International trade, wage inequality and the developing economy

A general equilibrium approach

This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed ...

Global governance

an architecture for the world economy

Globalization deeply affects economic structures and raises the issue of how governments should respond to new challenges. In this book, various ways of improving the institutional setup for global governance are discussed by renowned experts. The discussion focuses on further liberalizing international trade, preventing international ...

Foreign direct investment in the real and financial sector of industrial countries

A collection of papers on the determinants and consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the real and financial sectors of industrial countries. The text sheds new light on the determinants of FDI, in particular the role of governmental incentives. Another main topic is the ...

The real exchange rate and prices of traded goods in OECD countries

Real exchange rate changes - resulting either from shifts in nominal exchange rates or increases in costs that are asymmetric across countries - are the primary focus of this text. The book shows how exchange rates and local production costs are passed through into import prices. It ...

Economic and financial crises in emerging market economies

In the late 1990s, economic and financial crises raged through East Asia, devastating economies that had previously been considered among the strongest in the developing world. The crises eventually spread to Russia, Turkey, and Latin America, and impacted the economies of many industrialized nations as ...

Economic welfare, international business and global institutional change

Global economic progress in the 20th century, while generally encouraging, was neither continuous nor uniform. With the exception of some Asian nations, countries that were more developed at the beginning of the 20th century still rank amongst the wealthiest nations, while countries that were poorer ...

Global institutions and development

framing the world?

The impact of multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and IMF have on development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and influence. This study examines the concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and more broadly looks at the role of ideas ...

Wealth by association

global prosperity through market unification

European monetary unification has produced a $15 trillion windfall to its member nations that is rarely discussed or accounted for in analyses of economic integration. The authors argue persuasively that the reduction in cross-border risks is directly responsible for an explosion in the value of ...

Trade and the environment

theory and evidence

Nowhere has the divide between advocates and critics of globalization been more striking than in debates over free trade and the environment. And yet the literature on the subject is high on rhetoric and low on results. This book is the first to systematically investigate ...

Obsolescent capitalism

contemporary politics and global disorder

Capitalism is going senile. Its ambition is now restricted to maintaining the wealth of the wealthy in the world, while the poor are demonised as the enemy. In this volume, Samir Amin presents a synoptic view of capitalism's future. He depicts a world in ...

The economist's tale

a consultant encounters hunger and the World Bank

What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country? This is an insider's view of one aid-made crisis. Peter Griffiths was at the interface between government and the Bank. In this ruthlessly honest, day-by-day account of a mission he undertook ...

Sociología del sistema global

el impacto socioeconómico y político de las corporaciones transnacionales

El poder que decide sobre el bienestar de los ciudadanos en el mundo actual está en medida creciente en manos de las corporaciones transnacionales que operan de manera casi incontrolable en todas las regiones de la Tierra. Como motor de la nueva clase capitalista transnacional ...

Stolen fruit

the tropical commodities disaster

Fifty or more developing countries still depend mainly on the tropical commodities or minerals that they produce. But encouraging so many countries to grow coffee, sugar, cotton and other crops has been a disaster. Small farmers get only a tiny share of the final tag ...

Hungry corporations

transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain

This work provides a detailed account of how huge agrochemical corporations have come to control the food chain, exposing their influence over governments, regulatory bodies and university research. It examines how a handful of companies have: accelerated the industrialization of agriculture and the integration of ...

The role of international institutions in globalisation

the challenges of reform

This book presents a critical analysis of the role of international institutions and their performance in terms of justification, effectiveness an efficiency. The authors begin by dicussing the controversies surrounding the Tobin Tax in the context of global governance. They move on to address important ...

The world economy

global trade policy 2002

This volume is the ninth in an annual series in which top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Each annual volume examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements ...

Global governance and financial crises

Are global financial markets rational or are manias possible? Should crises be allowed to run their course and purge the system? Should a lender of last resort intervene to dampen their impact on the real economy? This text addresses these and other questions. The editors ...

The EU and the WTO

legal and constitutional issues

The essays in this volume attempt to explore and elucidate some of the legal and constitutional complexities of the relationship between the EU and the WTO, focusing particularly on the impact of the latter and its relevance for the former. The effect of WTO norms ...

Chinese capitalism in a global era

towards hybrid capitalism

Yeung's in-depth study demystifies the nature and dynamics of 'overseas' Chinese capitalism in East and Southeast Asia in a time of accelerated globalisation. He examines how Chinese capitalism has evolved in a two way process through the participation of its key actors. INDICE List ...

Japan and East Asia in transition

trade policy, crisis and evolution, and regionalism

This book examines how Japan has changed its economic relationship with East Asia since the mid 1990s by looking at its commitments to import relief, regional financial and industrial transformations, and regionalism. While the Japanese government has taken proactive initiatives to sustain the sound development ...