How Inequality, AI and Climate Will Usher in a New World Order
What is the impact of COVID-19 on world economies? If the cost of providing universal health care is lower than the cost of building a political movement to prevent it, would politicians still view it as socialism? In a world where algorithms and robots take the jobs of immigrants and citizens alike, are border controls an effective response? If ......
Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500-1700
An Object of Seduction explores the early modern trans-Pacific export of Chinese silk to New Spain. It argues that the increasing demand for silk contributed to the parallel development of silk fashion and sericulture in China and New Spain, and also created conflicts on imperial regulations about foreign trade and hierarchical systems.
Japan and the United States in the Evolving Asia-Pacific Order
Its economy still struggling after two decades of low growth, Japan now faces a difficult moment as it confronts this ongoing challenge to economic renewal. In Dilemmas of a Trading Nation, Mireya Solis describes how Japan's economic choices are important for the United States, as well.
British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British
Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of Atlantic shipping. This book examines the networks that connected British settlers in New York and the Caribbean and Dutch traders in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonies in North America and the Caribbean.
Persistently large external imbalances in the world economy contributed to the outbreak of the recent financial crisis. Are such imbalances really a problem? If so, why and for whom? What should be done about them - if anything - and what does the future likely hold for transpacific trade relations? In this timely book, Asian and American ......
Mexico Confronts the Challenges of Global Competition
Today's Mexico is strongly determined to become a full player in the globalizing international economy. But do the underlying institutional and cultural elements exist to support such an economic effort? In The End of Nostalgia, editor Diana Villiers Negroponte and colleagues from both sides of the Rio Grande examine the path that Mexico will ......
British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British
Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of Atlantic shipping. The author examines the networks that connected British settlers in New York and the Caribbean and Dutch traders in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonies in North America and the Caribbean.
A real-world assessment of Fair Trade's effectiveness. Drawing upon anthropological studies of a variety of regions and commodity systems including Darjeeling tea, coffee, crafts, and cut flowers, this title uses ethnographic case studies to assess whether the Fair Trade Movement is actually achieving its goals.
Developing Countries and the WTO Dispute Settlement
The World Trade Organization -backbone of today's international commercial relations -requires member countries to self-enforce exporters' access to foreign markets.
Is a Collision Inevitable? Brookings Trade Forum 08/09
Brookings Trade Forum provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The 2008/2009 edition focuses on climate policy and its impact on trade.
Contents include: China and FDI; Productivity and Taxes as Drivers of FDI; How to Investigate the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Development and Use the Results to Guide Policy; Profit Sharing between Governments and Multinationals in Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel; Returns on FDI: Does the U.S. Really Do ......
The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization
This thoughtful volume assesses the likely impact of reformed trade policies on the poorest of the poor -those on the bottom economic rungs in developing nations.
The author considers the implications of deeper integration in the international economy for developing countries. She traces the reasons for the developing countries' reversals of earlier policies and demonstrates the importance of the open trading system for them.
In the past 15 years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have staged a remarkable revolution -in the way they trade with their neighbors. First, after decades of restrictive import policies, several countries began to liberalize their trade and investment regimes.
Currency crises are extremely perplexing problems, initially erupting in a country's financial markets and spreading throughout a country's economy and beyond -often with devastating consequences for real economic activity.
Report by the Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Middle East Tr
This is a report on trade and investment strategies in the Middle East. The authors argue that to combat economic stagnation and generate sustained growth the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries will have to do a lot more than lower tariffs and reduce intraregional trade barriers.
The lack of political and public consensus over American trade policy plagues efforts to liberalize trade and spur economic growth. This paper was produced to develop a trade policy with widespread support. It includes issues of reform in presidential trade-negotiating authority and the WTO.
This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic.
