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ECONOMIC ACTIVITY [1 record]

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Record 1 2011-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

The production and distribution of goods and services.

CONT

Economic growth may be defined and measured in various ways. Most economists start with some indicator of overall economic activity, such as Gross National Product (GNP), which measures a country's total production of goods and services.

CONT

Governments throughout history have experimented with different approaches to economic activity, assuming roles that called for varying degrees of state intervention from laissez-fiare to command and control.

PHR

approaches to economic activity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Ensemble des activités consacrées à la production de biens et de services. On mesure l'activité économique d'un pays au moyen de son Produit national qui est lui-même la somme des biens et services produits par les ressortissants d'un pays.

CONT

Ces droits découlent de dispositions sociales visant, par exemple, à prévoir une protection légitime contre les manquements aux règles (vol, violence ou autres abus), à protéger contre les mesures arbitraires de l'État qui perturbent l'activité économique et à instituer des mécanismes d'arbitrage équitables et fiables.

PHR

perturber l'activité économique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía nacional e internacional
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
  • Comercio exterior
CONT

Los gobiernos experimentaron desde siempre con distintos modos de abordar las actividades económicas, asumiendo funciones que suponían distintos niveles de intervención estatal, desde el liberalismo hasta la economía dirigida.

PHR

abordar, perturbar las actividades económicas.

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