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The diffusion of modern, efficient technology has far-reaching consequences for the geography of economic activity, inequality and environmental quality. This article examines two popular yet highly controversial claims about the conditions most favorable to the rapid spread of new technology....
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publications available in classical libraries and add, especially now, the world'(tm)s largest library: the Internet. However …
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This paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late...
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Examines processes of economic integration and globalization and explores the links between these processes and the … world of work. Summarizes regulatory labour standards built into the process of Latin American and Caribbean integration and … the labour dimension in integration processes in Africa, Asia and Europe and examines the world of work in China and its …
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This book takes a penetrating look at major challenges to the World Trade Organization and the future of trade …
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The international movement towards open markets promoted by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has as its premise that … is discussed in the light of the inequity with which the developing countries have been treated in the globalization of …
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wit and accessible style to the subject of globalization. Notably, he argues that the true Clinton scandal lay in the … administration's mismanagement of globalization—resulting in the paradox of immense domestic policy success combined with dramatic … International Labour Organization instead of the WTO and via trade treaties. Bhagwati also criticizes the claim that "globalization …
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transforming forces of globalization. While international trade and globalization offer the world community many benefits, there … globalization has come an uneven distribution of the costs and benefits. This appears to have exacerbated inequalities of wealth and … participants in the world economy. Particularly in the agricultural sector and the clothing and textiles sector, the industrialized …
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