation Council, and it adopted its current name in 1994. The WCO is …
Established on April 7, 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) is an agency of the United Nations (UN), with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It inherited the mandate and also the resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations. …
World systems theory is a theory of economic development that views the world as one complex social system driven by economic activity. From this theoretical perspective, economic development is to be understood in terms of the positions of and roles played by nations in the highly interactive global …
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was created on October 30, 1947, gave way to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on January 1, 1995. It came into existence after the 1986–94 Uruguay Round talks, which aimed at doing away with quotas, lowering of tariffs, reforming …
Yemen, a country on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, has been the center of commerce in the region since ancient times when it was a source of myrrh, frankincense, and spices. As a result, the ancient Egyptians started expeditions to the region in the 25th century …
The term zaibatsu refers to the conglomerate business groups that became prominent in Japan during the Meiji Restoration (1868–1912), although some had roots going back to the Edo Period in the 1600s and earlier. The groups survived through the first half of the 20th century until they were …
Zimbabwe is a landlocked southern African country sharing borders with Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia, with a land mass of approximately 386,000 sq. km. The population is 98 percent African, 1 percent mixed and Asian ethnicities, and less than 1 percent white. Although English is the official …
Zurich Financial Services is a well-established insurance-based financial institution founded in 1872. Its initial 19th-century activities rapidly extended to Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Currently, the organization encapsulates a global web of subsidiaries, which deliver a wide range of general (property and causality cover for individual and …
The reign of Constantine the Great marked the transition from the ancient Roman Empire to medieval Europe and a decisive step in the establishment of the Christian Church as the official religion for the Greek and Latin civilizations. His view of church-state relations affected the way that European …
Constantine the Great’s city lasted as the center of civilization and religion for more than 1,000 years. Of the cities of the world, only King David’s city, Jerusalem, compares with its prestige and longevity. The ancient name was Byzantium. The foundation of the city dates back to the …
The Coptic period covers most of the first six centuries of the Common Era. Copt derives from the Greek word Aegyptus, in turn derived from Hikaptah, or Memphis, the original Egyptian capital. Coptic Christianity is the form that arose in Egypt in the first century c.e. By tradition …
Cuneiform is a writing system in which signs are carved on soft clay tablets using a reed stylus. Cuneiform writing was used throughout the ancient world for more than three millennia until around 75 c.e. Continuous lines etched into the clay formed the earliest signs. Because drawing was …
The Cyclades, because of their central location to trade in the eastern Mediterranean, have a rich and long history. They are a part of the vast number of islands that constitute the Greek archipelago in the Aegean Sea. The name was originally used to indicate islands that formed …
Cyril of Alexandria is one of the most renowned (and sometimes infamous) figures of the early Christian Church. Born in the late 370s c.e., he received both a first-rate classical and Christian education and was groomed by his uncle, the archbishop Theophilus, for a career in the church. …
