Product Description: Hans Singer is undoubtedly one of, if not the, world's major scholars in the field of Development Economics. Over the last six decades he has made numerous contributions to the subject both as scholar and practitioner. This book contains 27 essays that were prepared for a conference that was held in Innsbruck Austria in May 1996 to celebrate his 85th birthday and represents a major and important overview of issues in development economics from the most eminent scholars in the field...read more

Product Description: At the beginning of the third millennium, underdevelopment and poverty continue to remain critical problems on a global scale. The purpose of this volume is to explore the various ways in which the institutions of the global economy might rise to the challenges posed by the twin goals of increasing the pace of global development and alleviating poverty...read more

Product Description: This book provides rigorous analysis of the wide range of questions surrounding the role of international institutions in governing global business, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs). The analysis, both theoretical and empirical, focuses on the corporate governance of MNEs and to what extent their management takes into account the negative effects of their activities...read more

Product Description: In an increasingly globalised world, it is becoming ever more difficult for nation states to adapt to the international consequences of market failures, government failures and global externalities without co-operation and co-ordination with other countries...read more

Product Description: Over the last decade Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) became one of the main vehicles for the increasing integration of the world economy. Although almost all countries have started to compete eagerly for FDI the consequences of increasing FDI-flows are still a point of issue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume encompasses the political and social effects of globalization as well as theoretical and statistical analysis. It attempts to evaluate the claims that globalization leads to growth and to convergence in the international distribution of income. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)