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This text analyzes scholarship and controversies on the glass ceiling and labour market discrimination in conjunction with the specific labour histories of Asian American ethnic groups.

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Explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, this book offers an analysis of the India-based global labor management practice.

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This work aims to move beyond the monolithic portrayal of globalization protests. With analysis and primary documents from a variety of sources, Robin Broad explores proposals and initiatives coming from the backlash to answer the question, "But what do they want"

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Negotiations on an international commodity policy have been the central issue on the North-South agenda for the past three years. They also can be seen as the first major effort to give substantive meaning to the Third World's desire not only for a new regime for the world's raw commodity trade but also for a New International Economic Order. Yet v

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Shows how economic liberalization can be shaped by political considerations just as much as antimarket policies.

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Part I examines the legal issues of commodity trade, investigating the debate over whether international trade agreements create hard law or soft law. Part II discusses the political economy of contemporary global trade issues, including the rise of intraindustry trade and discrimination in international trade.

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A unique, multidisciplinary examination of a crucial international question: Should 185 sovereign nations allow 750 giant corporations to invest corporate profits as they alone see fit

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The fight against global poverty has quickly become one of the hottest tickets on the global agenda with rock stars, world leaders, and multibillionaires calling attention to the plight of the poor at international confabs such as the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative.

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Analyzing global successes and failures, this work argues for the centrality of human factor development to sustainable economic development.

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This book explores geoeconomic insights into the global economy of superpowers. In ten chapters, the author explores causal relationships between global economic disparities and historical events, proceeding from the general to the specific.

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Economists have come a long way in understanding the economic growth process since Adam Smith. Designed to facilitate teaching and research on economic growth, this book will help the scholar and student to navigate the literature on determinants of economic growth.

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Global Economics: A Holistic Approach integrates real world examples and case studies with economic analysis to examine the emerging global economy. It covers topics not typically considered by international economics, such as migration, in addition to taking a fresh approach to traditional topics.

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Global Economics: A Holistic Approach integrates real world examples and case studies with economic analysis to examine the emerging global economy. It covers topics not typically considered by international economics, such as migration, in addition to taking a fresh approach to traditional topics.

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In the evolving environment of global financial markets, governments, corporations, individual investors, and their associated financial institutions must grapple with a host of thorny issues that affect emerging economies with particular force, as we saw during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.

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The fall of communism, the emergence of "the information age", and the expansion of economic globalism are the point of departure for this new edition of Chase-Dunn's book. The new edition also evaluates recent major studies of the modern world-system and assesses the implications for future of the contemporary system.

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The greening of industry is described as a global process driven not so much by Western countries concerned with climate change as by China, India and other industrializing countries responding to economic imperatives as they scale up their industrial systems. This is described as economics meeting ecology, or Ceres meeting Gaia.

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The greening of industry is described as a global process driven not so much by Western countries concerned with climate change as by China, India and other industrializing countries responding to economic imperatives as they scale up their industrial systems. This is described as economics meeting ecology, or Ceres meeting Gaia.

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This book examines globalization using the concept of space to contextualize discussion of global issues. The growth of population, the increase of human activity, and the usage of new spaces contribute to the complexity and challenges of global issues.

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This book examines globalization using the concept of space to contextualize discussion of global issues. The growth of population, the increase of human activity, and the usage of new spaces contribute to the complexity and challenges of global issues.

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This work examines the premise of liberal economic principles and their promise of distributive advantages to all free market participants. Professor Jean Kachiga's critique is substantiated by the lack of empirical evidence supporting the premise and promise of liberal economics to ill-equipped and ill-prepared market participants.

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The research described in this book suggests that a properly designed and sufficiently massive economic development assistance projecta Global Marshall Plancould tremendously reduce the economic gap between the richest and poorest nations within a 50-year planning period.

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