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  • The Governance Gap

    Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage

    by Penelope Simons, Audrey Macklin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era
    This book explores the persistence of the governance gap with respect to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance.The authors launch their account with a fascinating case study of Talisman Energy’s experience in Sudan, informed by their own experience as members of the 1999 Canadian Assessment Mission to Sudan (Harker Mission ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Human Rights in Business

    Removal of Barriers to Access to Justice in the European Union

    Edited by Juan José Álvarez Rubio, Katerina Yiannibas ...
    The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economic power that multinational companies wield in the global economy. At the same time, it appears that it is difficult to regulate the activities of multinational companies in such a way that they conform to international human, labour and environmental ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Global Regulation

    Edited by Walter Mattli, Ngaire Woods ...
    Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development

    The Law and Economics of International Investment Agreements

    Edited by Olivier De Schutter, Johan Swinnen, Jan Wouters ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Economic Law
    This book presents original research that examines the growth of international investment agreements as a means to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and considers how this affects the ability of capital-importing countries to pursue their development goals. The hope of countries signing such treaties is that foreign capital will accelerate transfers of technologies, create employment, and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • What's Wrong With the IMF and How to Fix It

    by Bessma Momani, Mark R. Hibben ...
    Series series What's Wrong?
    The IMF stands at a crossroad. Derided as increasingly irrelevant in the first decade of the new millennium, the Fund has had its power and prestige restored by the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis. But will the resurgent IMF assert a more just and sustainable macroeconomic model and provide a voice for poor and marginalized people around the globe? Or will enduring weaknesses within ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism

    by Sol Picciotto ...
    Series series International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation
    This analysis of how multi-level networked governance has superseded the liberal system of interdependent states focuses on the role of law in mediating power and shows how lawyers have shaped the main features of capitalism, especially the transnational corporation. It covers the main institutions regulating the world economy, including the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and a myriad of other ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Globalization For Development, Revised Edition: Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration, And Policy

    by Goldin Ian ; Reinert Kenneth ...
    Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global flows - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to undermine economic development. By considering what helps ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The State of Labour

    The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact

    Edited by Sharit K. Bhowmik ...
    This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization — acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008–09 — on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several countries including India, Columbia, Malawi, Brazil and Thailand, it highlights the worsening plight of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Multinational Enterprises and the Law

    by Peter Muchlinski ...
    Series series Oxford International Law Library
    Multinational Enterprises and the Law is the only comprehensive, contemporary, and interdisciplinary account of the techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional, and multilateral levels. In addition, it considers the effects of corporate self-regulation, and the impact of civil society and community groups upon the development of the legal order in this ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Regulation Of Foreign Investment: Challenges To International Harmonization

    by Zdenek Drabek, Petros C Mavroidis ...
    Series Book 21 - World Scientific Studies In International Economics
    The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules. Particular attention is paid to the most controversial and contentious issues with the view of appraising the prospects for establishing global rules. The book is divided into three parts; the first part includes papers ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Multinational Enterprises and the Law

    by Peter T. Muchlinski ...
    Series series Oxford International Law Library
    Multinational Enterprises and the Law presents the only comprehensive, contemporary, and interdisciplinary account of the various techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional and multilateral levels. In addition it considers the effects of corporate self-regulation upon the development of the legal order in this area. Split into four parts the book firstly ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda

    Edited by Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama, Dries Lesage, Wouter Lips ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume addresses the link between international taxation, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the medium-term revenue strategy concept. It also analyses how countries and governments can reinforce this link in current and future initiatives in international taxation, including the base erosion profit shifting project initiated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation ... Read more

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