The size of nations

The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the ...

El precio de un sueño

[los microcréditos, un a alternativa para el progreso]

El precio de un sueño, publicado por la Universidad de Chicago, es el relato de la sorprendente historia de una exitosa organización para el desarrollo. Fundado en Bangladesh (India) en 1076, el Banco Grameen ha concedido préstamos a más de dos millones de mujeres. Por ...

Subdesarrollo e innovación

navegando contra el viento

La obra de Arocena y Sutz constituye una importante y novedosa contribución desde la óptica latinoamericana a la reflexión sobre la naturaleza de los procesos de innovación y de su impacto sobre el desarrollo. El libro es el fruto de una continuada labor de análisis ...

Regionalism, multilateralism, and economic integration

the recent experience

In recent years, the central question relating to regional trade agreements has been whether or not they have led to a new form of economic cooperation by promoting deeper integration in the regulatory structures of the participating countries. The answer to this question has profound ...

Translational conflitcts

Central America, social change and globalization

Contemporary capitalism has disrupted the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars and pacification in Central America. This study maps the transnational processes that have shaped the region's past and its possible futures

Perspectives on growth and poverty

The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress that the benefits from growth may ...

Economic dynamics in transitional economies

the Four-P governments, the EU-enlargement, and the Bruxelles consensus

Examines the post-Communist, transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe

EL ALCA y las cumbres de las Américas

¿una nueva relación público-privada?

Un equipo de invetigadores de distintas instituciones de la región, coordinados por el Programa de Estudios sobre Instituciones Económicas Internacionales (PIE) de FLACSO- Argentina y con el apoyo de la Fundación Ford, analiza los alcances e impactos de esta nueva dialéctica generada entre gobiernos, mercados ...

Globalization in historical perspective

As awareness of globalization grows, so too does our need to understand it historically. This volume is one of few to consider globalization in the context of the history of international trade: its eleven papers explore how the process of globalization can be measured by ...

Construir la paz

Dalai Lama, Kate Dewes, Richard Falk, Jostein Gaarder, Tulle Elster, Mijaíl Gorbachov, Sheikh Hasina, Nelson Mandela, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Howard Zinn y 25 autores más. Si sueño solo, se trata de sólo un sueño, pero si soñamos juntos, es el comienzo de una nueva realidad ...

Intégrations euro-méditerranéenne et stratégies economiques

Le libre-échange avec l'Europe impose aux Pays du Sud et de l'Est de la Méditerranée (PSEM) une révolution économique: passer d'une économie fermée, fortement encadrée par l'État, à une économie déprotégée, régulée selon une logique de marché ouvert. Les acteurs économiques ...

The globalization reader

Globalization effectively captures the growth of linkages across national boundaries, the global expansion of a market economy and the rise of a complex but integrated world society. "The Globalization Reader" makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debates. The ...

El entorno económico actual

INDICE 1.La globalización 2.Las migraciones 3.Los procesos de integración económica 4.El papel de los organismos internacionales 5. Las nuevas tecnologías: su impacto en el crecimiento económico 6. Retos para el futuro

El despertar de la nueva China

implicaciones del ingresio de China en la Organización Mundial del Comercio

China constituye uno de los focos más dinámicos de crecimiento económico a escala mundial, por lo que la evolución de este país está siendo objeto de atención por la comunidad internacional de forma continuada. El ingreso de China en la Organización Mundial del Comercio(OMC ...

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 ...

Rio plus ten

politics, poverty and environment

Rio Plus Ten took place in South Africa in 2002. In this book, the authors revisit the agenda established in Rio ten years ago and cover the events of the intervening years: global warming and the unfolding of the arguments over climate change, GM crops ...

La contribución de la Corporación Andina de Fomento al desarrollo de la Comunidad Andina de Naciones

El documento centra su especial atención en revisar la labor de la Corporación Andina de Fomento, no sólo como intermediaria financiera en los países de la Subregión Andina, sino determinando el aporte de los préstamos otorgados en la inversión, y su contribución en la generación ...

The impact of global and regional integration on federal systems

a comparative analysis

Global and regional integration present special challenges to federal political systems around the world. The division of powers inherent in federal political systems complicates the impact of external pressures on the nation-state and confuses the possible responses to these pressures. In this volume each chapter ...

Europe Inc.

regional and global restructuring and the rise of corporate power

Over the past two decades, the major international corporations have become industrial lobbyists within the European Union to such an extent that they pose a threat to democracy. / This new and fully revised edition of Europe Inc. provides a much-needed insight into the systematic ways ...

Asean

economic development and cooperation

The book presents a systematic analysis of the process of economic development and regional cooperation in ASEAN. It discusses the evolution of ASEAN, from its establishment as a regional organization designed to promote political stability in Southeast Asia to its increasing role in world trade ...