A slave market in Rio, c. 1824.

The global marketplace will punish those who act too late.

The world s labor markets are now interconnected.

Blockages to world trade jeopardize global economic development.

Only through full transparency in the global trade in small arms and light weapons can we really fully address the problem of their diversion into the illicit market.

The openness of Germany s markets makes them especially attractive to global trade.

For the first time, the World Bank acknowledges that trade liberalization may not be an effective instrument, not only for stimulating growth, but even for integration in world markets.

Developed countries shifted from promoting growth to fighting inflation. World growth slowed dramatically (except in East Asia) and the growth of world trade was halved.

World growth slowed dramatically (except in East Asia) and the growth of world trade was halved.

Kyrgyzstan will never enter the market for global trade if it continues to simply resell Chinese cars.

The world market prices oil according to its opportunity cost.

Saddam Hussein s invasion of Kuwait in 1991 shocked the world oil market.

Saddam Hussein s invasion of Kuwait in 1991 shocked the world oil market. Europe's fixed exchange rate mechanism collapsed in 1992.

Third, the Euro area is about as open to international trade as the US.

The past three years have seen much less progress on freeing up world trade than almost any free trade advocate would have hoped.

Until 1989, the global market encompassed between 800 million and one billion people.

That outcome seemed highly likely six months ago, when global financial markets nearly collapsed.

It is being tacitly accepted that in future, as in the past, the world will contain a variety of economic systems and regimes. The global free market is about to join communism in history's museum of discarded utopias.

The global free market is about to join communism in history's museum of discarded utopias.

In 2009, we may see the first decline in global trade since 1982.

The IMF s lending resources have shrunk dramatically relative to world trade and income compared over the past 50 years.

Still, there is a long way to go to reconnect freer trade with citizenship and global solidarity.

Worse yet, markets will be carved up for political, not commercial, reasons, locking in inefficiencies.

Bayinnaung Market is the largest wholesale centre in the country for rice, beans and pulses, and other agricultural commodities.

Rapid integration into global markets is a consequence, not of trade liberalization or adherence to World Trade Organization (WTO) strictures per se, but of successful growth strategies with often highly idiosyncratic characteristics.

So the world market was flooded and prices dropped.

Like others in the global fashion industry, the new designs hit the market every season.

In 1998, the UN estimated the total value of the illicit drug trade at 400 billion, or 7 of global trade.

With the emergence of truly global world trade over the ensuing century and a half, Asia s economic dominance withered.

He pointed to how the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990 s caused the region s voracious investment demand to collapse, while simultaneously inducing Asian governments to stockpile liquid assets as a hedge against another crisis.

Either way, interest rates would have to fall in order for world bond markets to clear.

Worldwide, the agricultural plastic film market alone was estimated to be worth 5.87 billion in 2012.

We need to maintain a stable, growing world economy with international trade rules that are truly development oriented the great expectation of the current (but so far frustrated) trade negotiations.

What is needed, therefore, is a pledge by governments to make global trade liberalization a much higher political priority.

In ten short years, the euro revolutionized the global economic environment, rising to the status of the world s second currency and rivaling the dollar as a medium for international trade and finance.

Agriculture has always presented the greatest challenge to free trade doctrine and its promise of empowering the poor, for it is one of the most distorted areas of global trade.

The arithmetic of global trade implies that the sum of all trade deficits equals the sum of all trade surpluses. If some countries, say, Japan and China, insist on running huge surpluses year after year, then other countries must run deficits.

Sticking to them would enhance the legitimacy of trade and put the world economy on a sounder footing.

Given the complexion of the US Democratic Party's key constituencies, this is not surprising.

The arithmetic of global trade implies that the sum of all trade deficits equals the sum of all trade surpluses.

And many countries have introduced minor and not so minor impediments to trade since WWII.

Yet there has been little forward motion in opening up world trade for nearly a decade.

Despite being seen as a poster child for the benefits of globalization, India is not unduly dependent on global flows of trade and capital. India relies on external trade for less than 20 of its GDP its large and robust internal market accounts for the rest.

India relies on external trade for less than 20 of its GDP its large and robust internal market accounts for the rest.

NEW HAVEN The International Monetary Fund s October World Economic Outlook proclaimed that, Strong public policies have fostered a rebound of industrial production, world trade, and retail sales.