Recent developments in international trade theory

The last decade has seen many important contributions to the field of International Trade Theory. This authoritative volume contains 27 seminal articles that represent the most significant of these recent developments. Topics include multinational firms, trade with heterogeneous firms, general equilibrium with oligopolistic firms, outsourcing ...

Centroamérica encendida

transnacionales españolas y reformas en el sector eléctrico

En América Latina, uno de los mayores fracasos de los organismos financieros internacionales (FMI, BM, OMC-GATT) ha sido establecer políticas de ajuste dirigidas a la privatización de empresas y servicios públicos fundamentalmente con el objetivo de facilitar la entrada de inversión exterior y la consiguiente ...

Constructing global civil society

morality and power in International Relations

Global Civil Society is a crucial concept in International Relations today, used as both a description of new mechanisms of non-state actor and NGO engagement in international policy-making and as a normative political project of international change. David Chandler critically investigates the claims made by ...

Las relaciones entre España y Marruecos

perspectivas para el siglo XXI

El Magreb, y especialmente Marruecos, es una de las líneas prioritarias de la política exterior española. Pero ¿cuáles son las coordenadas que rigen esta política con un socio tan complejo como es Marruecos?, ¿se debe reformular el actual modelo de relación entre los dos países ...

Trade negotiations in agriculture

a future common agenda for Brazil and Canada?

This first book in the new series 'Turning Points: Latin American Studies Occasional Papers' (a joint venture between the Latin American Research Centre and the University of Calgary Press) is the result of a conference immediately following the Cancun World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial meeting ...

Taiwán

el problema de China

Taiwán es un asunto clave de la política china. En buena medida, la reforma en el continente se inspira en el proceso de modernización de Taipei. La economía les acerca, la política les aleja. Beijing insiste en que la unificación de toda China es un ...

Fair trade for all

how trade can promote development

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They ...

The future of the global economic organizations

an evaluation of criticisms leveld at the IMF, the multilateral development banks, and the WTO

This book offers a careful and competent arms-length evaluation, from a legal perspective, of the main criticisms that have been leveled recently at the key global economic organisations -- that is, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and its fellow multilateral developmental banks (MDBs ...

The poverty of the State

reconsidering the role of the State in the struggle against global poverty

The specter of poverty has had an enduring within the history of humankind. However, in these times the eradication of extreme poverty may be feasible. The resources to do so in a reasonable period of the time are available. The desire and willingness of international ...

Comercio comunitario

Salvaguardias. Relaciones comerciales. Representación de sociedades: Tomo II

Free trade

myth, reality and alternatives

Tráfico de armas

el mercado negro mundial de armas ligeras

The effective tax burden of companies in European Regions

an international comparison

Multinational enterprises, innovative strategies and systems of innovation

Managing multinationals in a knowledge economy

economics, culture, and human resources

Growth, trade, & systematic leadership

In Growth, Trade, and Systemic Leadership, Rafael Reuveny and William R. Thompson propose an innovative argument for the existence of world governance. Using a "lead economy" approach, they link questions about the global trade system to debates about hegemonic stability and the balance of power ...

The future of money

Is globalization leading us toward a world of fewer and fewer currencies and, consequently, simplified monetary management? Many specialists believe this is the case, as the territorial monopolies national governments have long claimed over money appears to be eroding. In The Future of Money, Benjamin ...

IMF essays from a time of crises

the international financial system,stabilization, and development

Stanley Fischer served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001. IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis collects sixteen essays written for the most part during his time at the IMF, each updated with Fischer's later reflections ...

The role of multinational enterprises in globalization

This book offers a framework for analyzing the increased economic integration of countries which is mainly driven by multinational enterprises. They compete with other companies from different countries on many markets and through various channels. The book starts by discussing the stylized facts of the ...

Trade and industrial policy under international oligipoly

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 ...