Challenges to Globalization
Challenges to Globalization

Author: Robert E. Baldwin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0226036553

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People passionately disagree about the nature of the globalization process. The failure of both the 1999 and 2003 World Trade Organization's (WTO) ministerial conferences in Seattle and Cancun, respectively, have highlighted the tensions among official, international organizations like the WTO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, nongovernmental and private sector organizations, and some developing country governments. These tensions are commonly attributed to longstanding disagreements over such issues as labor rights, environmental standards, and tariff-cutting rules. In addition, developing countries are increasingly resentful of the burdens of adjustment placed on them that they argue are not matched by commensurate commitments from developed countries. Challenges to Globalization evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists and anti-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets including the brain drain, sweat shop labor, wage levels, and changes in production processes, and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices. Baldwin, Winters, and the contributors to this volume look at multinational firms, foreign investment, and mergers and acquisitions and present surprising findings that often run counter to the claim that multinational firms primarily seek countries with low wage labor. The book closes with papers on financial opening and on the relationship between international economic policies and national economic growth rates.

The Brain Drain of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians from the Developing Countries Into the United States
The Brain Drain of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians from the Developing Countries Into the United States

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Research and Technical Programs Subcommittee

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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Examines magnitude of immigration to U.S. of scientists, engineers and physicians -- many of whom received their training in America -- from developing nations, together with impact of that loss on those nations.

Brain Drain of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians from the Developing Countries Into the United States
Brain Drain of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians from the Developing Countries Into the United States

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Research and Technical Programs Subcommittee

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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Examines magnitude of immigration to U.S. of scientists, engineers and physicians -- many of whom received their training in America -- from developing nations, together with impact of that loss on those nations.

The Brain Drain
The Brain Drain

Author: Herbert Grubel

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0889207968

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Theoretical studies of the determinants of migration by skilled persons and the output and welfare effects of such migration on the migrants and the countries of departure and destination. The volume measures the numbers of highly skilled migrants from different countries to the U.S. and Canada, with an analysis of policy alternatives.

The Monfort Plan
The Monfort Plan

Author: Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-03-18

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 0470603968

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The Monfort Plan is a five-year, forward looking plan to eradicate extreme poverty from the developing world, and details how microfinance has made a difference to developing countries. This book proposes a new institution based in the developing world with the potential to provide a basic, free, and universal service in the areas of water, sanitation, healthcare, and education to the extreme poor worldwide. The provision will be subject to a certain degree of conditionality in areas ranging from corruption to legal environment. The new institution will be established in a new international territory based within a specific country in Subsaharan Africa and will emerge in 2015. In The Monfort Plan author Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort engineers and designs a solution to lessen the burden of poverty. In order to do so he relies on the social sciences to bring about innovation and forward looking economic policies and financial instruments in the context of a paradigm shift. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to policymaking that combines a range of fields in the social sciences, looking at the history behind the Marshall Plan, the formation of the European Union, and the Bretton Woods Institutions, in order to determine how a Marshall Plan for Africa-and the creation of New Institutions in the developing world-could work. We live a moment of crisis in which creative policymaking might prove useful when proposing outcomes for a revitalized framework for capitalism to thrive and better serve the world. Walks you through the technicalities of the new architecture of capitalism in a straightforward manner Provides a holistic view of how microfinance combined with the right economic policies and financial instruments could help change the world for the poor Contains sweeping and detailed recommendations on how to build a new capitalist paradigm that helps elevate the poor and improve the human condition Incorporating commentary from some of the top minds in the field of microfinance, this book puts the method of microfinance in perspective.

Stepping Out of the Brain Drain
Stepping Out of the Brain Drain

Author: Michele R. Pistone

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2007-05-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0739161326

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Stepping Out of the Brain Drain is an important contribution to the intensifying debate about highly skilled migration from developing to developed countries. Addressing the issue from the perspective of Catholic social thought, the authors demonstrate that both the economic and ethical rationales for the teaching's opposition to 'brain drain' have been undermined in recent years and show how the adoption of a less critical policy could provide enhanced opportunities for poor countries to accelerate their economic development.