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The economic North-South divide : six decades of unequal development
Raffer, Kunibert - 2004 - Pbk. ed
The Economic North-South Divide explores the structural roots of the debt crisis and considers the impact of debt management on North-South economic relations, exposing certain double standards that tilt global markets further against the South. Encouraged by recent successful opposition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852069
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Transformations in global governance : implications for multinationals and other stakeholders
Vachani, Sushil (contributor) - 2006
The world of multinational enterprises is changing dramatically. Their complex and dynamic international context presents them with special challenges--threatening their survival on one hand, and presenting them with unprecedented opportunities on the other. In this volume, international experts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850810
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Institutions and development
Shirley, Mary M. - 2008
A landmark contribution to our understanding of economic development. This significant book argues that fundamental changes in deeply rooted institutions do not happen because of outsiders' money, advice, pressures, or even physical force; which explains why foreign aid has not, and can not,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852013
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Globalization and poverty
Gunning, Jan (contributor); Collier, Paul (contributor) - 2008
Globalization provokes both excitement and fear. This comprehensive collection, which brings together some of the most important published work on the subject, addresses a core issue of contention: the implications of globalization for poverty and inequality. While the debate is highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852235
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Integration and globalization : challenges for developed and developing countries
Marques, Helena (ed.); Soukiazis, Elias (ed.);  … - 2009
The main challenges the European Single Market is facing in the 21st century result from the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the EMU, and the globalization of trade and investment that has aided the rise of competitive emerging markets. This state-of-the-art book provides fresh...
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Climate and trade policy : bottom-up approaches towards global agreement
Carraro, Carlo (ed.); Egenhofer, Christian (ed.) - 2007
Bottom-up approaches towards a global climate agreement : an overview -- Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara -- Regional and subglobal climate blocs : a cost-benefit analysis of bottom-up climate regimes / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Do regional integration approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420021
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The Asian Mediterranean : port cities and trading networks in China, Japan and South Asia, 13th-21st century
Gipouloux, François - 2011
pt. 1. Two models of expansion without borders : the European Mediterraneans -- pt. 2. Early outlines of an Asian Mediterranean : the predominance of tributary trade -- pt. 3. The overlapping of Western and Asian trading networks -- pt. 4. The arena of re-globalisation : the second birth of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851424
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China, Japan and regional leadership in East Asia
Dent, Christopher M. (contributor) - 2008
particular reference to China and Japan assuming 'regional leader actor' roles. Key issues discussed by the list of distinguished … contributors include: the extent to which there is an East Asian region to lead, China-Japan relations, different aspects of Japan … region, how China and Japan have explored paths of regional leadership through certain regional and multilateral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851578
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Investing in the United States : is the US ready for FDI from China?
Sauvant, Karl P. (contributor) - 2009
Kantor -- 7. Is the US ready for FDI from China? : lessons from Japan's experience in the 1980s / Curtis J. Milhaupt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852080
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Japan's economic recovery : commercial policy, monetary policy, and corporate governance
Stern, Robert Mitchell (ed.) - 2003
and structure of Japanese firms. Part III deals with macro/financial issues of current interest and importance in Japan …The contributors to this book, from the US and Japan, explore the main issues involved in the international trade …, foreign direct investment, and macro/financial relations of the United States and Japan and provide guidance to policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474170