process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development …, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly, sound … unavoidable tensions inherent in evaluating the risks and benefits associated with financial globalization. In light of these …

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …

world's 6.7 billion people is so overwhelming that it is a nonstarter. Furthermore, it can be argued that any meaningful … international elites like those who gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos. Finally, one can argue that civics assumes … effective enforcement and a state, and since we do not have a world government, any talk of global civics is whimsical …

fragile economies of some of the world's poorest countries, while claiming millions of innocent lives. They may also suck in … that have plunged into civil war abound. Sierra Leone was one of the world's poorest countries with a per capita GNI of … $130, making Zaire the second poorest country in the world. Today, the DRC remains violent in places and highly unstable …