Globalization reflects increased and accelerated interdependence of economic and political relations, where local incidents are impacting global society. The world has greatly changed in the recent history and only those would survive in the coming times who could quickly adjust to the changing...

As the market for lawyers and for law itself has responded to global forces, legal education also is becoming accustomed to working within a global context. U.S. law schools routinely look beyond the country’s borders to attract new students and opportunities. As with law firms and business...

Financial globalization offers both risks and benefits for countries of the semi-periphery orthe so-called "emerging markets". Politics within the national space matters, yet acquires a new meaning, in the age of financial globalization. "Weak democracies" are characterized by limited...

The prevailing for a few centuries hitherto world order has been based on the dominance of the European civilization countries. At present, there emerges a new order based on the dominance of the Asian civilization represented by dynamically developing China. The new order means great changes...

One of the most notable characteristics of the change in governance of the past two decades has been the restructuring of the state, most notably the delegation of authority from politicians and ministries to technocrats and regulatory agencies. Our unique dataset on the extent of these reforms...

In 1991 India chose to open her economy and formulated the New Economic Policy (NEP). Under the structural adjustment and reform programmes, the NEP aimed at promoting growth by eliminating supply bottlenecks that hinder competitiveness, efficiency and dynamism in the economic system This study...

This paper explores trends in international work stoppages over the last 4 decades or so. International collection practices are compared, extending the comparisons made in Fisher (1978), Sweet and Jackson (1977), Walsh (1983), Creigh and Poland (1983) and Monger (2004) to include 18 non-OECD...

The paper analyses the process of social exclusion and inclusion of the working poor in developing countries, but focusing mostly on women. These processes include: the terms of inclusion of paid workers in global production systems, the barriers to inclusion of the self-employed in global...

India's globalization is a conscious and deliberate effort to permit the factors of production, the produce and the socio-economic forces to permeate across the national boundaries and remove any obstacle to such permeance. In short, it has been a deliberate decision to open up a national...