Offers a new perspective on the roles of the state and multilateral corporations in changing patterns of international trade.

Sugar is a commonplace product with a complex background, mainly because of the high degree of protectionism given to the industry and the benefits of ensuring domestic producers stay in business. This book asks why there are such disagreements over trade policy, who profits within the current regime, and where power ultimately lies.

Focuses on US trade building with developing countries. This book describes trade capacity building and discusses the history of Trade Capacity Building (TCB)in foreign assistance. It also includes a discussion of legislation affecting TCB, including appropriations and legislative restrictions on foreign assistance.

A major issue on the agenda of the Doha Round of multilateral negotiations by members of the World Trade Organization concerns how and to what extent policies that affect agricultural trade should be liberalised. This book reviews the status of agricultural negotiations for domestic support, market access, and export subsidies.

Some US producers of the kinds of merchandise subject to antidumping or countervailing duties have complained that USCBP has not been able to collect the full amount of duties owed on targeted imports. One of the 'loopholes' cited was a law that allowed importers receiving goods from new exporters to post bonds instead of cash deposits.

Examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization - above all in the Great Depression - to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration.

It has always proved difficult to achieve trade liberalization for agricultural products.This book shows how a new Agriculture Agreement in the WTO led to CAP reform, which in turn allowed for greater flexibility in subsequent international trade negotiations.

Offers a new perspective on the roles of the state and multilateral corporations in changing patterns of international trade.

Environmental issues have had a direct impact on technology assessment and policy decisions. Eco-efficiency refers to the paradigm that firms can achieve long-run economic gains as a consequence of strategically managing environmental efficiencies. This book gathers information from around the globe in this field.

Treats the term 'global social economy' as comprehending issues such as: the relation of capitalism to human flourishing; the role of international governance in the world economy; the transformation of work and use of time in internationalizing economies; and cross-country developments in gender, poverty, and ageing ethics.

Updated every two years, this book provides a survey of the key features of the national economies that make up the European Union. It covers all 15 member states of the enlarged EU and includes an appendix with 30 pages of up-to-date statistics of key economic indicators.

This book addresses the process of global operations management, from strategic thinking all the way through planning and execution. It demonstrates the implications for the different functional areas involved like operations, marketing, and information systems and contains numerous cases from Europe, the US, Latin America, and Asia.

A study of the rapid emergence of active financial markets in a number of developing and transition countries. The papers address issues such as restructuring pension systems, organizing new equity markets, designing financial systems to deal with systemic risk, and dealing with bad debts.

This text explains the latest developments in regional economics and policy with examples and case material from around the world. The book is written in two linked but free-standing parts, one on regional economics and the other on regional policy.

The most remarkable thing that happened to the world economy after 9/11 was nothing. The post 9/11 global economy is a turbulent system, flexible, resilient, open, and self-directing. This title offers a reckoning with the nature of this world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good or ill.

International trade has shaped the modern world. This book examines the successive waves of globalization and 'deglobalization' that have occurred during the past thousand years, looking at the technological and political causes behind these long-term trends.

This book uses an analysis of the garment industry in South Asia to uphold the predictions of neo-classical economic trade theory, but suggest that there is little to learn from it about business, structural, and institutional practices or critical linkages and partnerships.

Whether it was questioning if NAFTA should be reopened for negotiation or whether free trade agreements (FTAs) with Korea and Columbia should receive Congressional consideration, trade has never been far from the front pages. This book outlines the fundamentals of US trade policy, and gives an analysis of US relations with major trading partners.

How does the current financial crisis affect the relative positions of the dollar and the euro as global currencies? Based on a conference held at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in October 2008, this book answers this question and provides an assessment of the euro's stability and strength.