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These essays highlight the implications of China's economic transition since 1978 for Sino-American business and trade. Each chapter assesses the implications of China's economic and trade reforms from a different perspective.

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The must-have resource for the importer/exporter navigating through the fluid world of international laws and regulations!

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The advances in transportation and communications have caused and supported the emergence of a global economy. Although external economic linkages are not risk-free, it appears that a certain amount of foreign involvement is necessary for successful economic development and improvement of conditions for small emerging nations.

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In this first book-length analysis of the Latin American financial sector, Barbara Stallings and Rogerio Studart examine the dramatic changes resulting from financial liberalization in the region.

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Analyzes the views on the crises and on the reform of the international financial architecture. This book is suitable for researchers, policymakers, and students.

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Cross-country differences in institutions of corporate governance and corporate finance tend to be undermined by the increasing internationalization of financial markets.

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The emergence of a world economy depends on the reorganization of agriculture and food systems to provision the work force and the industries associated with the division of labor. This work emphasizes the central role played by food and agriculture in the world economy.

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The emergence of a world economy depends on the reorganization of agriculture and food systems to provision the work force and the industries associated with the division of labor. This work emphasizes the central role played by food and agriculture in the world economy.

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Presents an account of the politics of opening agricultural markets that explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to favor trade liberalization despite opposition from powerful farm groups.

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Foreign exchange black markets in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica and Peru were studied during the period 1990-93.

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Scholars and many practitioners in the fields of finance and economics now agree that the ultimate objective of financing, whether debt or equity, is to maximize wealth. Drawing on such a premise, this book examines whether debt financing in the form of foreign loans has led to more wealth in the case of the less developed countries.

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Explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. This book presents a sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). It demonstrates how both investors and hosts rely on social networks to make decisions about investment.

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Medical information sciences are emerging as a vital field of study and practice. The volume brings together scholars and practitioners from disciplines concerned with the acquisition, analysis, accessibility, and application of information in medical practice and health care.

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With the negotiation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the policies affecting access to, and conditions of competition in, service markets are today firmly rooted in the multilateral trading system.

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Offers insights into the fundamental policy issues involved in agricultural biotechnology. This book explains the global regulatory polarization and trade conflict in this area. It then evaluates cooperative and unilateral policy tools for coping with trade tensions.

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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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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.