Consumer International 1999 2000

This directory provides volume and value market size data for all the major non-European countries from 1993 to 1998 for more than 330 consumer product sectors. All data is presented in easy-to-read tables, and expressed in national currencies and US dollars or standard volume units such as kilograms or litres. Socio-economic trends such as population figures, income, imports, exports and tourism are covered, and there are full contact details for all major sources of research. The countries covered are: Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Colombia; Egypt; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Israel; Japan; Malaysia; Mexico; Morocco; Philippines; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; South Africa; South Korea; Taiwan; Thailand; Turkey; USA; Venezuela; and Vietnam.

This directory provides volume and value market size data for all the major non-European countries from 1993 to 1998 for more than 330 consumer product sectors. All data is presented in easy-to-read tables, and expressed in national currencies and US dollars or standard volume units such as kilograms or litres. Socio-economic trends such as population figures, income, imports, exports and tourism are covered, and there are full contact details for all major sources of research. The countries covered are: Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Colombia; Egypt; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Israel; Japan; Malaysia; Mexico; Morocco; Philippines; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; South Africa; South Korea; Taiwan; Thailand; Turkey; USA; Venezuela; and Vietnam.

A compendium of market information on major consumer goods purchased in West European countries.

This eighth annual edition analyzes the international community's position on specific environment and development problems, the main obstacles to effective international solutions, and how to overcome them. It assesses both the achievements and shortcomings of co-operation, distinguishing between the rhetoric and the reality of environmental world politics.

List of Contents * Current Issues and Key Themes * Agreements on Environment and Development Systematically listed key data and illustrations concerning the most important international agreements presented on the basis of information from the organizations in question and other sources, covering such matters as: objectives ? scope ? time and place of establishment ? status of participation ? affiliated instruments and organizations ? major activities ? secretariat ? finance ? rules and standards ? monitoring and implementation ? decision-making bodies ? key publications ? Internet sources. This edition includes the new Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. * Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), including UN specialized agencies objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? decision-making bodies ? finance ? key publications ? Internet sources. * International Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) * objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? budget ? key publications ? Internet sources. * Country Profiles Summaries of the performance and main commitments of 15 OECD countries in addition to Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Thailand. Originally published in 1999

Consumer protection law in the age of globalisation poses new challenges for policy-makers. This book highlights the difficulties of framing regulatory responses to the problem of consumers' access to justice in the new international economy. The growth of international consumer transactions in the wake of technological change and the globalisation of markets suggests that governments can no longer develop consumer protection law in isolation from the international legal arena. Leading scholars consider the broader theme of access to justice from socio-legal, law and economics perspectives. Topics include standard form contracts, the legal challenges posed by mass infections (such as mad-cow disease and CJD), ombudsman schemes, class actions, alternative dispute resolution, consumer bankruptcy, conflict of laws, and cross-border transactions. This book demonstrates that advancing and achieving access to justice for consumers proves to be a challenging, and sometimes elusive, task.

This book asks experts to reveal strategies for finding international business information on the Web. Through a series of interviews, exploration of the challenges of reaching outside a researchers area of knowledge is detailed.

Marketing in the Emerging Markets of Latin America provides a much needed analysis of business and marketing in Latin America. The book highlights the diverse characteristics of the Latin American business and marketing environment and the dynamic nature of regional and country markets. Addressing a broad variety of historical, political, economic, social, cultural and legal issues, the book offers unique insights into the enormous opportunities and challenges the region presents for implementing effective marketing strategies. The book is an extremely valuable resource for academics, practitioners and anyone interested in doing business in or with Latin America.

While overconsumption by the developed world's roughly one billion inhabitants is an abiding problem, another one billion increasingly affluent "new consumers" in developing countries will place additional strains on the earth's resources, argue authors Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent in this important new book. The New Consumers examines the environmental impacts of this increased consumption, with particular focus on two commodities -- cars and meat -- that stand to have the most far-reaching effects. It analyzes consumption patterns in a number of different countries, with special emphasis on China and India (whose surging economies, as well as their large populations, are likely to account for exceptional growth in humanity's ecological footprint), and surveys big-picture issues such as the globalization of economies, consumer goods, and lifestyles. Ultimately, according to the orman Myers and Jennifer Kent, the challenge will be for all of humanity to transition to sustainable levels of consumption, for it is unrealistic to expect "new" consumers not to aspire to be like the "old" ones. Cogent in its analysis, The New Consumers issues a timely warning of a major and developing environmental trend, and suggests valuable strategies for ameliorating its effects.