Sustainable productsSustainable products are those products that provide environmental, social and economic benefits while protecting public health and environment over their whole life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials until the final disposal. According to Belz, Frank-Martin., the definition of sustainable product has six characteristics: Customer satisfaction: any products or services that do not meet customer needs will not survive in the market in a long term.
Financial economicsFinancial economics is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on both sides of a trade". Its concern is thus the interrelation of financial variables, such as share prices, interest rates and exchange rates, as opposed to those concerning the real economy. It has two main areas of focus: asset pricing and corporate finance; the first being the perspective of providers of capital, i.e.
Product lifetimeProduct lifetime or product lifespan is the time interval from when a product is sold to when it is discarded. Product lifetime is slightly different from service life because the latter considers only the effective time the product is used. It is also different from product economic life which refers to the point where maintaining a product is more expensive than replacing it; from product technical life which refers to the maximum period during which a product has the physical capacity to function; and from the functional life which is the time a product should last regardless of external intervention to increase its lifespan.
Accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerceLe General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT, en français : accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce) est signé le par , pour harmoniser les politiques douanières des parties signataires. Le traité entre en vigueur en et le secrétariat s'installe à la Villa Bocage, à Genève, et en 1977 au Centre William-Rappard, également à Genève. Cet accord multilatéral de libre-échange est destiné à faire baisser les prix pour les consommateurs, mieux utiliser les facteurs de production et favoriser l'emploi dans les secteurs où chaque pays détient un avantage comparatif.
