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George P. Oslin

Peter North, Bea Toews

Sherry Stephenson

This timely book is the first to review and analyze trade agreements covering the services industries in the Western Hemisphere and their relationship to the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The link between regional negotiations and the multilateral negotiations on services to begin in January 2000 is a constant, unifying focus of the book. Part One deals with the main issues relevant to liberalization of trade in services at both the multilateral and regional levels, including options to improve the GATS architecture; the scope of regulatory reform; the treatment of investment; and the clarification of WTO requirements for countries to engage in an economic integration agreement. Part Two examines regional agreements on trade in services concluded by several economic integration groups-including NAFTA, the Andean Community, and Mercosur-as well as several bilateral free trade agreements covering services, especially those initiated by...

Sarah Cook, Shujie Yao, Juzhong Zhuang, Zhongguo Jing Ji Xue Hui

This wide ranging collection of essays addresses many important issues in China's economy under transition, from grain production and trade, to the development of township enterprises, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, the emergence of big business, money demand, and consumption behavior. The contributors provide insightful analysis and discussions of economic policies, illuminating the institutional context within which reform strategies are negotiated and implemented in different economic sectors.

Bernard Bailyn

Book DescriptionThe central theme of this volume, is the supply of money in circulation, rather than the importance of money, per se. It was this circulation that determined the movement of prices, of trade, and of credit in short, it was this that underpinned the commercialisation of the economy, and therefore was the most important medieval money matter.

Kaushik Basu, Henrik Horn, Lisa Roman, Judith Shapiro

Tian Kang Go

This book argues with facts and figures that a small group of New York banks, by means of term loans and working in close collaboration with their affiliated life insurance companies, exerted a strong influence over the supply of money and credit, and thus over the economy, throughout the years of the Depression. This study analyzes the growth of term loan under the depression, the concentration of the loans in a handful of powerful New York banks, the interplay between these banks and large life insurance companies in the capital market, and the resulting economic consequences. It also details the changes that took place in the leadership within the financial hierarchy during the depression: the J.D. Rockefeller interests replaced the Morgan-First National interests as the country's dominant financial power- a change that has escaped previous scholarly notice. Originally used as a credit instrument to finance distressed corporations during the prolonged depression, term...

Mohan Munasinghe, Osvaldo Sunkel, Carlos De Miguel, Carlos De Miguel

The Sustainability of Long-term Growth is a comprehensive review of the links between sustainable development and long-term growth. This state-of-the-art book develops our understanding of the complex issues that will shape sustainable development strategies in the twenty-first century - economic growth, poverty eradication, environmental protection, social inclusion and good governance. Sustainable development is analyzed in terms of its economic, social and environmental dimensions. The authors argue that material-intensive conventional economic growth is unsustainable in the long-term, unless environmental and social elements are given equal priority. Leading experts critically discuss important topics including durability versus optimality of development, globalization, dematerialization of production and consumption, alternative lifestyles, green national income accounting and environmental valuation, eco-development, the growing North-South development gap, environment and...

Dennis C. Pirages, Dennis Pirages