| On Globalization |
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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23 December 2006
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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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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)
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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
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July 28, 2004
Report on the evaluation of the role of the IMF in
Argentina, 1991-2001
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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
- labour rights
- labour mobility
- libraries
- local government
- postal services
- public services
- privatisation
- retail / wholesale
- tourism
- transport
- water
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Journal of World-Systems Research:
Volume X Number 1 Winter 2004:
Global Social Movements Before
and After 9-11
View the entire issue
as a single PDF file. (2.5 MB) Alternate
Download Site
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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
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Peter Waterman
Adventures of
Emancipatory Labour Strategy as the New Global Movement Challenges
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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 |
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| 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
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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)
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| 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 |
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World Economic Outlook Reports
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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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