Commodities Switzerland S Most Dangerous Business

Author : Berne Declaration
Publisher : Salis Verlag
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783905801705

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Commodities - Switzerland's Most Dangerous Business by Berne Declaration Pdf

Today marks the release of the controversial book "Commodities: Switzerland's Most Dangerous Business". The fact-filled and groundbreaking analysis of the industry, as powerful as it is unknown, shows why resource-rich developing countries remain poor while Switzerland-based commodity companies rake in profits in the billions. And it illustrates the gray areas of a business model whose risks are becoming increasingly apparent. Unnoticed by the public and politicians, Switzerland has become the world's most important commodities hub. Trade in oil, gas, coal, metals and agricultural products - particularly via deals made in Geneva and Zug - has grown by an incredible 1,500 percent since 1998, according to BD investigations. The result: Seven of the twelve corporations with the highest turnover in Switzerland trade in, and/or mine, commodities. Switzerland has become a global commodity hub thanks to its mix of tax privileges, a strong financial sector, weak regulation and lax embargo policy. The Swiss commodities business is dangerous for developing countries that are blessed with natural resources but that suffer from weak governance. The business is life-threatening for all those who must live amid the filth and toxins of the mines and facilities. The extensive misery of entire countries and the fairytale wealth of a few Swiss top traders are causally related. The book "Commodities: Switzerland's Most Dangerous Business" shows how. The richly-illustrated reference work offers a portrait of the key firms and people behind the discreet deals, provides insight into the social and ecological consequences for the producing countries, analyzes the practices and repercussions of tax avoidance and speculation, and offers proposals for achieving more justice in a multi-billion-dollar business that affects everyone.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264196322

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OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Switzerland 2013 by OECD Pdf

This book presents the findings of the OECD Development Assistance Committee's reviews of the individual development co-operation efforts Switzerland for 2013.

Author : Mines Bureau,Geological Survey,Interior Department
Publisher : Minerals Yearbook: Volume 3: A
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1411341759

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Minerals Yearbook by Mines Bureau,Geological Survey,Interior Department Pdf

The region of Europe and Central Eurasia defined in this volume encompasses territory that extends from the Atlantic Coast of Europe to the Pacific Coast of the Russian Federation. It includes the British Isles, Iceland, and Greenland (a self- governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark). Included are mineral commodity outlook tables, plus global overview research for particularly commodities within a specific regions/countries are presented throughout the text. Manufacturers of these metals and commodities, along with trade brokers that may specialize in imports and exports, political scientists, and economists may also be interested in this volume. Students pursuing research on specific metals and mineral commodities for world economy courses may be interested in this volume.

Author : Fritz F. Heimann,Mark Pieth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190458331

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Confronting Corruption by Fritz F. Heimann,Mark Pieth Pdf

Mapping Modern Beijing investigates five methods of representing Beijing-a warped hometown, a city of snapshots and manners, an aesthetic city, an imperial capital in comparative and cross-cultural perspective, and a displaced city on the Sinophone and diasporic postmemory-by authors travelling across mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Sinophone and non-Chinese communities.

Author : Mark Pieth
Publisher : Salis Verlag
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783906195964

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Gold Laundering by Mark Pieth Pdf

In this eye-opening book, Mark Pieth gives an in-depth insight into how the global gold market works, what role Switzerland plays in it, where the hidden abuses lie and how human rights in the gold industry can be protected in a credible way. This hard-hitting, exclusively researched depiction of a key area of economic policy takes us both to the glittering world of gold refining and to the world's worst mining regions. Mark Pieth illuminates the historical roots of the gold trade before turning his attention to today's supply chains, from mines to refineries and clandestine intermediaries to consumers: central banks, investors, jewellers and watchmakers. He reveals some of the horrific problems caused by gold mining that still receive little attention due to a lack of binding regulations: severe environmental destruction, forced labour and human trafficking, land grabbing, stolen assets and money laundering. The author manages to make these complex topics easy to understand and hard to ignore. Switzerland is not only a major power in the financial sector and commodity market – whose scandalous workings were revealed by the Swiss NGO Berne Declaration (now Public Eye) in the book Rohstoff, also published by Salis. Switzerland is also a leader in global gold trading. But while the EU, for example, has recently turned existing OECD guidelines into binding law, Switzerland continues to rely on voluntary self-regulation.

Author : Paul
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771640145

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Feeding Frenzy by Paul Pdf

Feeding Frenzy traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking, and the media is full of talk of a world food crisis. The turmoil has unleashed some dangerous forces. Food-producing countries are banning exports even if this means starving their neighbors. Governments and corporations are scrambling to secure control of food supply chains. Powerful groups from the Middle East and Asia are acquiring farmland in poor countries to grow food for export — what some call land grabs. This raises some big questions. Can we continue to feed a burgeoning population? Are we running out of land and water? Can we rely on free markets to provide? This book reveals trends that could lead to more hunger and conflict. But Paul McMahon also outlines actions that can be taken to shape a sustainable and just food system.

Author : James-Brent Styan
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780799371673

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Steinhoff inside SA's biggest corporate crash by James-Brent Styan Pdf

On 5 December 2017 the Steinhoff group was still worth R199 billion. 24 hours later more than R160 billion of this fortune was wiped out. The Steinhoff empire, that took 20 years to build into an international business giant, had crumbled overnight. Markus Jooste, Steinhoff’s flashy CEO, resigned via sms and has since been fleeing an avalanche of scandals and accusations: luxury homes for a blonde mistress, allegations of fraud, racing horses and unparalleled extravagance, a lavish, black Jaguar for an old university residence”¦ What exactly happened here? Who knew what? What is Steinhoff, who is Markus Jooste and what does it all have to do with the so called Stellenbosch mafia? Where does business tycoon Christo Wiese, Shoprite and Pepkor fit in and where is the pensioners’ money? Well-known financial writer James-Brent Styan unpacks these and other questions in this astounding tale of power and greed, of secrets and deceit, and ultimately the biggest financial breakdown in the history of South Africa. Through interviews with trustworthy sources, revelations from confidential documents and in-depth research about Steinhoff’s history, Styan uncovers what the group doesn’t want you to know. Follow the money: the story of Steinhoff, Markus Jooste and the Stellenbosch boys is a gripping financial thriller that will be told as cautionary tale or salacious scandal in both boardrooms and living rooms for decades to come.

Author : Fritz Heimann,Mark Pieth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190458362

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Confronting Corruption by Fritz Heimann,Mark Pieth Pdf

Corruption undermines nearly all key legal and developmental priorities today, including the effective functioning of democratic institutions and honest elections; environmental protection; human rights and human security; international development programs; and fair competition for global trade and investment. This book chronicles the global anticorruption steps taken since the movement advanced after the end of the Cold War. It provides a realistic assessment of the present state of affairs by critically evaluating what existing anticorruption programs and treaties have accomplished and documenting their shortcomings, while developing an action agenda for the next decade. The authors argue that reformative action is imperative, and the forces of globalization and digital communication will level the playing field and erode the secrecy corruption requires. They define corruption, document its effects, discuss the initiatives that changed public perception, analyze the lessons learned, and then evaluate how to move forward with existing initiatives charting a new path with new, differentiated strategies.

Author : Tobias Haller,Thomas Breu,Tine De Moor,Christian Rohr,Heinzpeter Znoj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351050975

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The Commons in a Glocal World by Tobias Haller,Thomas Breu,Tine De Moor,Christian Rohr,Heinzpeter Znoj Pdf

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom. It also explores from the perspective of new institutional political ecology (NIPE) how Europe directly and indirectly affected and affects the commons globally. Most of the research on the management of commons pool resources is limited to dealing with one of two topics: either the interaction between local participatory governance and development of institutions for commons management, or a political- economy approach that focuses on global change as it is related to the increasingly globalised expansion of capitalist modes of production, consumption and societal reproduction. This volume bridges the two, addressing how global players affect the commons worldwide and how they relate to responses emerging from within the commons in a global- local (glocal) world. Authors from a range of academic disciplines present research findings on recent developments on the commons, including: historical insights; new innovations for participatory institutions building in Europe or several types of commons grabbing, especially in Africa related to European investments; and restrictions on the management of commons at the international level. European case studies are included, providing interesting examples of local participation in commons resource management, while simultaneously showing Europe as a centre for globalized capitalism and its norms and values, affecting the rest of the world, particularly developing countries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including natural resource management, environmental governance, political geography and environmental history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
ISBN : UCSD:31822025443441

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The Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christof Dejung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317296195

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Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World by Christof Dejung Pdf

Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market provides a new perspective on economic globalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead of understanding the emergence of global markets as a mere result of supply and demand or as the effect of imperial politics, this book focuses on a global trading firm as an exemplary case of the actors responsible for conducting economic transactions in a multicultural business world. The study focuses on the Swiss merchant house Volkart Bros., which was one of the most important trading houses in British India after the late nineteenth century and became one of the biggest cotton and coffee traders in the world after decolonization. The book examines the following questions: How could European merchants establish business contacts with members of the mercantile elite from India, China or Latin America? What role did a shared mercantile culture play for establishing relations of trust? How did global business change with the construction of telegraph lines and railways and the development of economic institutions such as merchant banks and commodity exchanges? And what was the connection between the business interests of transnationally operating capitalists and the territorial aspirations of national and imperial governments? Based on a five-year-long research endeavor and the examination of 24 public and private archives in seven countries and on three continents, Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market goes well beyond a mere company history as it highlights the relationship between multinationally operating firms and colonial governments, and the role of business culture in establishing notions of trust, both within the firm and between economic actors in different parts of the world. It thus provides a cutting-edge history of globalization from a micro-perspective. Following an actor-theoretical perspective, the book maintains that the global market that came into being in the nineteenth century can be perceived as the consequence of the interaction of various actors. Merchants, peasants, colonial bureaucrats and industrialists were all involved in spinning the individual threads of this commercial web. By connecting established approaches from business history with recent scholarship in the fields of global and colonial history, Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market offers a new perspective on the emergence of global enterprise and provides an important addition to the history of imperialism and economic globalization.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D00291642E

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Humanitarian Tragedy in Somalia by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger Pdf

Author : Margit Enke,Anja Geigenmüller,Alexander Leischnig
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030906573

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Commodity Marketing by Margit Enke,Anja Geigenmüller,Alexander Leischnig Pdf

Commoditization is a major challenge for companies in a wide range of industries, and commodity marketing has become a priority for many top managers. This book tackles the key issues associated with the marketing of commodities and the processes of commoditization and de-commoditization. It summarizes the state of the art on commodity marketing, providing an overview of current debates. It also offers managerial insights, case studies, and guidance to help manage and market commodity goods and services.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006943166

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E & MJ International Directory Mining Activity Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015018401433

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf