Globalization Flashcards by Charlotte Bibaut

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Globalization : a boon or a bane ?

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Mondialisation: aubaine ou calamité ?

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Un mode sans frontières

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A borderless world

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L’eco mondiale

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The global economy

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Le commerce extérieur

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Overseas trade

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La libéralisation des échanges

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The liberalization of trade

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Déréglementation

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Deregulation

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Un partenaire commercial

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A trading partner

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Un excédent/ 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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La fuite des capitaux

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Flight of capital

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Un paradis fiscal

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A tax haven

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FMI

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IMF (international monetary fund)

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Les bienfaits et dangers de la md

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The benefits and pitfalls of gb

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S’industrialiser

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To industrialize

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La croissance eco

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economic growth

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Les PMA

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LDCs (less developed countries)

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Le commerce équitable

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Fair trade

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Des objets artisanaux

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Handicrafts

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Un exportateur/ importateur

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An exporter / importer

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Un pays exportateur de pétrole

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An oil-exporting country

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Le taux de change

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The exchange rate

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Pénétrer sur un marché

S’emparer d’un marché

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To break into a market

To capture a market

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Les droits de douane

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Tarrifs, customs duties

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Mesures protectionnistes

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Protectionist measures

Supprimer les barrières douanières

To remove trade barriers

Alter-mondialisme

Alter-globalization

Les delocalisations

Outsourcing, offshoring, relocating

S'implanter à l'étranger

To set up abroad

Un fournisseur

A supplier

Emplois du secteur secondaire

Manufacturing jobs

Le tertiaire

The service sector

Profiter de la main d'œuvre bon marché

To take advantage of cheap labor

Les normes en matière d'emploi/d'environnement

Labour/environmental standards

Les coûts de production/ les coûts salariaux

Production/ wage costs

La concurrence déloyale/ acharnée

Unfair / fierce competition

Dumping

Dumping

Vendre à perte

To trade at loss

Un concurrent

A competitor

La compétitivité

Competitiveness

Être à la traîne

To be lag behind

Rattraper un concurrent | Se maintenir à un même niveau qu'un concurrent

To catch up with a competitor | To keep up with a competitor

Une subvention/ subventionner

A subsidy / to subsidize

L'occidentalisation

Westernization

Une émeute

A riot

To thwart

Contrecarrer

To underpin

Soutenir

To foster

Encourager

To oversee

Superviser

To shun

Rejeter