Politica comunitaria di coesione economica e sociale e programmazione economica regionale

Porto Alegre se mueve

veinte opiniones sobre el futuro del Foro Social Mundial

El III Foro Social Mundial, que tuvo lugar en Porto Alegre, fue un éxito, según la opinión general. Este acontecimiento ha significado el final de una etapa, abriéndose así un período de reflexión y cambios necesarios para el desarrollo de un proceso que se ha ...

Free trade under fire

The 1990s began with fears of a "great sucking sound" of jobs lost due to the North American Free Trade Agreement and ended with opponents of the World Trade Organization taking to the streets in the "Battle of Seattle". Why has global trade become so ...

Food fights over free trade

how international institutions promote agricultural trade liberalization

This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international organizations alters the balance of interests at domestic level. It traces 30 years of US agricultural trade negotiations with Japan and Europe.

Reliable partners

how democracies have made a separate peace

Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other. Indeed, "the democratic peace" has become a catchphrase among scholars and even US presidents. But why do democracies avoid fighting each other? "Reliable Partners" offers a systematic and definitive explanation. Examining decades of research ...

El sutil poder de las transnacionales

lógica, funcionamiento e impacto de las grandes empresas en un mundo globalizado

Las empresas transnacionales son un actor clave en el actual proceso de globalización económica y su poder económico y político es cada vez mayor. Pero el poder de las transnacionales destaca a menudo por su sutileza, de manera que no siempre es perceptible y se ...

Genes, trade, and regulation

the seeds of conflict in food biotechnology

Agricultural (or "green") biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between the United States and the European Union. Genetically modified food faces an uncertain future. The technology behind it might revolutionize food production around the world. Or it might ...

Trade, inequality, and justice

toward a liberal theory of just trade

Recent crises in trade policy and globalization highlight both the problematic role of economic inequality in international trade law and the shortcomings of contemporary, largely economic, approaches to this problem and to international trade law generally. This book argues for an alternative approach to the ...

The economic od the World Trading System

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 a ...

China and the world trading system

entering the new millennium

Economía y bienestar social en Cuba a comienzos del siglo XXI

El modelo de crecimiento asiático

expresión de un capitalismo sui generis

International trade

theory,strategies, and evidence

This is a comprehensive graduate textbook on International Trade. It surveys both the theoretical and empirical literature, and reports new results. International Trade addresses the need to synthesize and integrate the new advances in a field that has become a key element of policy discussions ...

International marketing

strategy, planning, market entry and implementation

Divided into two parts, "Trading environment" and "organizing for international markets", the book covers topics such as: -International trade -Regional analysis techniques -Market research and market screening techniques -Entering international markets -Export methods -Global Products -Global pricing -International advertising

Fundamentals of U.S.Foreign Trade Policy

economics, politics, laws and issues

Descripción Thoroughly updated to reflect the many recent changes in the international trading system, the second edition of this acclaimed study again provides a unique integration of the three critical aspects of U.S. foreign trade policy formulation and implementation: economics, politics, and law. In ...

Managing the global network corporation

This text considers the increasing importance of changing structures, organization and management, within multi-national corporations. Table of Contents: Part One: Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in International Networks 1. Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer Across Borders 2. Problems in Managing International Innovation Projects 3. The Management of ...

Doing business in emerging Europe

The transformation, which is unfolding in emerging European countries is a unique historic event. In several countries, the transition has been quite positive; most analysts anticipate continued real growth in the coming years. While opportunities in that region are numerous, doing business may prove, as ...

Intercultural management

Intercultural management is an emerging but increasingly crucial area of study. Essentially, intercultural management concerns itself with work forces that function in different cultural contexts. These differences can be either "external", where an organization operates across national and ethnic cultures, or "internal", where an organization ...

La influencia de la innovación tecnológica sobre el comportamiento internacional de la empresa

El objetivo genérico de esta tesis es examinar la influencia de las capacidades innovadoras de la empresa sobre el resultado de su actividad internacional. La conveniencia de recoger con mayor detalle las diferentes posibilidades que se le presentan a la empresa para manejar el proceso ...

Logística del transporte marítimo

manual de procesos para la gestión logística en el transporte marítimo y el entorno portuario

La calidad en la gestión logística es un factor de éxito en los intercambios comerciales. El conocimiento de los procesos operativos del transporte marítimo y el entorno portuario es la clave de la eficiencia. -Ventajas competitivas del transporte marítimo. -Tipología de las mercancías y de ...