A World without walls

freedom, development, free trade and global governance

La inversión directa extranjera en España en la década final del siglo XX

nuevas perspectivas

Protección de inversiones extranjeras

Developing countries and world trade

performance and prospects

La ley del más fuerte

trampas e injusticias del comercio mundial

El negocio de las armas

Commerce et securite

les exportations sensibles dans la mondialisation

Política de competencia y política comercial

¿hacia un acuerdo multilateral?

Commercio internazionale sostenible?

Wto e Unione Europea

La critica al processo di globalizzazione del commercio internazionale e alle istituzioni che lo governano si fa, politicamente, sempre più serrata, ma di rado dispone degli strumenti giuridici necessari ad una completa comprensione del problema. In una serie di lucide analisi gli autori passano in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...