Author: Richard S. Newfarmer
Publisher: JAI Press(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Richard S. Newfarmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric industries
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: Richard Kozul-Wright
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349265233
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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This book brings together papers written by representatives from UN agencies and academics who take a fresh look at the expanding role of transnational corporations and foreign direct investment in the world economy. These papers deal with such issues as the nature and extent of globalisation, the shifting relations between transnational corporations and national economies, and the opportunities and obstacles facing policy makers in the rapidly changing global economy.

Author: Ann Harrison
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226318001
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.

Author: Rhys Jenkins
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134905321X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Sanjaya Lall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415085366
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Richard E. Caves
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521478588
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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This book surveys the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist.

Author: Mr.Hamid R Davoodi
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 9781589062290
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an economically diverse region. Despite undertaking economic reforms in many countries, and having considerable success in avoiding crises and achieving macroeconomic stability, the region’s economic performance in the past 30 years has been below potential. This paper takes stock of the region’s relatively weak performance, explores the reasons for this out come, and proposes an agenda for urgent reforms.

Author: Robert Vitalis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520085947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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"A very important work. . . . Its theoretically innovative approach should ensure it an audience well outside of Middle Eastern studies, and its success at linking economics/business, politics, and history should broaden its appeal across a number of fields."--Zachary Lockman, Harvard University

Author: Peter B. Evans
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140082172X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy."