There is a startling gap between, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign …. As concerns the interface between trade policy and FDI, we find that the tariff jumping motive for FDI had lost much of … its relevance well before globalization became a hotly debated issue. …

deteriorating wage and employment prospects in the process of globalization. The adjustment to fiercer competition from below … automobile industry, largely due to the resistance of trade unions. As a result, the employment record and the world …

It is for good reasons that economic policymakers have rejected demands by globalization sceptics to fundamentally …

measured by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index … on institutional conditions in recipient countries, however, the policy orientation of aid becomes extremely weak. In … contrast to a recent paper by Dollar and Levin, our estimates do not suggest that multilateral aid is more poverty- and policy …