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Rich trades, scarce capabilities : industrial development revisited

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

What economic mechanisms underlie the polarisation of the world economy into the ‘high wage’ industrialised countries, and the less developed ‘low wage’ countries? Should we expect the two groups to converge over time, or to diverge? What economic mechanisms come into play as LDCs...

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The broadening spectrum of reputation risk in organizations: banking on risk and trust relationships

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk. In a holistic, enterprise focused era reputation is a key strategic construct that can act as a boundary object linking communities within and between organizations. Yet...

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More than just talk: the framing of transactional sex and its implications for vulnerability to HIV in Lesotho, Madagascar and South Africa

Stoebenau, Kirsten; Nixon, Stephanie A.; Rubincam, Clara; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

settings. Furthermore, we discuss how discourses around transactional sex suggest linkages to processes of globalization and … as part of a multi-country research project that investigated linkages between economic globalization and HIV. In this … processes of globalization tied to consumerism. Conclusions By focusing on 'talk' about transactional sex, we locate definitions …

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Globalization in history: a geographical perspective

Crafts, Nicholas; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

the context of globalization. Central to this view is the role of agglomeration in productivity performance; size and …

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Why did Greece block the Euro-Atlantic integration of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia? An Analysis of Greek Foreign Policy Behaviour Shifts

Kechagiaras, Yannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This essay analyses shifts in Greek foreign policy behaviour with regard to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia from the early 1990s to the late 2000s, with a particular emphasis on the 2008 NATO Bucharest Summit. In this paper, I attempt to provide an understanding of foreign policy...

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Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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Globalization and regional welfare regimes: the East Asian case

Gough, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This article contributes to the ongoing debate about the impact of globalization on welfare systems across the world …. Its argument is that economic globalization alters the global balance of forces compared with the ‘Golden Age’ of welfare …

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Globalization and the empowerment of women: an analysis of spatial dependence via trade and foreign direct investment

Neumayer, Eric; De Soysa, Indra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Previous studies of globalization’s effects on women’s rights have mostly focused on employment and wage ratios, but … effects via FDI, but only for economic rights and only in middle-income countries. Globalization does seem to open the door …

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Mountains in a flat world: why proximity still matters for the location of economic activity

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Crescenzi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

and opportunities and minimize the risks linked to globalization. Numerous forces are coalescing in order to provoke the …

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Credit constraints and growth in a global economy

Jin, Keyu; Guibaud, Stéphane; Coeurdacier, Nicolas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We show that in an open-economy OLG model, the interaction between growth diﬀerentials and household credit constraints, more severe in fast-growing countries, can explain three prominent global trends: a divergence in private saving rates between advanced and emerging economies, large net...

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