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The terms of the debate: what's democracy got to do with it?
Eldis Document Store, 2002This paper reviews the functions of an international financial architecture before summarizing and evaluating the main institutions of the four historical financial architectures since the mid 19 th century - namely : the classical gold standard (~1870 to 1914), the interwar period of constant revision and drift (1919-1939), the Bretton Woods system (1944~1971), and the post Bretton Woods systemDocumentGlobalization, growth and poverty: building an inclusive world economy
World Bank, 2001Report argues that a country's willingness to integrate into the world economy leads to large benefits for the poorest.The study shows that 24 developing countries that increased their integration into the world economy over two decades ending in the late 1990s achieved higher growth in incomes, longer life expectancy and better schooling.DocumentThe developmental agenda in the age of neoliberal globalization
United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2001This article looks at options for renewed development policy, particularly in relation to globalisation and national policy-making.This article finds that:a consequence of globalisation has been the exposure of economies to speculative short term capital movements (hot money) which have increased financial instability and resulted in a series of financial crises in the developing countrDocumentImplications of globalization for monetary policy
International Monetary Fund, 2001This paper argues that the implications of globalization for monetary policy come mainly through two channels:the many structural changes that are associated with the globalization process cause an increase in the uncertainty surrounding monetary policy.DocumentTrade policies, developing countries, and globalization
World Bank, 2001This article discusses the substantial reductions in the trade policy and other barriers inhibiting developing country participation in world trade.The article finds that:there has been a dramatic shift in the pattern of developing country trade, with a shift away from dependence on commodity exports to much greater reliance on manufactures and services, and greatly increased importanceDocumentOpenness, firms, and competition
World Bank, 2001This paper examines the impact of greater foreign competition on domestic firms.DocumentGlobalization and workers in developing countries
World Bank, 2001This article reviews academic literature concerned with globalisation.The article focuses on:the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment and financial crises on average wagesthe impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill and genderthe pattern of job destruction and job creation associated with globalization.the impactDocumentGeography and international inequalities: the impact of new technologies.
World Bank, 2001This article analyses whether new technologies mean the ‘death of distance’, allowing suitably skilled economies to converge with high income countries.DocumentFinancial globalization: opportunities and challenges for developing countries
World Bank, 2001This chapter discusses the opportunities and challenges that financial globalization entail for developing countries.This article finds that:financial globalization can come with crises and contagionfinancial globalization can also lead to large benefits, particularly to the development of the financial systemthe net effect of financial globalization is likely positive, with risDocumentGlobal economic governance: strategic crossroads
Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001The objective of this discussion paper is to examine in broad terms the emergence of a transnational citizen movement opposed to the current forms of global economic governance, while providing sketches of main analytical tendencies within this diverse movementPages