One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …

. The second part focuses on the conditioning effect of the economic environment on private decisions in low income resource …

group of authors covers real-world recreation management issues and applies economic understanding to these problems. An …

range of topics from export exit, subsidiary divestment and market re-entry to relocation, offshoring and backshoring …

the world, highlight the need to understand the implications of free trade for unemployment. Trade, Jobs and Wages … analyses how employment levels and real wages are affected by international trade. Popular trade theory disregards the impact …The world's increasing integration through trade and the persistence of high unemployment in Europe, and other areas of …

, continued growth of the Third World and East European debt, the emerging digital economy. Political debates thrown up by these …

game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic … understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems … as, for example, unemployment, the intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of wages to price and …

contributors to this book analyse the implications for retirement income policy, workers and retirees in view of the current …