Trade and Payments After Soviet Disintegration
Author: John Williamson
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780881321739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Williamson
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780881321739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bob Cornelis Catharina van der Zwaan
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 79
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ian Anthony
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For this study, a group of Russian authors were commissioned to describe and assess the arms trade policies and practices of Russia under new domestic and international conditions. The contributors, drawn from the government, industry, and academic communities, offer a wide range of reports on the political, military, economic, and industrial implications of Russian arms transfers, as well as specific case studies of key bilateral arms transfer relationships.
Author: C. Fred Bergsten
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0881326631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the course of five decades, John Williamson has published an extraordinary number of books, articles, and other pieces on topics ranging from international monetary economics to development policy and bridging scholarly literature and policy debates. This book provides an overview and insight into Williamson's work. It includes contributions from the editors, Stanley Fischer, Edwin M. Truman, Paul De Grauwe, Yuemei Ji, Marcus Miller, Avinash Persaud, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Dagmar Hertova, Olivier Jeanne, Shankar Acharya, Jose Antonio Ocampo, and an essay by John Williamson on designing economic policy.
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780881322996
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Air and water pollution blighted northern Mexican cities long before the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a glimmer on the political horizon. Not surprisingly, when NAFTA became a political reality, environmentalists argued that commercial competition would weaken environmental standards in Canada and the United States and industrial growth in Mexico would further damage its weak environmental infrastructure. NAFTA's huge success in expanding free trade has concentrated population and environmental abuse at the US-Mexico border where it is most visible to Americans. Many environmental groups blame NAFTA and, drawing on its experience, now oppose new trade initiatives.Does the NAFTA record on the environment since 1994 justify its criticism? In this seven-year analysis, the authors review NAFTA's environmental provisions, including a side accord--the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), the situation at the US-Mexican border, and the trends in North American environmental policy. They emphasize that the environmental problems of North America were not the result of NAFTA and the NAAEC was not devised to address all of them. The authors recommend ways to better NAFTA's environmental dimension in all three countries, and improve living conditions where economic growth is greatest--at the US-Mexican border. It makes more sense to tackle the shortcomings than to lament NAFTA and the economic growth it promotes.
Author: Williamson, John
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780881325966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Morris Goldstein
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780881322613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The turmoil that has rocked Asian markets since the middle of 1997, and that is now having such deep effects on the economies in the region, is the third major currency crisis of the 1990s. This study explains how the Asian crisis arose and spread. It then outlines the corrective policy measures that could help end the crisis, and the shortcomings that have been revealed in the international financial system that require reform to reduce the chances of a recurrence.
Author: Suresh D. Tendulkar
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780881325942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marcus Noland
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780881323504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Globalization reigns supreme as a description of recent economic transformation--and it carries many meanings. In the policy realm, the orthodox terms of engagement have been enshrined in the "Washington consensus." But disappointing results in Latin America and transitional economies--plus the Asian financial crisis--have shaken the faith in Washington and elsewhere. One response has been to hark back to the more statist policies that the consensus marginalized. In this regard, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are promoted as the poster nations that have derived great benefits from increasing integration with the international economy, without surrendering national autonomy in the economic or cultural spheres, effectively beating the West at its own game. The fundamental questions addressed in this monograph are whether industrial policy was indeed a major source of growth in these three economies, and if so, can it be replicated under current institutional arrangements, and if so, is it worth replicating, or, would developing countries today be better off embracing the suitably refined orthodoxy?