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Fighting The Wrong Enemy

Author : Edward Graham
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881323101
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Fighting The Wrong Enemy written by Edward Graham and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiglobalist forces have been gaining greater momentum in recent years in their efforts to reverse what they view as the negative effects of an integrating global economy. Their influence was felt earlier when efforts to create a Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) ended in failure in 1998 after France left the bargaining table at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, effectively killing the initiative. In this book, through an evaluation of the MAI itself and the issues raised by its opponents, Edward M. Graham takes a fresh look at the growing backlash against globalization. He first explores whether the MAI negotiations failed due to political maneuvering by antiglobalist nongovernmental organizations (supported by US organized labor) or because of irreconcilable differences among the negotiating parties over the substance of the issue of foreign direct investment. He then objectively and thoroughly assesses antiglobalist assertions that the activities of multinational firms have had negative effects on workers both in the home (investor) and host (recipient) nations, with a special focus on developing nations. An important finding is that multinational firms tend to pay workers in developing nations wages that are significantly above prevailing wages. Graham then examines the issue of globalized economic activity and the environment, finding that economic growth in developing nations can lead to increased environmental stress but also finding that foreign direct investment can lead to reductions in this stress. He finds that the worry of many environmentalists of a "race to the bottom" is not borne out by the evidence. The final chapters assess whether or not a negotiation to create a comprehensive agreement on investment should be included in a multilateral negotiating round at the World Trade Organization in the near future. The interests of developing nations in this agenda are given special attention. Graham indicates that, while many developing nations would accept such rules, it might nonetheless be premature to press for a comprehensive agreement at this time. Rather, a limited investment agenda might be both more feasible and more productive.

Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Antiglobal Activists and Multinational Enterprises

Author : Edward Montgomery Graham
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780881325980
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Antiglobal Activists and Multinational Enterprises written by Edward Montgomery Graham and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foreign Direct Investment and Development

Author : Theodore H. Moran
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 0881326003
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment and Development written by Theodore H. Moran and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2011 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cutting-edge analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI), Moran--one of the acknowledged experts in this area--questions traditional econometric measures of foreign direct investment flows, identifies flaws in past research, elaborates on how the latest research has moved More ... into new territory, and provides a first look at what new research has uncovered. Moran concentrates on FDI in the manufacturing and assembly sector, and discusses if FDI in manufacturing raises the productivity of host country economic activities, if FDI makes the host more competitive in new sectors, and generates externalities that benefit local firms and workers. He provides important new data on the kinds of activities, types of jobs, and level of wages associated with multinational manufacturing investment. This volume dissects the market failures associated with the contemporary idea of development as selfdiscovery, and addresses the tricky question of whether to provide incentives for FDI. In addition, he provides a novel reassessment of the debate about FDI crowding-out or crowding-in domestic investment. This book provides insight and lessons for developing and developed countries, NGOs, the corporate responsibility community, and multilateral lending institutions

Sterling Public Servant

Author : Jacob Ryten
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773572236
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Sterling Public Servant written by Jacob Ryten and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to mark Sylvia Ostry's seventy-fifth birthday, a group of some twenty of her friends and professional colleagues were invited to provide papers closely related to her work. Among the contributors are other national representatives at the G-7 Economic Summit who overlapped with her term of service, academics with whom she collaborated or broke friendly lances during her scholarly career, and fellow senior civil servants who were colleagues and counterparts during her years of service. Sylvia Ostry: A Global Tribute marks a milestone in her career and reflects the relevance and importance of her contributions. It includes congratulatory letters from all living prime ministers.

Impact of Global Issues on International Trade

Author : Co?kun Özer, Ahu
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799883167
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Impact of Global Issues on International Trade written by Co?kun Özer, Ahu and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International trade is vital in today’s world; international trade can be affected by a number of issues such as terrorism, economic crises, and pandemics such as COVID-19. It is crucial to understand the impact these global issues have on international trade and what happens to trade when global issues arise. A comprehensive guide of these issues is needed to provide background and understanding about international trade and its relationship with global issues. Global issues occasionally dominate a continuing theme of the international globalized world: global crises, war, security issues, global pandemics such as COVID-19, and trade wars. Global cooperation is required to solve such problems. Economically intellectual thinking will enable the development of guiding policies in solving these global problems. In this book, the effects of global issues on international trade will be evaluated, and policy recommendations will be made for the solution of the global issues. Impact of Global Issues on International Trade is a critical reference source that uses analytic research to analyze the effects of global economic and financial crises as well as global health crises and their impact on international trade. Pandemics such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economic crisis, and trade wars are discussed, and political suggestions are made to mitigate negative impacts. Covering a wide range of topics such as financial fragility and trade fairs, it is ideal for trade specialists, policymakers, government officials, managers, executives, economists, academicians, researchers, students, and industry professionals.

Canada's Fluid Borders

Author : Geoffrey Hale
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776629387
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Canada's Fluid Borders written by Geoffrey Hale and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade and investment policies face a changing geopolitical environment. They also face challenges from the interactions and limits of Canada’s multiple trade agreements with other countries. These challenges take on varied forms in different sectors that involve the bordering of energy trade, food safety, and related environmental and public health issues. Similarly, bordering dynamics differ significantly for cross border flows of tourism, skilled labour, and irregular migration. This book uncovers and analyzes factors that govern economic activity and human interaction across Canada’s “fluid” border. The contributors to this collection engage major domestic political, technical, and administrative factors that shape the conditions for and constraints on effective international policy and regulatory cooperation. Published in English.

Handbook of Research on Reinventing Economies and Organizations Following a Global Health Crisis

Author : Costa, Teresa Gomes da
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 179986927X
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Reinventing Economies and Organizations Following a Global Health Crisis written by Costa, Teresa Gomes da and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the global health crisis, economies had to adapt to combat pandemic situations. In the present pandemic crisis, new legislation, methods, labor approaches, values, and social behaviors have emerged with a huge impact in all organizations. However, countries have applied different solutions, procedures, and rules to deal with crises. Therefore, the impact has been different per country. Organizations need to understand their customers and businesses not only to increase operational efficiency but also to increase stakeholder’s satisfaction and their competitiveness in a sustainable way. Customers are becoming more exigent and markets more complex, calling for the need for higher differentiation. This was enhanced in this pandemic situation, and to survive, organizations needed to change and adapt to the new normal. The Handbook of Research on Reinventing Economies and Organizations Following a Global Health Crisis deals with management and economic issues, particularly with the reinvention of businesses and economies due to the pandemic situation and the relevance of entrepreneurship, innovation, and intensive knowledge used to deal with these changes. This book emphasizes the challenges, difficulties, and opportunities for the success of businesses and economies in periods of crisis and provides information for dealing with entrepreneurship and innovation, networks, and complementarities to recover businesses. The chapters also point out possible opportunities, challenges, and risks in the process of recovery highlighting innovation, internationalization, technology, and intensive knowledge in promoting economies and companies’ competitiveness. This book is ideal for entrepreneurs, managers, economists, directors, shareholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in how businesses reinvent and recover following a global health crisis.

Development Centre Seminars Foreign Direct Investment versus other Flows to Latin America

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264192522
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Development Centre Seminars Foreign Direct Investment versus other Flows to Latin America written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-03-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 11th International Forum on latin American Perspectives, which discussed the desirability of foreign direct investment over other flows, such as bank lending.

NGOs

Author : Thomas Richard Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199387532
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book NGOs written by Thomas Richard Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first historical account of international NGOs, from the French Revolution to the present, Thomas Davies places the contemporary debate on transnational civil society in context. In contrast to the conventional wisdom, which sees transnational civil society as a recent development taking place along a linear trajectory, he explores the long history of international NGOs in terms of a cyclical process characterized by three major waves: the era to 1914, the inter-war years, and the period since the Second World War. The breadth of transnational civil society activities explored is unprecedented in its diversity, from business associations to humanitarian organizations, peace groups to socialist movements, feminist organizations to pan-nationalist groups. The geographical scope covered is also extensive, and the analysis is richly supported with reference to a diverse array of previously unexplored sources. By revealing the role of civil society rather than governmental actors in the major trans- formations of the past two-and-a-half centuries, this book is for anyone interested in obtaining a new perspective on world history. The analysis concludes in the second decade of the twenty-first century, providing insights into the trajectory of transnational civil society in the post-9/11 and post-financial crisis eras.

The SAGE Handbook of International Corporate and Public Affairs

Author : Phil Harris
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473959071
Total Pages : 1045 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of International Corporate and Public Affairs written by Phil Harris and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 1045 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The SAGE Handbook of International Corporate and Public Affairs builds on the success of the first edition (2005) by comprehensively updating and enhancing the material and structure, setting a new standard for the practitioner and student of the global public affairs discipline. The new edition includes increased international coverage of the field, and a strong focus on emerging trends, as well as providing a comprehensive overview of the foundations and key aspects of the discipline. The Handbook is organised into six thematic sections, including a generously-sized section devoted to case studies of public affairs in action: Foundations of PA PA and its relationship to other Key Disciplines Emerging Trends in PA The Regional Development and Application of PA Case Studies of PA in Action Tactical Approaches to Executing PA. Containing contributions from leading experts in the field today, this Handbook is designed to serve the needs of scholars, researchers, students and professionals alike.

International Trade and Investment Law

Author : Leal-Arcas, Rafael
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781000778
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book International Trade and Investment Law written by Leal-Arcas, Rafael and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book examines international trade and investment law at various levels of governance, including unilateral, bilateral, regional, and multilateral arrangements.

The International Financial Architecture

Author : Peter B. Kenen
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780881322972
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The International Financial Architecture written by Peter B. Kenen and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenen (economics and international finance, Princeton University) reviews the reform efforts that followed the 1994-95 Mexican crisis, and evaluates their results in the time since then. He compares the existing efforts with the more radical recommendations of the Meltzer Report, and considers the implications of his analysis for the role of the IMF. He then offers his own recommendations for further reform. c. Book News Inc.

Why Global Commitment Really Matters!

Author : Howard Lewis
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780881322989
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Why Global Commitment Really Matters! written by Howard Lewis and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For firms both large and small, global integration usually has a very positive impact. This work explores new gains from deep international integration. The authors supplement their research with real-life profiles of representative American exporters, importers, investors abroad and others.

The Future of the Global Economic Organizations

Author : John Head
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004479678
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Global Economic Organizations written by John Head and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a skilled arms-length evaluation, from a legal perspective, of the main criticisms that have been leveled recently at the key global economic organizations – that is, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and its fellow multilateral developmental banks (MDBs), and the World Trade Organization (WTO). THE FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS stands out from most of the growing body of literature on the IMF, MDBS, and the WTO in two main respects: the book’s scope and the author’s experience. Whereas numerous commentators have focused on particular strengths and weaknesses of one or the other of the GEOs, and have argued for changes on the basis of specific areas of operation, this book takes a wider view to examine all the GEOs at once. This broader scope reveals commonalities in the criticisms. For example, complaints about so-called “democracy deficit” obviously can be applied to all GEOs but with different nuances in emphasis and sting. Against the background of his own experience as a legal counsel for one of the regional MDBs and for the IMF and a legal career that has focused on international economic law, Head distills the swarm of complaints leveled at the IMF, MDBS, and the WTO into 25 specific criticisms and then offers succinct explanations of why some of those criticisms should be dismissed, why some of them are valid, and how those valid criticisms should form the basis for an important restructuring of the institutions, including amendments to the charters that establish and govern their operations. Head speaks largely to three audiences here: persons in various professional positions; persons in national governments and politics around the world who are responsible for implementing their government’s foreign policy; and to more general curious readers on whose involvement in civic life any society ultimately depends. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Introduction to International Relations

Author : Joseph Grieco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350933732
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to International Relations written by Joseph Grieco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and approachable guide to international affairs. Bringing together decades of combined experience in researching and teaching global politics from three acclaimed scholars, this book introduces you to the key concepts in international relations while equipping you with the tools to successfully analyse the rapidly changing world in which we live. Carefully and pedagogically structured, the book is driven by nuanced enduring questions to support active engagement with the subject matter. It covers everything from war and its causes to the pursuit of peace, the role of non-state actors on the world stage and transnational concerns such as climate change. Thought-provoking boxed features throughout highlight disparities between theory and practice, provide overviews of key research and make use of the influential levels-of-analysis framework. This third edition is completely updated throughout, including extensive coverage of the latest advances in international relations scholarship and supported by a wealth of contemporary case examples. The text is supported by a rich companion website with study guides, instructor resources and interactive exercises to allow you to consider complicated political decisions for yourself. Introduction to International Relations is the ultimate companion for undergraduate students of politics and international relations in need of an exciting and rigorous introduction to the subject.

Sustaining Global Growth and Development

Author : Michele Fratianni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317047532
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Global Growth and Development written by Michele Fratianni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustaining Global Growth and Development focuses on the new challenges for sustaining growth in the twenty-first century and the role of the G7 and IMF in meeting these challenges amidst the new processes of regionalism now emerging. The volume has three central purposes: · to assess how and how well the G7 has addressed its core 2002 agenda of sustaining global growth, reducing poverty in Africa, and combating terrorism and its financing · to examine how the IMF has approached these issues, and related work of the G7 · to explore how the G7, IMF and other international institutions are addressing global growth and development challenges in the context of the new processes of regionalism. Pressures such as currency consolidation in Asia and economic union in Africa are studied. This book builds on previous volumes in the series with a heavy focus on the World Bank, the regional development banks and the many other international institutions that work in the field of development.

Analyzing the Global Political Economy

Author : Andrew Walter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837804
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Analyzing the Global Political Economy written by Andrew Walter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideally suited to upper-undergraduate and graduate students, Analyzing the Global Political Economy critically assesses the convergence between IPE, comparative political economy, and economics. Andrew Walter and Gautam Sen show that a careful engagement with economics is essential for understanding both contemporary IPE and for analyzing the global political economy. The authors also argue that the deployment of more advanced economic theories should not detract from the continuing importance for IPE of key concepts from political science and international relations. IPE students with little or no background in economics will therefore find this book useful, and economics students interested in political economy will be alerted to the comparative strengths of political science and other social science disciplines. A concise look at the foundations of analysis in the political economy of global trade, money, finance, and investment Suitable for upper-undergraduate and graduate students with some or no economic background Techniques and findings from a range of academic disciplines, including international relations, political science, economics, sociology, and history Further reading and useful weblinks including a range of relevant data sources, listed in each chapter