The last few decades have seen a spectacular integration of the global economy through trade. The rising integration of world markets has brought with it a disintegration of the production process, however, as manufacturing or services activities done abroad are combined with those performed

The global economy holds important implications for the global environment and for domestic economic conditions. Indeed, the events of September 11, 2001 remind us that global politics is very much influenced by the global economy. Great dependence of the industrialized world on oil⎯much of which

the International Labor Organization (ILO) had asserted it-self in the global economy. Labor standards came to the fore because non-governmental groups in advanced countries—the human rights vigilantes of our title—galvanized consumers to demand that multinational firms and their suppliers improve working

Relocating the value chain: off-shoring and agglomeration in the global economy* Richard Baldwin,

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and financial crisis marks the end (for now) of a rapid expansion of globalization THE ECONOMIC and financial turmoil engulfing the world marks the first crisis of the current era of globalization. Considerable country experience has been accumulated on financial crises in individual countries

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