Earlier this year the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (PNUMA) published a joint report entitled “Trade and Climate Change”. The report takes a look at the science of climate change, its economic aspects, multilateral action necessary to deal...
In late August, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) launched its annual report con Latin America’s Economic situation, with a special focus on trade issues. The first part of the report offers a medium-term view of the current international economic...
Product Description This book provides critical interpretations of international organizations from the perspectives of Marxism, Feminism, Realism, and Liberalism. Using case studies of current crises and events ranging the from Arab and Islamic organizations to the Palestinian uprising to the...
Product Description Thoroughly revised and reorganized for the twelfth edition, WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION presents the most comprehensive coverage of any text, and this annual update provides the most recent demographic and statistical information available for the course. Using...
Product Description TAKING SIDES: WORLD POLITICS, 14/e presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An...
ReviewCongratulations on a real professional publication. --William J. Augello, Esq. -- Author of Transportation, Logistics, and the LawThis is one of the very best publications now available in transportation and logistics for anyone planning on entering the logistics industry; current...
Financial writer Morris explains the current sub-prime mortgage crisis that is affecting countless numbers of families in the United States and the economy as a whole. Morris details, in great length and description, where the market went wrong and the economic downfall that is soon to be...
In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently unstable and crisis prone. With great skill, he examines the very foundations of today's...
Description Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international divisions are central to economic development. The transformations along these three dimensions - density, distance, and...
Review"While developing countries entered this tumultuous period with much improved fundamentals, this crisis is expected to test severely both them and the international financial system. In the longer run, even after developing country growth recovers, commodity supply should keep pace with...