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A unique feature of the financial crisis is the unprecedented collapse in global world trade. The objective of this paper is to explain some of that collapse as a move toward protectionism triggered not by nationalistic interests but by ‘competing’ objectives among trading partners from the...
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The priorities of the EU budget for 2009 are: economic growth, employment, climate, strengthening security and safety of European citizens, the social dimension of the EU. Divided into areas, the EU provides for sustainable development, regional education and research 45.9 billion for natural...
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Economic integration is defined as the elimination of economic borders between two or more savings. In turn, an economic border demarcation over which any actual or potential mobility of goods, services and factors of production and communication flows, is relatively low. On both sides of a...
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Globalization as a corporate-led process has come under much justifiable criticism. This paper attempts to give the … globalization from the capabilities perspective. A freedom-centered perspective such as the capabilities approach emphasizes … fractured process of globalization is more likely to end up in a fragmenting regionalism or even national protectionism and …
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This paper describes the socio-economic adjustment effects exerted by globalization (taking as starting points …
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Globalization is today one of the phenomena discussed and contested at the same time, beach and speeches in terms of … globalization are spread from the ordinary man in the street, and to speeches by political and academic level. It is surprising how …, sometimes attached sense of this term, how much emotional load associated with it! Globalization is an ambiguous phenomenon …
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Distinguished trade theorists maintain that a national economy cannot be uncompetitive as a whole, contrary to the frequent statements of many politicians, because a country must possess a comparative advantage in some sector according to Ricardo’s principle. In this paper the author...
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In this paper we review the literature on regionalization and globalization and implicitly the impact these two … of the relationship between globalization and regionalization on prices, wages, capital flows and the labor market. The … other. Future research should examine closely the impact of globalization and regionalization over population's purchasing …
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globalization of 131 countries for eleven years, 1999-2009. We compare the different indices of globalization among themselves and … also with the Dreher-KOF index of globalization and find that among the different indices the Dreher-Chebyshev index is the … most representative one. Among the countries, we concentrate on the trends in globalization of India and her neighboring …
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The U.S. sub-prime crise developed in the last few months as a dangerous syncope for the entire international financial system, recall for the rethinking of market functionality, revealing the international institutional weakness in financial system supervision on global scale. The mortgage...
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