Sub-Saharan Africa needs much faster economic growth and more effective economic, financial, and social policies if it is to make up for lost ground and reduce the number of people living in abject poverty. Edited by Laura Wallace, this volume presents the proceedings of a May 1998 seminar in...

1. Introduction -- 2. Liaoning: The Smothering Effects of Local Protectionism -- 3. Slow, Steady, Cheap, and Painless: Making Sense of China’s Bad Loan Strategy -- 4. Who Loses from Restricting Chinese Student Visas? -- 5. From Windfalls to Pitfalls: Qualcomm’s China Conundrum -- 6. In Xi We...

1 Introduction -- 2 Early Globalization: Arguments and Evidence -- 3 Harbingers of Modernity: an Iberian perspective -- 4 Silver production, prices and globalization in the eighteenth century -- 5 The Austrian mining industry and the Iberian globalization -- 6 The Manila Galleon and the Age of...

Intro -- Summary of thesis -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Locating our case in a world of change -- 3: Methodology and analytical framework -- 4: Structure, patterns and dynamics of migration -- 5:...

Durch den Globalisierungsprozess gewinnt das Phänomen der Migration seit einiger Zeit an Brisanz. In fast allen Teilen der Welt nehmen die Wanderungsbewegungen zu, sei es, weil Menschen jenseits der Grenzen ihres Herkunftslandes einen Arbeitsplatz und eine Existenzgrundlage für sich und ihre...