"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test for the effects of globalization through … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …

Global Development Finance (GDF), is the World Bank's annual review of recent trends in and prospects for financial …

Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are … becoming more integrated. Although this international integration presents considerable opportunities for developing countries …, it also contains significant risks. Associated with international integration are concerns about increasing inequality …

enhance the integration of plants into the global economy through increased exports and imports. "--World Bank web site …

than half of all global growth, and the international monetary system will no longer be dominated by a single currency. As …