Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The United States-Mexico Border -- Chapter 1. Along the United States-Mexico Border -- Chapter 2. Population Growth and Migration -- Chapter 3. U.S. Border States and Border Relations -- Chapter 4. Trade, Investment, and...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Distinctions and Qualifications -- Plan of the Study -- Chapter 2 The Wage-Productivity Gap, 1981-2006 -- Measurement Adjustments -- Role of Wage Inequality -- Rise in Skills of Non-Blue-Collar Workers -- Profits and...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 C. Fred Bergsten: Intellectual Entrepreneur -- Evangelist for the Open Economy -- The Happy Cassandra -- Star Player, Team Leader -- Observations: C. Fred Bergsten, the Man and His Institute -- 2 Constant Ends, Flexible Means: C. Fred Bergsten and the Quest for...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- Abbreviations -- Frequently Cited Regional Trading Agreements and the Parties to Them -- Chapter 1 Global Outlook and the Developing Countries -- The Global Economy: From Recovery to Expansion -- Commodity Markets -- World Trade --...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Overview -- 1. Shifting to New Sources of Growth -- 2. Missed Opportunities in Global Integration -- 3. Identifying the Barriers: Trade Policy, Investment Climate, and the Political Economy -- 4. Achieving the...

Provides a unique treatment of world economic geography as a whole and examines the principle philosophies that have shaped our study of it, identifies the importance of the biophysical as well as cultural and political environments

This book looks at firms which have developed export trade in Sub-Saharan economies, and how they have sustained their competitiveness in the face of rapid technological change in the international economy

An invaluable introduction to the region, this book assesses Pacific Asia both in terms of its historical development and the present global system, placing general development issues in their local contexts

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I: Trade and the International Economy -- 1 Boundary-transcending technologies, trade development and the micro-structural activities of firms -- 2 Borders, national industrial structures and...