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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The global food economy

the battle for the future of farming

The modern food economy is a paradox. Surplus 'food mountains' sit alongside global malnutrition and the developed world subsidizes its own agriculture while pressurizing the developing world to liberalize at all costs. Export competition is increasingly aggressive whilst the reliance on imports in many countries ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

El G 9 de las mafias en el mundo

geopolítica del crimen organizado

Las mafias, como la atmósfera, están ahí aunque no las veamos, afirma Jean François Gayraud. El comisario de policía francés y criminólogo repasa en El G 9 de las mafias en el mundo (Tendencias Editores) la situación del crimen organizado y reseña, una y otra ...

The Euro and the dollar in a globalized economy

The dollar has been the dominant currency of the world economy for almost a century; since 2002, the euro has gained widespread international acceptance resulting in important institutional, economic and financial changes both for the euro zone, the United States and the world economies, affecting ...

Institutions and norms in economic development

This book features experts who address "the development puzzle" - unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countries - and focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and norms and culture.Recent decades have seen almost unprecedented economic growth in income per capita ...

The new economic diplomacy

decision-making and negotiation in international economic relations

"The New Economic Diplomacy" explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically; how they negotiate internationally; and how these processes interact. It documents the transformation of economic diplomacy in the 1990s and early 2000s in response ...

Después de Doha

la agenda emergente del sistema de comercio internacional

El sistema multilateral del comercio atraviesa una situación compleja, como lo refleja la creciente dificultad para alcanzar acuerdos satisfactorios para todos los participantes y la emergencia de nuevos espacios de negociación y creación de normas internacionales. En este libro, escrito por autores de reconocida trayectoria ...