Product Description: Debt-for-development exchanges are an important financing tool for development. They make debt relief more politically and practically attractive to donor countries, and serve the development of recipient countries through the cancellation of external debt and the funding of important development projects...read more

Product Description: The global financial system--founded on principles of capital account liberalization, the process by which barriers to capital flows between nations are eliminated and financial globalization facilitated--has proven highly crisis-prone and deficient for debtors and creditors alike...read more

Product Description: ‘History has a way of repeating itself in financial matters because of a kind of sophisticated stupidity,’ John Kenneth Galbraith once wrote. In this superb new book, Ross Buckley suggests that the stupidity identified by Galbraith can be traced to the persistence of an inadequate legal system for the regulation of international finance − a system rooted in the failure of economists and investors to take the legal demands of real-world finance seriously...read more

Product Description: The appointment of Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi as Director-General of the World Trade Organization in 2002 reflects the changing power realities within the WTO. Coupled to this is the growing sense among developing countries that they have been cheated in the way the Uruguay Round commitments have been implemented and a return to unilateralism by the U...read more

Product Description: The emerging markets have attained prominence of late as the recent troubles in the principal emerging markets in Asia, Russia and Latin America have threatened global stability. This book is the first detailed study of emerging markets debt and offers a unique insight into one of the world's more significant, and less understood, financial markets...read more

Product Description: The protection afforded to shareholders in general, and to minority shareholders specifically, may differ from country to country. This book examines the methods used in different countries to protect minority shareholders. Every author gives an overview of his or her country's company law...read more