Title Globalization and development : a Latin American and Caribbean perspective / edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Juan Martin

Published Palo Alto, Calif. : Stanford Social Sciences ; Washington, DC : World Bank, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) Series Latin American development forum series Latin American development forum. Contents Globalization: A Historical, Multidimensional Perspective -- Economic Globalization -- Noneconomic Dimensions of Globalization -- Ethical and Cultural Dimensions -- Political Dimension -- Opportunities and Risks -- International Trade and the New Global Production Structure -- International Trade -- International Trade and Economic Growth: A Variable Historical Relationship -- Development of the Institutional Framework for International Trade -- Recent Patterns of World Trade -- Two Challenges Posed by the Relationship between Trade and Economic Growth -- The New Global Production Structure -- Microeconomic Foundations -- New Forms of Production and Market Organization -- Implications for Business Decisions and Strategies -- Patterns of FDI and TNC Strategies at the Global Level -- The International Mobility of Capital and Labor -- International Finance and Macroeconomic Regimes -- History of the International Financial System -- Recent Changes and Volatility in Financial Markets -- Capital Flows to Developing Countries -- International Migration -- Inequalities and Asymmetries in the Global Order -- Inequalities in Global Income Distribution -- Long-Term Disparities between Regions and Countries -- Overall Effect of International and National Inequality -- Basic Asymmetries in the Global Order -- Extreme Concentration of Technical Progress in Industrial Countries -- Developing Countries' Greater Macroeconomic Vulnerability -- High Capital Mobility and Low Labor Mobility -- The Rise and Fall of International Cooperation for Development -- An Agenda for the Global Era -- Fundamental Principles for Building a Better Global Order -- Three Key Objectives -- Global Rules and Institutions that Respect Diversity -- Complementarity of Global, Regional, and National Institution Building -- Equitable Participation and Appropriate Rules of Governance -- National Strategies for Dealing with Globalization -- The Role and Basic Components of National Strategies -- Macroeconomic Strategy -- Building Systemic Competitiveness -- Environmental Sustainability -- Social Strategies in an Era of Globalization -- The Key Role of Action at the Regional Level -- The Global Agenda -- The Provision of Global Public Goods in the Macroeconomic Sphere -- Sustainable Development as a Global Public Good -- The Correction of Financial and Macroeconomic Asymmetries -- Overcoming Production and Technological Asymmetries -- The Full Inclusion of Migration on the International Agenda -- Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: The Foundations for Global Citizenship -- Inclusion and Identity: The Issue of Ethnicity -- The Long-Term Deterioration of Raw Material Prices -- Interest Rates and Emerging-Market Bond Spreads -- World Distribution of Research and Development Activities -- Economic Links between Puerto Rico and the United States -- Ratification of Human Rights Conventions -- Trade and Global Output, 1870-1998 -- Export Growth and GDP Growth in 35 Countries -- Exports from Latin America -- Real Commodity Price Indexes -- Trade and GDP in Latin America, 1870-1998 -- Relationships among Economic Growth, Trade, and the Technology Gap in Latin America, 1950-2000 -- Deindustrialization, Foreign Trade, Employment, and Income -- International Monetary Fund: Total Credits and Outstanding Loans, 1950-2001 -- Financial Derivatives Traded on Organized Exchanges -- Spreads in Emerging Markets -- Net Flows to Developing Countries -- Credits of International Financial Institutions -- External Debt -- International Inequality, Weighted by Population, 1950-98 -- Global Income Inequality, 1820-1992 -- Inequality and Per Capita Income -- Instability of Economic Growth -- Global Exports, by Origin -- GDP Growth: World and Largest Regions, 1820-1998 -- Structure of World Imports, by Origin and Destination, 1985 and 2000 -- Dynamic and Nondynamic Products in World Imports, 1985-2000 -- Export Structure, by Type of Competitive Situation -- Foreign Direct Investment -- Foreign Direct Investment Inflows -- Geographic Concentration of Foreign Subsidiaries in Selected Manufacturing Industries, by Technology Intensiveness, 1999 -- Financial Holdings of Institutional Investors in Selected OECD Countries -- Net Resource Flows, 1973-2001 -- Net Resource Flows, 1990-99 -- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: The 10 Main Countries of Destination of Immigrants -- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Nations of Origin of Persons Migrating to the Main Recipient Countries, 1999 -- Patterns of Interregional Disparities -- Indexes of Per Capita Income Inequality in the World -- Standard Deviation of Per Capita GDP Growth -- World Trend in Income Inequality, 1975-95 -- World Distribution of Expenditures in R & D and Number of Researchers, 1996-97 -- International Asymmetries: Share of Developing Countries in the World Economy Summary The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical and multidimensional assessment of the globalization process from the perspective of developing countries Analysis International Politics Notes "Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean"--Cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Globalization. Economic development. globalism. economic development. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics. Economic development Economic history Globalization International economic relations Desenvolvimento econômico -- América latina. Desenvolvimento econômico -- Caribe. DEVELOPMENT. LATIN AMERICA. GLOBALIZATION. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS. INTERNATIONAL TRADE. TRADE STRUCTURE. ECONOMIC GROWTH. PRODUCTION. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS. FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT. CAPITAL MARKETS. CAPITAL MOVEMENTS. LABOUR MOBILITY. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION. INCOME DISTRIBUTION. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES. ECONOMIC POLICY. PUBLIC GOODS. ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS. SUBJECT Latin America -- Foreign economic relations Caribbean Area -- Foreign economic relations Latin America -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074888 Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020285 Subject Caribbean Area Latin America Form Electronic book Author Ocampo, José Antonio. Martin, Juan, 1941- United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. ISBN 0585479666 9780585479668 9780821383704 0821383701

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