Making AID work

This title offers an encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money. With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a ...

Breve tratado de microfinanzas

El presente libro pretende cubrir una laguna bibliográfica en nuestro país relativa a las microfinanzas, y, en general, a las finanzas éticas o finanzas solidarias. De hecho, este Breve Tratado de Microfinanzas abre la colección que la editorial La Hidra de Lerna dedica a las ...

Perspectivas de las migraciones internacionales 2006

La presente obra analiza las tendencias recientes de los movimientos migratorios y de la política de migración en todos los países de la OCDE y contiene, por primera vez, estadísticas armonizadas sobre los flujos internacionales de inmigración de larga duración de la mayoría de los ...

The international monetary fund

politics of conditional lending

This is an ideal book for students who need a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies. Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments participate in ...

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

This is a much-needed new examination of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), fully covering its history and current activities. Ian Taylor and Karen Smith present a clear overview to an organization that is at times overlooked and seen to belong to ...

How China grows

investment, finance and reform

Although China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty- five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is ...

El Estado de África

pobreza y política en África y la agenda para la actuación internacional

Partiendo de un análisis político, histórico y comparativo el autor expone también vías de solución para un continente que se ha convertido en la región más dependiente de ayuda de la historia de la humanidad.

The bottom billion

why the poorest countries are pailing and what can be done about it

Global poverty is falling rapidly, but in around fifty failing states, the world's poorest people face a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse. This bottom billion live on less than a dollar a day and while the rest of the world moves steadily forward ...

Global outlaws

crime, money, and power in the contemporary world

Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the ...

Anuario Internacional CIDOB 2006

claves para interpretar la política exterior española y las relaciones internacionales 2006

El declive de la influencia y del poder de los Estados Unidos en todo el mundo a partir, especialmente, de los fracasos en las intervenciones en Afganistán e Irak, el creciente protagonismo de Irán, la guerra entre Israel y Hezbolá en el Líbano, y el ...

Trading voices

the European Union in international commercial negotiations

The European Union, the world's foremost trader, is not an easy bargainer to deal with. Its twenty-five member states have relinquished most of their sovereignty in trade to the supranational level, and in international commercial negotiations, such as those conducted under the World Trade ...

Trade and industrial policy under international oligopoly

The existence of firms with different levels of efficiency within a country plays an important role in this in-depth analysis of industrial and trade policies in a multi-country trade-theoretic framework. Sajal Lahiri and Yoshiyasu Ono examine various industrial policies, R&D subsidies and trade policies ...

Worlds apart

measuring international and global inequality

We are used to thinking about inequality within countries - about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance. But what about inequality between all citizens of the world? "Worlds Apart" addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that inequality is shaped by ...

Investment banking and investment opportunities in China

a comprehensive guide for finance professionals

China is now an economic power in the world economy, and offers tremendous business and investment opportunities, but its financial markets remain poorly understood. In this authoritative book, investment banking expert K. Thomas Liaw explains China's financial and investing system in detail, including: Stock ...

Fair trade coffee

the prospects and pitfalls of market-driven social justice

Over the past two decades, sales of fair trade coffee have grown significantly and the fair trade network has emerged as an important international development project. Activists and commentators have been quick to celebrate this sales growth, which has allowed socially just trade, labour, and ...

The elephant and the dragon

the rise of India and China and what it means for all of us

In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built motorways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo. Yet exotic India is as near as the voice ...

Internationalisation and economic institutions

comparing european experiences

This book examines when, how and why internationalisation affects national economic institutions. It confronts questions at the heart of debates in political economy and comparative politics: What does internationalisation of markets mean? Who are its carriers in domestic arenas? Through which mechanisms does it affect ...

Las multinacionales regionales

las empresas multinacionales y la dirección estratégica global

Aunque muchas empresas se etiquetan a sí mismas como «globales», muy pocas respaldan ese calificativo con la realización de ventas y operaciones globales. En este libro se utilizan datos básicos de las firmas multinacionales, constatándose que la mayoría de las compañías están fuertemente regionalizadas, ya ...

The choice.

A fable of free trade and protectionism

A novel on the global economy? Russell Roberts breaks all the rules in this provocative and whimsical look at the key international economic issues facing America and American business. The Choice stars the ghost of David Ricardo, a nineteenth-century economist. To get his wings he ...

Biopiracy of biodiversity

global exchange as enclosure

Seeds have been exchanged among cultures for millennia, but suddenly the means of controlling seed trade and genetic transfers have been dramatically altered. This book offers the best means to understand how this issue affects you and every person, present and future, who deserves to ...