Front Cover -- Globalization at Risk: Challenges to Finance and Trade -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Booming Finance -- 3 Expanding Commerce -- 4 Mighty Multinationals -- 5 Southbound -- 6 A Dangerous Time in Global Finance -- 7 Trade in...

Modern societies are increasingly formed by social, economic and legal relations that dissolve the traditional boundaries of nation states. Transnational firms and other cross-border organizations and networks develop new modes of cooperation, thereby setting new standards of governance. At the...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Government at Risk: Contingent Liabilities and Fiscal Risks -- Learning to Deal with Fiscal Risks in Government Portfolio -- Dealing with Government Fiscal Risk: An Overview -- Accounting and Financial Accountability to Capture Risk --...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Recent Developments in Life Annuity Markets and Products -- 3 Longevity-Insured Retirement Distributions: Basic Theories and Institutions -- 4 Who Prefers Annuities? -- 5 Comparing Strategies for Retirement Wealth...

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Dangerous settings and risky international assignments -- "I might be shot at!" exploring the drivers to work in hostile environments using an intelligent careers perspective -- For sensation's sake -- How do you fear? Examining expatriates' perception of...

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About this Manual -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- Climate and Water Resources Management -- Forecasting Climate and Inflows -- Using Climate Information to Manage Climate Risks and Opportunities -- Institutional...

"This book reflects on work done through the Managing Extreme Technological Risk (METR) project, a pioneering research programme within the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. METR has been both an exercise in 'academic engineering' to address major global challenges, and a research...