CHAPTERhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00002.xmlCopyright2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00002.pdf2025-09-12Copyrighthttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00003.xmlContents2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00003.pdf2025-09-12Contentshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00004.xmlList of Figures2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00004.pdf2025-09-12List of Figureshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00005.xmlList of Tables2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00005.pdf2025-09-12List of Tableshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00006.xmlList of Contributors2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00006.pdf2025-09-12List of Contributorshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00007.xmlIntroduction2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00007.pdf2025-09-12Introductionhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00008.xmlAcknowledgements2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00008.pdf2025-09-12Acknowledgementshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00010.xmlThe Genesis of the Current Global Economic System2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00010.pdf2025-09-12The Genesis of the Current Global Economic Systemhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00011.xmlTrends in Intercountry Income Differences: World Levels and Decomposition Between and Within Regions2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00011.pdf2025-09-12Trends in Intercountry Income Differences: World Levels and Decomposition Between and Within Regionshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00012.xmlExternal Debts and their Implications for Economic Growth2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00012.pdf2025-09-12External Debts and their Implications for Economic Growthhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00013.xmlForeign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Selected LDCs, 1963-922025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00013.pdf2025-09-12Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Selected LDCs, 1963-92https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00014.xmlGlobalized Investing and the Political Risk Aspects of International Sovereign Debt and Foreign Direct Investments2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00014.pdf2025-09-12Globalized Investing and the Political Risk Aspects of International Sovereign Debt and Foreign Direct Investmentshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00015.xmlTrends in the Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment: the Case ofthe Asia-Pacific Region2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00015.pdf2025-09-12Trends in the Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment: the Case ofthe Asia-Pacific Regionhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00016.xmlThe Role of Multinational Corporations in Globalizing the World Economy: Evidence from Afiliates of US Multinational Companies2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00016.pdf2025-09-12The Role of Multinational Corporations in Globalizing the World Economy: Evidence from Afiliates of US Multinational Companieshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00017.xmlThe Socially Optimal Level of Saving - An International Comparison2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00017.pdf2025-09-12The Socially Optimal Level of Saving - An International Comparisonhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00019.xmlFrom Bretton Woods to the World Trade Organization and the Formation of Regional Trading Blocs2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00019.pdf2025-09-12From Bretton Woods to the World Trade Organization and the Formation of Regional Trading Blocshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00020.xmlTrade Regimes and GATT: Resource-Intensive versus Knowledge-Intensive Growth2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00020.pdf2025-09-12Trade Regimes and GATT: Resource-Intensive versus Knowledge-Intensive Growthhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00021.xmlEuropean Unification: Between Reality and Myth2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00021.pdf2025-09-12European Unification: Between Reality and Mythhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00022.xmlTrade Liberalization in the Asia-Pacific Region2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00022.pdf2025-09-12Trade Liberalization in the Asia-Pacific Regionhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00023.xmlAPEC Without South Asia2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00023.pdf2025-09-12APEC Without South Asiahttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00025.xmlInstitutional and Policy Aspects of Transition: An Empirical Analysis2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00025.pdf2025-09-12Institutional and Policy Aspects of Transition: An Empirical Analysishttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00026.xmlA Macroeconomic Analysis of Economies inTransition2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00026.pdf2025-09-12A Macroeconomic Analysis of Economies inTransitionhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00027.xmlThe Transition of the Centrally Planned Economies in Eastern Europe to Market Economies: the Cases of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00027.pdf2025-09-12The Transition of the Centrally Planned Economies in Eastern Europe to Market Economies: the Cases of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Polandhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00028.xmlLabour Issues in the Former Centrally Planned Economies in Eastern Europe2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00028.pdf2025-09-12Labour Issues in the Former Centrally Planned Economies in Eastern Europehttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00029.xmlThe Transition of Centrally Planned Economies in East Asia into Market Economies2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00029.pdf2025-09-12The Transition of Centrally Planned Economies in East Asia into Market Economieshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00031.xmlInternational Exchange Rate Movements and their Effects on Prices, Balance of Payments, Output and Employment2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00031.pdf2025-09-12International Exchange Rate Movements and their Effects on Prices, Balance of Payments, Output and Employmenthttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00032.xmlInternationalization and Integration of Financial and Capital Markets2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00032.pdf2025-09-12Internationalization and Integration of Financial and Capital Marketshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00033.xmlRelationships between Equity Markets in the Asia -Pacific Region2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00033.pdf2025-09-12Relationships between Equity Markets in the Asia -Pacific Regionhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00034.xmlIntegration of Market Economies and the Rights of Labour: International Regulation of Labour Standards2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00034.pdf2025-09-12Integration of Market Economies and the Rights of Labour: International Regulation of Labour Standardshttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00035.xmlAgricultural Trade Liberalization: Regionalism versus Multilateralism2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00035.pdf2025-09-12Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Regionalism versus Multilateralismhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00037.xmlEmissions, Externalities and Economic Instruments in a Global Context2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00037.pdf2025-09-12Emissions, Externalities and Economic Instruments in a Global Contexthttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00038.xmlTrends in Energy Sources, Prices, Regulations, and Technology, and their Implications for Global Growth and Pollution2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00038.pdf2025-09-12Trends in Energy Sources, Prices, Regulations, and Technology, and their Implications for Global Growth and Pollutionhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00039.xmlThe Implications of North-South Trade for Natural Resource Depletion and Environmental Degradation2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00039.pdf2025-09-12The Implications of North-South Trade for Natural Resource Depletion and Environmental Degradationhttps://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00040.xmlIndex2025-09-12https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781858984674.00040.pdf2025-09-12Index