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Institutions, globalisation and empowerment

Title
Institutions, globalisation and empowerment / edited by Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras.
Publication
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., ©2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Roy, K. C. (Kartik Chandra), 1941-
  • Sideras, Jörn.
Description
xiv, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Examining aspects of social and economic institutions, and exploring their operation as a result of globalisation, this book approaches the issue of globalisation from a perspective of how the forces of globalisation are transforming domestic, social and economic institutions to create greater opportunities for empowerment in individual countries.
Alternative Title
Institutions, globalization, and empowerment
Subject
  • Social institutions
  • Economic development
  • Globalization
  • social institutions
  • economic development
  • globalism
  • Economic development
  • Globalization
  • Social institutions
  • Wirtschaftsentwicklung
  • Institutionenökonomie
  • Internationalisierung
  • Institutionele economie
  • Internationalisierung > Wirtschaftsentwicklung > Institutionenökonomie > Aufsatzsammlung
  • social institution
  • institution building
  • womens empowerment
  • globalization
  • Institucions socials
  • Desenvolupament econòmic
  • Globalització
  • institution sociale
  • développement des institutions
  • autonomisation des femmes
  • mondialisation
  • institución social
  • desarrollo institucional
  • potenciación de las mujeres
  • globalización
  • Entwicklungsländer
  • developed countries
  • developing countries
  • pays développés
  • pays en développement
  • países desarrollados
  • países en desarrollo
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Institutions, globalisation and empowerment : an overview of issues / Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras -- Institutions for high-quality growth : what they are and how to acquire them / Dani Rodrik -- The effects of the interaction of formal and informal institutions on social stability and economic development / Svetozar Pejovich -- Globalisation, democracy and citizens' sovereignty : can competition among governments enhance democracy? / Viktor Vanberg -- Globalisation : contradictory implications for US women / Cal Clark and Janet Clark -- Corruption : is dollarisation a solution? / Jennifer S. Holmes and Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres -- Western Europe : German unification, integration, globalisation -- the German social market economy facing a threefold challenge / Michael Wohlgemuth -- Regional retreat : the reaction of Russian institutions to liberalising reform / Richard E. Ericson -- Institutional deterrents to the empowerment of women : Kenya's experience / Tabitha W. Kiriti, Clem Tisdell and Kartik C. Roy -- WTO and the dangers of privatisation : an analysis of the Saudi case / Jean-François Seznec -- Institutional impediments to women's empowerment in rural India / Kartik C. Roy -- Estate taxes and family-run firms : an empirical study of publicly traded corporations in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan / Kam-Ming Wan, Shi-Jun Liu and Hsihui Chang -- Globalisation and institutional change in the Australian labour market / Kyle Bruce -- Institutional change and empowerment under globalisation : some lessons learnt / Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras.
ISBN
  • 184064897X
  • 9781840648973
LCCN
2004061455
OCLC
  • ocm57235731
  • 57235731
  • SCSB-1398640
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