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The dark side of globalization. The vicious cycle of exploitation from world market integration: Lesson from the Congo
Exenberger, Andreas; Hartmann, Simon - 2007
The Congo region is one of the best examples of the negative consequences of world market integration (and hence globalization) in the world. Today's Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an almost perfectly failing state - although not necessarily with respect to a state's function as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293417
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280643
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Integrative Governance : Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises (Foreword)
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2018
seems that Fukuyama's argument concerning the end of history with the ultimate win of liberal democracy requires serious … all these reasons, the adherents of liberal democracy can no longer see themselves as ultimate winners in arguments with …. However, the real danger for liberal democracy might come from its core: the model of representative democracy seems to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112915
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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Progress
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
The ongoing economic instability in several countries and regions throughout the world, along with the volatility of the market and job losses, has lead to an increase in protests that are currently reaching the highest possible levels of conflict against the so-called establishment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123758
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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Progress
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
The ongoing economic instability in several countries and regions throughout the world, along with the volatility of the market and job losses, has lead to an increase in protests that are currently reaching the highest possible levels of conflict against the so-called establishment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123865
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The European Union As a Manager of Global 'Business and Human Rights' Regulation : Country-by-Country Reporting Rules
Nissen, Aleydis - 2020
The European Union's 2013 Country-by-Country Reporting (CBCR) rules bring within the public domain information on corporate payments made to governments all over the world for the purpose of exploiting natural resources in the oil, gas, mining and logging sectors. In so doing, the CBCR rules...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014102772
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Population Displacement and Urban Conflict : Global Evidence from More than 3300 Flood Events
Castells-Quintana, David; López Uribe, Maria del Pilar; … - 2021
In this paper, we study the effect of displacement of population into cities on urban conflict in developing countries. To do so, we construct a novel measure of exposure to floods, using data on more than 3,300 flood events worldwide, as an exogenous source of population displacement. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228117
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International Politics and Import Diversification in the Second Wave of Globalization
Mityakov, Sergey - 2013
We provide evidence that deterioration of relations between the United States and another country, measured by divergence in their UN General Assembly voting patterns, reduces US imports from that country during the second wave of globalization. Though statistically significant, such an effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086953
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092012
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus W.; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009387247