Description |
xxvii, 748 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. The Genesis of the Current Global Economic System / Irma Adelman -- 2. Trends in Intercountry Income Differences: World Levels and Decomposition Between and Within Regions / Amnon Levy-Livermore and Khorshed Chowdhury -- 3. External Debts and their Implications for Economic Growth / Khorshed Chowdhury and Amnon Levy-Livermore -- 4. Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Selected LDCs, 1963-92 / Akorlie A. Nyatepe-Coo -- 5. Globalized Investing and the Political Risk Aspects of International Sovereign Debt and Foreign Direct Investments / Boon-Chye Lee and John G. Powell -- 6. Trends in the Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment: the Case of the Asia-Pacific Region / Chung-Sok Suh and Jung-Soo Seo -- 7. The Role of Multinational Corporations in Globalizing the World Economy: Evidence from Affiliates of US Multinational Companies / Bijit Bora |
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8. The Socially Optimal Level of Saving - An International Comparison / Ross S. Guest and Ian M. McDonald -- 9. From Bretton Woods to the World Trade Organization and the Formation of Regional Trading Blocs / Joan R. Rodgers -- 10. Trade Regimes and GATT: Resource-Intensive versus Knowledge-Intensive Growth / Graciela Chichilnisky -- 11. European Unification: Between Reality and Myth / Charles Harvie -- 12. Trade Liberalization in the Asia-Pacific Region / George Fane -- 13. APEC Without South Asia / A. D. V. de S. Indraratna -- 14. Institutional and Policy Aspects of Transition: An Empirical Analysis / Irma Adelman and Dusan Vujovic -- 15. A Macroeconomic Analysis of Economies in Transition / Max Gillman -- 16. The Transition of the Centrally Planned Economies in Eastern Europe to Market Economies: the Cases of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland / Charles Harvie -- 17. Labour Issues in the Former Centrally Planned Economies in Eastern Europe / Raymond Markey -- 18. The Transition of Centrally Planned Economies in East Asia into Market Economies / Charles Harvie -- 19. International Exchange-Rate Movements and their Effects on Prices, Balance of Payments, Output and Employment / Anthony G. Webber -- 20. Internationalization and Integration of Financial and Capital Markets / Christopher Adam -- 21. Relationships between Equity Markets in the Asia-Pacific Region / Tony Naughton -- 22. Integration of Market Economies and the Rights of Labour: International Regulation of Labour Standards / Robert Castle, D. P. Chaudhri and Chris Nyland -- 23. Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Regionalism versus Multilateralism / Carolyn Tanner and Alan Swinbank -- 24. Emissions, Externalities and Economic Instruments in a Global Context / Ann Hodgkinson -- 25. Trends in Energy Sources, Prices, Regulations, and Technology, and their Implications for Global Growth and Pollution / Peter Berck and Michael B. Ward -- 26. The Implications of North-South Trade for Natural Resource Depletion and Environmental Degradation / Larry Karp and Sandeep Sacheti |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Competition, International.
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Economic history -- 1990-
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Globalization.
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International economic relations.
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Markets.
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Author |
Levy-Livermore, Amnon.
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LC no. |
97044513 |
ISBN |
185898467X |
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