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  1. Trade Policy and Global Poverty

    Trade Policy and Global Poverty

  2. International Monetary and Financial Economics

    International Monetary and Financial Economics

  3. Guide to the European Union, Eighth Edition

    Guide to the European Union, Eighth Edition

  4. War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America

    War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America

  5. Introduction to International Political Economy (3rd Edition)

    Introduction to International Political Economy (3rd Edition)

  6. Constructing a Colonial People: Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898-1932

    Constructing a Colonial People: Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898-1932

  7. Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism

    Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism

  8. A Certain Idea of Europe (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

    A Certain Idea of Europe (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

  9. Up the Down Escalator: Development and the International Economy : A Jamaican Case Study

    Up the Down Escalator: Development and the International Economy : A Jamaican Case Study

  10. National Diversity and Global Capitalism (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

    National Diversity and Global Capitalism (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

  11. Crimes & Punishments?: Retaliation Under the Wto

    Crimes & Punishments?: Retaliation Under the Wto

  12. Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (Contradictions of Modernity, 10)

    Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (Contradictions of Modernity, 10)

  13. Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget

    Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget

  14. The Myth of the Powerless State (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

    The Myth of the Powerless State (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

  15. Singapore : The Global City-State (Pacific Rim Business)

    Singapore : The Global City-State (Pacific Rim Business)

  16. The Future of Money

    The Future of Money

  17. Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776 (Business, Society, and the State)

    Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776 (Business, Society, and the State)

  18. Argentina and the Fund: From Triumph to Tragedy

    Argentina and the Fund: From Triumph to Tragedy

  19. Intellectual Property Rights, the WTO and Developing Countries : The TRIPS Agreement and Policy Options

    Intellectual Property Rights, the WTO and Developing Countries : The TRIPS Agreement and Policy Options

  20. The Selling of Free Trade: Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy

    The Selling of Free Trade: Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy

  21. International Money: Postwar Trends and Theories

    International Money: Postwar Trends and Theories

  22. The Economics of Transition : From Socialist Economy to Market Economy

    The Economics of Transition : From Socialist Economy to Market Economy

  23. NGOs, States and Donors : Too Close for Comfort (International Political Economy)

    NGOs, States and Donors : Too Close for Comfort (International Political Economy)

  24. International Banking : Text and Cases (Textbooks in Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

    International Banking : Text and Cases (Textbooks in Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

  25. Free Trade Agreements: US Strategies and Priorities (Institute for International Economics Special Report)

    Free Trade Agreements: US Strategies and Priorities (Institute for International Economics Special Report)

Trade Policy and Global Poverty
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    		Trade Policy and Global Poverty
    William R. Cline
    Manufacturer: Peterson Institute
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    ASIN: 0881323659

    Book Description

    Free trade can help 500 million people escape poverty and inject $200 billion annually into the economies of developing countries, according to a new study from the Institute for International Economics. Trade Policy and Global Poverty by William R. Cline provides a comprehensive analysis of the potential for trade liberalization to spur growth and reduce poverty in developing countries. It quantifies the impact on global poverty of industrial-country liberalization, as well as liberalization by the developing countries. Cline finds that the stakes of the poor in trade policy are large. Global free trade would convey long-term economic benefits of about $200 billion annually to developing countries. Half or more of these gains would come from the removal of industrial-country protection against developing-country exports. By removing their trade barriers, industrial countries could convey economic benefits to developing countries worth about twice the amount of their annual development assistance. By helping developing countries grow through trade, moreover, industrial countries could lower costs to consumers for imports and realize other increased economic efficiencies.

    The study further estimates that free trade could reduce the number of people in global poverty (earning less than $2 per day) by about 500 million over 15 years. This would cut the world poverty level by an additional 25 percent. Agricultural liberalization alone contributes about half of these gains. Cline judges that the developing countries were right to risk collapse of the Doha Round at the Cancún ministerial meeting in September 2003 by insisting on much deeper liberalization of agriculture than the industrial countries were then willing to offer.

    The study calls for a two-track strategy. The first track is deep multilateral liberalization involving phased but complete elimination of protection by industrial countries and deep reduction of protection by at least the middle-income developing countries, albeit on a more gradual schedule. The second track is immediate free entry for imports from "high risk" low-income countries (heavily indebted poor countries, least developed countries, and sub-Saharan Africa), coupled with a 10-year tax holiday for direct investment in these countries.
    Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda
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      		Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda
      Sharon Beder
      Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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      ASIN: 1844073319

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      Best-selling author Sharon Beder unleashes a penetrating exposé of how corporations are crafting the global agenda for their own benefit at the expense of billions of people, the environment and democracy

      In this brilliantly researched exposé, `communications Rottweiler' Sharon Beder blasts open the backrooms and boardrooms to expose how the international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. Beder shows how they created business associations and `think tanks' in the 1970s to drive public policy, forced the worldwide privatization and deregulation of public services in the 1980s and 1990s (enabling a massive transfer of ownership and control over essential services) and, still not satisfied, have worked relentlessly since the late 1990s to rewrite the very rules of the global economy to funnel wealth and power into their pockets. Want a globalized and homogenized world of conflict, poverty and massive environmental degradation run by a corporate oligarchy that wipes its feet on democracy? Or a democratic world, where poverty is history, companies work for people and clean water is a right not a privilege you pay for? Beder's message is clear - it's your world, and it's time to fight for it.
      Free Markets & Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
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        		Free Markets & Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
        John Walton , and David Seddon
        Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers
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        ASIN: 0631182470

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        This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "reform" and "adjustment". During the development decades of the 1960s and 1970s, governments around the world borrowed heavily to finance economic and social development, only to succumb to the global debt crisis and general recession of the 1980s. The last 15-20 years have witnessed the increasing adoption of neo-liberal austerity measures, led by the stabilization and structural adjustment programs of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which have averted a crisis for international banks by shifting the burden to the urban poor in the less developed or 'emergent,' developing nations. Free Markets and Food Riots explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970s. The book argues that modern austerity protests, like the classical "bread riots" in eighteenth-century Europe are political acts aimed at injustice, but acts that are an integral part of the process of international economic and political restructuring. Modern food riots are most important for what they reveal about global economic transformation and its social, and political, consequences. Successive chapters provide a general framework (drawing on comparative and historical material) and then trace the cycle of uneven development, debt, neo-liberal reform, and protest in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Additional chapters focus on the role of women in structural adjustment and protest politics and the features of seemingly anomalous cases that qualify the general argument.
        Global Trade and Poor Nations: The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization
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          		Global Trade and Poor Nations: The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization

          Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
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          Wider Perspectives on Global Development (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)
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            		Wider Perspectives on Global Development (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)

            Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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            ASIN: 1403996261
            Release Date: 2006-03-16

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            This volume brings together some of the most influential scholars in development economics to explore how to improve the well-being of the poor, how to design effective structures and institutions for poverty reduction, and what the role of economic, political and social dimensions are (and should be) in global development. Issues addressed include globalization; both its governance and a historical perspective; inequality, of income, and the potential for conflict; trade and labor practices in a transitional and developing world; and the natures and characteristics of institutions and markets.
            TRADE POLICY & GLOBAL POVERTY
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              		TRADE POLICY & GLOBAL POVERTY
              William R. Cline
              Manufacturer: NY
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              ASIN: B000N6QQM2
              Identifying Winners and Losers in Southern Africa from Globalisation: Integrating Findings from GTAP and Poverty Case Studies on Global Trade Policy Reform: IDS Working Paper 140
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                		Identifying Winners and Losers in Southern Africa from Globalisation: Integrating Findings from GTAP and Poverty Case Studies on Global Trade Policy Reform: IDS Working Paper 140
                David Evans
                Manufacturer: Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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