Friday, September 16, 2011

What is the impact of the global diamond trade?

I am writing a paper on the impact of the GLOBAL diamond trade, not just the conflict diamond problems in Africa. Discuss.|||Diamonds are a very tiny portion of the world's economy. Therefore, their impact on the world is very tiny.|||The long term success of the deBeers diamond cartel


http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/iss…


has inspired all the other cartels since:


http://books.google.com/books?id=3cPdOG4…


http://www.jstor.org/pss/25603578





Otherwise, like many other manufacturing processes that require significant manual labor, diamond cutting has been moving to the developing world:


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news…

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