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How would a two-stage approach to implementing the Tobin Tax operate?
H. Patomaki / Network Institute for Global Democratization, Helsinki, 2001
This Report develops a new approach to making the Tobin tax real. This could be realised in two stages: In its first phase, the system would consist of the euro-EU and a group of other countries EU. However constituted,...
How can international financial capital be disciplined?
A. Pettifor / Jubilee Research, 2001
This article attempts to challenge the dominance of finance capital in our global economy. The article stresses that if we wish to avoid a return to the deflationary era of the 1920's and 1930's, then some means must be found t...
You Don't have to Be A Giant: How The Changing Terms of Competition in Global Markets are Creating New Possiblities For Danish Companies
M. Borrus; J. Zysman / Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 1999
Globalism has become an emblem for a whole series of dramatic changes in the international economy. The hyperbole in the media and popular novels that suggests a whirling era of giant companies, shifting money, and hapless governments...
International Development Policy beyond the White Paper
Overseas Development Institute, 1999
Full text of speeches given at a series of meetings at ODI, taking forward issues raised in the DFID White Paper and culminating in a meeting with Clare Short, Secretary of State for Development on 9 April 1998.
Civil society: IISD resource guide
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998
Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
Water resources managment: IISD resource guide
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999
List of important document (with abstract) and related WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
Broadening the debate : the Tharaka participatory action research project
Guido Giarelli / Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996
Can we distinguish different types of indigenous knowledge? What are the main characteristics of such types? What is the meaning of sustainable development seen in this light? And how does this affect the research approach used? After...
Selected NGO reporting on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
Corporate Watch, 1998
Reporting from FOE, Focus, Third World Institute, Corporate Watch and others
Foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998
Innovative analytic bridges are established linking the official data on foreign direct investment flows and related information at the sectoral and company levels found in the specialized press to the information collected directly b...
Taming the tigers: the IMF and the Asian crisis
N. Bullard; W. Bello; K Malhotra / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998
Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide the material for a detailed analy...
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The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization
J. Karliner / Corporate Watch, 1999
Bhopal and Union Carbide incident
Corporate Watch, 1999
Towards a North-South Monologue: A Pacific Response to the Green Paper on Relations between the European Union (EU) and the ACP Countries
R. Grynberg / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
Reactions on the Green Paper on Relations between the European Union and the ACP Countries on the Eve of the 21st Century
E.S. Pangeti / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
What Role for the Private Sector?: A Pragmatic Approach to EU ACP Relations
R. Sithanen / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
Political Parties and Re-Democratisation in Latin America
M.A. Garretón / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
The author will analyse the gradual shift from authoritarianism to democracy in the light of the different types of democracy which have occurred in Latin American societies. He will pay particular attention to the gradual shift from ...
Globalisation: What Challenges and Opportunities for Governments?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
Globalisation and Competitiveness: Relevant Indicators
T. Hatzichronoglou / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
To contend with the challenges of globalisation, firms have altered their strategies, strengthening the activities in which they were in a dominant position (refocusing), seeking to achieve critical size and attaching priority to exte...
Local economies and globalisation
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
Job and Skill Impacts of New Technology in the East Asian Electronics Industry: Findings from Recent Literature and Annotated Bibliography
R. Heeks; A. Slamen-McCann / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1996
This paper reviews recent (post-1985) research literature on job and skill impacts associated with new manufacturing technologies and more globalised production in the East Asian electronics export industry. It describes the unique de...
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Stability: International Journal of Security & Development
Stability: International Journal of Security & Development is  an open-access journal.  It publishes research quickly and free of charge aiming to have a maximal impact upon policy and practice communities. Despite the allocation of significant policy attention and financial resources to a perceived relationship between development assistance, security and stability, a solid evidence...
Africa Progress Panel
The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
World Resources Report (WRR)
The World Resources Report (WRR) provides policymakers around the world government, civil society, and business with analysis and insight about major environmental and development issues. It is the product of a 20-year partnership among the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Resources Institute.
IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)
IDH accelerates and upscales sustainable trade by building impact oriented coalitions of front running multinationals, civil society organisations, governments and other stakeholders. Through convening public and private interests, strengths and knowledge, IDH programs help make sustainability the new norm and deliver impact on Millennium Development Goals 1, 7 and 8.
The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
The Finnish Institute of International Affairs is a research institute that produces high quality, topical information on international relations and the EU.
Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIF)
The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) is a political science research centre.
ephemera
ephemera is an independent journal, supported by the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.
Economics Web Institute
Institute focusing on economics and management
The Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute (GISPRI)
Japanese research organisation in a global context
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
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