- Industry: Education
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Type of expanded family household including siblings and their spouses and children.
Industry:Anthropology
Characteristic research procedure among social scientists other than anthropologists. Studies society through sampling, statistical analysis, and impersonal data collection.
Industry:Anthropology
Field including biological and cultural, theoretical and applied, anthropologists concerned with the sociocultural context and implications of disease and illness.
Industry:Anthropology
The rational allocation of scarce means (or resources) to alternative ends (or uses); often considered the subject matter of economics.
Industry:Anthropology
Study of relationships between social and linguistic variation; study of language (performance) in its social context.
Industry:Anthropology
An agreement (OMA) among developed country importers and developing country exporters of textiles and apparel to regulate and restrict the quantities traded. It was negotiated in 1973 under GATT auspices as a temporary exception to the rules that would otherwise apply, and was superseded in 1995 by the ATC.
Industry:Economy
An agreement to liberalize rules on international direct investment that was negotiated in the OECD but never completed or adopted because of adverse public reaction to it. Preliminary text of the agreement was leaked to the Internet in April 1997, where many groups opposed it. Negotiations were discontinued in November 1998.
Industry:Economy
Aid provided by a group of countries, or an institution representing a group of countries such as the World Bank, to one or more recipient countries. Contrasts with unilateral aid.
Industry:Economy
A theoretical perspective on the organization of modern states that acknowledges flexible structures of overlapping jurisdictions, both above and below the national government as well as in a lateral relationship to it.
Industry:Economy
