1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779274903321

Autore

Iqbal Zubair

Titolo

Trade Reform and Regional Integration in Africa / / Zubair Iqbal, Mohsin Khan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 1998

ISBN

1-4623-4610-3

1-4552-1244-X

1-283-53551-3

9786613847966

1-4552-9914-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (522 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KhanMohsin

Disciplina

382/.3/0967

Soggetti

Exports and Imports

Foreign Exchange

Taxation

International Economics

Natural Resources

Trade Policy

International Trade Organizations

Trade: General

Financial Aspects of Economic Integration

Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

Environmental and Ecological Economics: General

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

International economics

Public finance & taxation

International trade & commerce

Currency

Foreign exchange

Environmental management

Tariffs

Trade policy

Trade liberalization

Exports

Regional integration

Taxes

International trade



Imports

Commercial policy

Tariff

International economic integration

Africa, Sub-Saharan Commercial policy Congresses

Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions Regional disparities Congresses

Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic integration Congresses

Africa, Sub-Saharan Foreign economic relations Congresses

South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Papers presented at the IMF, African Economic Research Consortium seminar on Trade reform and regional integration in Africa, December 1-3, 1997."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- List of Abbreviations -- ; 1 Opening Address / Alassane Ouattara -- ; 2 Trade Reforms and Regional Integration : An Overview / Zubair Iqbal and Mohsin S. Khan -- ; Part I. Trade Reform, Macroeconomic Adjustment, and Growth -- ; 3 Trade Liberalization / Michael Mussa -- ; 4 Trade Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa / Robert Sharer -- ; 5 The Revenue Implications of Trade Liberalization / Liam P. Ebrill and Janet G. Stotsky -- ; 6 Globalization: Implications for Africa / Paul Collier -- ; 7 Why Is Trade Reform So Difficult in Africa? / Dani Rodrik -- ; 8 Africa's Role in Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Past and Future / Zhen Kun Wang and L. Alan Winters -- ; 9 Trade and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Benno J. Ndulu and Njuguna S. Ndung'u -- ; 10 Africa: Industrialization Strategy in the Context of Globalization Charles / Chukwuma Soludo -- ; Part II. Regional Integration in Africa -- ; 11 Regional Integration: Lessons from Asia and the Western Hemisphere / Gary Hufbauer and Barbara Kotschwar -- ; 12 Trade Policy and Regional Integration in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ademola Oyejide -- ; 13 Beyond Trade: Regional Arrangements as a Window on Globalization / Christian A. Francois and Arvind Subramanian -- ; 14 Regional Integration, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Francis M. Mwega -- ; 15 Sub-Saharan African Experiences with Regional Integration / Ernest Aryeetey -- ; 16 Regional Integration Arrangements in Southern Africa: SADC and SACU / Trudi Hartzenberg and Gavin Maasdorp -- ; 17 Regional Trade Arrangements: The COMESA Experience / Louis A. Kasekende and Charles A. Abuka -- ; 18 The Role of ECOWAS in Trade Liberalization / Charles D. Jebuni -- List of Participants.

Sommario/riassunto

Edited by Zubair Iqbal and Mohsin Khan, this volume is a collection of papers given at a seminar on trade issues in Africa, conducted by the IMF nad the African Economic Research Consortium. It represents the views of government officials, academics, and representatives from multilateral and regional agencies on issues relating to trade reform and regionalism in Africa. Issues include the role of trade liberalization in promoting sustained growth, interdependence of trade and macroeconomic policies, impediments to effective trade reforms, the



steps needed to accelerate trade reform, and the importance of regional interaction.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155451003321

Titolo

Liquid Legal : Transforming Legal into a Business Savvy, Information Enabled and Performance Driven Industry / / edited by Kai Jacob, Dierk Schindler, Roger Strathausen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-45868-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXXII, 454 p. 127 illus., 90 illus. in color.)

Collana

Management for Professionals, , 2192-8096

Disciplina

658.4092

Soggetti

Leadership

Commercial law

Organization

Planning

Business Strategy/Leadership

Commercial Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "Run Legal as a Business!" -- Masters of Ambiguity - How Legal Can Lead the Business -- Globalization and the Changing Role of General Counsel: Current Trends and Future Scenarios -- Legal Advisor - Service Provider - Business Partner: Shifting the Mindset of Corporate Lawyers -- Shifting Client Expectations of Law Firms: Morphing Law Firms into Managed Services Providers -- Legal Process Outsourcing: Redefining the Legal Services Delivery Model -- LegalTech on the Rise: Technology Changes Legal Work Behaviours, But Does Not Replace Its Profession -- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Run Legal with Business Metrics -- A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet: The New Legal Pro-Occupations in the Contruction Sector -- The Legal Entrepreneur: When Do Corporate Lawyers Act Entrepreneurially? --



Organizations 4.0: Using Legal Competency for Building Fluid and Innovation-driven Structures -- Change Management for Lawyers: What Legal Management Can Learn from Business Management -- The Legal Department: From Business Enabler to Business Creator -- Legal Tech Will Radically Change the Way SMEs Handle Legal: How SMEs Can Run Legal as Effectively and Professionally as Large Corporations -- The Value of Everything!: How to Measure and Deliver Legal Value? -- The Value Add of Legal Department in Disputes: Making a Business Case Rather than Providing Pure Legal Advise -- The Future of In-house Legal Department and Their Impact on the Legal Market: Four Theses for General Counsels, and One for Law Firms -- Procurement of Legal Services: How Customers Professionally Procure Legal Services Today -- CLOC - Joining Forces to Drive Transformation in Legal -- Legal Information Management (LIM) Strategy: How to Transform a Legal Department -- Technology is Changing the Way Legal Works: A Look at How Technology Is Driving Better Business Practices in Legal -- Look to the Moon: Managing and Monitoring the Legal Function -- Building a Legal Department in a Metrics-Driven World: A Guide to Finding the Best Candidates for the Legal Departments of the Future -- Business-Friendly Contracting: How Simplification and Visualization Can Help Bring It to Practice -- Running the Legal Department With Business Discipline: Applying Business Best Practices to the Corporate Legal Function -- Liquid Legal Manifesto.

Sommario/riassunto

This book compels the legal profession to question its current identity and to aspire to become a strategic partner for corporate executives, clients and stakeholders, transforming legal into a function that creates incremental value. It provides a uniquely broad range of forward-looking perspectives from several different key-players in the legal industry: in-house legal, law firms, LPO’s, legal tech, HR, associations and academia. This publication is a platform for leading legal professionals that offers a new perspective on the accelerating transformation in legal. Combining expert contributions with editorial insights, it argues that the new legal function will shift from a paradigm of security to one of opportunity; that future corporate lawyers will no longer primarily be negotiators, litigators and administrators, but that instead they will be coaches, arbiters and intrapreneurs; that legal knowledge and data-based services will become a commodity; and that analytics and measurement will be key drivers of the future of the profession. A must-read for all legal professionals, this book sets the course for revitalizing the profession.