Using the experience of postwar Western Europe as a benchmark, this book assesses how regional financial institutions can help developing countries - often at a disadvantage within the global financial framework - finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard.
Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this text offers a comprehensive discussion of the physical and human geography of the United States and Canada, weaving in the key themes of environment and sustainability throughout.
This book analyzes how modernization and economic integration were viewed in Europe, as the means of rebuilding European leadership after World War I, and in Latin America, as the key to growth and self-determination.
Assessing the potential benefits and risks of a currency union. This book, by two leading experts on economics and Africa, makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how Economic Community of West African States could achieve and manage its currency union, andthe ramifications for the African continent.
Transregionalism, Regional Integration, and Regional Projects across E
This book compares existing approaches to regionalism and transregionalism and discusses its global impact on world politics and economy. It argues that for the changing world order, the development of transregionalism would have benign implications on the global level.
A Study of Governments in the New York Metropolitan Area
Drawing on the history of state and local government in the New York Tri-State metropolitan region, the authors present a pathbreaking new theory about the values reformers must understand and balance in order to tackle the hard challenges of reforming and regionalizing local governance in the complex, dynamic world of American politics and public ......
Over the past decade, international economic liberalization has been pursued through both multilateral and regional arrangements. In the Uruguay Round, more than one hundred governments pledged their commitment to greater open trade in goods and services, and established new rules under the enforcement of the World Trade Organization.
Registration Methods for the Small Museum covers all aspects of the registration process and provides practical solutions for the small museum professional. The fifth edition updates the handbook to fit the registration systems in today's small museums and provides additional forms that weren't in previous editions of the book.
