Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global flows - trade, finance, aid, migration, and...

Ukraine's Trade Policy identifies the key drivers of Ukraine's recent trade performance, assesses current trade policies, and proposes recommendations to strengthen the Ukraine's trade integration strategy. It also identifies core bottlenecks in the ongoing integration processes, including...

This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into forty national economies. This panel dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model features a range of nominal and real rigidities, extensive macrofinancial linkages, and diverse spillover...

Was haben ein Straßenverkäufer in Ső Paulo, eine Heimstrickerin in Istanbul, eine Pizzazustellerin in New York und ein Trio von KFZ-Ersatzteilmechanikern in Tokio oder Moskau gemeinsam? Wenn ihre Arbeitsverhältnisse ungeregelt und sozialrechtlich nicht abgesichert sind, und die Löhne unter...

This volume charts the ways in which multinational corporations contributed to the restructuring of the world economy, paying particular attention to the spatial consequences of, and responses to, their operations at a number of scales. The book takes as its theme the differential spatial...

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Towards new agendas for transformative global studies: an introduction -- PART I: Theory in transition -- 1. Reinventing...