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This book analyzes the effect that government institutions have on whether or not microfinance contributes to poverty alleviation in the context of Latin America. It concludes that political and economic stability, as well as law and order, have a statistically significant impact on microfinance effectiveness.

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The author relates U.S. export and import trends over the past four decades to changes in the domestic economy and in the trade of other countries. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton

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The unprecedented shifts in the U.S. dollar's exhange rate that started during the late 1970s and continued through the 1980s provide an ideal opportunity to explore how the global economy works and the role that multinational enterprises (MNEs) play in the phenomenon of globalization.

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Product standards, regulations, and conformity assessment procedures are important and necessary, but they also, at times, threaten the free flow of goods in international markets and the competitive positions of many exporters. In this book Alan O. Sykes illustrates how standards and regulations create trade barriers, explores the extent of the problem, and considers possible policy responses.

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This book examines the issue of debt sustainability from an international perspective, with reference to European countries, emerging nations, and the United States.

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The standing of industrialization has fallen in the list of social and economic objectives of developing countries in recent years. The rapid transformation in industrialization strategy from import substitution under heavy state direction to outward orientation has had a profound effect on industrialization of Turkey.

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Through in-depth explorations and analyses of social dumping and the responsibilities of importing countries, and the relationships of these phenomena to ILO and WTO policies, this book compellingly argues for the creation of a link between international trade and labor standards.

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With much of the Asian Miracle destroyed and much of the Western world's awe for Asian ways of management dissipated, organizations there are changing with such speed that most of our knowledge about them is quickly outdated.

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The still chaotic states of the former Soviet Union, a growing China, and the divergent nations of Eastern Europe are striving to radically transform their economies.

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Using the experience of postwar Western Europe as a benchmark, this book assesses how regional financial institutions can help developing countries - often at a disadvantage within the global financial framework - finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard.

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This work describes how regional integration has worked in Western Europe.

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Analyzes the US government's efforts to combat the objectionable trading practices of other countries, arguing that some US regulatory activity has acquired a political momentum of its own, in part because it offers policymakers the ends and means to aid constituents at relatively little risk.

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Over the past decade, a small group of economists has challenged traditional wisdom about international trade. Rethinking International Trade provides a coherent account of this research program and traces the key steps in an exciting new trade theory that offers, among other possibilities, new arguments against free trade.

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This book provides a new set of ideas to overcome the deficiencies in the ongoing process of globalization and in the mechanisms for global economic governance. The authors aim to present ideas that could become the basis for a new, coherent "toolbox" designed to guide development policies and international cooperation.

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An examination of the conditions under which international rules of globalization come into existence, enabling world economic and financial systems to function and stabilize. It demonstrates that the rules result from a trial-and-error process - and usually after a crisis - in order to prevent pointless transaction costs and risks.

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The emergence of large trade imbalances among the industrial countries during the 1980s has led to growing disenchantment with the international economic system. In this provocative book by one of America's leading economists, Barry Bosworth argues that disparities are not the result of external infraction, but rather a reflection of domestic failures.

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Analyses both the allure of protectionism and the problems associated with free trade, proposing reasonable, cost-effective ways of helping industries, workers, and communities battered by intense import competition. The book focuses on the escape clause of the US Trade Act of 1974 and the trade adjustment assistance program.

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An unprecedented description of the critical energy situation throughout Asia, this book examines the energy resources, naval forces, and national strategies of the nations of that vast landmass, set against the priorities and resources of the United States.

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