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This book focuses on recent financial market reforms, and their implications for social, economic and political exclusion. In particular it considers the hitherto under-researched question of whose interests govern the design of regulatory mechanisms and who influences the decision-making...
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-growing field of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark and … Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. -- Braudel, F. (1985), 'The Perspective of the World', in Civilization …, Societies and Education, 8 (1), March, 23-37 -- Peter Scott (1998), 'Massification, Internationalization and Globalization', in …
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This book acts as a welcome foil to current thinking on the concept of globalisation, which tends to be divided into two distinct camps: one which suggests that the neo-liberal model has triumphed and has no realistic alternative, and another which argues that globalisation, in its most extreme...
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globalization : concentration vs. dispersion / Masatsugu Tsuji -- Iron town cluster : Yawata, its glory, decline and rebirth … comparative advantages, persistence and change in overall specialization / Luca De Benedictis -- Globalization, industrial …
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There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon which it is organised. In particular, there is widespread talk of a 'globalised' economy, facilitated by and associated with 'new' technologies and practices. There is a further...
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This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions, or global governance …, challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each other …. Instead, the contributors to this book show that globalization is better perceived as a dual process of institutional change …
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Service activities are now acknowledged as key players in economic development, societal change and public policy worldwide. This exciting Handbook not only contributes to ongoing conceptual debates about the nature of service-led economies and societies; it also pushes back the frontiers of...
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development -- pt. 4. Globalization and inequality -- pt. 5. Strategies for reducing poverty and inequality …
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the burgeoning multidisciplinary literature on the globalization of retailing. In addition to focusing on the retail … corporations and their expansionary strategies, it explores the multi-faceted impacts of retail globalization on host economies and …, Emily Morgan, Alexandra Teachout and Katie Vasquez (2007), 'Globalization of Food Retailing and Transformation of Supply …
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Eastern Europe, the EMU, and the globalization of trade and investment that has aided the rise of competitive emerging markets … globalization for both developed and developing countries. The authors demonstrate how the European Single Market remains a work in … opportunities provided by integration and globalization to fragment their production processes internationally, which brings gains …
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