The Silk Road played a crucial role in international trade for about 1800 years by the time maritime trade turned out to possess more advantages than land-based means of trade in terms of speed, cost, and security. Transportation of goods on camels could not compete with the ships in seas until the XVI ...
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- 20.02.2024 13:00:31
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Nearing the End
The Greek Crisis has pushed Europe to the brink. The deal agreed to on Monday relieved markets and points to a route for Athens to remain in the Eurozone. However, the deal provides no long-term solution to the crisis—it instead marks a long-term change in how Europe views and organizes itself. In the next two weeks, there are a multitude of ways for the deal to collapse before the bailout even starts, not least of which are the points of confirmation by Greece...
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- 15.07.2015 17:39:00
The emergence of Asian regional free trade agreement negotiations such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) of 12 Pacific Rim countries, APEC’s Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), and ASEAN’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has prompted the ...
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- 09.07.2015 11:44:00
... need only look at the recent trilateral summit between Russia, China and Mongolia to see the extent to which these nations can be defined by cooperation rather than conflict.13 Furthermore, each nation serves to fill an export niche within the overall trade network between the three countries. China uses Mongolia’s raw materials to support its economic boom, whilst Mongolia utilises Russian energy supplies to fuel its extraction industries. Russia, meanwhile, is looking to import cheap goods ...
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- 12.09.2014 16:03:00