Challenges to globalization
Subtitle: analyzing the economics
By: edited by Robert E. Baldwin and L. Alan Winters.
Contributors: Baldwin, Robert E.; Winters, L. Alan.
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: International economic relations; Globalization; Pressure groups; Income distribution; Human rights
Description: 'Challenges to Globalization' evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists & anti-globalists regarding the relationship between globalization & democracy, the environmental impact of globalization, & the associated expansion of trade & its effects on prices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Challenges to globalization: an overview / Robert E. Baldwin, L. Alan Winters; title: Assessing globalization's critics / Kimberly Ann Elliott, Debayani Kar, J. David Richardson; title: Globalization and democracy / Carl B. Hamilton; title: Geography and export performance: external market access and internal supply capacity / Stephen Redding, Anthony J. Venables; title: Globalization and international commodity trade with specific reference to the West African cocoa producers / Christopher L. Gilbert, Panos Varangis; title: Globalization and dirty industries / Jean-Marie Grether, Jaime de Melo; title: The role of globalization in the within-industry shift away from unskilled workers in France / Vanessa Strauss-Kahn; title: The brain drain: curse or boom? a survey of the literature / Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi, L. Alan Winters; title: The effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in developing countries / Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern; title: Home- and host-country effects of foreign direct investment / Robert E. Lipsey; title: Competition for multinational investment in developing countries: human capital, infrastructure, and market size / David L. Carr, James R. Markusen, Keith E. Maskus; title: The cross-border mergers and acquisitions wave of the late 1990s / Simon J. Evenett; title: Financial opening: evidence and policy options / Joshua Aizenman; title: Openness and growth: what's the empirical relationship? Robert E. Baldwin.