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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784427403321

Titolo

Global tensions : challenges and opportunities in the world economy / / edited by Lourdes Beneria and Savitri Bisnath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-95264-7

1-135-95265-5

1-280-24204-3

9786610242047

0-203-01772-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BeneriaLourdes

BisnathSavitri <1965->

Disciplina

337

Soggetti

Free trade

Foreign trade and employment

Globalization - Economic aspects

Globalization - Social aspects

Anti-globalization movement

International economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Toward a Stark Utopia?; 2 Tax Distortion in the Global Economy; 3 Human Rights and Corporate Profits; 4 Cross-Border Externalities and International Public Goods; 5 Financial-Sector Liberalization and the Asian Financial Crisis; 6 Developing Countries and the New Financial Architecture; 7 Globalization; 8 Biotechnology and Food Security; 9 The WTO, GATS, and TPRM; 10 Labor Standards, Women's Rights, Basic Needs; 11 Contesting Global Trade Rules; 12 Utilizing Interdisciplinarity to Analyze Global Socio-Economic Change

13 Development and Productive Deprivation14 Promoting Women's Capabilities; 15 The Global City; 16 Urban Tensions; 17 Urban Transport and Tensions in Developing Countries; About the Authors;



Index

Sommario/riassunto

Against the backdrop of demonstrations in Seattle, Porto Alegre and Genoa and within the context of growing resistances to free trade and the current global trends, Global Tensions takes a close look at the challenges posed by the processes of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century.  Composed of original essays by renowned scholars, this volume explores controversial topics such as free trade, women's rights, labor standards, the World Trade Organization and global tensions.