Merchants
A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Historically, a merchant is anyone who is involved in business or trade. Merchants have operated for as long as industry, commerce, and trade have existed. In 16th-century Europe, two different terms for merchants emerged: meerseniers referred to local traders (such as bakers and grocers) and koopman (Dutch: koopman) referred to merchants who operated on a global stage, importing and exporting goods over vast distances and offering added-value services such as credit and finance. The status of the merchant has varied …
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AAN_AF: Afghanistan Analysts Network · 18 April 2024 English
The first quarrel dates back to 1947 when newly-created Pakistan was set to join the United Nations as an independent state and Afghanistan voted against its membership.6 However, long before …
sides have always run major businesses, with merchants and labourers easily crossing the Line. In Spin … and Paktika’s local and district bazaars. Many merchants from the Pakistan side imported goods from Afghan … goods and livestock such as wheat and sheep. Some merchants also chose not to cross the Line via official …
EJF: Environmental Justice Foundation · 17 April 2024 Swahili
Uvuvi haramu na ukiukwaji wa haki za binadamu unaofanywa na meli za Uvuvi za China katika Eneo la SWIO 25 6.1 Mifano ya Kujifunzia: Maisha ya wafanyakazi kwenye meli za …
samaki 2013 baina ya kampuni ya China ya ‘Chinese Merchants juu na zaidi ya kiwango kilichowekwa.214Nchini …
Financial Stability Board · 17 April 2024 English
Recommendations 4 and 5: liquidity stress testing and scenario design Recommendation 4 sets out the need for conducting liquidity stress tests with respect to margin and collateral calls to identify …
proposed to require that futures commissioner merchants (i.e. a futures broker), and CFTC-regulated swap … leverage. CFTC rules require futures commissions merchants and swap dealers to take a comprehensive approach …
EJF: Environmental Justice Foundation · 16 April 2024 English
Regional fisheries dynamics of the of this exceptional richness of life is being threatened SWIO and their importance to the by overexploitation (especially by overfishing and IUU fishing), habitat degradation, …
fishing, including fishing above and outside Merchants Holdings International’ to construct a allocated …
EJF: Environmental Justice Foundation · 16 April 2024 French
L’ampleur et la de la pêche INN et des violations des droits humains liées gravité des abus commis à bord de la flotte ont également à la flotte, ainsi que …
d’en-cas aromatisés au société chinoise Chinese Merchants Holdings International, poisson, à base d’anchois …
Notre Europe: Notre Europe · 16 April 2024 English
My analysis intentionally does not exceed the scope of the mandate received from the EU Council and the Commission - developed under the present Belgian, Spanish, and Hungarian trio Presidency …
State of their residence or their establishment. Merchants are prohibited from doing the following: blocking …
World Bank Group · 15 April 2024 English
Ratings for the Trade and Logistics Services Competitiveness Project for Togo were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also substantial. Some …
distributional effects on informal drivers and border merchants.20 In addition, the non-achievement of transport … there exists little systematic evidence. Though merchants at the border crossing (which are majority women) …
ICRIER: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations · 12 April 2024 English
The distribution the time of launch, have remained unchanged for value of transactions and number of users in the adoption and use of UPI. [...] Figure 11: Regression Results for …
payment technologies? Evidence from small-scale merchants in Jaipur, India. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0219450. https://doi …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 11 April 2024 English
Across many studies subjective well-being follows a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being follows a mirror-imaged hump-shape. But this empirical regularity has been …
eingintheuk/2020 Oreskes N and Conway EM (2011), Merchants of doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 11 April 2024 English
Like today, one hundred years ago air pollution was a matter of grave concern in the world's most polluted cities. In the wake of its famous 1908-9 social survey, the …
manufacturers, the costs borne by wholesale merchants, and the prices charged consumers by retail dealers; …