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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. The Next Great Globalization: A Force for Good? -- Part One. Is Financial … Globalization Beneficial? -- Two. How Poor Countries Can Get Rich: Strengthening Property Rights and the Financial System -- Three …. Financial Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty -- Four. When Globalization Goes Wrong: The Dynamics of Financial Crises …
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modern incarnation, it represents the single greatest threat to globalization.Steil and Hinds describe the current state of … economic thinking that underlay earlier great periods of globalization, thinking that is increasingly under threat by more …
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half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount … loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained … finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to …
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People passionately disagree about the nature of the globalization process. The failure of both the 1999 and 2003 World … commitments from developed countries. Challenges to Globalization evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists and anti …-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets including …
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The agricultural sector's perceived importance in the international development circle waned dramatically after the 1980s, and investments in rural development and agricultural research and development declined sharply. This volume reasserts the role of agricultural and rural development in the...
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One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the general relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. Moreover, it...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: The Issues, The Community and the Tourists -- 1. Tourism, Globalisation and Cultural Change -- 2. Valle Gran Rey: A Changing Destination -- 3. The Tourists: Types and Motivation -- Part 2: The Influence of Tourism -- 4. Work and...
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globalization, arguing that while centuries of economic competition have resulted in the merging of cultures into fewer and larger …
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This book challenges the widely accepted notion that globalization encourages economic convergence--and, by extension … separating poor from rich. It concludes that globalization encourages economic diversity and that democracy is the form of … government best suited to deal with globalization's contingencies. Against those who contend that the transition to markets must …
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