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Towards global social movement unionism?: trade union responses to globalization in South Africa
International Labour Organization, 2000This case study surveys the response of the South African labour movement to globalisation.DocumentHuman Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: a compact among nations to end human poverty
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2003This year's report proposes a policy approach to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by addressing the structural constraints that impede economic growth and human development.DocumentTrade liberalisation: implications for development in Pakistan
Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2002What result has liberalisation had in Pakistan?DocumentGlobalization index 2003: who's up, who's down?
Foreign Policy [Journal], 2003Two years ago, Foreign Policy created an index that measures a country’s global links, from foreign direct investment to international travel, telephone traffic, and Internet servers. For the last two years, Singapore and Ireland have topped the ranking of political, economic, and technological integration in 62 countries.DocumentAnti-globalization movements at the crossroads
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2000This Policy Brief presents the problems facing anti-globalisation protesters and the contrasting and conflicting interests it represents.It argues that, although it appears to be growing in strength and numbers, the antiglobalisation protest movement is now at a crossroads.DocumentCultural Similarity and International Trade: Evidence from the US and Chinese Panel Data
Global Development Network, 2001Have cultural links become more important in foreign trade than geographical proximity? This paper maintains that since the 1980s, especially the early 1990s when the Cold War came to an end, economic activities in homogeneous cultural environments have become more and more important than in heterogeneous environments.DocumentThe distribution of wages in Belarus
Global Development Network, 2002This paper attempts to provide evidence on the returns to human capital in Belarus, investigating the distribution of wages.DocumentGlobalization and Wage Inequality: A Simple General Equilibrium Approach
Global Development Network, 2002Wage inequality and the widening wage-gap in the North and in the South cannot be explained by existing theories and models of trade, so can the theory and reality be reconciled?DocumentGlobal Divergence
Global Development Network, 2002What are the characteristics of evolving cross-country incomes? This paper uses a sample of non-mainly-petroleum-exporting countries with market economies during the period 1960-1997.