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  1. Global Governance: Concepts and Institutional Architecture
  2. Open Economies and Open Societies: Measuring the Benefits of Openness
  3. Integration of Developing Countries in the Global Community: Opportunities, Obstacles and Challenges
  4. The Poorest Countries: Generating Growth, Entrepreneurship and Welfare
  5. The Role of Business: Taking on Leadership and Responsibilities
  6. Information and Communication Technology: Creating Knowledge, Managing Information and Building Infrastructures
  7. WTO: Improving and Implementing Existing Rules, Dealing with New Issues

 

1. Global Governance: Concepts and Institutional Architecture

Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941

Articles and Reports

- Russia,s Challenges as Chair of the G-8, Anders Aslund, Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, March 2006
- Governance Matters III, Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay & Massimo Mastruzzi, World Bank, Washington DC, June 2003
- Global Balance Sheet - 1913-1998, Guy Pfeffermann, The Globalist, 27 June 2003
- Capitalism and Democracy, The Economist, 26 June 2003
- Building Democratic Governance and Market Reforms: Experiences of the Center for International Private Enterprise, John D. Sullivan, CIPE, May 2003
- Personal Views on the G8 Meeting, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, May 2003
- is Globalisation in Danger?, Martin Wolf, World Economy, Vol. 26 Issue 4, April 2003
- Economic Crime Survey 2003, PWC, 2003
- Global Issues Networks: Desperate Times Deserve Innovative Measures, Jean-Francois Rischard,  The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2002-03
- Growth without Governance, Daniel Kaufmann & Aart Kraay, World Bank, Washington DC, November 2002
- Financial Regulatory Harmonization and the Globalization of Finance, Cally Jordan & Giovanni Majnoni, World Bank, Washington DC, October 2002
- Does Globalization Hurt the Poor?, Pierre-Richard Agénor, World Bank, Washington DC, September 2002 
- The Political Economy of - Globalisation: Can the Past Inform the Present?, Richard Higgott, August 2002 
- Two Ways to Go Global, Peter Hakim, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002
- Coping With Antiglobalization: A Trilogy of Discontents, Jagdish Bhagwati, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002
- Transcending "Trade and...": An Institutional Perspective, Joel P. Trachtman, American Journal of International Law 77, 2002
- Globalization, Innovation and Inequalities, Frédérique Sachwald, Globalization, Les Notes de l'IFRI, 48 bis, 2002
- Governance Matters II, Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Pablo Zoido-Lobatón, World Bank, Washington DC, 2002
- Fighting for economic equality, Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 27 November 2001  
- The Gospel of Globalisation, Henry Paulson, Financial Times, 13 November 2001
- Rebuilding the International Financial Architecture, Il SaKong, EMEPG Report, Seoul, October 2001
- Globalization's Also-Rans Ought to Be Scrambling on Board, Philip Bowring, International Herald Tribune, 2 May 2001
- The WTO and Global Governance, Peter Sutherland, John Sweel and David Weinder, Overseas Development Council, London, October 2000
- Speak up for Globalization, David de Pury & Jean-Pierre Lehmann, International Herald Tribune, 14 June 2000
- The big lie of global inequality, Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 9 February 2000
- The curse of global inequality, Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 26 January 2000
- Global Interdependence, the Corporation and the Changing World, Peter Sutherland, Business Strategy Review, Vol 10 Issue 3, 1999
- Governance Matters, Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Pablo Zoido-Lobatón, World Bank, Washington DC, 1999
- Globalization, Peter Termin, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 1999
- ILO Studies on the Social Dimension of Globalization, (Bangladesh, Chile, Republic of Korea, Mauritius, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland) 

Books

- Global Civil Society?, John Keane, 2003
- A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance, Mike Moore, 2003
- The Commanding Heights: the Battle Between Government and the Marketplace that is Remaking the Modern World, Daniel Yergin & Joseph Stanislaw, 2002
- Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism, Brink Lindsey, London, 2002
- Globalization and Trade in the New Millennium, Supachai Panitchpakdi, Bangkok, 2001
- Efficiency, Equity, Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium, Roger Porter, Pierre Sauvé, Arvind Subramanian and Americo Beviglia Zampetti, Washington DC, 2001
- Capitalism, Morality and Markets, Brian Griffiths, Robert A. Sirico, Norman Barry and Frank Field, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, 2001
- Seattle, the WTO, and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System, Roger Porter & Pierre Sauvé (eds), The Center for Business and Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, June 2000
- Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen, 2000
- The World Trade Organization: Constitution and Jurisprudence, John Jackson, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1998
- The Bretton Woods-GATT System, Retrospect and Prospect after Fifty Years, Orin Kirshner, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, London, 1996
- The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, Cordell Hull, London, 1948

 

2. Open Economies and Open Societies: Measuring the Benefits of Openness

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Articles and Reports

- Policy Research on Migration and Development, David Ellerman, World Bank, Washington DC, August 2003
- International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain: A Study of 24 labor-Exporting Countries, Richard H. Adams Jr., World Bank, Washington DC, June 2003
- More Pain, More Gain: Politics and Economics of Eliminating Tariffs, Gary Clyde Hufbauer & Ben Goodrich, International Economics Policy Briefs, June 2003
- Central and Eastern Europe - Export Platform for Investors?, Kálmán Kalotay , The Journal of World Investment, December 2002
- Toughest on the Poor: America's Flawed, Edward Gresser, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2002
- Survey: Migration, The Economist, 2 November 2002
- Reducing Agricultural Tariffs versus Domestic Support: What’s More Important for Developing Countries? Bernard Hoekman, Francis Ng and Marcelo Olarreaga, World Bank, Washington DC, October 2002
- The Free Trade Fix, Tina Rosenberg, The New York Times, 18 August 2002
- Globalization, poverty and income distribution: Does the liberal argument hold?, Robert Wade, Development Studies Institute, July 2002 
- The Poor’s Best Hope, Jagdish Bhagwati, The Economist, 22 June 2002
- The Diaspora that Fuels Development, Moises Naim, Financial Times, 10 June 2002
- Estimating the Poverty Impacts of Trade Liberalisation, Jeffrey Reiner, World Bank, Washington DC, February 2002
- The Controversy Over Free Trade: The Gap Between Economists and the General Public, Cletus C. Coughlin, The federal reserve bank of St Louis, January/February 2002
- Managing the Global Migration Crisis, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Project Syndicate, 2002
- Market Access for Developing Country Exports: Selected Issues, International Monetary Fund/ World Bank, 2002
- Why are Some People (and Countries) more Protectionist than Others, Anna Maria Mayda & Dani Rodrik, 2002
- Qatar: Mobilising the World’s Labour Assets, Dani Rodrik, Financial Times, 17 December 2001
- International Trade and Poverty Alleviation, Geoffrey J. Bannister & Kamau Thugge, Finance and Development vol. 38, n°4, December 2001
- Broken Promises to the Poor, Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 21 November 2001
- How Trade Can Help the Poor, Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 3 October 2001
- Responding to the anti-globalisation trade protestors, Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 4 September 2001
- Trends in Immigration and Economic Consequences, Jonathan Coppel, Jean-Christophe Dumont and Ignazio Visco, Economics Department Working Papers n° 284, OECD, Paris, 18 June 2001
- Developing countries and the demographic and democratic imperatives of globalization, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, International Affairs, January 2001
- Putting Trade on Track, Jim Rollo, London, 2001
- Trading in Illusions, Dani Rodrik, Foreign Policy 2001
- Trade is Changing so must Europe, Pascal Lamy, Financial Times, 4 December 2000
- The Dangers of Protectionism, Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 8 November 2000
- Liberalizing Agriculture and Manufacturing in the Millennium Round: Implications for Developing Countries, Thomas W. Hertel & Will Martin, The World Economy, Vol. 23, 2000

Books

- Free Trade Today, Jagdish Bhagwati, Princeton, 2002
- Free Trade under Fire, Douglas Irwin, Princeton, 2002
- Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policy for the 2000s, Patrick Messerlin, Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, 2002
- Free Trade, Sovereignty and Democracy, Claude Barfield, Washington DC, 2001
- A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration and Democracy, Jagdish Bhagwati, London, 1998
- Rethinking International Trade, Paul Krugman, Cambridge, Mass, 1996
- Protectionism, Jagdish Bhagwati, London, 1988

 

3. Integration of Developing Countries in the Global Community: Opportunities, Obstacles and Challenges

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India

- The Idea of India, Sunil Khilnani, London, 2000
- India Unbound, Das Gurcharan, New Delhi, 2000
- WTO and India in the Millennium Round, Chiranjib Sen, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, 2000

China

Articles and Reports

- Impact of China's WTO Accession on East Asia, Elena Ianchovichina & Terrie Walmsley, World Bank, Washington DC, August 2003
- Economic Impacts of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization, Elena Ianchovichina & William Martin, World Bank, Washington DC, May 2003
- China's Accession to the WTO: The Services Dimension, Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank, Washington DC, December 2002
- China's WTO Accession: The Road to Implementation, William Abnett and Robert Cassidy, NBR Special Report No 3, November 2002
- Towards WTO Compliance - China's Foreign Direct Investment Regime in Transition, Qingjiang Kong, The Journal of World Investment, October 2002
Domestic Effect of the WTO Agreement in China - Trends and Implications, Xin Zhang , The Journal of World Investment, October 2002,
- How to View the Problems in China's Economy? - In Response to the Notion of "Coming Collapse of China", Fan Gang, China & World Economy, n°5, 2002
- China's New Anti-dumping Regulations Improvements to Comply with the World Trade Organization Rules, Lei Wang, Shengxing Yu, Journal of World Trade Law, Vol. 36 (5), 2002 
- Challenges for WTO Implementation, Paul Thiers, Journal of Contemporary China 2002, 11(32), 413–431
- Select and Implement an Active Responsive Strategy after WTO Accession, Liu Shijin et al., China Development Review, July 2002
- China in the World Economy, Synthesis report, OECD, 2002
- China: Gigantic Possibilities, Present Realities, Alastair Newton & Robert Subbaraman, Lehman Brothers, 2002
- China’s Integration with the World Economy: Repercussions of China’s Accession to the WTO, Kyung Tae Lee, Justin Yifu Lin and Si Joong Kim, Korean Institute for International Economic Policy, Seoul, 2001

Books

- China and the WTO: Changing China, Changing World Trade, Supachai Panitchpakdi & Mark L. Clifford, Singapore, 2002
- Integrating China into the Global Economy, Nicholas Lardy, Washington DC, 2002
- China in the World Market, Thomas Moore, Cambridge, UK, 2002
- China and the Global Economy: National Champions, Industrial Policy, and the Big Business Revolution, Peter Nolan, London, 2001
- China’s Unfinished Economic Revolution, Nicholas Lardy, Washington DC, 1998
- China’s Transition, Andrew Nathan, New York, 1997
- The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism, S. Gordon Redding, 1993

NEPAD

http://www.nepad.com

Central and Latin America

- Trade Policy, Standards and Development in Central America, Hufbauer, G./Kotschwar, B./Wilson, J, 2002
- The MERCOSUR foreign direct investment boom in the 1990´s: characteristics, determinants and impacts, MERCOSUR Economic Research Network, 2000
- Colonial Legacies: the Problem of Persistence in Latin American History, Jeremy Adelman, New York, 1998
- What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism, Philip Oxhorn & Ducatenzeiler (eds), University Park, Pennsylvania, 1998
- MERCOSUR Economic Research Network
- MERCOSUR Direct Investment Portal

Middle East - North Africa

- The Changing Financial Landscape: Opportunities and Challenges for The Middle East and North Africa, Wafik Grais & Zeynep Kantur, World Bank, Washington DC, May 2003
- For Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East: Women Empowerment is Key, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, March 2003
- Initial Conditions and Incentives for Arab Economic Integration: Can the European Community’s Success Be Emulated?, Bernard Hoekman & Patrick Messerlin, World Bank, Washington DC, October 2002
- The Other Mideast Crisis: Economic Decline, Peter Sutherland & Bernard Hoekman, International Herald Tribune, 27 March 2002
- Harnessing Trade for Development and Growth in the Middle East, Bernard Hoekman & Patrick Messerlin, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 2002
- What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, Bernard Lewis, Oxford, 2001
- Accession to the WTO: Current Issues in the Arab World, Tomer Broude, Journal of World Trade, 1998
- The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey, Fouad Ajami, London, 1998
- Aspects of Structural Adjustment in Africa and Egypt, Alia El Mahdi (ed), Cairo, 1997
- Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, Albert Hourani, London, 1980

 Books

- Globalization and The Politics of Development in the Middle East, Clement M. Henry & Robert Springborg, 2001

 

4. The Poorest Countries: Generating Growth, Entrepreneurship and Welfare

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Articles and Reports

- Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Attract FDI? Only a bit...and they could bite, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, World Bank, Washington DC, June 2003
- Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages, Beata K. Smarzynska, World Bank, Washington DC, October 2002
- FDI and Economic Growth in Developing Countries, Peter Nunnenkamp, The Journal of World Investment, August 2002
- A Bangladesh Start-up defies Investing Wisdom, Susan Reed, International Herald Tribune, 25 May 2002
- The Least Developed Countries Report 2002: Escaping the Poverty Trap, UNCTAD, 2002
- Rigged Rules and Double Standards, Trade, Globalisation and the Fight against Poverty, Oxfam International, 2002
- World Investment Report 2002: TNCs and Export Competitiveness, UNCTAD, 2002
- Statistical Profiles of the Least Developed Countries 2001, UNCTAD, 2001
- Development Effectiveness: What Have We Learnt?, Paul Collier & David Dollar, World Bank, Washington DC, 2001
- FDI in Least Developed Countries at a Glance, UNCTAD, 2001
- Paths out of Poverty: The Role of Private Enterprise in Developing Countries, International Finance Corporation, 2000
- Capacity Building in Africa: The Role of International Financial Institutions, Saleh M. Nsouli, Finance and Development vol. 37, n°4, December 2000
- Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, Claire Short, Secretary of State for International Development, London, December 2000
- Growth Is Good for the Poor, David Dollar & Aart Kraay, Development Research Group, World Bank, March 2000
- Further Integration of Developing Countries, Including Least-Developed Countries (LDCs), in the Multilateral Trading System, Alec Erwin, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Pretoria, South Africa, 1999
- Good Governance and Trade Policy: Are They the Keys to Africa’s Global Integration and Growth?, Francis Ng & Alexander Yeats, World Bank, Washington DC, 1998
- How does foreign Direct Investment Affect Economic Growth, E. Borensztein, J. De Gregorio and J-W Lee, Journal of International Economics 45, 1998
- The New Globalism and Developing Countries, John Dunning & Khalil Hamdani, United Nations, New York, 1997

Books

- The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, William Easterly, Cambridge, Mass, 2001
- Bad Aid, Bad Trade, Andrew Stoeckel & Brent Borrell, Canberra, 2001
- Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation State, Basil Davidson, London, 1992

 

5. The Role of Business: Taking on Leadership and Responsibilities

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Articles and Reports

- The Corporatist Manifesto, Steve Hilton, Financial Times, 20 April 2002
- The 21st Century Needs Corporate-Driven Globalisation, Michael Garrett & Jean-Pierre Lehmann, International Herald Tribune, 3 January 2002
- Communication from the Commission concerning Corporate Social Responsibility, European Commission, 2 July 2002
- The Corporate Key: Using Big Business to Fight Global Poverty, George C. Lodge, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002
- The Corporate Ethics Crusade, Ethan B. Kapstein, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2001
- OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, OECD, 2000
- The Global Corporation: Sharing the Regulatory Responsibility, David Currie, Business Strategy Review, 1999

 

6. Information and Communication Technology: Creating Knowledge, Managing Information and Building Infrastructures

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Articles and Reports

- Economic Impact of Trade and Investment Liberalization in the Telecommuncations Sector - A Survey of Issues and Arguments, Daniel Roseman, The Journal of World Investment, December 2002  
- An Assessment of Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries, Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, and Randeep Rathindran, World Bank, Washington DC, October 2002
- Trade-Related Technology Diffusion and the Dynamics of North-South and South-South Integration, Maurice Schiff, Yanling Wang and Marcelo Olarreaga, World Bank, June 2002
- Peering, Transit, Interconnection: Internet Access and Central Europe, Terrence P. McGarty, 2002 
- Elements and Principles of the information Society, Claudia Sarrocco, 2002
- Digitally Empowered Development, Allen L. Hammond, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001
- Governing Information and Communication Technologies, UNESCO, World Communication and Information Report, 1999
- Internet, Civil Society and Global Governance: The Neglected Political Dimension of the Digital Divide, Dieter Zinnbauer, Information and Security, 2001
- E-Commerce and Development Report 2001, UNCTAD, 2001
- National Policies for the Information Age: IT and Economic Development, Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick, Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, October 1999 

Websites
- ITU Telecommunication Development Sector
- World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva 2003-Tunis 2005

 

7. WTO: Improving and Implementing Existing Rules, Dealing with New Issues

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- The World Trade Organization and Law Enforcement, Steve Charnovitz, Council on Foreign Relations
- The Changing Outlook for Asia-Pacific Regionalism, Robert Scollay, The World Economy, October 2002 
- From North-South to South-South: The True Face of Global Competition, Robert J. S. Ross & Anita Chan, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2002
- Basic Principles of the WTO and the Role of Competition Policy, Mitsuo Matsushita , The Journal of World Investment, August 2002
- Further Financial Services Liberalization in the Doha Round?, Wendy Dobson, IIE Policy Brief, August 2002  
- Economic Development and the WTO After Doha, Bernard Hoekman, World Bank and CEPR, June 2002 
- Regional Agreements and Trade in Services: Policy Issues, Aaditya Mattoo and Carsten Fink, World Bank, June 2002 
- The Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: A Map of the World Trade Organization Law of Domestic Regulation of Goods, Gabrielle Marceau and Joel P. Trachtman, Journal of World Trade Law, Vol. 36 (5), 2002 
- Core Labour Standards in World Trade Law The Necessity for Incorporation of Core Labour Standards in the World Trade Organization, Hans-Michael Wolffgang and Wolfram Feuerhake, Journal of World Trade Law, Vol. 36 (5), 2002 
- Redesigning the Virtuous Circle: Two Proposals for World Trade Organization Reform Resolving and Preventing United States–European Union, and other Trade Disputes, Dirk De Bièvre , Journal of World Trade Law, Vol. 36 (5), 2002 
- The Legal Environment for a Multilateral Framework on Investment and the Potential Role of the WTO, Cynthia Day Wallace, The Journal of World Investment, April 2002
- A View From Outside: Russia and the Case for the WTO, Edward Gresser, April 2002 
- The Unbalanced Uruguay Round Outcome, J. Michael Finger & Julio J. Nogues, World Economy, March 2002
- Broadening the vision of trade liberalisation: International competition Law and the WTO, Andrew D. Mitchell, World Competition 24 (3), 2001
- Strengthening the Global Trade Architecture for Development: The Post Doha Agenda, Bernard Hoekman, 2001
- Implementing the Uruguay Round Agreements: Problems for Developing Countries, Michael Finer, World Economy, 2001
- Strengthening the Global Trade Architecture for Development: the Post Doha Agenda, Bernard Hoekman, World Bank, 16 November 2001
- Is the WTO's Article XXIV a Free Trade Barrier?, Ben Zissimos and David Vines, CSGR Working paper, February 2000
- Reflections on Regionalism: Report of the Study Group on International Trade, Jaime Serra (ed), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, 1997
- Market Access After the Uruguay Round: Investment, Competition and Technology Perspectives, OECD, Paris, 1996
- Investment Rules for the Global Economy, Pierre Sauvé & Daniel Schwanen (eds), Toronto, 1996 Notice: Undefined variable: imdUploadrint in /var/www/resources/library.php on line 60 Printer-Friendly

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