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Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformation in the US South and the Mexican South
R. Tardanico Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0415924324 |
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Poverty or Development offers a unique look at world inequality, by comparing the development problems and prospects of southern Mexico and the U.S. South in the context of global restructuring and NAFTA. Both regions have a history and legacy as labor-repressive producers of primary commodities. However, the U.S. South today encompasses poles of considerable wealth and poverty, while the Mexican South remains mired in the world periphery. Ranging from the Mexico-U.S. apparel connection and the restructuring of Mexico's coffee farming to agribusiness and immigration in Florida, the contributors trace the past and future of these two Souths.
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Transforming East Asia: The Evolution of Regional Economic Integration
Naoko Munakata Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press and Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0815758871 |
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East Asian economic integration is on the rise. Free trade agreements have proliferated throughout the region, and moves toward broader forms of regional cooperation are afoot. These initiatives have caused alarm in some quarters, leading observers to warn that East Asia may become a closed, inward-looking bloc. In this timely and important book, Naoko Munakata challenges this pessimistic interpretation.
Drawing on two decades of experience as an economic official and trade negotiator, Munakata argues that East Asian integration has little to do with either defensiveness or anti-Western sentiment. Instead, she maintains, it reflects pragmatic calculations of economic interest, as well as a desire to build trust and a sense of community across the region. Transforming East Asia explores the impact these factors have had on developments since the mid-1980s--a tumultuous period that has witnessed important changes in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the rise of China. The book also offers policy prescriptions for building on regionalism's achievements to date while identifying key uncertainties about the prospects for an East Asian community.
In the coming decades, the rise of China, its relationship with Japan, and the institutional arrangements that bind those countries to the United States and their neighbors in East and Southeast Asia will become critical factors in the global balance of power. Transforming East Asia is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand these far-reaching developments.
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Mercosur: Regional Integration, World Markets
Manufacturer: Lynne Rienner Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1555878385 |
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Cooperation and Competition in a Common Market: Studies on the Formation of MERCOSUR (Contributions to Economics)
Jaime Behar Manufacturer: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3790812803 |
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This book analyses the economic implications of the most important regional integration agreement in Latin America, the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR). Accordingly empirical evidence and theoretical arguments on the costs and benefits of MERCOSUR are provided and the effects of the elimination of custom barriers to intra-regional trade on trade patterns, product differentiation and cost efficiency are quantified. Other issues considered are the obstacles to policy coordination, in particular national divergences in income levels and growth rates. As an up-to-date and comprehensive study of trade flows and economic conditions within the MERCOSUR this book will be an essential reading for all those who wish to get behind the immediate arguments about the future of integration in South America and the prospects of further economic and monetary cooperation in that region.Customer Reviews:
Everyone studing Mercosur formation should read this book.......2001-03-19
Very useful as un update and to undertand the prospects of future integration in this developing region.
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City of Gold: An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent
David Westbrook Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415945402 |
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David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life. In this wide-ranging, multi-tiered exploration of our contemporary global political economy, he touches on four major themes: the historical foundation of the city of gold, an assessment of its political scope, its current discontents, and ways to make a better--albeit imperfect--world from within it.
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European Economies in Transition: In Search of a New Growth Path
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0312232241 |
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This book focuses on the structural changes in private enterprises and public institutions that aim at lifting the continental productive system onto a higher growth path. Organized along three research lines, the chapters offer new, provocative treatments of the adjustments in monetary and real sectors accompanying the European economic integration, the consequences of specific legal/institutional changes, and national systems of technological and institutional innovation. Given the fundamental changes of policy regimes involved, only a comparative (to some extent, eclectic) conceptual framework may provide insights about the ultimate economic state eventually reached and the manifold of processes leading towards it. The unifying feature of the book lies in its attempt to highlight the complementary roles of private and public sectors in promoting technology, human capital and institutional engineering as the ingredients in any successful recipe for growth and convergence.
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European Integration, Regional Policy, and Growth
Manufacturer: World Bank Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0821353950 |
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The European Union stands out as one of the regions of the world that has most explicitly and deliberately attempted to reduce regional disparities within its membership. How effective this effort has been is a matter of open debate. The current enlargement of the European Union (EU) to less affluent new members gives rise to a fresh set of questions:How can the cohesion objective best be advanced in a context where initial income disparities will now be greater?
Will the accession process cause the income of the poorer regions to converge towards EU standards or, to the contrary, will prevailing disparities be exacerbated in the process?
What, if anything, can the new members do about this? What help can they expect from the EU structural funds, and how should the funds be applied to maximize the cohesion objective?
To answer these questions, the World Bank, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and the CIDOB Foundation brought together leading scholars, senior policy-makers, and practitioners from existing and new EU member countries, as well as representatives from the European Commission to a conference in Barcelona in October 2002. European Integration, Regional Policy, and Growth presents the results of these discussions.
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The function of regional policy is to stimulate growth in less developed areas as to best benefit from economic integration. While the overall objective is clear, the actual implementation raises a series of issues. Targeting regional inequalities should not be confused with reducing individual income inequalities. Consequently, rather than serving an income redistribution purpose, the goal is to generate sustained growth in less developed regions. While a series of income transfers may induce a succession of temporary reductions in regional discrepancies, it must not be mistaken with triggering sustained regional convergence, which would be the successful conclusion of regional policy. Therefore, it is also critical to appropriately define the territorial units being compared, as to avoid targeting inescapable regional differences that are not a result of underdevelopment. This book brings together the views of leading academics, European Commission representatives and senior policy makers from national governments in charge or regional policy. The papers organized in this volume are the results of the discussions held at a conference on regional policy held in Barcelona and jointly organized by the World Bank, the Bertelsmann Foundation and the CIDOB foundation. In an effort to draw policy lessons for the new members of the European Union, the concurring lesson was that it is not investment per se that leads to growth, but when the appropriate national policies for growth are implemented, investment follows. These include avoiding permanent income transfers and other obstacles to labor market flexibility and creating a favorable environment to attract private investments.
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Accelerating Regional Integration in Africa: Overview
Manufacturer: United Nations ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9211250927 |
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This overview is drawn from the groundbreaking policy research report "Assessing Regional Integration in Africa" (Sales No. E.04.II.K.3). It reflects on the integration agenda, revisits some of its payoffs for Africa, and considers the best experiences, the pitfalls, and the challenges in moving forward to integrate Africa's economies.
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African and Arab Co-Operation for Development (Studies in Regional and Interregional Co-Operation Series)
Manufacturer: Tycooly Intl ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0907567754 |
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Annual Review of Developments in Globalization and Regional Integration in the Countries of the Escwa Region 2004
United Nations Manufacturer: United Nations ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9211282799 |
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This publication is the third issue prepared by the Executive Secretariat of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the United Nations regional commission covering the Middle East. The Annual Review offers and assessment f the manifestations of globalization of Arab countries and monitors developments with regard to regional integration.
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A New Miscellany at Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers And Others
Robert Edgar Megarry Manufacturer: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1584776315 |
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Megarry, Sir Robert; Edited by Bryan A. Garner. A New Miscellany at Law. Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others. Clark, New Jersey: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., December 2005. (We are co-publishers and the exclusive distributors in North and South America). xiii, 450 pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-631-4. ISBN-10: 1-58477-631-5.* Described by David Pannick QC in the Times, January 17, 2006 as, "one of the great works of legal literature of our times." Should horses in Charleston be required to wear diapers? Does the `hotchpot' rule apply when dividing a testator's 17 residuary elephants? Which verse in the Old Testament was the life-saving `neck verse'? May sexual intercourse be conducted on a `without prejudice' basis? These questions and many others like them are raised but not always fully answered in A New Miscellany-at-Law. This follows the same style as its two predecessors but consists of entirely new material, some of it suggested by the readers of the first two volumes. Like them, it collects accounts of strange and remarkable cases, striking court-room exchanges, wise and witty utterances from the Bench, and much else that illumines the law. For the common law world its reach is global, with many riches from the USA; and Scotland is not forgotten. Although the book is primarily for lawyers, a glossary and explanatory footnotes enable non-lawyers to share in the humour. Some may read the book from cover to cover; but for most there will be the pleasures of browsing, often surprisingly prolonged. A New Miscellany-at-Law also includes many other jewels. There is the touching Conveyancer's Ode to His Beloved, the court's refusal to consider whether trespassing bees should be classified as invitees, licensees or trespassers, a deplorable account of a wife being part-exchanged for a Newfoundland dog, the future Lord Denning's reference to a wife who `was actually committing adultery while denying it in the witness box', and `fustum funnidos tantaraboo' in Chancery.
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A New Miscellany-at-law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers And Others
R. E. Megarry Manufacturer: Hart Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000R0CUI8 |
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Industry Research Using the Economic Census: How to Find It, How to Use It
Jennifer C. Boettcher , and Leonard M. Gaines Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 157356351X |
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Many business researchers, from novice to expert, have been amazed to find that the answers to their questions could be found in the Economic Censuses provided by the U.S. government. Until now, there have been no comprehensive guides to this valuable resource. Industry Research Using the Economic Census explains Census concepts, methods, terminology, and data sources in an understandable manner, and assists Census users in locating needed Census data. Designed as a working handbook, it does not duplicate the data from the census, but introduces users to the features, uses, and formats of the data. This guidebook also discusses the important changes that the 1997 and 2002 Economic Censuses introduced from previous versions. Librarians, businesspeople, researchers, faculty, and students will find this guide valuable for mining the riches found in the Economic Censuses.
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Europe Can Afford to Work: Strategies for Growth and Employment in the European Community
Francis Cripps Manufacturer: Spokesman Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0851245501 |
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Full Employment and High Growth in Europe: A New Cycle of Reforms to Play a Leading Role in the New World Economy
Mario Baldassarri , and Francesco Busato Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1403920702 |
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Mario Baldassarri and Francesco Busato evaluate the impact produced by a new cycle of structural reforms over European Union economies. The structural reforms concern the size and the composition of government expenditure, the good and services markets, and the labour market. The book illustrates how the key challenge for European countries is not to discuss how policies could be implemented (e.g. fiscal policy competition vs fiscal policy coordination), but to implement them.
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A Future for the Excluded - Job creation and Income generation by the Poor. Clodomir Santos de Morais and the Organization Workshop
R joint editors see above: Carmen , Raff CARMEN , see above: joint editors , and n.a. Manufacturer: Zed Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 185649702X |
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Growth and Employment in Europe
Martin Zagler Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0333777611 Release Date: 2004-08-12 |
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Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of growth. He asks, both in theory and in evidence, whether a change in the growth rate of the economy will affect the level of unemployment which the economy experiences and whether a decline in the level of unemployment will foster or deteriorate the growth performance of the economy.
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Growth and Employment in Europe and North America
Oudenaren Manufacturer: RAND ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0833022121 |
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Macro and Micro Policies for More Growth and Employment: Symposium 1987
Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 081330900X |
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A Model for Income Distribution, Employment, and Growth: A Case Study of Indonesia (World Bank)
Syamaprased Gupta Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0801819504 |
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Precarious Jobs in Labour Market Regulation: The Growth of Atypical Employment in Western Europe
Gerry Rodgers Manufacturer: International Labour Org ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9290144521 |
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Social Pacts, Employment and Growth: A Reappraisal of Ezio Tarantelli's Thought (AIEL Series in Labour Economics)
Manufacturer: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3790819158 |
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Social pacts have long been a centerpiece of European politics. They are characterized by negotiations among government, employers, workers, and other interest groups over wages and other economic issues. With the growth of globalization, some economists have called for a reduced role of social pacts and centralized wage bargaining, to be replaced by increased flexibility in labor agreements; others argue in favor of social pacts. In this book leading European economists examine the current status of social pacts and their future. Particular focus is placed on the role of trade unions, and the positive role they can play for economic and social stability by agreeing to set wages on the basis of a target rate of inflation. This was the argument of Ezio Tarantelli, a young Italian economist killed by Red Brigades in 1985. As the European Union expands and social change accelerates, this insightful book will be of interest to all concerned with social and economic developments across Europe.
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Unemployment and Growth in the Western Economies (Council on Foreign Relations Book/Europe-America, No 2)
Manufacturer: New York University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0814765890 |
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Break the Rules in Selling: A Manual for the Advanced Salesperson
Michael Beer Manufacturer: Not Avail ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1852520787 |
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Break the Rules Selling
John Graham Manufacturer: Superiorbooks.Com, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1931055629 |
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A call to action! This book delivers.......2002-12-02
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Scrapping the rules. (military bases break rules on selling recyclables): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Sarah Johansson Manufacturer: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008YZ4AE Release Date: 2005-06-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on March 1, 1994. The length of the article is 2046 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Como Vender De Otra Manera: Romipiendo Las Reglas / Break the Rules in Selling
Michael Beer Manufacturer: Ediciones Granica, S.A. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N79TD4 |
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Depository Institutions Disaster Relief Act of 1993 (SuDoc AE 2.110:103-76)
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Manufacturer: U.S. G.P.O. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010GCI8 |
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