The globalization of trade, investment, and finance continues apace. Many have benefited from this, but deep inequalities persist. This book argues that... the interconnections established by globalization make possible a critique of its inequality. For those who take seriously human dignity, equality is a basic presumption of social institutions.

What is global inequality? How can it be measured? What are the major trends and patterns? What are the implications of global inequality for the world... economy and multilateral governance? What role does and should inequality play in national and international policy-making? In this comprehensive overview, the authors address these key questions. They examine the major issues that need to be confronted in conceptualizing, measuring and analysing contemporary patterns of global inequality. In addition, they explore the implications of these patterns for politics and public policy. In explaining the complex global patterns of social stratification, they highlight an intensive debate about whether and to what extent inequality matters. The book also addresses this debate, and seeks to set out the major alternative positions. The book's authors include many of the most distinguished figures in the field, including David Dollar, G?sta Esping-Andersen, Nancy Fraser, James K. Galbraith, Ravi Kanbur, Branko Milanovic, Thomas W. Pogge, Bob Sutcliffe, Grahame F. Thompson, Anthony J. Venables, and Robert H. Wade. This book will be of great interest to students in politics, sociology and international relations as well as to all those interested in this key topic.

Information technology has had a major impact on individuals, organizations and society over the past 50 years. There are few organizations that can... afford to ignore IT and few individuals who would prefer to be without it. As managerial tasks become more complex, so the nature of the required information systems (IS) changes - from structured, routine support to ad hoc, complex enquiries at the highest levels of management. Global Information Systems aims to present the many complex and inter-related issues associated with culture in the management of information systems. The editors have selected a wide range of contemporary articles from leading experts in North America and Europe that represent a wide variety of different national and cultural environments. They offer valid explanations for, rather than simply pointing out cultural differences in articles that cover a variety of national cultures, including: China, Egypt, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Peru South Korea, Kuwait, Mexico, Singapore, Sweden, the United Arab Emirate, the UK, and the US. * Provides students with insight into managing global firms and IT workforce* Contributions are carefully selected from universities of world renown and is supported by helpful introductions for each paper * Reflects current trends and debates around Global IS

This 2002 book, by leading scholars and distinguished educators, is a collection of 25 chapters which would be of great value to executives and managers... in MNCs, educators, students and researchers. Already this book has been adopted for many senior level undergraduate, and graduate level courses in MIS and international business. The 25 chapters have been divided into six sections for pedagogical effectiveness: 1)Global Information Technology Environment 2) Global IT Strategy and Management 3) Global Electronic Commerce 4) Global System Development and Implementation 5) Global Software Outsourcing 6) Global IT Infrastructure and Operations

Innovation has become theTwenty-first century's industrial religion, and successful innovation management has become essential to a company's... productivity. A scientific methodology of innovation management can be articulated and mastered and Global Innovation Management provides the multinational manager with that framework. Companion Website: http://www.palgrave.com/business/westland/

This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and institutions and provides thorough and detailed case studies in the context of broader... theoretical analysis. Key topics such as poverty, global governance, sustainable development and the environment are closely examined, with detailed case studies of the World Bank, the WTO, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, UN Development Programme and the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. The impact multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and IMF have on development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and influence. This book examines the concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and, more broadly, looks at the role of ideas in international development institutions and how they have affected current development discourse. The authors analyze why some ideas are taken up by these institutions, how the ideas travel within the systems and how they are translated into policy, modified, distorted or resisted.

Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems assimilates the principal views from international authors, who provide a combination of industrial experience... and scholarly research, in the area of supply chain systems. This book discusses the business and technical reasons for integrating supply chain systems, and provides excellent arguments for globalization resulting through integration of supply chain systems. Readers of Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems will receive an excellent overall understanding of what comprises supply chain systems, why they should be integrated and how the resultant global organization will be able to compete and grow in this age of communication. They will also find practical business reasons for the crucial need to integrate supply chain systems in global enterprises and, more importantly, collaborating clusters of organizations.

Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age is an interdisciplinary introduction to cross-cultural encounters in the early modern age (1400-1800) and... their influences on the development of world societies. In the aftermath of Mongol expansion across Eurasia, the unprecedented rise of imperial states in the early modern period set in motion interactions between people from around the world. These included new commercial networks, large-scale migration streams, global biological exchanges, and transfers of knowledge across oceans and continents. These in turn wove together the major regions of the world. In an age of extensive cultural, political, military, and economic contact, a host of individuals, companies, tribes, states, and empires were in competition. Yet they also cooperated with one another, leading ultimately to the integration of global space.

Global Investments, the Sixth Edition of the previously titled International Investments, provides accessible coverage of international capital... markets using numerous examples to illustrate the applications of concepts and theories. The new title reflects the current understanding that the distinction between domestic and international is no longer relevant and that asset management is global. Currency Exchange Rates; Foreign Exchange Parity Relations; Foreign Exchange Determination and Forecasting; International Asset Pricing;Equity: Markets and Instruments; Equity: Concepts and Techniques; Global Bond Investing; Alternative Investments; The Case for International Diversification; Derivatives; Currency Risk Management; Global Performance Evaluation; Structuring the Global Investment Process. This book is ideal for CFA® (Chartered Financial Analyst) candidates, advanced finance undergraduates, and MBA students, and it has been selected by the CFA Institute as part of the curriculum to deliver the Candidate Body of Knowledge for the CFA. The text is also widely used by professionals working in the investments area, as the level is accessible to readers and portfolio managers without recent training in portfolio theory.

The question of globalisation - how it should be defined and what are its implications for the developing countries - is a recurring theme in policy... discussions at the national, regional and international levels, given the importance of the phenomenon and its role in shaping contemporary economic relations. Drawing on papers presented at the international symposium on ‘Globalisation - A Strategic Response from the South‘, organised by the University of the West Indies, this offering adds to that body of literature which examines the significance of the loss of preferential trading arrangements for developing countries, including the small-island economies of the Caribbean. Globalisation: A Calculus of Inequality essentially reflects perspectives from the South on the merits and demerits of globalisation and economic liberalisation at a time when North and South are engaged in critical negotiations that will determine the distribution of economic benefits among the world's people.

Globalisation has had a massive impact on the teaching and practice of anthropology. This important new book, edited by leading anthropologist Thomas... Hylland Eriksen, addresses the methodological problems that these changes have wrought, and in doing so fills a major gap in the contemporary study and teaching of anthropology.The essays in this book show how the focus has shifted from traditional studies of specific sites, towards the movements and shifts assoicated with increasing migration and population flows -- the result of living in an increasingly globalised world. Written by a range of distinguished anthropologists, it offers innovative new approaches to the discipline in the light of these changes, making it indispensable as a teaching text, at higher levels, and as mandatory reading for practitioners and researchers in a wide range of merging disciplines. Topics explored include the methodology of studying on the internet; global and spatial identities in the Caribbean; shifting boundaries in coastal communities; the anthropology of political life; issues of law and the flow of human substances; and the diffusion of moral values created by globalisation.

The primary intention of this book is to explore, analyze, and explain global Islamic politics. In doing so, this text discusses the root... causes, characteristics, consequences, and implications of global Islamic politics.   Written in a simple and clear style and providing in-depth definitions of key terms, Global Islamic Politics aims to make this important and complex subject accessible to all readers. In addition, the book offers suggestions for ameliorating the relations between the Muslim world and the West in a way that promotes mutual understanding and peace, rather than misunderstanding and conflict.

This new edition of Manfred Steger's award-winning book explores the three principal ideologies of our time: the dominant "market globalism" based on a... neoliberal vision of the world as a single marketplace, the "justice globalism" developed over the last decade by a transnational coalition of global civil society forces, and the "jihadist globalism" of radical Islamists seeking to galvanize their global community of believers into violent action. Market globalism has responded to these challengers by turning into "imperial globalism"-a political belief system that marries the capitalist language of the 1990s with the security concerns of our post-9/11 world. Steger, one of the world's leading scholars on these subjects, explores globalization's central questions: What, exactly, are the core claims of these conflicting globalisms? How does the imperial globalism of the 2000s differ from the market globalism of the 1990s? How has justice globalism managed to mature into a coherent ideology? What are the most likely future trajectories of this great ideological struggle of the twenty-first century? Written with impressive historical and theoretical breadth, this groundbreaking work is essential reading for all those concerned with the key questions that our shrinking world must face.

Are you tired of simplistic treatment of the world's most important issues? So many competing readers offer simple black and white treatment of today's... complex problems. Help your students see the shades of gray. In this annual reader, CQ Researcher reporters offer students an in-depth and nuanced look at sixteen of today's most pressing issues, ranging from changes in the Middle East and prospects for peace to climate change and terrorism. Each chapter identifies the key players, explores what's at stake, and offers necessary background and analysis so students understand how past and current developments impact the future of each issue. Also included: pron box that examines two competing sides of a single issue question; detailed chronology; annotated bibliography and web resources; and photos, charts, graphs, and maps.

From democratization, human rights, and global finance to terrorism, pandemics, and climate change, Global Issues is a current and topical look at the... forces driving globalization.   This texts looks at global problems that transcend boundaries and are challenging the international system. For global issues or international relations courses, this is the only text of its kind to place complex issues into comprehensive context and thus explain the growing political, economic, and cultural interdependence visible in the headlines and in students’ lives.