1. Economic diplomacy on multiple levels -- 2. Integrating IPRs in the international trading system -- 3. Negotiating IPRs : a defensive position of developing countries and the new challenges posed by FTAs -- 4. The domestic source of Peru's and Colombia's engagement in the FTA negotiations --...

This book features an in-depth comparative study of South American National Development Bank’s governance systems. It explores the relationship between bank governance and performance frameworks, both in terms of financial-economic indicators and development impact. It seeks to observe,...

For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Criticism of the UFCO has been widespread, ranging from politicians to consumer activists, and from labor leaders to historians, all portraying it as an...

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people of North Cauca during the most recent Colombian post-agreement transition. Amid an armed conflict that has disproportionally affected and targeted the...

Biotechnology and agricultural development / Robert Tripp -- Cotton production and technology / Robert Tripp -- Development, agronomic performance and sustainability of transgenic cotton for insect control / Ann M. Showalter. [et al.] -- Transgenic cotton : assessing economic performance in the...