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Reviews the key economic characteristics of the globalization process and examines its impact on employment, poverty, inequality, global insecurity, child labour, gender issues and migration. Explores national and international policy responses, highlighting the importance of trade negotiations...
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Focuses on multinational enterprise (MNE) direct investment in manufacturing and assembly, i.e. the globalization of industry via foreign direct investment, with some references to FDI in services as well. Argues that MNE investment can be a powerful force to create employment and decent work....
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Explores how public actors, especially in home countries, link foreign direct investment (FDI) to labour and employment issues.
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Argues that the effects of financial liberalization on employment and incomes often carry disturb economic and social development and that financial liberalization warrants at least as much attention as trade liberalization. Compares and weighs the potential benefits in terms of growth against...
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There is an increased interest in how investors are adopting codes and responding to standards in their international investment decisions. There are several standards relating to investment, including protection of investors and labour and environmental standards. Some are voluntary standards,...
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Argues that the global organization of production accounts for much of the expansion in trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) and that the functional integration of production activites in different locations has led to an intensification of global economic integration.
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Examines the employment effects of multinational enterpises in the 1990s.
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Looks into the effects that rapid liberalization of economies has had on labour and capital worldwide.
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This report underscores that International finance is an important vehicle for growth, for creating jobs, for reducing poverty and for financing social services, but that flows of finance, however, are very unevenly distributed. Poor countries remain heavily dependent on public finance. Private...
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