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the hidden war

The global economy

changing politics, society and family

Eighteen chapters consider the impact of globalization on culture, religion, families, freedom, modernization, profits, and the environment. Specific essays analyze the effect globalization is having in Zambia, Venezuela, Bangladesh, the Ukraine, Jordan, and Argentina. The controversies surrounding

Regional trade agreements in the GATT/WTO

article XXIV and the internal trade requirement

The debate over regionalism and the multilateral trading system intensifies in the WTO as dozens of regional trade agreements are declared to be exceptions to GATT's most-favoured nation obligation. Commentators debate whether such agreements are stepping stones to freer world trade, and WTO Members ...

Atlas de la criminalidad financiera

del narcotráfico al blanqueo de capitales

La internacionalización de la economía española hacia América Latina

los elementos determinantes en el inicio y consolidación del proceso

La reciente presencia de capitales productivos en los sectores de telecomunicaciones, energía y sistema financiero en América Latina responde a la coincidencia temporal registrada entre los cambios estructurales en España y en América Latina. Los primeros, derivados de la incorporación de España a la Unión ...

The future of the multinational enterprise

This study of multinational enterprises revolutionized the field when it was first published. It includes a critical examination of empirical observations about FDI, offers a long-run theory and other alternative theories of the multinational enterprise, as well as looking at the world's largest firms ...

Patents, citations, and innovations

a window of the knowledge economy

Systemic transformation, trade and economic growth

developments, theoretical analysis and empirical results

Since the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEESs) have been involved in the transition process. This book compares the progress of some of these economies in transition and analyses their ...

The economics of the World Trading System

Descripción: World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The WTO sets rules of conduct for the international trade of goods and services and for intellectual property rights, provides ...

Exchange rate regimes

choices and consequences

Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure floats at one extreme to currency ...

Riesgos financieros y operaciones internacionales

Esta obra recoge los diferlos diferentes riesgos financieros que suelen afectar directamente a las operaciones , locales e internacionales, completándose con un "Simulador Business Game"de una operación internacional sencilla de exportación -importación , donde se recoge la importancia de los riesgos de cambio en los negocios ...

El triángulo económico

España - USA - América Latina

Este libro está enmarcado dentro de los Actos Conmemorativos del XXV Aniversario de la creación de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales de la Universidad de Alcalá, que tuvo lugar en noviembre de 2000 un interesante Simposio bajo el título: #La relación trilateral España-Estado ...

International organization in the Age Globalization

Globalization has increased the need for global international organization, as more global activity has demanded greater global management. Paradoxically, this has also often strengthened the case for regional arrangements, as a way of supporting globalization. Paul Taylor examines how the relentless process of globalization has ...

Trade agreements and financial services

Trade Agreements and Financial Services examines the cross-border agreements that have historically been focused on the trade of merchandise goods. Increasingly, emphasis is being placed on the provision of cross-border services. Notable among these are financial services. There is a clear link between economic development ...

Liberalising labour mobility under the GATS

Revista Economic Paper, 53

This publication is an analysis of negotiations concerning the temporary movement of workers from developing to developed economies, taking place under the auspices of the GATS negotiations which cover the trade in commercial services. It focuses on the temporary movement of unskilled and semi-skilled workers ...

Lowering the Threshold

Revista Economic Paper, 50

This publication is the revised version of a study and report commissioned by the Secretariat entitled Lowering The Threshold: Changing Private Investors´Perceptions by Reducing the Cost and Risk of Investment in least Developed, Small and Vulnerable Economies. The main premise of the study was ...

Topics in empirical international economics

a festschrift in honor of Robert E.Lipsey

In this volume emanating from the National Bureau of Economic Research's programme in international economics, leading economists address recent developments in three important areas. The first section of the book focuses on international comparisons of output and prices, and includes papers that present new ...

Reconciling environment and trade

10 reasons to abolish the IMF & World Bank

Mercosur e impacto social en Latinoamérica

XIX jornadas nacionales de trabajo social

La concepción del capitalismo contemporáneo, en el que el libre mercado, la competitividad sin límites, el lucro insaciable y la flexibilización laboral son su base, está dejando como consecuencia un contingente cada vez mayor de población desocupada, viéndose expulsados del sistema y marginados incluso del ...