List of international organizations in the field of business
The following list gives a regionally structured overview of international organizations in the field of business documented in Wikipedia . “Organization” is understood in a broad sense and also includes looser forms of economic cooperation.
Global reference
All countries
- BIS: Bank for International Settlements "Bank of Central Banks"
- IEA: International Energy Agency
- ILO / ILO: International Labor Organization
- IMF: International Monetary Fund
- World bank
- WTO: World Trade Organization and its agreements:
- UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Country groups
Industrialized countries
- G8: Group of Eight Regular consultation with the heads of state or government of the seven most important industrialized countries ( G7 plus Russia)
- OECD: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Developing and emerging countries
- ACP: Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific States states that the European Union , the Lomé Convention concluded
- G20 of the developing countries : loose group of originally 20 developing and emerging countries that articulate their interests against the industrialized countries in the context of the negotiations of the World Trade Organization
Other groups of countries
- G20: Group of the twenty most important industrial and emerging countries
- OPEC: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- ICCO: International Cocoa Organization
- BRICS: BRICS countries
- ACIIA: Association of Certified International Investment Analysts
Regional reference
Europe
- CEFTA: Central European Free Trade Agreement Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo
- EAEC: Eurasian Economic Community Member States: Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- EAEU: Eurasian Economic Union Member States: Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- EFTA: European Free Trade Association Member States: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland
- EPO: European Patent Organization, member states of the EU and Iceland, Liechtenstein, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland and Turkey
- EU: European Union
- EG: European Community (formerly: European Economic Community (EEC)) dissolved in 2009 and incorporated into the EU
- EAG or EURATOM: European Atomic Energy Community
- ECSC or Mining Union : European Coal and Steel Community expired in 2002 and incorporated into the EC
- EEA: European Economic Area Member States of the EU and EFTA (excluding Switzerland)
- Comecon or Comecon: Council for Mutual Economic Aid Economic organization of the Eastern bloc states, dissolved in 1991
- UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Africa
- CEMAC: Central African Economic and Monetary Union
- CEN-SAD: Community of the Sahel-Saharan States
- COMESA: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
- EAC: East African Community
- ECA: UN Economic Commission for Africa
- ECOWAS: West African Economic Community
- SACU: Customs Union of Southern Africa
- SADC: Southern African Development Community
- UEMOA: West African Economic and Monetary Union
America
Member states of Mercosur
- ALBA: Bolivarian Alternative for America
- ALCA or FTAA: Free Trade Area of the Americas , planned Pan-American free trade area
- CAN: Andean Community
- CARICOM: Caribbean Community , association of 15 Caribbean states
- CEPAL or ECLAC: UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Mercosur or Mercosul: South American Common Market
- NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement
- UNASUR: Union of South American Nations
Asia and Oceania
- APEC: Asian-Pacific economic cooperation loose cooperation between the Asian, Oceanic and American countries bordering the Pacific Ocean with the long-term goal of creating a free trade area
- ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations A community of Southeast Asian countries currently negotiating a free trade area
- EAEC: Eurasian Economic Community Member States: Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- EAEU: Eurasian Economic Union Member States: Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan
- ECO: Economic Cooperation Organization Member States: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- ESCAP: UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
- ESCWA: UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia
- GCC: Gulf Cooperation Council