Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to today's economic and political realities. The production of global public goods requires the orchestration of initiatives by a...

The term "economic globalization" has been discussed extensively in the popular press, by business executives and by policy-makers all over the world. While academic economists have made some excellent contributions to specific, technical aspects of economic globalization, there appears to be a...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I Received Wisdom on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth -- Chapter 1 Overview: New Results on Poverty, Inequality, and the Growth in the Era of Globalization -- The Issues -- The Framework and the Data -- A Bird's Eye View -- A More...

The Politics of Labor in a Global Age analyses and compares changing patterns of labour relations in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies. The volume features original and timely essays on the distinctive responses to common economic pressures associated with globalization as...

Intro -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction and Summary -- 2 Economic Effects of Labor Standards -- 3 Collective Bargaining and Economic Performance - A Short Review of the Theory -- 4 Empirical...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Overview -- 2 Challenges to Firm Competitiveness and Opportunities for Success -- 3 Global Competition and the Peripheral Player: A Promising Future -- 4 The Regional Business...

Intro -- Contents -- Overview -- The frontiers of development thinking -- Globalization and localization -- Supranational issues -- Subnational issues -- Translating policies into actions -- Introduction New Directions in Development Thinking -- Building on past development experiences -- The...

Smiling Down the Line theorizes call centre work as info-service employment and looks at the effects of ever-changing technologies on service work, its associated skills, and the ways in which it is managed.

Engages with a range of alternative ethical perspectives and the initiatives to which they give rise. This book features case studies that covers a range of places, commodities and initiatives, including Fair Trade and organic production activism in Hungary, Fair Trade coffee in Costa Rica and...

Presents a collection of research findings on topical issues in international trade theory and policy. This work deals with trade liberalization and outsourcing. It examines trading clubs and preferential trading agreements. It features six chapters on the various aspects of trade and aid.