Democracy
Curator: Alex HellingDebate ID: 47 Bibliography: <p><a href="http://http://www.cfr.org/egypt/demographics-arab-protests/p24096">Bajoria, Jayshree and Assaad, Ragui (2011),...
View ArticleThis house believes in global free trade.
Free trade's virtues have been praised for three hundred years. By allowing every country equal access to all markets, the theory says, you guarantee the most efficient allocation of resources and the...
View ArticleThis house believes NAFTA has benefitted all parties involved.
NAFTA- North American Free Trade Agreement- was implemented in 1994 by Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The agreement eliminated tariffs and quantity restrictions for imports and exports between...
View ArticleThis House prefers trade to aid
Foreign aid had grown significantly in absolute terms (if not as a percentage of GDP in the case of many developed countries) but this has shown up a paradox – as aid to Africa has grown, the continent...
View ArticleThis house believes sanctions should be used to promote democracy
Sanctions are coercive or punitive actions taken on specific states. Sanctions range from diplomatic sanctions, which often result in the closing of embassies, to military sanctions, which can include...
View ArticleThis house believes that capitalism is better than socialism
This article will focus on some of the disagreements between capitalists and socialists, the debate will be located in a loose general framework between these two viewpoints and illustrate a couple of...
View ArticleThis house would allow retailers to import for resale "grey" goods from abroad.
"Grey" imports are goods which are intended for sale in one country or region by design of the manufacturer but which are available in an unintended country or region. While legal, they are considered...
View ArticleThis House Would Encourage Offshoring
International trade has always depended, to some extent, on states seeking a competitive advantage over one another. A developed country may, for example, import raw materials from an underdeveloped...
View ArticleThis House would unleash the free market
The free market is a system for allocating goods within a society. In a free market, prices for goods and services are determined only by the interchange of supply and demand. The means of production...
View ArticleThis House supports the creation of a Free Trade Area of the Americas. (FTAA)
In 2001, during the Summit of the Americas held in Québec City, then President George W. Bush spearheaded the effort to introduce a trade agreement that would have united all 34 countries of the...
View ArticleThis House believes the European Union should be a trade bloc rather than a...
The European Union has since its inception had European integration beyond trade as its overarching goal. In recent years, it has moved towards an increasingly closer political union. Many political...
View ArticleThis House believes dictatorship is the best path to development
Development is the sustained increase in standards of living of a country. There however is no individual indicator that shows that a country is considered developed. The proxy that is usually used is...
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