13 - Globalization Flashcards

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Un monde sans frontières

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A broderless world

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Une frontière

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A border, a frontier

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L’économie mondiale

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The global economy

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Le commerce, les échanges

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Trade

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Le commerce extérieur

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Overseas trade

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Le libre-échange

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Free trade

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Un partisan du libre-échange

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A free trader

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L’économie de marché

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The free market, free-market economy

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Un partisan du libéralisme

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A free-marketeer

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Le libéralisme

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Liberalism

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La libéralisation des échanges

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The liberalization of trade

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La dérèglementation

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Deregulation (di’reguleition)

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Déréglementer le transport aérien

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To deregulate the airline industry

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Une zone de libre échange

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A free trade area

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Un partenaire commercial

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A trading partner

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Les chiffres du commerce extérieur

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Trade figures

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La balance commercial

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The balance of trade

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Un excédent/un déficit commercial

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A trade surplus/deficit

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La libre circulation des marchandises

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The free flow of goods

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Les flux de capitaux

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Capital flow

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Aubaine ou calamité ?

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A boon or a bane ?

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Vendre à perte

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To trade at a loss

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Un concurrent

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A competitor

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Compétitif

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Competitive

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La compétitivité
Competitiveness
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Être en concurrence avec des travailleurs peu payés
To compete with low-paid workers
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Être à la traîne
To lag behind
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Rattraper un concurrent
To catch up a competitor
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Se maintenir au même niveau qu'un concurrent
To keep up with a competitor
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Le dumping social
Social dumping
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Une subvention
A subsidy ('seubsidy)
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Subventionner
To subsidize ('subsidaize)
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L'américanisation
Americanization
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L'occidentalisation
Westernization
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L'uniformisation
Standardization
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L'exception culturelle
Cultural exception, cultural exemption | GATT 1993 cultural exports should be treated differently from other goods in trade
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Un militant anti-mondialiste
An antiglobalization activist, protester, an antiglobalist
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L'altermondialisme
Alter-globalization
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La démondialisation
Deglobalization
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Une émeute
A riot
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La fuite de capitaux
Flight of capital
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Un paradis fiscal
A tax haven ('heiven)
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Les bienfaits et les dangers de la mondialisation
The benefits and pitfalls of globalization
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Les avantages et les inconvénients
The advantages and drawbacks, the pros and cons
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Les arguments pour/contre la mondialisation
The case for/against globalization
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Se développer
To develop ('divelop)
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S'industrialiser
To industrialize
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La croissance économique
Economic growth (ico'nomic)
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Les pays riches
The rich world
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Les pays du Nord, les pays développés
Developed, industrialized countries
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Les pays du Sud, les pays en développement
Developing, industrializing countries
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Le Tiers-Monde
The Third World
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Un pays émergent, une économie émergente
An emerging country
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La Chine et l'Inde
Chindia
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Le commerce équitable
Fair trade
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Des objets artisanaux
Handicrafts
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Un exportateur/un importateur
An exporter/an importer
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Un pays exportateur de pétrole
An oil-exporting country
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Le taux de change
The exchange rate
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Pénétrer sur un marché
To break into a market
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S'emparer d'un marché
To corner, capture a market
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Le protectionnisme
Protectionism
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Mesures/politiques protectionnistes
Protectionist measures/policies
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Les tarifs douaniers, les droits de douane
Tariffs ('taerifs) | Customs duties
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Les barrières douanières
Trade barriers
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Les barrières tarifaires / non-tarifaires
Tariff barriers /non-tariff barriers
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Abaisser/supprimer les barrières douanières
To lower/to remove trade barriers
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Une multinationale
A multinational (company)
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Les délocalisations
Outsourcing, offshoring, relocating
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Délocaliser la production / des emplois
To outsource, relocate production / jobs
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Implanter une usine
To set up a factory
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S'implanter à l'étranger
To settle abroad
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Un fournisseur
A supplier
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Économies d'échelle
Economies of scale
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Un centre d'appels
A call center
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Emplois du secteurs secondaire
Manufacturing jobs
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Le tertiaire, les services
The service industries, the service sector
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Profiter de la main d'œuvre bon marché
To take advantage of cheap labour
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Le travail des enfants
Child labour
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Les conditions de travail
Working conditions
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Les normes en matière d'emploi/d'environnement
Labour/environmental standards
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Les couts de production/salariaux
Production/wage costs
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La concurrence
Competition
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La concurrence acharnée/déloyale
Fierce / unfair competition
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Le dumping
Dumping
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Un village planétaire
A global village (Marshall McLuhan 60's, as a result of the instantaneous movement of information)
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Accrue
Enhanced
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Échanger
To be involved with one another
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Livre dont le titre suggère que tous les concurrents ont les mêmes chances
The World is Flat: A Briefing History of the Twenty-First Century (best-seller Friedman 2005)
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Des griefs
Complaints
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Été submergé
To be overwhelmed
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Être soutenu par
To be underpinned by
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L'extension incessante de
The ever-extending of
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Les échanges de devises
The trade of currencies
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Contrecarrer
To thwart
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Être remis à l'ordre du jour
To be rivived
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Superviser
To oversee
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Encourager
To Foster
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Des prêts
Loans
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Les matières premières
The commodities
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La production
The output
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Inventer une expression, formuler
To coin a phrase
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Affirmer, soutenir, défendre que
To argue (smtg)
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Rejeter
To shun
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En tant que tel
As such
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Être éclipsé
To be overshadowed
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Manifestation lors du sommet de l'OMC en 1999 ou 600 personnes furent arrêtés
The Battle of Seattle (alterglobalists)
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Forum social mondial VS forum économique mondiale
The World Social Forum (1st janvier 2001 Porto Alegre Brazil) VS World Economic Forum (Davis January)