Desafíos para una nueva asociación

encuentros y desencuentros entre Europa y América latina

Comercio comunitario

Salvaguardias. Relaciones comerciales. Representación de sociedades: Tomo II

Los micropréstamos como instrumentos de desarrollo en el sur

especial referencia al ámbito latinoamericano

Evaluación de impacto para agencias de desarrollo

aprendiendo a valorar el cambio

World trade governance and developing countries

the GATT/WTO Code Committee System

Beyond structural adjustment

the institutional context of african developmThe institutional context of African development

As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, "underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance". This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role ...

The WTO and developing countries

This book shows how large an impact the WTO has on developing countries. It assesses the subsidies given and shows how they will be affected by trade liberalization. It looks in particular at the TRIPS agreement and assesses the costs and benefits that it will ...

International finance and the developing economies

There are many challenges facing the economies of developing countries. Capital volatility, financial crises, aid, debt and the IMF are all issues that have received a great deal of attention over recent years. In International Finance and the Developing Economies, Graham Bird provides an essentially ...

Globalization of financial markets

causes of incomplete integration and consequences for economic policy

The internationalization of financial markets is one of the focal points in the discussion about recent globalization trends. These discussions suggest that capital can move freely between countries. However, there is ample evidence that national borders do matter and that there are many implicit and ...

Monetary Unions and hard pegs

effects on trade, financial development, and stability

Eds. Volbert Alexander, Jacques Mélitz, George M. Von Furstenberg This book analyses formal approaches to overcoming monetary divisions within countries and within integrating regions, focusing on the consequences of monetary union for trade among union members and their financial development and stability ÍNDICE:PART I ...

The new American regionalism

This book provides a broad quantitative analysis of the new facets of regionalism in the Americas. In particular, major aspects of the New American Regionalism are discussed in terms of two basic notions: the genuine political character of economic integration schemes, and the profound inter-connectedness ...

Earthly politics

local and global in environmental governance

Globalization today is as much a problem for international harmony as it is a necessary condition of living together on our planet. Increasing interconnectedness in ecology, economy, technology, and politics has brought nations and societies into ever closer contact, creating acute demands for cooperation. Earthly ...

From subsistence to exchange

and other essays

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writings ...

The political economy of european integration

theory and analysis

This book provides an accessible introduction to diverse political economy perspectives on different aspects of European integration. It presents a critical appraisal of how scholars in the EU and US use theory to understand European integration.

Development and the developing world

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of development and the developing world. Written in a clear and accessible way, it introduces students to the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks in development studies, and provides a guide to contemporary issues and current ...

Knowledge for development?

comparing british, japanese, swedish and World Bank aid

ÍNDICE:1. Researching Knowledge-Based Aid - Setting the Scene - Research Questions - A New Way of Researching: a New Way of Working - The Structure of the Book 2. The New Aid Agenda - The Changing Fashions of Development Cooperation - Aid Discourse at the Start of the New Millennium ...

Economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe

planting the seeds

Analysing the key problems facing the transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe, this accessible book describes the legacy of the central planners, the progress achieved so far and the need for further reforms. It documents the outstanding successes and failures, and analyses why certain ...

Emigración, pobreza y desarrollo

Los movimientos migratorios constituyen un fenómeno de creciente relevancia en el mundo actual. Consideradas en su conjunto, las migraciones son un importante factor de cambio social, tanto para los países emisores como para los receptores. Si para estos últimos el reto es disponer de políticas ...

La nación en sus límites

contrabandistas y exiliados en la frontera Argentina-Brasil

¿Habitamos un mundo sin fronteras? ¿Avanzamos hacia la aldea global? ¿ Es inexorable la constitución de nuevos bloques regionales? Desafiando muchos de los pronósticos hegemónicos acerca de la globalización y el futuro de los estados nacionales, La Nación en sus límites sostiene que el mundo por ...

El Mercosur, los trabajadores y el ALCA

un estudio sobre la relación entre el sindicalismo sociopolítico y la integración en el Cono Sur

Los sindicalismos de los países del Cono Sur podrán incidir en las reformas institucionales que exige el Mercosur entre 2003-2006 para avanzar en su constitución como comunidad económico-política y en las negociaciones en desarrollo sobre el ALCA y el acuerdo de asociación con la Unión ...