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Global Tensions (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges and Opportunities in the World Economy

Redaktion: Beneria, Lourdes; Bisnath, Savitri

Beschreibung

Against the backdrop of demonstrations in Seattle, Porto Alegre and Genoa and within the context of growing resistances to free trade and the current global trends, Global Tensions takes a close look at the challenges posed by the processes of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Composed of original essays by renowned scholars, this volume explores controversial topics such as free trade, women's rights, labor standards, the World Trade Organization and global tensions.

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Autor

Lourdes Beneria is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Women's Studies at Cornell University. She lives in Ithaca, New York, and is the author of the forthcoming Routledge title Gender, Development and Globalization:Economics as if People Mattered (2003).SavitriBisnath received her PhD from Cornell University and currently works for an international philanthropic organization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135952648
• Artikelnr.: 47893541