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Encouraging local business buying

Synonyms:
Reducing discrimination against local shopping facilities
Supporting community shops
Promoting increased local buying
Purchasing locally
Broader:
Promoting
Purchasing
Creating local consumer awareness
Providing sufficient support for local commercial services
Narrower:
Buying locally grown food
Creating local currency systems
Constrains:
Using supermarkets
Purchasing from distant suppliers
Constrained by:
Purchasing foreign resources
Accepting community dependency
Increasing out-of-town shopping
Facilitates:
Maximizing local purchasing power
Reducing foreign control
Raising local trading revenue
Boosting local wholesale prices
Marketing local agriculture produce
Retaining capital within local community
Marketing locally produced goods
Facilitated by:
Legitimizing local services
Organizing local marketing
Sharing community facilities
Reducing price discrimination
Problems:
Discrimination against local community shopping facilities
Lack of support for local commercial services
Values:
Nonlocal
Increase
Community
Anticommunity
Discrimination
Discrimination
Subjects:
Society → Local
Commerce → Purchasing, supplying
Commerce → Business enterprises
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

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