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Since the beginning of the 1990s, Brazil has followed a pattern of economic development inspired by Washington Consensus. This book assesses the determinants and impacts of financial liberalisation in Brazil: the opening up of the balance of payments capital account, and the penetration by foreign bank of the domestic banking sector.

Trade liberalization has swept over developing countries over the past few decades and its results have been argued about for the last few years. This text presents useful into the experience of APEC countries that have gone through numerous liberalizing reforms in recent times.

This remarkable new work reconciles two distinct disciplinary fields; the study of culture and the study of markets, to expand our understanding of the world of markets and business enterprise.

Drawing upon many secondary sources, this book answers three questions: how did air transportation develop in the century after the Wright Brothers, what does it mean to live in an airborne world, and what is the future of aviation in this century.

Aims to trace the liberalization of the European airline industry. This book focuses on the work of the European Commission, market forces, the voices of airline industry interests and on the individuals in the policy making process. It concludes with an overview of the attempts by the EU and the US to create an Open Aviation Area.

Focuses on the provision of public investment and level of governmental intervention in Europe and the USA with particularly reference to the EU Cohesion Policy and the US Federal Investment Policies.

Assesses South America's most ambitious attempt at economic integration, Mercosur, explaining the main - and inherent - weaknesses of the integration effort, through explicit comparison with the European experience with integration.

Globalization has forced firms into more direct competition; the result has been global price-fixing. This situation has greatly challenged antitrust authorities. This work sets a practical explanation of the history of cartels and antitrust law, and provides suggestions as to how potential reforms of antitrust laws could improve the situation.

This volume examines the two models of health care reform - managed competition and internal markets - that are increasingly becoming the dominant paradigm in European and North American policy.

Combining theoretical analysis with insights derived from interactions with trade negotiators, this book analyzes the issues surrounding the creation of 'trade rules', addressing trade topics including the trade and development linkage. It questions the effectiveness of the global trade order in promoting development.

As globalization continues apace, market segmentations are diminishing, distance is shrinking and the boundaries between nation states are becoming increasingly blurred. This book explores the properties of the world economy, the diverse mechanisms of interdependence, shocks and disturbances, economic processes and structures, and more.

Bringing together an international team of contributors, this book aims to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programs. The contributors include Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris, Ravi Kanbur and Allen Drazen.

Explores how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan.

Dilip Das examines the impact of ever-increasing financial globalization on emerging market economies, both in the former communist countries of eastern Europe and the developing world in general.

This book consists of a series of in depth case studies of investor-investee relations, based on extensive empirical research and organized around the principal-agent method, which provide valuable insights into modern UK venture capital practice.

Examining global economic institutions, this book presents history of globalization and explains how global public goods should be defined and how global economic institutions work. It also looks at the effect that major organizations - including the WTO, IMF and UNEP - have on areas such as finance, the environment and transport.

Asking the question of whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is 'integrating' the world economy, this volume consists of an overview of FDI research. It is useful for international and development economists.

Investigates immigration and the contribution immigrant enterprise plays in the economic development of cities, such as London, New York, Paris, and Miami, which appear as the living embodiment of globalization. This book demonstrates that the recognition of diversity is a necessary step to understanding winners and losers in immigrant enterprise.

Labour economics have received less attention in macroeconomics despite the fact that involuntary unemployment is a pressing policy issue. Here the imbalance is redressed by focusing on labour-demand and labour-supply relationships.

The book provides insight into how China and Japan can redesign the process of economic integration and security architecture to ensure peace and prosperity in Asia, and how China and Japan can cooperate to correct the capital misallocation and channel savings more effectively to investments in Asia.

This book examines the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and its opportunities and challenges. It looks at the impacts of economic integration, trade structure and economic interlinkage among these countries.