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Purchasing

Broader:
Purchasing-Selling
Narrower:
Countertrading
Purchasing seeds
Managing purchasing
Purchasing textiles
Purchasing foreign resources
Producing consumer opportunities
Enabling consumers' cooperatives
Purchasing quantity needed items
Purchasing from distant suppliers
Maximizing local purchasing power
Developing bulk purchasing scheme
Forming town purchasing cooperative
Purchasing basic medical drugs in bulk
Purchasing essential farming implements
Coordinating relations with purchasing customers
Purchasing technological patents for transfer on non-commercial terms
Encouraging local business buying
Constrained by:
Using recycled materials
Limiting purchasing power
Abstaining from purchasing
Facilitated by:
Developing purchasing policy
Supplying home purchasing assistance
Subjects:
Commerce → Purchasing, supplying
Type Classification:
A: Abstract fundamental 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.

About UIA

The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
 

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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