| On Globalization
On Capitalist
Economic and Political Terrorism
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The IMF point of view on the current world economic crisis
December 2008
Finance $ Development
World Economy Under Stress
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From the BBC World Service
Global Financial Crisis 2008
The United Nations says the world economy faces its worst
downturn since the Great Depression.
It expects world economic output to shrink by as much as 0.4% in 2009, due to
a slump among developed countries - particularly the US and in Europe.
This would mark the world economy's first year of contraction since the
1930s, the UN said.
The report added there had been complacency about the impact of the financial
crisis on poorer countries.
"It seems inevitable that the major countries will see significant
contraction in the immediate period ahead and that recovery may not materialise
any time soon, even if the bail-out and stimulus package succeed," it says.
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Global Financial Crisis 2008
An analysis by the
Real-World Economic Review
Big banks are failing, bailouts measured in hundreds of billions of dollars are not nearly enough, jobs are vanishing, mortgages and retirement savings are turning to dust. Didn’t economic theory promise us that markets would behave better than this? Even the most ardent defenders of private enterprise are embarrassed by recent events: in the words of arch-conservative columnist William Kristol,
There’s nothing conservative about letting free markets degenerate into something close to Karl Marx’s vision of an atomizing, irresponsible and self-devouring capitalism.2
So what does the current wreckage of the global financial system tell us about the theoretical virtues of the market economy?
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United Nations Conference on Trade and Commerce
Globalization and Development Statistics 2008
Facts and Figures
This second issue of UNCTAD’s “Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures” is more
than an update of the 2004 edition. With economic globalization challenging much of our
traditional wisdom, the 2008 edition is meant to increase the analytical emphasis and to offer
some explanation for new and emerging economic trends.
Note -
Foreword -
Acknowledgements and explanatory notes
Contents
1 Global growth and composition of demand - Growth trends - Gross domestic product by economic activity and expenditure -
Growth and trade balance - Primary commodity prices - Terms of trade and impact on gross national income
2 Payments balances and determinants - Current account balance - Capital flows -
Inflation rates and interest rates - Unit labour costs - Nominal exchange rates -
Competitiveness and real effective exchange rates
3 External resources - Foreign direct investment trends - Industrial pattern of foreign direct investment -
Official development assistance and debt relief - Migrants’ remittances -
External debt trends - External debt indicators - International reserves
4 International trade in merchandise and services - Geography of merchandise trade -
South-South merchandise trade - Trade of primary commodities - Primary commodity dependence -
Market access - Patterns in services trade of developing countries - Services trade performances of developing countries by category of services
5 Population - Population and poverty - Employment
Economies of the world -
Definitions -
Abbreviations
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United Nations - Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Twenty-Ninth Session, Brasilia, Brasil
6-10 May 2002
Globalization and Development
The process that has come to be known as globalization, -i.e.,
the progressively greater influence being exerted by worldwide
economic, social and cultural processes over national or regional
ones— is clearly leaving its mark on the world of today. This is not a
new process. Its historical roots run deep. Yet the dramatic changes in
terms of space and time being brought about by the communications
and information revolution represent a qualitative break with the past.
In the light of these changes, the countries of the region have requested
the secretariat to focus the deliberations of the twenty-ninth session of
ECLAC on the issue of globalization and development.
Globalization clearly opens up opportunities for development.
We are all aware -and rightfully so- that national strategies should
be designed to take advantage of the potential and meet the
requirements associated with greater integration into the world
economy.
This process also, however, entails risks:
risk generated by
new sources of instability in trade flows and, especially, finance;
the
risk that countries unprepared for the formidable demands of
competitiveness in today’s world may be excluded from the process;
and the risk of an exacerbation of the structural heterogeneity
existing
among social sectors and regions within countries whose linkages with
the world economy are segmented and marginal in nature.
Many
of these risks are associated with two disturbing aspects of
the globalization process:
The first
is the bias in the current
form of market globalization created by the fact that the mobility of
capital and the mobility of goods and services exist alongside
severe restrictions on the mobility of labour. This is reflected in the asymmetric, incomplete nature
of the international agenda that accompanies the globalization process. This agenda does not, for
example, include labour mobility. Nor does it include mechanisms for ensuring the global coherence
of the central economies’ macroeconomic policies, international standards for the appropriate
taxation of capital, or agreements regarding the mobilization of resources to relieve the
distributional tensions generated by globalization between and within countries...The
second...
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Report of the Secretary-General of
UNCTAD to
UNCTAD XII on
Globalization for Development: Opportunities and Challenges
(7/4/2007), 85 Pages
Accra, Ghana - 20-25 April 2008
Addressing the
opportunities and challenges of globalization for development.
By now it is widely acknowledged
that globalization has generated remarkable wealth and prosperity
for particular countries and particular industries. But those
benefits have not reached large swathes of the world population; in
numerous developing countries, and even within some of the more
prosperous countries, there are many people who have not benefited
or who are even worse off. Given that globalization will continue
for the foreseeable future, the conference will explore ways to
harness globalization to raise living standards, reduce poverty and
ensure sustainable development.
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The GTAP Eleventh Annual Conference:
Future of the Global Economy
June 12 -14 2008
General Information -
2008 Conference Papers
The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas among economists
conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues. Particular emphasis
will be placed on applied general equilibrium methods, data, and application.
Related theoretical and applied work is also welcome.
A global network
of individuals and institutions conducting economy-wide analysis of trade,
resource, and environmental policy issues has emerged. Thousands of these
researchers now use a common data base supplied by the Global Trade Analysis
Project (GTAP). The project is coordinated by the Center for Global Trade
Analysis at Purdue University with the support of a consortium of national and
international agencies. Participants are given an opportunity to present their
work, interact with other professionals in the field, and learn about the most
recent developments in global economic analysis.
The themes of the
Eleventh Annual Conference are:
-- Globalization and economies in transition;
-- Development, poverty and vulnerability;
-- Energy and environment; and
-- Wealth, aging and income distribution
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Journal of World-Systems Research
23 December 2006
JWSR is currently
operating on absolutely no budget. Please consider making a donation
or buying a mug at the JWSR Store.
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From Center for Global Development
The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in
our Global Economy
By Nancy Birdsall - 10/31/2005
Nancy Birdsall addresses the challenge that global inequality
poses for managing globalization so that it works for the
developing world. She first argues that inequality matters to
people. Moreover, in developing countries, where markets and
politics are far-from-perfect, inequality can be destructive,
reducing prospects for growth, poverty reduction, and good
government. She then turns to a fundamental problem of
globalization--that it is asymmetric, i.e. that it benefits the
rich more than the poor, both within and across countries.
Birdsall argues that the world is not flat as argued by New York
Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Rather, what appears to be a
level playing field to people on the surface is actually a field
full of craters in which poor people and poor countries are
stuck. Birdsall discusses the implications of these craters for
shared prosperity, global security, and global social justice.
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The New Economic Geography: effects and policy implications
A symposium sponsored by The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
August 24-26, 2006
- Shift in economic geography and their causes
- Consequences for production and prices, employment and wages
- Consequences for financial markets and global savings and investment
- Strategies for growth
- Implications for monetary policy
- Overview panel
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From The Economist
On
the hiking trail
Globalisation is
generating huge economic gains. That is no reason to ignore its costs
Aug
31st 2006
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From Global Agenda - 2006
Noam Chomsky and Maria Ahmed
Noam Chomsky sets out his vision of fair globalization in
conversation with Global Agenda’s Maria Ahmed
For the record, I am in favour of globalization. That has been true of the
left and the labour movement since their modern origins. That’s why every union
is called an international; why there were several abortive attempts to form
internationals; and why I’ve always taken for granted, and repeatedly written,
that the global justice movements of the past few years, meeting annually in
Porto Alegre, Mumbai, and elsewhere (and now having spawned many regional social
forums) are perhaps the seeds of a real international. That is, globalization
that prioritizes the rights of people – real people of flesh and blood.
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United Nations University
World Institute for Development Economic Research:
RP2006/31
Nancy Birdsall:
Stormy
Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy (PDF 241KB)
Openness is not necessarily good for the poor. Reducing trade protection has not
brought growth to today’s poorest countries, and open capital markets have not been
good for the poorest households in emerging market economies. In this paper I present
evidence on these two points. First, countries highly dependent on primary exports two
decades ago, despite their substantial engagement in trade and a marked decline in their
tariff rates in the 1990s, have failed to grow. Second, within high-debt emerging market
economies the financial crises of the last decade, whether induced by domestic policy
problems or global contagion, have been especially costly for the poor (in welfare terms if
not in terms of absolute income losses). I discuss the asymmetries in the global
economy that help explain why countries and people cannot always compete on equal
terms on the ‘level playing field’ of the global economy.
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RP2006/29
Deepak Nayyar:
Development
through Globalization? (PDF 127KB)
This paper seeks to analyze the prospects for development in a changed international
context, where globalization has diminished the policy space so essential for countries
that are latecomers to development. The main theme is that, to use the available policy
space for development, it is necessary to redesign strategies by introducing correctives
and to rethink development by incorporating different perspectives, if development is to
bring about an improvement in the well-being of people. In redesigning strategies, some
obvious correctives emerge from an understanding of theory and a study of experience
that recognizes not only the diversity but also the complexity of development. In
rethinking development, it is imperative to recognize the importance of initial
conditions, the significance of institutions, the relevance of politics in economics and
the critical role of good governance. Even if difficult, there is also a clear need to create
more policy space for national development, by reshaping the rules of the game in the
world economy and contemplating some governance of globalization.
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RP2006/40
K. S. Kavi Kumar and Brinda Viswanathan:
Vulnerability
to Globalization in India: Relative Rankings of States Using Fuzzy Models
(PDF 187KB)
The net impact of globalization on developing countries, and more specifically on the
poorer sections of population in these countries, is complex and context dependent, and
hence needs to be analysed empirically. This study in the context of globalization
attempts to develop regional level indices of vulnerability with respect to welfare loss in
India using a methodology based on fuzzy inference systems. The vulnerability of an
entity is conceptualized (following the practice in global climate change literature) as a
function of its exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Empirical analysis based on
such multidimensional conceptualization demands use of indicator-based approach
which is attempted in this study and uses fuzzy models that adequately capture
vagueness inherent in such approaches.
The contribution of the study is three folds: conceptualization of vulnerability and
linking it with formalization being attempted in other disciplines, development of a new
methodology to measure vulnerability, and apply the methodology to rank Indian states
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RP2006/22
Mihály Simai: The
Human Dimensions of the Global Development Process in the Early Part of the 21st
Century: Critical Trends and New Challenges (PDF
143KB)
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RP2005/53
Alice Sindzingre: Explaining
Threshold Effects of Globalization on Poverty: An Institutional Perspective
(PDF 131KB)
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RP2005/35
Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern: Globalization’s
Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization Hurt Countries that Do Not Participate?
(PDF 105KB)
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RP2004/62
Anthony P. D’Costa: Globalization,
Development, and Mobility of Technical Talent: India and Japan in Comparative
Perspectives (PDF 215KB)
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RP2006/72
Eric Rauchway: The
Role of Federalism in Developing the US during Nineteenth-century Globalization
(PDF 483KB)
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From The Guardian - 13 July 2006
The death of Doha signals the
demise of globalisation
As developing countries acquire a powerful voice, the US shuns
multilateral trade deals because it can no longer get its own way
By Martin Jacques
The freer movement of trade and capital has been a fundamental characteristic
of the past 25 years of globalisation. The Doha round, initiated in 2001, was
the latest attempt to keep the process rolling. It now looks doomed. The
deadlock between the US, the EU, Japan and the developing countries seems final.
And with the fast-track powers of the US president - which enable trade
agreements to bypass Congress - scheduled to come to an end in 2007, any
agreement later than this year will be subject to the unpredictability and delay
of Capitol Hill. In other words, it is now or never, and it looks more and more
like never.
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From
Finance and Development - March 2006
Examining
Global Imbalances
Philip R. Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Feretti
A new data set on external assets and liabilities reveals that U.S.
investors have earned much higher returns on their assets than they pay on
their liabilities. As a result, the United States has been able to run large
current account deficits over the past four years without experiencing a
major deterioration in its net external liabilities.
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London - 4 April 2006
World's biggest 25 food companies not taking health seriously enough
The world’s top 25 food companies appear not to be taking the new global diet
and health agenda seriously enough, says an 80 page report from The City
University out today.
Researchers at City’s Centre for Food Policy studied the annual reports,
accounts and HQ websites (to Autumn 2005) of the top 10 food manufacturers, top
10 food retailers and top 5 foodservice companies (top 3 fast food and top 2
contract caterers).They were rated for whether the companies were doing anything
about the health agenda agreed by the world’s governments at the World Health
Organisation.
In May 2004, a Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health was
passed by the World Health Assembly (the WHO’s governing body). This made
recommendations to companies as to what they could do to health tackle the
world’s diet crisis – not just obesity but heart disease, cancers and
diabetes.
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The process that has come to be known as globalization -i.e.,
the progressively greater influence being exerted by worldwide
economic, social and cultural processes over national or regional
ones- is clearly leaving its mark on the world of today. This is not a
new process. Its historical roots run deep. Yet the dramatic changes in
terms of space and time being brought about by the communications
and information revolution represent a qualitative break with the past. In the light of these changes, the countries of the region have requested
the secretariat to focus the deliberations of the twenty-ninth session of
ECLAC on the issue of globalization and development.
ECLAC: Twenty-ninth Session - Brasilia, Brazil
6-10 MAY 2002
Globalization and development
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The neoliberal
point of view
Freer Trade?
Special Edition, December 2005 Web Exclusive
Sixty years of multilateral trade negotiations have resulted in ever-lower barriers and
ever-higher economic growth worldwide. There is still a chance that the Doha Round —
the current series of trade talks — could continue this pattern, but on the verge of
the WTO's Hong Kong ministerial meeting, the prospects do not look good. In this special
edition of Foreign Affairs, some of the world's top experts on international trade
consider what will be necessary for the Doha Round to succeed — and what might happen
if it does not.
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From UNRISD -
October 2005
Methodological
and Data Challenges to Identifying the Impacts of Globalization and Liberalization on
Inequality
By Albert Berry
Globalization (the increasing degree of economic interaction among countries) and
liberalization (reductions in government intervention in markets, partly with respect to
international interaction but also more generally) are two of the defining features of the
last couple of decades. Both have given rise to contentious debate, with views ranging
from the very optimistic to the very sceptical. In this paper, Albert Berry reviews the
evidence on how the two trends have affected inequality (and hence poverty) at the world
level and within countries.
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The sources of neoliberal globalization
By Jan Aart Scholte
In reflecting on the future fate of neoliberalism, it is important to understand where the
doctrine has come from and what sustains it: know the past and present in order to shape
the future. On this inspiration, this paper offers an account of the institutional and
deeper structural forces that have given neoliberalism its primacy in shaping
globalization over the past quarter-century...What, more precisely, does globality entail?
It is argued that globalization involves the growth of transplanetary—and in
particular supraterritorial—connections between people. Hence, globality is in the
first place a feature of social geography. A distinction therefore needs to be rigorously
maintained between globalization as a reconfiguration of social space and neoliberalism as
a particular—and contestable—policy approach to this trend.
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The Search for
Policy Autonomy in the South: Universalism, Social Learning and the Role of Regionalism
By Norman Girvan
This paper argues the need for the South to secure greater autonomy in development
policy... It utilizes a political economy analysis in the historical context of
decolonization and contemporary globalization... in the 1950s, the new subdiscipline of
development economics made a significant contribution to policy autonomy in the global
South by legitimizing the principle that their economies should be understood within their
own terms and by providing justification for policies that built up its industrial
capabilities...However, the marginalization of development economics and its policies in
the 1980s resulted in a marked discontinuity in the accumulation of policy experience in
much of the South and the squandering of much of intellectual capital developed in the
earlier period. Neoclassical economics and neoliberal policies ruled out the notion of an
economics sui generis for the developing countries. Nonetheless, developments since the
late 1990s have shown that the triumphalism was premature, as global social movements,
financial crises, contradictions in the World Trade Organization (WTO) process and the
shifting political climate in the South have served to undermine the Washington consensus
and have re-opened space for academic enquiry and policy experimentation in the South and
North.
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Globalization:
Themes in Theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism
-- The Concept of Globalization
-- Postcoloniality
and the Postcolony: Theories of the Global and the Local
-- English
in Carthage; or, the "Tenth Crusade"
-- Globalization, Its
Implications and Consequences for Africa
-- Imagining a Global
Democratic Public Sphere: Reclaiming Feminism, Schooling and Economic Justice --A review
of Robin Goodman's World, Class, Women
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From The Washington
Post - August 19th 2005
Break on
Foreign-Profit Tax Means Billions to U.S. Firms
By Jonathan Weisman
Prompted by a one-time tax holiday on profits earned abroad, pharmaceutical giant Eli
Lilly and Co. announced early this year that it would bring home $8 billion to boost
research and development spending, capital investments and other job-creating ventures.
Six months into the year, Lilly's R&D spending had increased by 10 percent. But that
$134 million is only a small fraction of the $8 billion that is boosting the company's
coffers.
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April 2005 - From
The World Bank Group
Prospects for
the Global Economy
Global growth: 2004 was a record for developing
country growth, but activity began to slow in the second half and this slowing trend is
expected to continue through 2007.
Global imbalances, exchange rates and inflation : Higher U.S. interest rates should
reverse the upward trend in the current account and prevent a disorderly decline in the
dollar. Slower growth should help moderate incipient inflationary pressure, especially
among developing countries.
World trade: Trade flows are expected to remain high, but slower growth will slow the pace
of export and import volume growth during 2005-07.
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Andrés Solimano -
2002
Globalizing
talent and human capital: implications for developing countries
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27 March 2005 - The Observer
Super-rich hide trillions offshore
· Study reveals assets 10 times larger than UK GDP
· Exchequers deprived of hundreds of billions in tax
The world's richest individuals have placed $11.5 trillion of assets in offshore havens,
mainly as a tax avoidance measure. The shock new figure - 10 times Britain's GDP - is
contained in the most authoritative study of the wealth held in offshore accounts ever
conducted.
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BBC World News: -
17 March 2005
Wolfowitz to spread neo-con gospel
By Paul Reynolds World Affairs correspondent, BBC News
website
By nominating Paul Wolfowitz to be head of the World Bank, President George Bush appears
to be sending a message to the world that he intends to spread into development policy the
same neo-conservative philosophy that has led his foreign policy.
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Wolfowitz seeks to calm critics
Dismay at Wolfowitz's nomination
Bush backs hawk for World Bank
Wolfensohn quits World Bank
Profile: Paul Wolfowitz
Wolf at World Bank's door?
Head-to-Head: The right
choice?
In quotes: Wolfowitz reaction
Q&A: What the World Bank
does IMF and World Bank:
reform underway?
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17 March 2005
Brazil: navigating the straits of globalization
By Mark S. Langevin
Back in the 1500’s, Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the Americas by daring to sail
through the dangerous straits of its rugged Southern edges. Nearly five centuries later,
Brazil stands poised to navigate the straits of globalization as a “world
trader,” the leader of Latin America — and the voice of the majority who
languish at the margins of the global economy. Mark Langevin explains.
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The Prebisch Lecture |
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UNCTAD PAST AND PRESENT: OUR NEXT FORTY YEARS (12th Prebisch
Lecture, September 2004), by Rubens Ricupero Secretary-General of UNCTAD (PREBISCH 12th
Lecture)
14/09/04, 56 Kb |
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MARKETS, POLITICS AND GLOBALIZATION: CAN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY BE
CIVILIZED? (10h Prebisch Lecture, December 2000), by Gerald Karl Helleiner, Centre for
International Studies University of Toronto, Canada. (PREBISCH 10th Lecture)
11/12/00, 25 Pages, 118 Kb |
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TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM FOR DEVELOPMENT (9th Prebisch Lecture,
October 1998), By Dr. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The
World Bank (PREBISCH 9th Lecture)
19/10/98, 34 Pages, 166 Kb |
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GLOBALIZATION SOCIAL CONFLICT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (8h Prebisch
Lecture, October 1997), By Dany Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political
Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (PREBISCH 8th Lecture)
24/10/97, 21 Pages, 433 Kb |
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Structural
Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative:
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April 2002
The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis and Poverty. Full report
A multi-country participatory assessment of structural
adjustment.
Executive
Summary |
The
World Bank Group acknowledges the dramatic social and economic damage caused by its
economic policies (mainly structural adjustment programmes) imposed on developing
societies in the last 30 years, and launches a new neo-liberal recipe called
"development policy lending". Of course, being The World Bank Group the
"visible hand" of the big international capital, its new development policy
lending looks very much the same old wine in new bottles. Below are the official press
releases and papers by the World Bank Group
(Dr. Róbinson Rojas) (August 2004)
..
From Adjustment Lending to Development
Policy Support Lending
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From BBC World:
World trade blocs: an introduction
APEC - CAIRNS GROUP - EU - NAFTA
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The World Bank
Group
Global Economic Prospects 2005
Trade, regionalism and development
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Rivers Run Black, and Chinese Die of Cancer
September 12, 2004
By JIM YARDLEY, The New York Times
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Note by Róbinson Rojas: This investigation by Jim Yardley illustrates what the Chinese
capitalist ruling class is doing in China to make of its economy a "powerhouse"
for the enrichment of the few and the suffering of the many. This is what some of us
define as "savage capitalism". Of course, this local environmental
catastrophe help to make even more dramatic the global environmental catastrophe, both
driven by the partnership between the Chinese capitalist class and the international
capitalist class. It seems to me that international public action is necessary to stop
this crime against the Chinese population and life on planet earth.
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UNCTAD
Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures 2004
Analyses supported by detailed statistical
documentation. The report is aimed at a broad audience, including readers with little or
no background in economics. It provides an overview of the evolution of developing
countries in the context of globalization. It is a quick-reference tool for evaluating the
growth prospects of developing countries. General topics covered include population and
economic trends, external finance and debt, foreign direct investment, transnational
corporations, international trade, production and trade of commodities and manufactures,
and information and communication technologies (ICT). 119 pages. |
UNCTAD
Foreign
Direct Investment Statistics
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UNIDO
The
Industrial Development Report 2002/2003. Competing through innovation and learning
|
July 28, 2004
Report on the evaluation of the role of the IMF in
Argentina, 1991-2001
|
World Development Report 2005 Draft
Improving the investment climate for growth and
poverty reduction
Overview: Table of Contents
Overview: A better investment
climate—for everyone
Part I: Improving the
Investment Climate: Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Unleashing growth
and poverty reduction
Chapter 2: Challenges to
improving the investment climate
Chapter 3: Making progress
Part II: Focusing on the
Basics: Table of Contents
Chapter 4: Security and
stability
Chapter 5: Regulation and
taxation
Chapter 6: Finance and
infrastructure
Chapter 7: Workers and labor
markets
Part III: Beyond the
Basics: Table of Contents
Chapter 8: Selective
intervention
Chapter 9: International
rules and standards
Part IV: How the
International Community Can Help: Table of Contents
Chapter 10: How the
international community can help
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Over
the last 70 years or so, an international capitalist class have been trying to create a
world order ruled by oligopoly capital. U.S. ruling elites have being leading this
process. After the collapse of bureaucratic socialism they are implementing a Project for the New American Century
which is unleashing, once again, U.S. State Terrorism all over the world. To understand
better how the international capitalist class enforces its domination mainly through U.S.
State Terrorism, I include here two texts ( Carroll & Carson, and Fraser &
Beeston). More reading on this is available at http://rrojasdatabank.org/pfpc.
(Dr. Róbinson Rojas)
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W. K. Carroll & C. Carson:
Forging a New Hegemony? The Role of
Transnational Policy Groups in the Network and Discourses of Global Corporate Governance
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I. Fraser and M. Beeston:
The Brotherhood
Part 1: Introduction. The Main Manipulating Groups
Part 2: The Main Protagonists
Part 3: Economic Control. Steps Towards a Global Bank
Part 4: Political Control
Part 5: The World Army
Part 6: Population Control
Part 7: Who We Are & Mind Manipulation
Part 8: Further Examples of Manipulation
Part 9: The Pharmaceutical Racket
Part 10: Seeing Beyond the Veil
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R. Rojas, 2001
International
capital: a menace to human dignity and life on planet earth
Notes on globalisation and its effects on developing
societies as explained by structuralism and dependency theory |
International Financial Institutions Watch
Net
Focus on:
Institution: ADB (Africa) | ADB (Asia) | EBRD | EIB | IADB | IMF | World Bank Group | IFIs general
Topic: Environment | Finance and debt | Future of the IFIs | IFI governance | Private Sector | Social issues | Structural adjustment | Trade
Region: East Asia and Pacific
| Eastern Europe and Central
Asia | Latin America and
Caribbean | Middle East
North Africa | North
America | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Western Europe | International |
Center for Economic Policy Research
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D. Dutta ( Sept.
2002)
Effects of Globalisation on
Employment and Poverty in Dualistic Economies: The Case of India
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R. Jha (July 2002)
Rural Poverty in India:
Structure, determinants and suggestions for policy reform
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NAFTA's promise and
reality. Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere
J. Audley, S. Polaski, D.G. Papademetriou, and S.
Vaughan
(November 2003)
 Introduction
in English or Spanish
Chapter 1: Jobs,
Wages, and Household Income
Chapter 2: The
Shifting Expectations of Free Trade and Migration
Chapter 3: The
Greenest Trade Agreement Ever? Measuring the Environmental Impacts of Agricultural
Liberalization |
Breaking
the Mould: an institutionalist political economy alternative to the neoliberal theory of
the market and the state
Ha-Joon Chang, 2001
(summary)
... (full
text) |
An
opportunity to influence Globalization
Experts recommended
Southern governments not to overload the World Trade Organization with new issues and to
see the coming UN summit on Financing for Development as an opportunity to start reforming
the IMF. See the document.
SECRET DOCUMENT
The World Bank's strategy for Uruguay
In its document of strategy for the next
five years, the World Bank announces a reduction of its loans to Uruguay. It also demands
the privatization of the state banking system and social policies.
See the whole document.
North-South negotiations
online
A daily report on the diplomatic negotiations around
key globalization issues is now available on line: www.sunsonline.org.
The publication of the prestigious South-North
Development Monitor information service on the Internet is the result of a colaborative
effort between SUNS, Third World Network and the Ngonet programme of the Third World
Institute.
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The General
Agreement on Trade and Commerce
GATSwatch:
- debate
- corporate lobbying
- development
- education
- e-commerce
- energy
- environment
- financial services
- gender issues
- health
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Journal of World-Systems Research:
Volume X Number 1 Winter 2004:
Global Social Movements Before
and After 9-11
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Front Material
(Cover, Table of Contents, Masthead)
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Articles
Bruce Podobnik & Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
The
Globalization Protest Movement in Comparative Perspective
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Jeffrey M. Ayres
Framing
Collective Action Against Neoliberalism: The Case of the "Anti-Globalization"
Movement
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Frederick H. Buttel & Kenneth A. Gould
Global
Social Movement(s) at the Crossroads: Some Observations on the Trajectory of the
Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement
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Lesley J. Wood
Breaking the Bank
& Taking to the Streets: How Protesters Target Neoliberalism
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Kenneth A. Gould, Tammy L. Lewis, &
J. Timmons Roberts
Blue-Green
Coalitions: Constraints and Possibilities in the Post 9-11 Political Environment
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Amory Starr
How Can
Anti-Imperialism Not Be Anti-Racist? The North American Anti-Globalization Movement
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Thomas D. Hall &
James V. Fenelon
The
Futures of Indigenous Peoples: 9-11 and the Trajectory of Indigenous Survival and
Resistance
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Gianpaolo Baiocchi
The Party and
the Multitude: Brazil's Workers' Party (PT) and the Challenges of building a Just Social
Order in a Globalizing Context
--
Peter Waterman
Adventures of
Emancipatory Labour Strategy as the New Global Movement Challenges
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| Transnational Institute |
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The
Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy:
Selected Working
Papers (For use in the class
room only. Dr. Róbinson Rojas):
*The External Sector, the State and Development in
Eastern Europe. Barry Eichengreen and Richard Kohl. March 1998
*Trade Patterns, FDI, and
Industrial Restructuring of Central
and Eastern Europe. Paolo
Guerrieri. July 1998
*Foreign Participation in
US-Funded R&D: the EUV Project as a
New Model for a New Reality.
Michael Borrus. March 1998
*Reunifying Europe in an Emerging World Economy: Economic
Heterogeneity, New Industrial
Options, and Political Choices.
John Zysman and Andrew Schwartz. March 1998.
*China's Financial Reform: Achievements and
Challenges.
Barry Naughton. April 1998.
*Can Japan Disengage? Winners and Losers in Japan's
Political
Economy, and the Ties That
Bind Them. Steven K. Vogel. December 1997.
*Institutional Implications of
WTO Accession for China.
Richard Steinberg. November 1997.
*Advanced Displays in Korea and Taiwan. Greg
Linden, Jeffrey Hart
and Stefanie Lenway. December 1997.
*Integrating Central and Eastern Europe In the
European Trade
and Production Network. Françoise
Lemoine. July 1998.
*The Agricultural and Food Sectors. Integration of
Eastern Europe
and Russia. Tim Josling
and Stefan Tangermann,.July 1998.
*Left for Dead: Asian Production Networks and the
Revival
of US Electronics. Michael
Borrus. April 1997.
*From partial to systemic globalization:
international production Networks in the electronic industry D. Ernst |
Working Papers by Gernot Kohler:
The
Structure of Global Money
What
is Global Keynesianism?
Unequal
Exchange 1965 - 1995: World Trend and World Tables
A theory of world income
A
simulation of global exploitation
Globalization
as a Shaikh-Pasinetti Dynamic
Surplus
Value and Transfer Value |
| |
| Is there a new economy? Kevin Stiroh. 1999 |
| Speculative Microeconomics for tomorrow's economy Delong/Froomkin |
GLOBAL FINANCIAL
CRISIS (Northern Light)
GLOBAL
FINANCIAL CRISIS (Search) |
From
market madness to recession. F. Lebanon (1998)
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Is globalisation
inevitable and desirable? A public debate
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How the "new emperors" determine the
destiny of the world I. Ramonet (1996) |
| Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 and China on globalization
(1999) |
World Trade Organization
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The Environment
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Development
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International Trade
---
Documents on line
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Trade and Development Centre |
| The
World Bank: Financial
structure and economic development |
| TOOLKIT A |
International Organizations
Permanent Missions to the United Nations
The United Nations System
UNCTAD
UNICEF
UNDP
WTO
WHO
ECLAC
The World Bank
International Monetary Fund
OECD |
|
| Human
Development Report 2000. Human rights and human development |
| World
Investment Report 2000 |
| The World Bank: Financial
structure and economic development |
| The
World Bank: Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? |
| World
Development Reports |
World
Economic Outlook. April 2000
World
Economic Outlook. Oct. 2000 |
| Key
Reference Tables |
World
Development Indicators 1999
World
Development Indicators 2000 |
| The
Progress of Nations 1999 |
Global
Development Finance 1998 Volume I
Global
Development Finance 1999 Volume I
Global
Development Finance 1999 Country Tables
Global
Development Finance 2000 Volume I
Global
Development Finance 2000 Country Tables |
| Global
Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2000 |
| The
State of Food Insecurity in the World 1999 |
| The
State of Food and Agriculture 1998 |
| World
Resources 1998-99: Data Tables |
| World
Resources 1998-99: Global Trends |
| World
Resources 1996-97: Database |
| World
Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment |
| Human
Development Report Indicators |
| TOOLKIT
B |
| Economic
Literacy |
| Action
Literacy |
| Marx,
K. Capital,
volumen 1 |
| Marx,
K. Capital,
volumen 2 |
| Marx,
K. Capital,
volumen 3 |
| Marx,
K. Grundisse
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| Marx,
K. Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange |
| Marx,
K. Wage-labour and capital |
| Marx,
K./Engels, F. Bourgeois and proletarians(1848)
|
| Marx/Engels Library |
| WCC:
Ecumenical Reflexions on Political Economy (1988) |
| UNDP:
Growth as means to human development (1996) |
| UNDP:
Ten years of Human Development (1990-1999) |
| UNDP: Human Development
Reports 1999 1998 1997 1996
1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 |
| TOOLKIT
C |
| R.
Rojas: Sustainable development in a globalized
economy? The odds. 1999 |
| R.
Rojas: Sustainable development in a globalized
economy. 1997 |
| R. Rojas: Making sense of development
studies |
| R. Rojas: Notes on the philosophy of
the capitalist system |
| R.
Rojas: Notes on economics: assuming scarcity |
| R. Rojas: Notes on economics: about
obscenities, poverty and inequality |
| R.
Rojas: Notes on structural adjustment programmes |
| R.
Rojas: Agenda 21 revisited (notes) |
| R.
Rojas: 15 years of monetarism in Latin America: time
to scream |
| R.Rojas: Latin America: a failed industrial revolution |
| R.Rojas: Latin America: the making of a fractured society |
| R.Rojas: Latin America: a dependent mode of production |
| S. Saumon: The IMF and the World Bank, tools of "Development
Diplomacy"? |
| S. Saumon: From state capitalism to neo-liberalism in Algeria: the
case of a failing state |
| S. Saumon: External domination via domestic states: the case of
Francophone Africa |
| S. Saumon: French
neo-colonialism in Francophone Africa? The role of the state in processes of foreign
domination |
| Globalisation
and Europeanisation Network in Education |
| Artefacts |
| Calculator |
| Index and Conversion Factors |
| |
World Economic Outlook Reports
|
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO)-- April 2004
Description: The April 2004 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 14, 2004 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO)-- September 2003
Description: The September 2003 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 13, 2003 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO)-- April 2003
Description: The April 2003 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 09, 2003 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO)-- September 2002
Description: The September 2002 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 25, 2002 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO), April 2002--Contents
Description: The April 2002 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 18, 2002 |
IMF World
Economic Outlook (WEO), The Global Economy After September 11, December 2001--Contents
Description: The December 2001 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: December 18, 2001 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO), The Information Technology Revolution, October 2001--Contents
Description: The October 2001 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 26, 2001 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO), Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability, May 2001--Contents
Description: The May 2001 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links
to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 26, 2001 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO), Focus on Transition Economies, October 2000--Contents
Description: The October 2000 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 19, 2000 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO), Asset Prices and the Business Cycle, May 2000--Contents
Description: The May 2000 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links
to the full text in PDF format
Date: May 12, 2000 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO), Safeguarding Macroeconomic Stability at Low Inflation, October 1999 --
Contents
Description: The October 1999 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 22, 1999 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO), International Financial Contagion, May 1999--Contents
Description: The May 1999 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links
to the full text in PDF format
Date: May 01, 1999 |
World Economic Outlook
and International Capital Markets--Interim Assessment, December 1998 -- Table of Contents
Description: The December 1998 World Economic Outlook (WEO) and International
Capital Markets Interim Assessment Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF
format
Date: December 21, 1998 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO), Financial Turbulence and the World Economy, October 1998--Contents
Description: The October 1998 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with
links to the full text in PDF format
Date: October 01, 1998 |
IMF World Economic
Outlook (WEO), Financial Crises: Causes and Indicators, May 1998--Contents
Description: The May 1998 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links
to the full text in PDF format
Date: May 01, 1998 |
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9 June 2005
Capitalist Economic Terrorism
Note by Róbinson Rojas: Free-market fundamentalism, which can be described as capitalist economic
terrorism, is creating a world with a small bunch of super rich and a big majority just
surviving on their income. United States is a telling case study of this. What began
with the Reagan Administration is reaching obscene features with the Bush
Administration. Statistics show that "for every additional dollar earned by the
bottom 90 percent of the population between 1950 and 1970, those in the top 0.01 percent
earned an additional $162. That gap has since skyrocketed. For every additional dollar
earned by the bottom 90 percent between 1990 and 2002, each taxpayer in that top bracket
brought in an extra $18,000." The New York Times is publishing a special section
("Class Matters"), from which I select here some important texts. They show how
capitalist economic terrorism (free-market fundamentalism) can disjoint a society. The
winners are the ones who have at their service a political class serving their interests
by unleashing political and economic terrorism (otherwise known as globalization) all over
planet Earth. They are building a larger U.S. empire. Modern Caligulas like Bush et al are
the top layer of that political class.
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The Bush Economy (7 June 2005)
Richest Are Leaving Even the
Rich Far Behind (5 June 2005)
Crushing Upward Mobility (7 June 2005)
Class Matters. A special section
The Mobility Myth (6 June 2005)
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|
The New York Times
- 10 June 2005
Losing Our Country
By Paul Krugman
"The middle-class society I grew up in no longer exists. Working families have seen
little if any progress over the past 30 years. Adjusted for inflation, the income of the
median family doubled between 1947 and 1973. But it rose only 22 percent from 1973 to
2003, and much of that gain was the result of wives' entering the paid labor force or
working longer hours, not rising wages.
But the wealthy have done very well indeed. Since 1973 the average income of the top 1
percent of Americans has doubled, and the income of the top 0.1 percent has tripled."
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December 31st, 2004
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses
Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
"Interview with John Perkins, a former respected
member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor
countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than
they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies. [includes rush transcript]
"
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A three Kings’ January 6, 2005, Year of the Rooster Offering
Meet Uncle Sam -without clothes- parading around China and the world
Observed From the Top of the Great Wall through
the Eyes of the Innocent Little Boy
by Andre Gunder Frank
Introducing
Uncle Sam - Without Clothes
Uncle Sam has just reneged and defaulted on up
to forty percent of its trillions of dollars [$] foreign debt, and nobody has
said a word except for a line in this week’s Economist. In plain English that
means that Uncle Sam runs a world-wide confidence racket with his self-made $
based on the confidence that he has elicited and received from others around the
world, and he is a also a dead-beat in that he does not honor and return the
money he has received. How much of our dollar stake we lost depends on how much
we, the creditors, originally paid for it. He let, or rather through his
deliberate political economic policies, drove his $ down by over 40 percent from
one Euro at $ 80 cents at its highest to now 135 cents against the Euro, Yen,
Yuan and other currencies. And $ is still declining, indeed apt to plummet
altogether.
|
Samir Amin on:
Imperialism and
Globalization
Notes of a talk delivered at the World Social Forum
meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil in January 2001.
Imperialism is not a stage, not even the highest stage, of capitalism: from the beginning,
it is inherent in capitalism’s expansion. The imperialist conquest of the planet by
the Europeans and their North American children was carried out in two phases and is
perhaps entering a third.
The first phase of this devastating enterprise was organized around the conquest of the
Americas, in the framework of the mercantilist system of Atlantic Europe at the time. The
net result was the destruction of the Indian civilizations and their Hispanicization-
Christianization, or simply the total genocide on which the United States was built.
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Tax Justice Network
The global Tax Justice Network arose out of meetings
at the European Social Forum in Florence, late 2002, and at the World Social Forum in
Porto Alegre, early 2003. It is a response to harmful trends in global taxation, which
threaten states' ability to tax the wealthy beneficiaries of globalisation. These trends
have disturbing implications for development, democracy, public services and poverty, as
explained further in the network's Declaration
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From the
Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000
Twenty Years of Diminished Progress
M. Weisbrot, D. Baker, E. Kraev and J. Chen - July
2001
This report looks at economic and social
indicators for all countries for which data are available and
compares the period of 1980-2000 with the previous 20 years.
Indicators include: the growth of income per person, life
expectancy, mortality, literacy, and education. It finds a very
clear decline in progress as compared with the period 1960-1980.
--
Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, and David Rosnick
The Scorecard on Development:
25 Years of Diminished Progress -
September 2005
This paper looks at the available data on economic
growth and various social indicators — including
health outcomes and education — and compares the
last 25 years (1980-2005)1 with the prior two decades
(1960-1980). The paper finds that, contrary to popular
belief, the past 25 years (1980-2005) have seen a sharply
slower rate of economic growth and reduced progress
on social indicators for the vast majority of low- and
middle-income countries.
Poor Numbers: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on World Poverty
M. Weisbrot, D. Rosnik, and D. Baker - November
2004
Many economists and policy analysts
have promoted trade liberalization in rich countries as the most
effective way to reduce poverty in the developing world. Cline
(2004), one of the leading references on this topic, projected
that rich country trade liberalization would lift 540 million
people out of poverty. This paper analyses Cline’s projections
and finds that the impact of trade liberalization on poverty would
be very small.
Going Down with the Dollar: The Cost to Developing Countries of a
Declining Dollar
M. Weisbrot, D. Rosnick, and D. Baker - September
2004
In the years since the East Asian financial
crisis in 1997, many developing countries have sought to increase
their holdings of foreign reserves to protect their currencies
against financial instability. This paper shows that, because the
dollar is overvalued, this strategy may actually increase risks.
Dangerous Trends: The Growth of Debt in the U.S. Economy
D. Baker - September 2004
This paper looks at how two forms of debts that
have received little attention in the media – household debt and
foreign debt — will pose large burdens on the economy.
Double Bubble: The Implications of the Over-Valuation of the
Stock Market and the Dollar
D. Baker - June 2000
This report examines the over-valued
stock market and dollar and finds that current stock prices are
inconsistent with plausible projections of future profit growth.
More papers here
|
Social Watch Annual Reports:
2008:
Rights is the answer
2007:
In dignity and rights
2006:
Impossible Architecture
2005:
Roars and Whispers. Gender and poverty:
promises vs. action
2004:Fear and Want. Obstacles to Human Security
2003:
The Poor and the Market
2002:
The social impact of globalisation in the world
2001:
Much ado...
2000:
From the summits to the grassroots
1999:
From the summits to the grassroots
1998:
Equity and social development
1997:
From the summits to the grassroots
1996:
Women and citizenship in Latin America
|
J.S. Saul/C. Leys,
Sub-Saharan Africa in Global Capitalism,
1999
World Bank,
Can Africa Claim the
21st Century?, 2000
O. Coeur de Roy,
The African
challenge: internet, networking and connectivity activities in a developing environment
F. Mayor,
Africa and
globalization: the challenges of democracy and governance. 1998
Marcos Arruda,
Neo-liberal Financial Globalization: capitalism's grave illness.
Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa,
The Market tells them so: the World Bank and Economic Fundamentalism in
Africa
United Nations University,
Globalization and Development in Africa: online papers
Finance and Development:
Globalization in Africa,
Dec. 2001
The United Nations University (2004):
Globalization and Development in Africa
|
Journal of World-Systems Research:
Number 2 (Summer 2003)
On Globalization and the Environment
Andrew K. Jorgenson & Edward L. Kick
Globalization
and the Environment
Alf Hornborg
Cornucopia
or Zero-Sum Game? The Epistemology of Sustainability
Stephen G. Bunker
Matter, Space,
Energy, and Political Economy: The Amazon in the World-System
Peter Grimes & Jeffrey Kentor
Exporting
the Greenhouse: Foreign Capital Penetration and CO2 Emissions 1980–1996
J. Timmons Roberts, Peter E. Grimes & Jodie L. Manale
Social Roots of
Global Environmental Change: A World-Systems Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions
R. Scott Frey
The Transfer of
Core-Based Hazardous Production Processes to the Export Processing Zones of the Periphery:
The Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico
Thomas J. Burns, Edward L. Kick, & Byron L. Davis
Theorizing and
Rethinking Linkages Between the Natural Environment and the Modern World-System:
Deforestation in the Late 20th Century
--
Review Essay
Andrew K. Jorgenson
Lateral
Pressure and Deforestation A Review Essay of Environmental Impacts of
Globalization and Trade: A Systems Study by Corey L Lofdahl
--
Book Reviews
Franz J. Broswimmer
Ecocide: A
Short History of Mass Extinction of Species
Reviewed by Florencio R. Riguera
Arthur Mol and Frederick Buttel (eds)
The
Environmental State Under Pressure
Reviewed by Bruce Podobnik
|
International
Labour Organisation (2004)
World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization
A Fair Globalization: creating opportunities for all
"...The current process of globalization is
generating unbalanced outcomes, both between and within countries. Wealth is being
created, but too many countries and people are not sharing in its benefits. They also have
little or no voice in shaping the process. Seen through the eyes of the vast majority of
women and men, globalization has not met their simple and legitimate aspirations for
decent jobs and a better future for their children. Many of them live in the limbo of the
informal economy without formal rights and in a swathe of poor countries that subsist
precariously on the margins of the global economy. Even in economically successful
countries some workers and communities have been adversely affected by globalization.
Meanwhile the revolution in global communications heightens awareness of these
disparities."
|
J. Brecher, T.
Costello and B. Smith:
Globalization from below |
Corporate Europe Observatory
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a European-based
research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and
the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby
groups |
| Investment Watch |
Friends of the Earth Europe
Cancun
Trade |
Beyond the
Washington Consensus
Jeremy Clift
In 1989, economist John Williamson coined the term Washington Consensus. It referred to a
set of reforms that many economists and policymakers believed Latin America would have to
undertake to recover economically from the debt crisis of the 1980s. The reforms soon came
to be seen as a model for other developing regions to follow. Results have not met
expectations, however, and today, there is fresh debate about the reform agenda outlined
in the Consensus.
(From "Finance and Development", Sept. 2003)
From Reform
Agenda to Damaged Brand Name
John Williamson
The author of the term Washington Consensus explains how he came up with the 10-point
reform package set forth in the Consensus. He says the term has acquired such different
meanings that it is time to drop it from the vocabulary and describes what the policy
agenda should look like now, given the disappointing results of the reforms of the 1990s.
(From "F&D", Sept. 2003)
Latin
America: Overcoming Reform Fatigue
Guillermo Ortiz
The governor of Mexico's central bank talks about the disappointing results of the
"first-generation" reforms of the Washington Consensus and emphasizes the
importance of "second-generation reforms"—building the right institutional
framework. (From "F&D", Sept. 2003)
Africa:
Finding the Right Path
Trevor A. Manuel
South Africa's Minister of Finance says that some of the reforms in the Washington
Consensus did not apply to Africa the way they did to Latin America, and that the
Washington Consensus failed to address three of Africa's main problems: the dual economy,
lack of social capital, and weak states. (From "F&D", Sept. 2003)
|
Global capitalism, deflation and agrarian crisis in
developing countries
U. Patnak, 2003 |
Social policy in a development context
T. Mkandawire, 2001 |
External dependency and internal transformation:
Argentina confronts the long debt crisis
J. Schwarzer, 2000 |
Globalization and its impact on developing
countries.
Geneva, 12-14 September 2001 |
Global Built Environment Review
A journal for architecture, planning, development and
the environment GBER is being launched as a refereed quarterly electronic journal with a
yearly printed edition. It aims to have a wide international readership comprising of
architects, planners, developmentalists, environmentalists and students from both the
western and the developing world. Although the main focus of GBER is the 'Built
Environment' it also intends to include debates from the perspectives of the related macro
socio economic, political and developmental issues. Its editorial policy particularly
welcomes the views expressed through the socio culltural determinants of the present day
'multi cultural' society which influences the contemporary 'Global Built Environment'. The
journal is genuinely interested in debates on the built environment of both the developing
and the developed world. The idea is to foster an effective north south solidarity and
provide a forum to encourage a better understanding and communication on a wide variety of
built environment issues including the emerging 'globalisation and its impact on both
Eastern and Western multicultural built environment'. |
RFSTE:
Research
Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology
|
World
Bank :
Global
Economic Prospects 2004
Realizing the Development Promise of the Doha Agenda
|
G.
Monbiot (6 June, 2003):
Enslaved
by free trade
|
Papers
on various aspects of globalisation and the discourses of global capital
Language
in the New Capitalism |
J.
Berthelsen (23 May, 2003):
Sliding
greenback highlights trade deficit
|
Fidel
Castro (12 April, 2000):
On
Globalization
|
A. Gunder Frank ( 20 June,
2003):
Coup d'Etat in Washington
and Silent Surrender in America and the World
|
IMF:
Effects
of Financial Globalization on Developing Countries: Some Empirical Evidence
In this study published in 2003 by the IMF the authors state that
globalisation may actually increase the risk of financial crisis in the developing world
and, more importantly, there is no empirical evidence that globalisation has a
significative positive effect on growth. |
| |
| M.
Chossudosvky: : Centre
for research on Globalization |
UNCTAD:
UNCTAD
X
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UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, 2002
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Trade and Development
Report
2002,
1998
(overview)
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The
Least developed Countries 2002 Report
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World Investment Report 2004
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FDI
Statistics Online
Country
Fact Sheets
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UNCTAD X:
documents and papers |
B. Epstein (2001)
Anarchism and the anti-globalization movement |
The
World Bank assesses globalisation facts and fears.Sept. 2001
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World Bank Report: Globalization, Growth and Poverty, Dec. 2001
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IMF: Globalization
in Africa, Dec. 2001
|
R.
Ebbs: Global Finance or Economic Crimes Against Humanity?
|
J.
Williamson: Globalization:
the concept, causes and consecuences
|
J.
Williamson: Has globalization gone too far?
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J. W. Smith: Economic democracy: the
political struggle of the 21st century
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M. Bienefeld and M.
Godfrey (eds): The
Struggle for Development. National Strategies in an International Context. Introduction
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M. Bienfeld: The
International Context fort National Development Strategies: Constraints and Opportunities
in a Changing World
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J.S. Saul/C. Leys: Sub-Saharan
Africa in Global Capitalism, 1999
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W. K. Tabb: Globalization
is AN issue, the power of capital is THE issue, 1997
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R. Greenhill/A. Pettifor: The United
States as a HIPC. How the poor are financing the rich, 2002
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The Other Path: Interview
with Hernando de Soto
|
International forum on globalization
|
On
the IMF and the World Bank
|
Boston Review: A
political and literary forum
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New
Democracy Forum
---
After
the Cold War: the North/South Divide
|
UNCTAD: Trade
and Development Report, 2000
|
UNCTAD: The
Least Developed Countries 2000 Report
|
Ajit
Singh: Global
Economic Trends and Social Development, 2000
|
| CAPACITY 21
Resource Library (UNDP) |
| UNRISD: Adjustment,
Globalization and Social Development 1995 |
| UNRISD:
Globalization
and Civil Society: NGO influence in international decision-making |
| UNRISD:
World
Economic Situation and Prospects 2000 |
UNRISD:
Report
on the World Social Situation 1997
The Economist: Stages
of Development. Stranded on the farm? 1997
Anup Shah: Global Issues that Affect
Everyone |
THE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS
J. Williamson: What
Should the Bank Think about the Washington Consensus?
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J. Stiglitz: More
Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving Toward the Post-Washington Consensus
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NIAS: The
Washington Consensus vs. the East Asian Model?
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J. Aziz: Policy
Complementarities and the Washington Consensus
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M. Naim: Fads
and Fashion in Economic Reforms: Washington Consensus or Washington Confusion?
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B. Martin: New
leaf or fig leaf? The Challenge of the New Washington Consensus
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BRETTON
WOODS Project
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BWP: Briefings |
Literature
on the Global Economy (Yahoo)
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International
Forum on Globalization
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T. J. Lewis: Persuasion,
Domination and Exchange: Adam Smith on the Political Consequences of Markets
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J. Pinera: A
Chilean Model for Russia
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M. Rupert: Globalization
and the reconstruction of common sense in the U.S.
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Oxford Analytica: Capital
flows |
UNCTAD:
Discussion Papers 2000
What did Frederick List actually said?
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The debate on the international financial architecture: reforming the reformers
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Globalization and the South: some critical issues
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Foreign investment in developing countries. Does it crowd in domestic investment?
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Copyrights, competition and development. The case of the music industry |
JAPAN
INSIGHT of the globalized economy. 1996
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Speech
Delivered by Cuban President Fidel Castro at the World Trade Organization in Geneva
1998 |
Papers
Read on November 14, 1998 at the Autumn Meeting of the American Philosophical Society:
Globalization of the World Economy
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Gerard Piel, Moderator: Introduction
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James Tobin: Financial
Globalization
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Robert Kuttner: Can
the Global Economy Be a Mixed Economy?
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James K. Galbraith: Globalization
and Pay
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Lance Taylor: Globalization,
Liberalization, Distribution, and Growth: Developing and Transition Economies
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| A. Tausch: Globalization and
European Integration |
The Copenhagen Consensus Project organised
by Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute with the co-operation of The Economist,
aims to consider and to establish priorities among a series of proposals for advancing
global welfare. The initiative was described in Economics Focus of
March 6th.
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Copenhagen
Consensus 2004 (oficial website) |
From
Mount Holyoke College:
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Documents
relating to global economy issues
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Documents on
Globalisation economy issues
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International
Relations Theory
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Vincent
Ferraro Site |
The Development Group for Alternative
Policies -GAP-
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Y. Fall: Gender and Social Dimensions of IMF policies in Senegal
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Civil
Society perspectives on IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment policies
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Conditioning Debt relief and
Adjustment creates conditions for more debt
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The all too visible hand: a
five-country look at the long and destructive reach of the IMF |
A. Ferrer: Globalization: fact versus fiction
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H. Jaguaribe: MERCOSUR and alternative world
orders
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A. D. Ouattara: The challenges of globalisation for Africa
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I. Wallerstein: The Twentieth Century: Darkness
at Noon?
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J. B. Foster: Monopoly
Capital and the turn of the millenium
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A. Einstein: Why
socialism?
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P. M. Sweezy: The
communist manifesto today
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H. Magdoff: A note on
the communist manifesto
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E. Meikisins Wood: The
communist manifesto after 150 years
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J. Petras: Imperialism
and NGOs in Latin America
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IMF: Social Dimensions of the IMF's Policy Dialogue |
| The Millenium Year and the Reform Process: Global
Governance |
| D. C. Korten:Economic Myths
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| D. H. Meadows:The Global Citizen
|
|
Reith Lectures 2000:
About globalisation and sustainable development
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On Health and Population
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On Poverty and Globalisation
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On Governance and Globalisation
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On Biodiversity and Globalisation
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On Business and Globalisation
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Reith
Lectures 1999:
Anthony Giddens lectures on a
"Runaway World. How Globalisation is reshaping our lives"
Globalization, Risk, Tradition, Family, Democracy, and Politics after
Socialism
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Bradford De Long's Web Site
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Foreign Policy IN FOCUS:
Trade
Drug
Control
Military
Labor
Human
Rights
Environment
U.S.
Agencies
Financial Flows
Food
and Farm
Global
Governance
Women |
| World
Wide Web Virtual Library:
International Affairs Resources |
University
of Toronto: G8 Information Centre
P.M. Johnson and K. Mayrand: Beyond
trade: Broadening the Globalisation Governance Agenda
J. Kirton: The G7 and China in the management of the International Financial System
M. C. Webb: The Group of Seven and Political Management of the Global Economy
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UNCTAD X:Beyond the Unification of the Markets
Trade, external
financing and economic growth in developing countries. 1999
The largest
transnational corporations and corporate strategies. 1999
World Summit for Social
Development
Global
Public Goods: International Cooperation
in the 21st
Century
UNDP: ODS Discusion Paper Series
UNDP: Publications
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World Bank 2000: Rethinking Development. Challenges and Opportunities.
Globalization with a human face
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Globalization, Growth, and Poverty.
Building an inclusive world economy The World Bank, 2002
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The World Bank: Assessing Globalization
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World
Bank: Exchange Rate Misalignment: concepts and measurement for developing countries
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World Bank predicts lowest growth rates for
developing countries since eighties' debt crisis. Outlook to improve by 2000
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World Bank: record year for
private capital flows is hurt by East Asian downturn. Development aid to poor countries
keeps falling (1998)
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World Bank: The East Asian
financial crisis
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World Bank: Commodity
markets and the developing countries. 1997
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World Bank: World
development report 1999 (press release)
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World Bank: World development report 1999
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World Bank: Global Economic
Prospects 1998/99. A Summary
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World Bank: Global Economic
Prospects and the Developing Countries 1998-1999 (Press briefing)
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High Frequency
Debt Data (BIS, IMF, OECD, World Bank)
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High Frequency
Debt On-line Database (OECD)
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Economic Forum 2001: Governing
global finance: the role of civil society
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Global Investing News
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House Committee on Banking and Financial Services (U.S.A.)
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Institute
for International Economics
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International
Investment Promotion Network (IPAnet)
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World Economic Outlook and International Capital Markets.IMF.
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World Economic
Forum
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Washington Post: International Markets and Indices
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New York Times: World Financial Crisis
---
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U.S.
Department of Commerce: Big Emerging Markets Information Resource
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Brookings Institution: Reforming the Global Financial Systems
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Cold War
International History Project
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Cold War
International History Project Document Library:
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*Announcements *Archives *Arms Race
*Bibliographic Abstracts and Sources *Culture and Economics
*Book Review and Issue Discussions *Intelligency
*Cold War Crises *Cold War Leaders *Cold War Origins(1917-47)
*End of the Cold War (85-89/91)
*Stalin Era (1945-53) *Khruschev Era (1953-64)
*Reagan Era (1980-88)
*Rise and Fall of Detente (1962-80)
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A GATEWAY TO
GLOBAL NEWS
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Penn World Tables
5.6
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UNCTAD 1998: International
Financial Instability and the East Asian Crisis
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UNCTAD 1998: The Management and
Prevention of Financial Crises
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M. Borrus: Left for Dead: Asian
Production Networks and the revival of US Electronics
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M. Borrus: Foreign
Participation in US-Funded R&D: The EUV Project as a New Model for a New Reality
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F. Bar: Information and
Communications Technologies for Economic Development
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D. Ernst: From Partial to
Systemic Globalization: International Production Networks in the Electronics Industry
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Social Crisis in Asia (World Bank)
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K. Watkins: Globalization and
Liberalization: Implications for Poverty, Distribution and Inequality, 1997
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W. Bello: Speculation, Foreign
Capital Dependence and the Collapse of the Southeast Asian Economies
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J. Sachs: Globalization and Employment
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U.N.: Globalization and
Liberalization (Report, June 1996)
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U.N.: Report of the Secretary
General -1998
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U.N.: Global Change and Sustainable Development Critical Trends. 1997
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UNCTAD: World Investment Report 1998: Trends and Determinants (press)
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J.D. Lewis/S. Robinson: Partners or Predators? The impact of regional trade liberalization in
Indonesia
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SUNY: Global
Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
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FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER for
the study of Economics,
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Historical Systems, and
Civilizations
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Papers of the Fernand
Braudel Center (1)
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Papers of the Fernand Braudel Center (2)
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I. Wallerstein, Globalization or the age of
transition? A long-term view of the trajectory of the world-system
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The Trilateral
Commission
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A. Tausch: Globalization and European Integration
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Structural Adjustment
in a Changing World Briefing paper,1994, UNRISD
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Structural Adjustment, Global Integration and
Social Democracy, Dharam Ghai, Discussion Paper No. 37, October 1992, UNRISD
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Some Ecological and
Social Implications of Commercial Shrimp farmingin Asia, S. L. Barraclough/A.
Finger-Stich, Discussion Paper No.74, March 1996, UNRISD
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Staying Alive
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Multinational Monitor (journal)
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International Labour
Organisation
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UNDP: Human Development
Report 1999. Overview.
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HDRO: Occasional
Papers for the Human Development Report
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OECD: Multilateral Agreement on Investment
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Multilateral
Agreement on Investment and the Environment
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New Economics Foundation
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Union
for Radical Political Economy
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Globalization
and Its Discontents (Simon Fraser University)
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M.Hunter:Bay of Pigs Invasion Homepage
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The Central Intelligence
Agency: its crimes.
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R.A.Pastor: U.S. foreign
policy: the Caribbean Basin
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UNCTAD: The Trade and
Development Report, 1997 (press release 1)
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UNCTAD: The Trade and Development Report, 1997
(press release 2)
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Real
History Archives
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