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Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
by George Rupp  Publisher Comments In "Globalization Challenged," George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. <P>According to Rupp, the key...
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Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare
by Andrew Glyn Publisher Comments This accessible and persuasive book challenges the notion of our capitalist destiny. It provides a clear and concise history of the problems facing the economies of Europe, Japan, and the US during the latter half of the twentieth century and questions...
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Short of the Goal: U.S. Policy and Poorly Performing States
by Nancy Birdsall Publisher Comments Failed states are at greatest risk for collapse and pose an urgent threat to international security. Yet, ironically, new U.S. foreign assistance programs such as the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) routinely bypass these poorly performing countries...
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Global Village Or Global Pillage 2ND Edition
by Jeremy Brecher Publisher Comments A book that was ahead of its time has now been brought up to date with a new Preface that covers the latest developments in economic globalization: the defeat of "fast track" legislation, efforts to halt GATT and MAI, and the recent Asian economic crisis....
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Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy
by Wil Brittain Catlin Publisher Comments An unknown realm to many investors, offshore finance allows giant corporations--such as Wal-Mart, British Petroleum, and Citigroup--to legally keep huge profits out of sight of regulators and the public. William Brittain-Catlin tells the story of...
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The Big Ten
by Jeffrey E Garten Publisher Comments A dramatic transformation of global power is under way, one only dimly recognized by most Americans. As economics and trade now loom larger than nuclear stockpiles or Cold War ideology, those countries with the fastest growing economies have begun to...
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Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
by Jeremy Prestholdt Publisher Comments This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven solely by Western interests--by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East...
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Money With a Mission Volume 1 Microfinance
by James Copestake Publisher Comments Traditionally the primary function of NGOs has been confined to mitigating the effects of war by providing humanitarian aid and protection on the peripheries of violent conflict. However, in recent years there has been an increased focus on the impact of...
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Enter Economism, Exit Politics: Experts, Economic Policy and the Political
by Teivo Teivainen Publisher Comments Teivo Teivainen explores the redefinition of the boundaries of the economic and the political spheres. In examining how and to what extent it is taking place, he takes the case of the periodic Latin American debt crisis in the 20th Century, and more...
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What the Market Does To People
by David Macarov Synopsis This volume describes, explains and exposes the growth of poverty the world over. It reveals the shocking extent of poverty, the forms it takes, and its results and probes the origins of poverty in attitudes and ideologies, norms and structures....
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The Free Trade Adventure: The Wto, the Uruguay Round and Globalism--A Critique
by Graham Dunkley Publisher Comments Free trade lies at the heart of the new era of globalization. This superb account explains the theory of free trade and how it has been put into practice. The author reviews the history of 20th century trade agreements. He traces what happened to GATT...
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The Follies of Globalisation Theory
by Justin Rosenberg Publisher Comments Rosenberg argues that fashionable preoccupations with spatiality have generated deep intellectual confusions among globalisation theorists: the more clearly they attempt to articulate their arguments the more equivocal and evasive those arguments become.&...
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Connecting People, Ideas, and Resources Across Communities (International Series on Technology Policy and Innovation)
by David V. Gibson Publisher Comments The challenge of connecting people, ideas, and resources across communities stems from the quest for competition in a global world, at the same time that the basic infrastructure to foster wealth creation is asymmetrically distributed across regions of...
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Eu Development Policy in a Changing World: Challenges for the 21st Century
by Andrew Mold Publisher Comments On many fronts, EU development policy is at a critical juncture. In the face of major new challenges, such as the current impasse in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, and increasing concerns over security threats, the European Union is...
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Tools for Institutional, Political, and Social Analysis of Policy Reform: A Sourcebook for Development Practitioners
by Jeremy Holland Synopsis This Sourcebook introduces a framework and a set of practical tools that analyse the institutional, political and social dimensions of policy design and implementation impacting on poverty and distributional equity....
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The No Nonsense Guide to Globalization (No Nonsense Guides)
by Wayne Ellwood Synopsis Commercial culture and the Western consumer model has globalized while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow. This book provides a critique of the orthodoxy of economic growth in a world of finite natural resources and a...
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Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey Through Heaven and Hell
by Alice H. Amsden Publisher Comments The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor countries, including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed a modicum of economic growth. New industries...
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The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life Is a Paid-For Experience
by Jeremy Rifkin Publisher Comments A journey into the new world of hypercapitalism, where accessing experiences becomes more important than owning things....
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Development with a Human Face: Experiences in Social Achievement & Economic Growth
by Santosh Mehrotra Publisher Comments This book presents longitudinal studies of ten developing countries which have demonstrated successful health and educational development over the last thirty to forty years. Half of them have combined rapid economic growth with social achievement...
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Blackwell Readers in Sociology #1: From Modernization to Globalization
by J Timmons Roberts Publisher Comments From Modernization to Globalization is a reference for scholars, students and development practitioners on the issues of processes of social change and development in the Third World. It provides carefully excerpted samples from both classic and up-to...
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