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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 337
• Soggetto topico: Free trade; Foreign trade and employment; Globalization - Economic aspects; Globalization - Social aspects; Anti-globalization movement; International economic relations
• Altri autori: BeneriaLourdes BisnathSavitri <1965->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global tensions
• ISBN: 1-135-95264-7; 1-135-95265-5; 1-280-24204-3; 9786610242047; 0-203-01772-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784427403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II